brown can get such a bad rap, don’t you think? it’s often labeled as boring and sometimes gets lumped in with beige and bachelor pads — and not in a good way. and yet ‘brown’ is all around us — it’s everywhere we look in nature: beautiful big oak trees, endless prairies and rolling hillsides. and then there’s classic hardwood floors and furniture — wood is brown, darn it, and it’s very beautiful. brown glass is quite lovely, too and very often ignored. you drink your beer and never consider the beauty of the amber bottle. i found some real brown beauties this weekend and thought i’d share. you can find these vintage brown babies at flea markets, and online on ebay and etsy. and loads of new beauty products are being bottled in brown these days too. let’s bring back the beauty that is brown!
p.f. candle co.’s soy candle; no chemicals candle from couveture and the garbstore; vintage amber brown bottles from rubbish loves vintage; p.f. candle co.’s soy candle; vintage salt bottle from Bouwman Curiosa; and aesop coriander seed body cleanser.
no chemicals from couveture and the garbstore.
inspire and create (above + below).
Yes! Love this post! My mom has always collected bottles (of all sorts and colors) and I always enjoyed helping her find them. Our house is over 100 years old, and we’ve even dug some up from our backyard. Some of the coolest amber ones we’ve found are large Clorox bottles.
wow, in your backyard!? that’s so cool!
I’m ok with brown just not the excessive use of it in bachelor pads like you mentioned lol. I had an ex who’s EVERYTHING was brown right down to his bedding. He even had plates with a brown “decorative” detail. It was horrible. Thanks for the pretty collection of images :) Make brown proud again!
Jess
http://www.citycomfortsdc.com/under-100-lady-gifts/
Brown bottles will always have my heart. The quiet and unassuming bottle that makes other things look beautiful.
Brown glass can definitely be beautiful. It’s so vintage!
Kari
http://www.sweetteasweetie.com
I love those brown bottles and I’ve been collecting it for a while. My latest post has some photos. Hope you like it :-)
I love the bottles but what really has my attention is the octagon mirror. Do you know where I could find one like that?
i’m not sure, but i will hunt around and report back if i find one. a quick search came up empty!
i found a similar mirror!
http://bddw.com/furniture/mirrors/captains_mirror
Brown bottle pro tip: Red stripe beer bottles make the best little vessels. I love that the bottle is kind of short and chubby too. Also, in addition to the greens and blues shown above, I like to use bright oranges along with the brown glass for a 70s modern vibe. <3 <3
oh, good call! they are nice and ‘chubby’!
white flowers are going good with brown bottle, simplicity has much attraction in it and always welcomed omegamasonry.com
Let’s bring back the beauty that is brown…hear hear!
Hi,
I am collecting amber bottles for my wedding. But do you have a list of suggestion are where I could get the brown bottles from? Are there certain products that are easy to get and cheap that I could collect them?
Love your post!
Also, what is the name of the flowers in the first picture?
Olivia xx
i think those are cherry blossoms. and sounds like a pretty wedding! i know that Healthe-Ade Kombucha comes in a brown bottle, but it’s not inexpensive. do ever use the nextdoor.com site? it’s a neighborhood site and maybe you could go on there and ask your neighbors to save their brown bottles for you.