Monday, October 20, 2008

Material Monday-Cork it!












You sit down to dinner in your favorite bistro and order a nice bottle of wine.
Instead of the familiar 'pop' of the cork-your waiter opens the bottle with a
twist of the screw top!
This brings to mind Seven-up not a fine Bordeaux! While wine corks are
being replaced with plastic corks and screw tops, cork is showing up in the
home in many forms. I have had cork floors in my kitchen for three years and
I love it. It stands up to kids, dogs, spills and it is so soft underfoot.



Savvy consumers know that cork is a natural and environmentally friendly material that is both sustainable and reusable. Cork is resilient, springy, sound absorbing, shock and fire resistant, 100% watertight, resistant to rotting(making it suited to indoor or outdoor) and warm to the touch. In other words, cork has a wide range of applications. Cork has moved beyond flooring as bowls, lamps, vases, sideboards, floating pool chairs and even sinks. There is a mosaic floor made from recycled wine corksthat can be used in your bathroom.






So kick back in a cork chaise and enjoy a nice bottle of wine
-with a screw top of course!

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