Awesome How to Make Empty Food Jars As Vases and Other Home Decoration

Most of the groceries and goods like jelly, pickles, juices and mayonnaise are placed in jars and bottles. Because of this, we simply put aside the bottles and jars and once its contents are already consumed or putting them in the recycling bin. The main way of recycling jars and bottles is to break and grind them to recreate new glass bottles. Although this process is not harmful, there are also other means of recycling bottles and jars without grinding them.

If you are wondering what could be the other use of jars and bottles aside from being destroyed than re-made, read along.

Jars and bottles are good materials as base in creating projects because of their colors, shapes, and sizes.  If you love buying foods in unique shaped jars or in colored jars, then you can make use of them by transforming them as house décor.  However, before they can become beautiful house accessories, you must prepare them first.

The primary thing that you should do when making decorations from empty jars is to clean them. Cleaning means not only removing the traces of food in the jars but taking off the label as well. To remove the labels easily, heat the jars by placing them inside a pot with boiling water. If the adhesive of the labels still remain, use grease to completely remove them.

After you have prepared the jars, it is time to design it. In designing the empty jars, you can do everything you desire. You can use a nice wrapper to cover the jar entirely, tie ribbons on it, place some glitters on it or paint it. There are so many things you can do, just be creative in doing so.

Once you have completely transformed your jars to decorations, you can now display it and accessorize the different rooms of your house with it. You have a lot of options in making the jars as decors. You can use them in different ways in decorating the rooms of the house or you can follow a theme in decorating the house.

Recycling doesn't really mean that you have to let the jars be destroyed and ground to be made new again. Recycling also means that you can make something useful out of the used containers.