Wine Cork Flooring

Colorful penny tiles have been on our future-home-dream-list for years, but now they have competition: wine cork tiles. Jelinek Cork Group makes the flooring from recycled wine corks, combining two loves &mdash wine and décor.

There's something about cork that's just so natural. We love it when it's added to an otherwise fancy room for some grunge-vs.-glamour contrast.

We like the the cork flooring with the white grout best, but there's also the clear option. Corks can be stained any color, as well, as in the photo of the blue pattern on the flooring.

Jelinek Cork Group takes cork donations, if you ever wanted to get rid of a collection of wine corks.

(Images: 1, 2, Domino magazine from Furfin; 3, 4, 5, Jelinek Cork Group)

Comments (6)

i luved that domino pic too the first time i saw it! i still love penny tiles best though, especially black with black grout.

posted by SydneyBristow on October 22nd 2009 at 3:53pm
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my first thought on seeing the white grouted corks is - how the hell would you clean this? i'm such a spoilsport, all function, no fun!

posted by the polish chick on October 22nd 2009 at 5:34pm
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Love this idea as a back splash.

posted by Rolen the Great on October 23rd 2009 at 8:08am
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Love the pics of it as flooring - the corks give it a fun, whimsical shape. I have to agree with the polish chick though as far as cleaning is concerned. Would not want to take on that responsibility... although the clear top coat in the 4th picture looks quite protective and smooth... and easy to clean?! Recent post on wine corks used as backsplash: http://blog.17thandriggs.com/?p=670

posted by rma on October 23rd 2009 at 10:24am
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We put this in our kitchen and it's easily sweep-able. You put a coat of polyurethane over it after staining and grouting so the grouted areas aren't that much below the tops of the cork slices.

posted by CJL on October 24th 2009 at 6:05am
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whew! $20 per tile. steep.

posted by megnez on October 27th 2009 at 7:59pm
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