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i blushingly admit i have a craft brew cap collection going for my own little patio table. i am not sure about using grout or whatever mosaic-making stuff it looks like they used - i guess i'd be afraid of rust. i was thinking of using clear resin but it seems like a huge pain.

How very............college alcoholic.

those all look pretty tacky to me.

yeah, looks tacky to me.

the tables i could live with, but that cork thing top right, wtf is that. looks like a dart board's ugly sister they keep in the basement.

"animal house" chic?

Maybe a less college-look: I placed old champagne & wine corks in glasses to hold flower stems upright. There was just a little water in the bottom of the glasses & clear vases to prevent wilting. I thought it looked great for a party!

AT - making up reason after reason people need to save their garbage.

Anybody remember prison art?

Comments are good. I would really stress that people shouldn't try this at home.

Absolutely disgusting.
So incredibly hideous that it makes me wonder if this is a design blog or a joke.

Perfect--
--for the FEMA Trailer.

my mom is a (now-retired) sommelier, and years ago, i made a xmas wreath for her door out of wine corks - and a few other things including some really great ribbon.

she still hangs it on her door this time every year...

This is a terrible suggestion. Who in their right mind would waste their time doing something like this and then (horrors!) actually display it as furniture in their home? Is this a joke? This must be a joke.

We turn old beer tops into magnets for our fridge, which can be a fun way to make use of them.

We also used to have a coin-jar type jar with beer tops in it, which looked fun and colorful without being too animal house-ish.

I do have a question though, I have been collecting champagne tops since I was a young girl and am trying to think of a good way to "display" them. Any thoughts?

I'm going to collect cigarette butts and make them into coasters. It will go well with the lamps I made out of dollar store melamine ashtrays.

maybe it's "FEMA trailer animal house chic"...
lol lol

"Look! Frat-boy folk art for the home."

The dart board... whatever. I like the beer top mosaic table. I think they should have put the caps closer together, their grout lines are too big. It would be a fun drink table for a BBQ party!

A friend of ours covered her kitchen walls with corks from her job as head bartender at a chain restaurant (starts with App ...). She started with just the backsplash, but then progressed to every available kitchen surface, including the counter. Her husband cut each cork so he could mount each piece neatly and uniformly. The project is baffling, and I don't know whether to congratulate the achievement or offer them a Xanax.

Corks I can almost live with, bottle caps--you need to be a former blues musician in the Delta to really pull this off.

You can run corks through a chipper and turn them into mulch.

Why is this post labeled as a "How To"? It doesn't tell you how to make anything