We hate to toss the corks from the wine we drink. We like to keep them as an informal record of what we've drunk. But where to keep them? Here's one idea we saw the other night while dining at The Little Next Door on Third Street...
Used corks were beginning to collect in a planter. Covering the dirt, they serve to slow moisture evaporation and will eventually biodegrade.
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They may look better in real life, but they look like my neighbor's dog has been there. Perhaps it would look better if they were placed upright and placed tightly together?
Looks like garbage.
Maybe if the corks were cut in half, or quarters.
ya, it looks like poo
This doesn't look very good but I do throw all my old corks in one of my planters and it looks cute. We had a TON of corks though so you couldn't see any dirt.
It just looks messy to me. Too much clutter.
I agree - Looks trashy
If you don't want to display your corks, they can be recycled and made into cork tiles. Check out the website for where to send them:
http://www.yemmhart.com/news /winecorkrecycling.htm
Rupert, put the cork on the fork.
i like the chair, not the cork.
if you like it, go for it! i don't think its for me, but maybe if you do it in a more organized way you can post it and show us that it does look good. a few other options for reusing wine corks:
-wall covering
-ceiling covering
-homemade cork board
i, for one, do love the look of wine corks. not only do i like the connection to each bottle of wine you shared with people, but i love the look of them. each one is unique and there's a rustic, romantic feeling to a wall covered in them.
at my old place we had so many corks! we started just popping them in vases (which looked kinda cool for a little while), but before long we had three vases overflowing with corks. then we decided to put them around the door frame to the kitchen. you just cut them in half and they lay flat against the wall. it was really really pretty.
but using them as wall coverings and ceiling coverings work a lot easier with the space of a restaurant (see the walls of Yatai on Sunset, or the Ceiling of Bosc Kitchen and Winebar in Avon, Connecticut). All I know is that it wont work where i currently live, but maybe it will work in your place!