Plastic Bottles into Upside Down Herb Planters

If you love planting and adore original designs and ideas, you will find this idea simply awesome! Plant herbs upside down and use old plastic bottles for this!

• These save plenty of space;
• They look amazing and fun (your guests and friends will love it!)
• That's an awesome way to reuse old plastic bottles.

Here's the detailed instruction as well as another way to implement the idea.

More ways to re-use those plastic bottles:

• Recycle a Plastic Bottle into a Box
• Plastic Bottle Sand Watch
• Build a Greenhouse of Plastic Bottles
• Plastic Bottle Candle Holder
• Sandals for the Beach Made of Plastic Bottles

Light Bulb into a Mini Green House

If you are into in-house planting, you'll love this fun idea: turn a light bulb into a tiny greenhouse.
Here's the detailed instruction (and make sure to look though the comments as well).

I am not sure what happens if / when a plant outgrows the bulb - but I guess there's a way to find a really tiny plant for it to grow inside for a long time.

Ideas?

Here are a few interesting takeaways from the comments:

• Will the plant need air?
  
  If you give the plants an airtight house, you create a mini ecosystem and the water that's inside will eventually evaporate to the top, condensate on the glass, and fall back down like rain.  It will keep doing that over and over, and you end up hardly ever having to water
• Do the plant grow, and does it stop growing?
  
  The plants don't really grow much- a little bit, but they have stayed small enough to not outgrow the terrarium.  A few of the little fern babies have doubled or tripled in size over the course of many months, but they were very tiny to begin with.

More plants in a bulb:

 

More greenhouse and planting gadgets:

• Build a Greenhouse of Plastic Bottles
• A CD Case into Garden Cloche

Vinyl Record Covers into a Box

We have had quite few DIY ideas on how to recycle vinyl records including several projects in upcycling them into check bags and purses (Stylish vinyl records purse and cool vinyl records bags) as well as other, more creative ideas (like cool vinyl records bags and vinyl record into a cool necklace).

But how about the vinyl record covers we all store at home? How can we reuse them as well?

Here's a fun and very useful idea: vinyl record cover box (find the full tutorial here).

Gotta love the stylish design that would make a perfect match into a retro interior! And it looks like a useful storage utility too! On top of all, it looks easy to do and is absolutely free.

Thanks to Kate of Silver Prices Today for sending this cool tip!

Wine Bottle into the Garden Borders

If you like gardening and recycling, I am sure you are always looking for new creative ways to combine the two.

Here's an awesome tip for you: use wine bottles as borders and edges: this looks nice and is 100% eco-friendly. They can be arranged in a pretty way and they will never get old: will last as long as they want to keep them in the garden.

You may enroll you whole neighborhood into collecting the bottles. This should be fun!

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More ideas on recycling wine bottles:

• Wine Bottle Chandelier
• Wine Bottle Torch

More gardening DIY projects:

• Build a Greenhouse of Plastic Bottles
• A CD Case into Garden Cloche
• DIY Metal Cans Garden Laterns
• Skateboard Table for Your Garden
• Solar Powered CD-Case Bricks

Rolled Recycled Magazine Pages into the Mirror Frame

We have already covered a few fun DIY projects based on rolled magazine pages: rolled magazine table and magazine paper photo frame.

Today's idea is another brilliant one! The radiant rolled magazine wall mirror looks fantastic!

I don't know what all the pieces are attached to, but use it for inspiration!

Dictionary Lamp - A Bit of Geekery at Home

I wasn't able to find any tutorial on creating this one but I loved the idea. Look:

1. A dictionary page for the shade;
2. A round-bottomed flask for the stand.

The main thing is to remember that a light bulb can get really hot while on, so don't let it be close to the paper.

Enjoy!

More awesome lamp ideas:

• Decanters Lamps;
• Plastic PET Bottle Lamps;
• Milk Carton Lamps;
• Ink Cartridge Lamps;
• Cassette Tape Lamps

DIY Stone Bath Mat

Do you want to feel yourself at the seaside each time you step down from your bath? Here's an awesome idea for you: a stone bath mat.

It looks very easy to create: just make a wooden frame and feel it with sea stones the way it is comfortable to stand on. You may have to go to the sea to collect nice-looking pebbles with smooth edges to create this thing.

There are a couple of advantages of this DIY project:

• It is visually very appealing;
• It is really unique and will make your bathroom your home most interesting place;
• It should be very good for health: my mom has always taught me that standing and walking barefooted on the sea pebbles helps in conditions like flat foot and is generally very useful for health.

Here's another cool floor idea for your bathroom: Bath Mat out of Wine Corks

This is a DIY guest tip by Aimee, a creative home-maker and frugal mom blogging for HomeLoanFinder, the best free mortgage comparison tool and informative money-saving resource.