Decorating your window sill with bottles is an easy and quick window sill decorating idea. Add a string of lights to empty bottles for a fun DIY decor idea.
I am loving green at the moment and I am bringing it inside too. Like in my latest window sill decoration with repurposed green bottles.
Check out this easy window sill decoration I have going on in my living room. Brings back the seventies doesn’t it? I pulled it together in ten minutes. Most of that time was spent soaking off the labels from some of the bottles.
Now I hope this image doesn’t make you think we are some sort of drunks around here. Only one bottle was emptied over a weekend to serve in this vignette. The rest of the bottles came from my decorating stash or came out of the recycling bin. Good thing I don’t go to the recycling station that often, one never knows when an extra bottle or two will come in handy.
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The combination of bottles and a string of lights is a golden oldie that never gets old.
I like the combination in this coastal beach decoration in a vintage crate too.
And now there is this collection of green glass bottles working hard at being a beautiful window sill decoration. I guess I do love decorating with bottles….
And I sure love how the light plays with the glass bottles. When it shines through them it is magical.
And when there is no natural light, my string of sparkly lights add their own bit of magic to my window sill decoration:
So what do you think. Too much of a seventies vibe for you? Too much Christmassy? Or are you with me, and thinking it is always the right time to add some more sparkly lights to your life?
Let’s hear it……
Marianne Songbird is the founder of Songbird, where she hopes to inspire everyone to create a home they love, one DIY project at a time. She shares anything from craft ideas to home decor inspiration and from DIY projects to decorating hacks. Originally from the Netherlands Marianne and her husband Lex are currently renovating a 250-year-old farmhouse in Germany.
Gwen says
Long ago you said we came from different worlds but yet we were alike. I totally get the bottle and light thing. It is such a simple beauty to see light play off of glass. I like how the colors and sizes of your bottles are all different sizes. All I remember about bottles were that pizza places stuck candles in the bottles and let the wax melt–red, blue, white, purple all melted on top of each other. It probably was just red and white candles as they were easy to come by. This though is sooo not that dark gloomy pizza place look of the 70’s bottles I remember!! These bottles just look pretty!
On my counter, above my sink, sunlight from all my west windows pour in and I put three vintage 2001 Illuminosity votive holders in thin clear colored glass sitting on a dollar store mirror. The light shining through them is just pretty to look upon. I wonder if anyone else stops to even enjoy. I have some fine glass chunky votive holders–almost like giant irregular shapes of pure ice–one is Swedish Olefors from Goodwill for 99 cents!!– but I keep them on my piano next to my French doors just to watch the sunlight dance around and through them. Ahh I’m guilty. I let worries and cares of this world cloud and dim my vision for these free ever changing simple gifts from above for us to behold…that of light and glass. I do so love your posts!! I’m always amazed!!
Lorrie says
I don’t drink gin, but know someone who does, so I ask her for the bottles she empties. They are such a beautiful clear aqua and I like to see them on a shelf or windowsill so the light can refract through them. Your bottle collection is lovely. Glass and light are a perfect match.
Donna says
Lorrie, what brand of vodka comes in the aqua bottles?
Athena at Minerva's Garden says
I like the pretty green glass bottles, and the twinkle lights! I add twinkle lights to a small fenced patio area in our garden, and it’s lovely at night.
Donna says
I keep small white lights up all year on a shelf that I change with the seasons. Right now there are various mercury glass votives and small milk glass bud vases standing in front of an old mirror, its wooden frame painted a chippy flat silver and its mirror finish all crackly. But it still reflects those little white lights very prettily. It’s very sweet. I love the lights. I think they are for all seasons.
And P.S. I do not think your bottles look too ’70’s at all. I remember when I was a little girl, (a long time ago, even before the ’70’s) some ladies used to take clear bottles with pretty shapes and fill them with colored water and set them in the window to shine in the sun. When I was little, I thought this was quite beautiful. : )
Margaret says
That’s a really pretty string of lights. I would like it better without that red and white thing. I find it hard to get rid of bottles too. Always happy to see another use for them. My husband drank some kind of beer that came in cobalt blue bottles. He thought I was nuts because I kept all the bottles. Just wait till he sees them set up like this, lol.