My Glass Bottle Furniture: A Creative Solution to a Bottle Problem

Using nothing but bottles it is possible to build stunning furniture. Put a light inside and take your loft to the next level!

I was going through my photos yesterday and came across these shots of the glass bottle furniture from my home in Sabangan, Mt. Province, Philippines. The furniture, made with my girl friend at the time Bianca Silva, was epic. Their awesomeness-- and their error-- helped inspire the development of the Milstein Modules and MD modules that are now one of the most used Ecobrick applications around the world (I shared this story in my last post).

Bianca and I had this amazing home-- essentially a loft with hardwood floors and a balcony that looked over the village and river far below. The only thing that it was missing was... furniture. Since there was no furniture stores for 6 hours down a crazy highway, we had to improvise.

There was however, thousands of gin bottles in the village that had no where to go. Filipinos love to drink gin. The gin comes in these square bottles-- perfect to build stuff with. So, we got going with a silicone gun, and built our own furniture! Tables, chairs, a couch, an easy chair! I built lights into the furniture so that they would glow softly at night. Our furniture was awesome. Our neighbours loved it... and the idea has since spread as way to solve both the furniture problem and the bottle problem in Sabangan and beyond.

See my last post for the story on how this inspired the Milstein Module...

https://steemit.com/social/@russmaier/the-milstein-module-build-luminous-furniture-with-bottles

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