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How to Decorate With Lampe Berger Scent Lamps

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Lampe Berger lamps are actually old-style alcohol lamps that were used for killing bacteria and improving the air in hospitals. They were invented by a pharmacist named Maurice Berger in 1898. Nowadays they come in all kinds of different fragrances and also interesting style.

The lamps come with a venting cap, snuffing camp and a funnel you chose the aroma of oil that you would like to fill your home and the result is a gorgeous smelling abode. The fragrance oils in themselves are decorating tools. The fragrances themselves are divided into themes that embrace many fragrances. For instance Dreams of Exploration is a line that contains scents that smell like different places. For instance Chic Paris is a mix of citrus fruits, peach, musk sand rose garden; evocative of the gardens and boutique smells from a street in France. In fact the next blog will be all about how to decorate with Lampe Berger aromas as a smell can totally change the character of a room.

The glass alcohol lamps come in a variety of different styles that suit different interior design themes. The Ice Lamp collection has two parts. There are the little clear or frosted glass spheres and there are solid white ceramic vessels as well. Some of them like The Clear Swirls. look like little perfume bottles with side swirls. Another style called the Pearl Bingo is just a round white ball that would look just right on the set of Stanley Kubrick movie. For a classic sixties look choose the white Milk jar which is white ceramic with a little swirled jeweled top. For a look that suits the lady who wears Lanvin or collects old perfume bottles the Louis XII is appropriate; this model is engraved with a floral pattern and has a shiny gold venting cap that makes it look like it belongs in the French court or in the powder room of a fancy room in the south of France.

Lampe Berger also makes a series of lamps that come in chocolate, amber glass known as the Spice Collection. These look more like after shave bottles with shiny silver tops. The Athena model, which is ridged and egg shaped looks like it is from an art deco era. The Amber Corollossima looks is that “ballerina skirt style bottle” that is so reminiscent of the fifties. These bottles look good on a male dresser or in a dark stone bathroom. The Spice line of lamps also comes with Bingo ball style of lampe that is made out shiny gold metal; it suites retro eighties décor that has lots of red and brown.

Decorating With Old Wine Bottles

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There are all kinds of different ways that you can use old wine bottles to make incredibly decorative objects. You can make both works of art and recycled objects from old bottles of wine.

One interesting way to make a poster is to soak all of your old wine bottles so the labels come off. You can then use the labels to decorate lampshades, tray or make an interesting poster.

It is easy to turn an old wine bottle into a lamp base. In fact the old chianti bottle in a basket look is just as popular as it as ever been. All you need to do is simply rig it with a light bulb and a cord and then find an old fashioned pale white or checkered shade to go with it.

You can also make lamps out of wine bulb by drilling a hole in the bottom of a bottle and then stuffing it with a string of mini lights. You can use a straightened out hanger to push the lights into the bottle and the plug cord comes out of the bottom of the bottle so you can plug it in. You can also glue beads and other decorative objects to the bottle to make a unique one of a kind light.

If the wine bottle has the right bottom bulbous shape you can actually make a light bulb out of the bottle with the bottle body serving as a colorful glass shade.

Wine bottles can also easily be turned into tumbler style drinking glasses. You can buy special saws and little hammers for cutting the bottles of bottles and then polishing them. These often make better vases than drinking glasses depending on how smooth you can get the lip of the cut glass to be. The cut off bottoms of wine bottles also make nice bottoms for hurricane candles. You can use a small bit of wire to hold the candle stable in the cut of bottle.

Wine bottles can also be used to make an edging for a garden. You dig a hole and bury the bottle upside down and have the bottom of the bottle showing like a round glass patio stone.

Wine bottles can also be recycled to be used as containers for flavored olive oils. You can make your own by adding dried basil, rosemary, sun dried tomatoes or sticks of oregano to a bottle. Tie this all up with a ribbon and it makes a great gift.