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How to Decorate With Antique Bottles

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Antique bottles come in all shapes colors and styles and are a versatile and interesting decorating object. Antique bottles can also be worth a great deal of money. Some old drug or perfume bottles go for at least a five figure sum on eBay or at flea markets. Antique bottles can be found in your own life, or at flea markets or washed up on the beach. The most attractive old hand-made bottles have evidence of being hand-made. They have clusters of air bubbles, scratches and clouds in the glass.

You can decorate your place with antique bottles simply by setting them on your vanity,mantelepiece and shelves but there are other interesting things you can do with them. For instance you can take a small wicker basket, fill them with the bottles for an enchanting display. You can also use them as miniature flower vases or use them to store things like toothbrushes, cotton swabs or bath salts. Even just cute little twigs look nice in a small old drug store or pill bottle.

You can also try filling old jars and bottles with river rocks, sea shells or marbles. Colored sand looks nice in these old jars as well. They can also be used to hold spices but make sure they are absolutely clean inside or this may not work.

Smaller glass bottles can be hung with ribbon from tree branches outside or even fashioned together to make a shiny mobile.

If you want a display of multi-colored old bottles to create a light show for you then you can display them in a window where the sunshine is going to gleam through the old glass and create rainbows on your walls. You can also line them around the edge of a fireplace and let the flickering flames of the light create flickering and dancing lights on your walls.

One designer on eBay recommends creating a glass castle. You can take a collection of bottles and stack them with the smallest bottles in front and the largest bottles in back. You can use small narrow bottles as turrets. You tie these bottles together with copper wire to create a castle.

One of the most coveted fashion objects to own is a giant old water jug or wine jug. Some people make these into aquariums or terrariums with plants inside. Others fill them with gleaming coins to make a giant green glass piggy bank.

How to Decorate Very Tall Walls

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In many homes, especially older ones or condos designed to look avante-garde there are shifting ceiling heights including rooms with walls that are awkwardly tall. This makes it difficult to make a room look intimate or cozy. Fortunately there are some tricks you can use to try and make the space seem cozier.

If you have a tall all one choice you have is to use taller décor to help play up how majestic the height is. Tall walls look beautiful augmented with real or artificial tall trees, bamboo sticks and reeds. You can also build a tall self-sufficient water that does not have much of a pool to help decorate this part of an apartment.

Another great use of a tall wall is to use it as a wall to display vintage and heirloom antiques. You can also opt for open shelving and stand back from a distance to see it all displayed. By choosing the right shelving you can also follow the unique line of the wall by cutting the shelves a certain way.

If the windows are really tall you may have to use extra tall curtain treatments to get rid of the sense that room is not that private. Tall sheers can do a lot for softening the harshness of the light that can be caused by windows that are too big and too tall.

In general color can do a lot to trick the eye into making the ceiling feel lower. Light weight fabrics and simple window treatments can help make the place look nicer.

Painting a room a darker color and extending it to the ceiling can also help a room seem smaller.

Linking up a number of bookshelves against the wall can help bring the height of any very tall wall visually. The clutter of the bookshelf makes the whole room seem shorter.

Yet another tactic is to buy very large artwork that can cover the area. If one large art work cannot be found then consider covering the area with a mural. Covering the wall with several large works can also help camouflage an extremely high wall.

Finally, you can try adding a beam that crosses the wall to help the room look smaller. Add several beams for a lovely effect that helps foreshorten the ceiling. A room with low beams and an extra large fireplace with a huge mantelpiec3e can make a large room look a lot smaller.