Comments on: Michelle Brand’s Stunning Plastic Bottle Chandelier

By: mrunmayee.g

mrunmayee.g — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:04:27 +0000

Your creation is fantastic !!! Really, you have done a great job and recycled a whole lot of waste into a beautiful thing!! I think, it’s a wonder. I would love to try it at home and would let to know about site to see the original one.

By: Reality Check

Reality Check — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:08:25 +0000

I can appreciate the concept but I’ll take this stuff more seriously when people like Al Gore have this hanging in their own homes.

Does she debur the sharp edges of every piece to make them safe and unlikely to cut someone? When you redecorate, and you will, do these get tossed into a landfill or are they carefully taken apart for recycling? Let’s really think this through and see if the concept is really “green” or if it’s just a postponement of the inevitable . . . to the dump it goes.

By: myriah

myriah — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:44:10 +0000

LEDs would work, Kristen M.

I really dig this… I have been thinking up something similar for a little while.

By: Kristen M.

Kristen M. — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:18:56 +0000

Beautiful! However, I can’t help but wonder how the plastic doesn’t melt if close to the bulb and the light is left on for a while…

By: Aubrey M

Aubrey M — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:21:22 +0000

I love it. I can see smaller versions of the designs fitting well in domestic homes.

By: capty99

capty99 — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:05:35 +0000

Agreed with Steve, it looks nice from a distance. I can imagine the blurring / lighting effects of a camera are also helping it out, it can’t look very good as a centerpiece if people are real close to it. If I had high cielings somewhere maybe.

Tyler J . Lee
http://www.tylerjameslee.com

By: Steve N. Lee

Steve N. Lee — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:44:00 +0000

This looks really cool. Especially from a distance where you can’t really see what it’s made of and how it’s formed.

I don’t usually like designs made out of recycled garbage as they ALWAYS look so lame and you’d never dream of having something like it in your home, but this really is pretty.

As for many 60s born Brits, I can well imagine Valerie Singleton making one of these on Blue Peter! Especially approaching Christmas, though yours would never look as good as hers, of course!

I don’t know if I’d want one of these hanging in my dining room but I could see the attraction of them in public places such as shopping centres or modern art galleries and the like. I suppose they could be sold as self-assembly kits which would make them popular.

Plus, it would get the message out about recycling. People will see that ‘garbage’ isn’t always just garbage. It still has value, can still have a purpose. Valuable lessons for all of us today.

Steve N. Lee
author of eco-blog http://www.lionsledbysheep.com
and suspense thriller ‘What if…?’