Quirky….or too corky?…that is the question!

What a wonderfully beautiful, and likely “green” facade for your home! Not only does this allow creative design for ouside walls that likely would just be plain, but the insulation value of the added cork layer is probably quite notable! What creative mind conjuired up this idea from the obvious “in hand” item. What twisted mental turns led to this idea? Perhaps we shall never be sure about this….except it works….and well at that!

From “to Be or not to Be” contemplations, did this evolve into “to cork, or not to cork….my home!” I can hear it now….”hey honey!…you know all the wine corks we keep tossing into the barrels in the garage?….I just had an idea of what we can do with all of them!”

And I wonder….did the phrase “put a cork in it!” come up along the idealogical discourse of this unique and notable
achievement? I can only imagine the countless hours that putting a cork in the wall putty/cement” required. Did the “corkor” drink the requsite wine as he/she went? I rather suspect that it’s a “he”…and it seems a bit of male thing to do, and likely in his 30’s and probably in the construction trade (to offer up a potential “corker profile”). But I wonder, if he instead was a beer drinker would he have put beer caps all over his home?….or ahem!…would, by comparision, that hae seemed a truly tacky….and tasteless result (I’ve seen photos of homes covered by beer cans…and they were clearly by comparision T&T…tacky and tasteless). But no, in so many ways this wine cork creative home facade seems far more elavated in style and function, and even beauty over the commonplace abode.

I noted that these really are “used” corks (the corkscrew holes are evident in at least one photo), so the obvious question is….who drank all that wine!! I strongly suspect that the owner is associated with a particular winery that pops a lot of corks, or simply buys them in bulk from them, once used. After all the arrangement lines of the designs on the home are TOO straight, and circles too well crafted,…for the owner to have drunk all that wine himself, especially during completion.

I love the aesthetics of this “corky” home, the overinduligence implications included, nonetheless! And when the next wine drinker to tell me during a conversation to “put a cork in it!”…I tell them…”great!…I’ll take all you got!”

Meanwhile….just pop open another wine bottle, or two, ….for me. My barrels, and walls… are waiting!

Christina-Xena