After hunting in vain for a simple hanging bottle vase that was as affordable as it was delicate, I took things into my own hands.
Photography by Erin Boyle for Gardenista.
Armed with dark annealed wire and a multipurpose tool with wire snips and needle nose pliers, I designed a simple hanger that can be adjusted to fit just about any bottle you have lying around (I used a bottle I already own).
The finished hanging glass bottle vase.
The secret to the understated look of the wire hangers I’ve admired is dark annealed steel wire. I used thin, 20-gauge wire for a delicate look.
Materials:
To begin, I bent the wire into two circles–one to serve as the base and the other to support the mid-section of the vase.
I used the neck of my bottle to form a second circle.
I used the needle nose pliers to twist the two ends of the wire to form a circle and then slipped them off the bottle.
Next, I cut four strips of wire and used the pliers to bend smell crooks at the base of each wire.
I attached each straight piece to the smallest (base) circle and clamped each crook closed with the pliers.
Next, I placed the vase on top of the smaller base circle and spaced the four straight wires at equal distances apart from one another.
Holding the bottle in place over the base circle, I pulled each straight piece up around the bottle and slipped the larger circle over the top of the bottle and over each upright wire as shown.
Taking care to keep the top circle level, I gently bent each upright wire down over the middle circle as shown.
I used my pliers to twist a second crook around the middle circle and snipped off any remaining wire.
Next, I attached a simple handle using the same bent crook method.
Hung from my bedroom door with a Wrought Iron Wall Hook ($6 from Brook Farm General Store), the finished hanger has just the simple, elegant look that I was hoping for.