September 16, 2012 - Bottle Cap Siding

Russian pensioner Olga Kostina lives in the very rural, isolated Russian village of Karmarchaga, located about 50 miles southeast of Krasnoyarsk, and in the Siberian Taiga. She collected colorful plastic caps and nailed about 30,000 of them into place to create all kinds of mosaic designs and patterns across the facade of her house.

She decorated using repetitive geometric patterns and portraits of cute animals that live in the surrounding forest. She had enough bottle caps to also decorate other structures in her neighborhood.



via My Modern Met

That is just so damn cool.

There ya go, Tril, something to do in your cronehood

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Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Please note that is her house, not her garden shed. She was probably also after additional weatherproofing as well as artistic effect ...

"...very rural, isolated Russian village..."

How did that little village end up with so many bottle caps in it? And where are the bottles?

The bottles have been reused, over and over again. If for "bottle" you read "bottle and/or jar" there are very many more products preserved in jars in Russia, whereas cans tend to be the vessel of choice in the West. IMHO.

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Originally Posted by BigV hm.. not the monkey I thought would be interested first.

Just FWIW, when I was in France, they asked me on purchase whether I would be returning the bottle I bought.
Given I was 15, it was a bottle of pop, but it made a difference to the price. Baffled me completely (thought my French was at fault) but the daughter of the shopkeeper was called in to explain in English. Still baffled.

We got something like 5p if we brought bottles back to the off licence window at the local pub. Two bottles equalled a big bag of sweeties! But not money off at the point of sale. Still not sure how that works, might have misunderstood, but she was a very pretty lady.

I love it! I've been collecting plastic bottle caps for years - mainly from milk bottles and soft drink bottles, mainly from other people, mind you, and all part of my mission to find some sort of use for anything that goes into the non-recyclable rubbish bin. Later I'll tell you what I'm crocheting with the truckloads of baling twine we get from the hay bales. But I digress.

I have wanted to use the caps to make the scales of a giant fish. Originally I wanted to nail them onto something as well, but we don't have any wooden buildings on our farm. As is common in our part of Australia, our house is cement sheet clad, and the sheds are either cinder block or corrugated iron. Not many wooden houses here in general.

BUT... I have only just realised that I could nail them onto the big wooden fence posts along our boundary! Hmmmm. Now to think up a pattern that is more than just barber shop poles.

I also have thousands of metal beer bottle caps to use. Maybe I could make shiny gold poles as well? Throw some ideas at me and I will post the photos when I've done it.

Stones with faces ... made from bottle caps!

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Originally Posted by ZenGum Stones with faces ... made from bottle caps!

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Originally Posted by sandypossum snip-- BUT... I have only just realised that I could nail them onto the big wooden fence posts along our boundary! Hmmmm. Now to think up a pattern that is more than just barber shop poles. I also have thousands of metal beer bottle caps to use. Maybe I could make shiny gold poles as well? Throw some ideas at me and I will post the photos when I've done it.

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Originally Posted by BigV URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching#The_hexagrams"]I Ching hexagrams[/url] in the traditional vertical pattern.

Braille!

I Ching?

I prefer Ka Ching.

Now that I'm thinking:

"Rural"
"Russia"
"Bottle caps- TONS of 'em"

they're vodka bottle caps, dummies.

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That's a lot of blowjobs.