Stop throwing away your empty wine bottles as they have a clever use. That’s right, one TV star has revealed a clever way to reuse your empty wine bottles instead of chucking them in the bin.
Dragons’ Den star Sara Davies revealed how you can “pimp up” your bottles to craft a stunning home ornament. She explained in a TikTok post: “If you’re anything like me then you’ll probably have a load of these in the recycling,” she began in a video. Rather than discarding them, Sara suggests soaking off each bottle’s label to create a clean surface to work with. Once dried, she set about transforming them. “I just used some spray paint to create a nice base of white, and then you can start to get fancy,” she added.
The Dragon chose a rich shade of blue, applying acrylic paint to the upper half of a bottle, deliberately creating an uneven transition into the white beneath.
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“Once that dried, I took it to the next level with gilding flakes!” Sara continued. “It just gives a wonderful bit of sparkle.”
She then carefully applied silver gilding flakes, advising viewers: “Remember, you’ll need special glue to make the gilding flakes stick.” Next Sara demonstrated how to transform her creations into striking centrepieces.
Selecting wild flowers from a bouquet, Sara placed them into the bottle, declaring: “I think they look super cute. You can have them around the house and at the front door – they make lovely little ornaments.”
One impressed TikTok user responded: “I love those bottles, this is the stuff of inspiration, thank you! Now I can spend hours in my retirement creating beautiful art!”
“Love this,” remarked another viewer. “I decoupaged mine and was really proud of myself.”
Meanwhile, a third person shared her method: “I dripped loads of different coloured candle wax down two bottles like we used to do at school and put candles in each one at Christmas for my table and the nostalgia hit me like a ton of bricks.”
Sara recently returned to television with her new BBC programme, The Big Idea Works.
Described as a combination of Dragons’ Den’s investment expertise and The Repair Shop’s creative restoration charm, Sara, working alongside a skilled team of engineers, transforms the aspirations of aspiring inventors into reality.
Among the clever inventions showcased are a “sugar pen” for measuring drink sugar content, an ingenious mess-free bird feeder, and a pillow created to reduce snoring.
The 16-episode programme is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.