I have always loved all the different ideas on Pinterest for DIY wine bottle decor. Paul and Mary Kay (my in-laws) have some pretty cool displays of wine bottles in their house. Like they have empty wine bottles on the top shelves of their kitchen cabinets and they have a few wine bottles hanging on display with Christmas lights. With my love of wine, and Dan’s love of glowy lights, clearly our home needed its own wine decor.
Dan and I like our DIY projects to be easy and inexpensive. Luckily for us, we already had quite a few sets of Christmas lights leftover from our wedding reception. Plus I drink a decent amount of wine, and I made a lot of sangria over the summer, so it was easy to save up pretty wine bottles.
If you follow me on Instagram, then you’ve seen a few pictures of our DIY wine bottle decor on the mantle above our fireplace. Dan put it together in two sets of four, so for awhile the mantle was uneven until I got around to drinking four more bottles of wine.
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Honestly, this project is so easy that I feel like writing out steps for it is almost insulting. BUT considering how many complicated DIY wine bottle crafts I’ve seen, I will include the steps just to prove anyone could do this at home.
1) Save empty wine bottles. If you’re like us, you can also save an empty rum bottle from your honeymoon to Puerto Rico. Rinse them out really well and let them dry completely.
2) Space out your Christmas lights and wine bottles. Determine approximately how much length should go between two bottles and in each bottle.
3) VERY CAREFULLY (seriously, Dan dropped these so many times–thank goodness none of them broke) thread the lights into the wine bottles. Do this by taking a section of lights, folding it in half, and carefully placing the folded end into the wine bottle.
4) VERY CAREFULLY (again, there was dropping with both the threading and the arranging) arrange the wine bottles on display.
5) This step is optional, but we set up our lights on a timer.
What do you think? I currently have two more empty wine bottles, but I haven’t decided what to do with them. Any ideas?
Love it!! Such a cute idea! I don’t have a mantle to display it but I could probably set them up in my bedroom. I’ve been wanting to add lights in there
There are so many easy variations on this. The mantle just worked for us because we hadn’t really done anything to it except put a few picture frames on it.
This is so cute! Crystal’s sister bought us a wine club membership for our bridal shower, and this would be such a cute way to save the bottles. A little afraid the cats would knock them over, though…
Haha, yeah, cats are dangerous. If you did them in a wine rack instead of on a shelf or mantle, the cats wouldn’t be able to knock them over.
We actually have win bottles up on our mantle too. They’re actually left over from our wedding, filled with fake flowers which were our centerpieces, and I decided to re-purpose them afterwards. No idea how long they’ll be up for, especially since like you, I kind of love the way they work as decorations.
I love that you have wine bottles left over from your wedding, with wedding flowers! That’s such a cool way to reuse wedding decor.
I love the lights and the bottles and your mantle! It’s so festive! 🙂
Thank you! My parents often had lights up at our house year-round, just for fun, so I think I get that joy from them. The lights in bottles in a really easy, colorful way to brighten that room.
I love buying interesting wine bottles, and I never want to get rid of them. I’m on the lookout for some great DIY projects for them, too. Thanks for sharing this idea with Hump Day Happenings!