I made a free-standing water bottle at one time.  I used the heaviest
gauge of wire that I could bend to make a sort of three-legged cradle for
the bottle, and then made loops at the ends of the legs so that I could
screw the cradle to a piece of wood.  It looked a bit like a lunar lander
:) I also filed down the cut ends of the wire so that if rambuctious play
happened in the area of the water bottle, nobody would get cut by sharp
edges.
 
I was renting at the time (and still am, sigh) but if you are in a
position where you can drill holes in your walls, making a vertical
cradle that attaches to the wall (or to a board that is then attached
to the wall) might be the way to go.
 
Regina
 
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"Is that my business?  Well, what is my business?  Do I know?  Did I ever
know?  Let's not go into that.  You're not human tonight, Marlowe.  Maybe
I never was or ever will be... Maybe we all get like this in the cold
half-lit world where always the wrong thing happens and never the right."
--Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister
[Posted in FML issue 5057]