One man's trash is another man's inspiration! In this case, old bottles, cameras and other detritus have been transformed into lighting.
• Pottery Barn's Wine Bottle Chandelier, $399
Crafted from iron and recycled wine bottles, this hard wired light fixture will lend a DIY look to a buy-it-rather-than-try-it personality's home.
• ReTech's Brownie Lamp, $85
In an age of cell phone cameras, old shutter cameras are positively quaint. This lamp is made from an Brownie Hawkeye camera.
• Industrial Electric Light Co's RG2 Light Reflector, price upon request
These industrial lamps are converted from the Tilley R1 paraffin heater produced in East London between roughly 1920 and 1960, updated for the 21st century.
• Artifact Lighting's 1960s Industrial Feature Lamp, £180
An old medical lamp is repurposed into a new desk lamp with removable red lens.
• BootsNGus' The Hive Lighting, $120
A collection of 2 half gallon and 1 quart sized mason jar lights, wrapped in rope to resemble a bee hive.
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• Rockin' 45 Lamps by Gin Art & Design
• Make A Recycled Lamp Out of Leftover Partyware
(Images: As credited above.)
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Paying $399 at Pottery Barn for a bottle chandelier is not upcycling. Show me that those bottles actually held something else and I might reconsider but I suspect the bottles were made cheaply in China only to be used as a light fixture.
Get to Etsy to see fun up-cycles.
I'm inclined to agree with Duane Hill. "Upcycling" is one half of recycling (the other being downcycling). Upcycling is taking WASTE materials and turning them into something more valuable. Downcycling is taking waste materials and turning them into something less valuable. If I take wood from an old, falling down barn and use it to build a table, I've added value to the wood. That's upcycling. If I take decorative bricks from an old, falling down house and crush them up to mix with cement, I've made a new product that is less valuable. That's downcycling.
If I buy new, unused products and turn them into something with more value that isn't upcycling. That isn't any type of recycling. That's making a new product.
I always worry that when the bottles are closed, the lamp will overheat. (Same with mason jars) Though I'm aware that modern lightbulb technology emits less heat.
Agree with what others have said above about recycling. However, it's worth seeing the Pottery Barn light because it would be a pretty straightforward DIY, using truly upcycled materials.
Conant Metal & Light, based out of Burlington VT has some really funky, and truly repurposed stuff. Check them out!