Wine Cork Mirror
I get ideas from everywhere. Stores, a hotel lobby, a torn sweater in a donation bin at the thrift shop. It’s all over the place. Inspiration, that is.
Here’s a mirror I saw in a store recently with glued on wooden circles all over it. I thought the texture and shapes were interesting, so I took a digital photo.
As I was looking at a pile of wine corks in my kitchen junk drawer the other day, I thought it would be cool to cover a whole mirror frame with wine and champagne corks.
So, I’ve been slowly yet surely saving them. As you can see from the photo, you need A LOT of wine corks, so I’ve been going up to people in restaurants and asking them for their wine cork and begging bartenders to stash a few extra for me throughout the night.
I’m just about done scavenging for corks and I picked up a raw wood mirror from Ikea to test the project. Results will be posted soon….
You might find additional inspiration here: http://knottywoodworks.ca/.
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You can make a cool trivet to set a hot pot on from wine corks. I’ve seen them all over the net. I can’t recall what site but some one showed how to make it. The corks work brilliantly to protect the laminate counter top from the heat of the pot. Cool blog by the way!
Ooh, Tace, that’s a great idea.
Danny – those circular widgets above are actually a type of cork for when you make beer at home; they go into the top of the carboy (sp??) and allow you to put a little tool in through the hole that allows air out but not in. They’re not made of cork, however, but rubber.
How are you going to incorporate the variety of sizes that makes the above appealing when corks are all very much alike? Or is that not the thought?
That’s it!… I am saving up for a wine cork mirror.
Another great idea with corks that I got from a friends house is to make hot plates with them. (I’ll take a photo when I get back to my flat in Paris and send it to you).
My uncle has a winery in California and since his phone number had changed, he couldn’t use a whole lot of corks. So for a number of xmas’, family and friends got hotplates from me!
You can do all sorts of shapes and people love them.
love the mirror idea. I’ve been collecting corks for years now (my friends help me too!) and my plan is the trivet for gifts… and a wreath made of corks to adorn a lucky someone’s bar (saw it at a B&B I once stayed at)
great blog.. I’m visiting in retrogression!
What kind of glue do you use to make the trivets? I’m having issues as the glue gun isn’t working, nor is Elmers Wood glue. Help!