Your home needs a touch of something…you want something more elegant, something more exotic, but at the same time nothing that requires great expenses and time to rebuild your home or change furniture that are already good, so maybe you need decorations and ornaments.

ShoppingThere’s a kind of ornamental objects that can give to a living room, a rest room, or a bathroom that touch of exotic elegance and refinement: I’m talking about decorative perfume bottles.

This kind of little bottles made with different shapes and colors sometime are a detail that is underestimated from persons that not are collectors of this kind of object but can become a must for you home. Perfume bottles for ladies were always something designed carefully and with elegance during all the history. We can see beautiful perfume containers made of glass or terracotta among ancient Egyptians, Greeks or Romans that was made to save fragrances and seduction secrets of woman during all the history. The art of decorative perfume bottles was refined in East during middle age: Arab, Indians were experts in create beautiful scents and keep them in adequate marvels made of colored glass.

Using perfume bottles as a decoration can be a good idea to improve your home aspect without having big troubles and great expenses. Here you can see some idea:

Night Light

Have you ever thought in turn a perfume bottle in a light? This kind of bottles usually have beautiful shapes and colors, so you just have to make some hole with the proper tool and put some little LED light in. Don’t worry about all the work you have to do to make this: both the part of making holes and connect LED to the electric system (or a battery) can be done following some tutorials internet is fullo of it. Image to have a set of similar perfume bottles on the shelf of your bathroom mirror and…magically these bottles will be lights! Surprising, nice and inexpensive!

Day Light

Artificial lights are cool but what about sun? A lot of decorative perfume bottles are very…shining, they are decorated with crystals, or special enamels… You can just put them in a position when at some moment of the day they will reflect sun rays entering from windows. You can create amazing light effects!

Fill space

You don’t like to play with lights and sun rays? Don’t worry, decorative bottles can be just used to fill some “grey” space in your house. You can put some of them on a shelf of your bathroom or bedroom, or upon some dresser. They will definitely look better than a plastic miniature of the Liberty Statue, Tour Eiffel or Rome Coliseum!