apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Very cool. I happened to be working on a development project at an old glass factory and picked up several blue and purple bottles like these. I also got some boulder-sized glass lumps in green, blue, and clear. It's not enough to make a planting border, but this post is making me think the garden may be a better place for my small collection rather than a shelf in my dining room.

Pretty, but it's a broken glass accident waiting to happen...

This is very pretty. Makes me wish I had a walkway and a garden to decorate!

worried about broken glass? fill them first with plaster, concrete, dirt...

respect.

Thats gorgeous. Great inspiration!

http://www.makemineeclectic.wordpress.com

would be even better if you could add lights inside!

I was thinking you could line clear bottles with any color paint you like and make them any color you'd like. Matching the house or trim color? Probably too matchy-matchy?

Perfect.....for breeding tens of thousands of mosquitoes in each one of those little rain-filled indentations.

How would these hold up in snow? Very pretty to look at though.

"How would these hold up in snow?"

Fine - Unless you hit it with a snowshovel...

We could totally do this except (a) I don't like the way it looks; (b) a glass bottle breaks even when filled with concrete; (c) wouldn't want to show off how many empties we can churn out around here.

Sorry, way too Sanford & Son.

Love it, though I'd probably want a slightly more orderly pattern than the one pictured above. I can understand why others might consider it hazardous because of snow or mosquito breeding, but luckily those are two rare occurances in Oregon (unless you get a weird winter, but the bugs at least are sprayed for yearly).

miabica, I thought the same thing right away too, mosquito paradise! Maybe if they were filled with something on top- mosaic glass, tile, etc, it wouldn't take much- they would be usable in more areas than just mosquito-free Oregon :)

How great would it be if these lit up?

I have the same thing in my garden. Possibly the same blue glass bottles (Trader Joe's fizzy water)...