How to Decorate with Wine Openers

Wine is not just a beverage, but a lifestyle and hobby for some people. Whether you make your own wine, host wine-tasting parties, collect wine or just the corks, wine accessories is a thriving business. Collectors are attracted to wine toppers and wine openers because of the wide range of materials, shapes and sizes now available to a connoisseur. If you have a wine opener collection, here are some innovative ideas on how to display your functional treasures.

Things You'll Need

• Collection of wine openers
• Tension curtain rod
• "C" hooks
• Clear glass bowl
• Clear glass vase with wide mouth
• Hot glue
• Frameless mirror
• Heavy duty magnets
• Square piece of metal
• Corks

Instructions

1. 

   Hang from curtain rods or hooks on your wall. Use a tension spring curtain rod over a small kitchen window and simply "string" wine openers on the rod by sliding the bottle opener end of your wine opener or attach a black cable to wine openers to hang. Use picture hooks or "C" hooks on a wall and hang wine openers from the hooks to display.

2. 

   Lay wine openers carefully in a wide, short, clear glass bowl to create a unique display and functional storage area for your wine openers. Keep the cork screw ends down in the bowl to prevent cuts to hands.

3. 

   Mix your wine opener styles. Gather together wine openers made from metal, wood, glass and silver as well as new and antique wine openers to add interest to a bowl on your wine cooler or a basket on your refrigerator.

4. 

   Color code your collection. Place like-colored wine openers together in vases with wide mouths to decorate a windowsill or bar top. Wine openers can come in multiple colors and finishes, so look for a range of styles when shopping for wine openers.

5. 

   Hot glue inexpensive and colorful wine openers to a frameless mirror and hang over the bar or near your wine cooler. Apply a thick bead of hot glue to the back "body" of the wine opener and press along the edge of the mirror to create a frame. Continue around the mirror mixing colors and shapes.

6. 

   Attach heavy-duty magnets to your wine openers and display in a neat line on your fridge door or other metallic surface. If you don't want to hang them on your refrigerator, simply get a piece of metal from your hardware store and screw into a wall to hang your magnetic display. Hot glue magnets onto a flat, high surface on your wine opener to complete your project.

7. Line larger wine openers along the top edge of a lighted kitchen cabinet to give off an interesting glow and shadow forms at night. Be sure they are secure and won't fall when cabinets below are closed.

8. Place on a bookshelf. If you have an especially interesting antique wine opener collection, line your best pieces up on a narrow bookshelf or along a mantel to provide areas of interest throughout a room. If you have children in your home, you may want to put a piece of cork on sharp corkscrew tips before diplaying.

Tips & Warnings

• Hang larger collections of wine openers against a deep red or terra-cotta backdrop to create a "Tuscany" feel.

• Wine openers are sharp. Don't leave them with unattended children.

References

• wineenthusiast.com

Resources

• Pink wine opener Red Envelope
• ebay.com listings