There are literally thousands of ways to add finishing touches and unique designs to your home, depending on what style of home you like and/or presently have, from classical to contemporary, defining your houses character with the use of some creative thinking and accessories can make a house into a home overnight.
Consider an empty vase, the point of the vase was to display flowers perhaps, but alas, you have no flowers, but yet there are many things in your home that you can place in things such as glass vases which may turn these accessories into new found home improvements, for example filling your vase with pasta-shells could turn what was once an empty vase into a uniquely designed kitchen top display, where imagine 3 vases are placed in according size order… Now imagine the varieties of colours, shapes and sizes of food stuffs that are in the kitchen cupboards, from coffee beans to sugar granules, even spices and herbs, oils and wines and/or empty glass bottles can be turned into something beautiful with the help of the imagination brewed over potentially; a cup of coffee.
To make a coffee display bottle for yourself, simply follow the pictures and instructions here, buy coffee online now if you dont have some, as this may require some blue sky thinking to become a true marvel of design, feel free to deviate from the instructions below and add anything which you might have to hand that you think can add as much or further colour and decoration.
Step 1 – take your empty vase or bottle and wash it out with some soapy water, allow the bottle to dry.
Step 2 – gather together some of the accessories in colours that suit your kitchen or home, hereafter arrange them on the coffee table in your living room or wherever you are going to make your counter top amusement. Some of the items you may need to purchase, so be sure you buy coffee beans and pasta shells in your regular shop otherwise you may have to improvise with other things, notably, try to avoid non dried food stuff for use in your decoration, if you are struggling you can even die grains of sand with food colouring to produce all kinds of wild colours.
Step 3 – Start to pour the various layers into your bottle, layer by layer building on the previous. You can add some olive oil at this point to house firmly the internals of your bottle, the oil shall set in and around the various shapes inside and seat these elements firmly in place.
Step 4 – Finish and seal your decorative counter top bottle with some wax and if possible a cork, if you have used a wine bottle then finding a cork to seal the bottle should be easy, for those who have used small neck bottles and even jam jars, wrapping the original lid in some paper or even decorative material and then fastening it to your creation will finish off your bottle in a classical fashion.
So recycle old food stuffs and don’t throw them away, apply your thinking cap over a cup of coffee and come up with your own amazing counter top decoration to make your kitchen a unique design feature that is truly personal and created by yourself from materials that were until now, surplus to requirement.
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