Repurposed Glass Bottle + Doorknob
I have an elegant re-purposing project to show you today. For as long as I can remember, Ed and my daughters have known that I enjoy finding new uses for stuff destined for the trash, be it old furniture all the way down to tin cans and bottles.
They would and still do always ask me before they throw any cans or bottles out, “Do you want this for anything?”
They know that I like to keep interesting bottles and packaging to re-use to make into something else. I had a stash of them in the basement of my previous house.
I did have to purge a lot of them when we moved, but did keep a few of the more interesting bottles.
What I made was pretty simple, but very pretty.
I repurposed the bottle into a place to hold bath salts, but instead of using the existing cork, I also repurposed another item, a glass doorknob to make a pretty bottle stopper for the bottle.
How to Repurpose a Glass Bottle and Door Knob Into a Glass Decanter
supplies needed:
- Empty and clean glass bottle and cork
- Doorknob
- Craft knife
- Rotary drill with carving tip
- Marker
- Glue
- Place cork on its side on a cutting mat. Use a sharp craft knife to cut the cork in half; right where the cork begins to narrow.
2. Center the end of a doorknob on the cut end of the narrow section of the cork. Use a marker to trace around it.
3. Use a carving bit on a rotary drill to hollow out the center of the cork.
It should look like this after carving out the cork’s center.
4. Place a few drops of glue into the cork and around the bottom of the doorknob.
5. Push the cork over the bottom of the doorknob.
6. Let dry for a few hours.
6. Once the glue is dry, place the doorknob bottle stopper into the bottle and you get one pretty decanter.
I use it to hold bath salts, but it could become a chic wine decanter to place on a bar cart.
