How to make a table lamp out of any glass bottle without drilling

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BEFORE YOU START
  • The below method does not require drilling the bottle or cutting it. It is kept simple on purpose to make it easy for everyone.
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The material you need for making a lamp out of a liquor bottle

Any wine or spirit glass bottle that you like. The Belvedere vodka glass bottle is particularly beautiful for showing the Polish presidential castle when exposed to light and was selected in this particular case.
You will then need a ready-made kit which you can buy further below on this page from our partners' stores, or, if you like to start from bits and pieces of material which you already have (like I do) and build your own lampshade support:
  • The original bottle plug (left) which should be made of plastic. Do not use cork plugs, buy plastic replacements instead.
  • A piece of threaded rod for chandeliers along with one nut and a couple of washers,
  • The brass accessory shown to the right, needed to have the cable passing through it up to the lamp socket
You also need:
  • An E14 lamp socket, the one that holds a lampshade. i.e. it must have a lower fixed ring and an upper mobile ring to hold the shade
  • A transparent table lamp wire inclusive of the already fitted plug and switch
  • A lampshade
  • A 4W warm white (2700K) LED lamp, click below to understand the color of light that you should consider

Converting the glass bottle into a table lamp

Drill the bottle plug with a 9.5mm drill bit in order to be able to insert the 10mm threaded rod.
Fit the nut to the rod on the inner side of the plug then cut the rod leaving some 8-10 mm of length in order to be able to fit in the brass lamp socket holder. Insert the toothed washer in between the plug and the brass holder.
Take off any remaining piece of label from the bottle using a cutter first, then clean out any left paper with alcohol and a cloth.
Have the lamp wire pass through the brass adapter up to the lamp holder base which is simply screwed in its thread.
Connect the wire terminals, assemble the lamp holder and that's it, you just have to push the plug into the bottle and your bottle lamp will be ready!
Note however that for safety reasons, you need to double the insulation of the cable where it touches the brass i.e. when passing through the hole of the brass adapter. You can just strip a piece of cable and use its insulation as a second layer.
Fit the lampshade and the LED lamp and enjoy your bottle lamp.
Different empty wine and spirits bottles with different shades and colors will provide infinite combinations of bottle lamps. Just build the bottle table lamp that suits better your interior...

Using readily available bottle lamp kits

If you have no patience to work with small accessories for converting your bottle into a lamp, or simply want to immediately make a glass bottle lamp without drilling it, or even convert your empty bottle to a torch...you may buy your readily available kit from our partners' stores:
Wireless and rechargeable bottle lamp kit converter:
Kit for converting wine bottles into lamps:
Crystal bottle lamp kits for whiskey bottles:
Converting a glass bottle into a torch light:

See also our other tutorials on table lamps and lampshades...

...and buy other wine or liquor bottle light heads from our partners' stores: