Thursday, September 3, 2015

Jelinek Cork / The Cork House voted Oakville's favourite flooring store for the 3rd consecutive year!

Thank you for voting Jelinek Cork / The Cork House as your favourite flooring store for the third year in a row! We are honoured to be the Diamond Medal winner of the 2015 Oakville Beaver Readers' Choice award.

Jelinek Cork / Cork House has been voted Oakville's Best Flooring Store winning the Diamond Award! Thank you Oakville!

The Cork House, the showroom for the Jelinek Cork Group, specializes in natural home design products, flooring installations, painting and refinishing services. Eco-friendly and renewable cork products represent the core offerings of Jelinek Cork. The Cork House present these products in a real-world situation providing ideas of how to integrate sustainability into your life.
Thank you Oakville for your continued support. 
2441 Neyagawa Blvd.
Oakville, Ontario L6H 6Y3 
CANADA
phone: 905-257-5588

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Cork Walls - A Natural, Sustainable Wall Covering

I remember growing up, sharing a room with my sibling and our giant cork wall. Yup - one of our walls was completely corked. It was awesome! We pinned up all our art work and many other "treasures" not worrying about putting holes all over the walls. This wall was dedicated to us and to whatever we wanted to pin onto it.

Now, having children of my own, I recognize the genius of corking an entire wall. The difference is there are now so many more choices. Yes - the standard cork roll would still work perfectly. This gives a beautiful, consistent, seamless look to the wall. It basically looks like a big bulletin board. Perfect in many instances.

Jelinek Cork Rolled Cork
Cork installed on a classroom wall helps with acoustics plus great for displaying student work.
Jelinek Cork Rolls
Rolled cork installed directly on a wall.
Decorative cork wall tiles are another option and work wonderfully in any room of the house or office. You choose a pattern to match your tastes and decor. These wall tiles are available in three thicknesses depending on your needs. The thinnest cork wall tile (3mm thick) is not meant to hold pushpins, its primarily decorative. A fantastic alternative to wallpaper, paint or other wall coverings. The other two thicknesses are designed with pushpins in mind - acoustic wall tiles (1/2" thick) and tackboard wall tiles (1/4" thick). Remember cork is a fantastic insulator as well - naturally. It helps insulate against sound, temperature, vibrations.

Jelinek Cork Wall Tiles
Staggered thicknesses (acoustic and tackboard) of cork wall tiles are  installed on this tween bedroom wall.

Jelinek Cork Wall Tiles
Cork wall tiles help with acoustics while also being decorative in this basement tv room.

Jelinek Cork Wall Tiles
Cork wall tiles - decorative and functional.

Jelinek Cork Wall Tiles
Add an accent wall of cork to compliment your home decor.
 Other options include natural cork topped wall tiles. These individually hand produced wall tiles are produced from the first harvest of the fully renewable cork tree. The texture and warmth these tiles emit is amazing. Yes - you could use pushpins on these tiles or leave the tile completely undecorated as they are decor themselves. Actually all these cork tiles are decor and provide so many decorating ideas while remaining functional as well. You can see many options in cork wall and ceiling coverings at the corkstore.com or jelinek.com

Jelinek Cork Wall Tiles - Arizona Belly Cork Tile
Highlight a specific area of your space with a natural cork wall.

Jelinek Cork Wall Tiles - Natural cork walls
Natural cork topped wall tiles add texture and warmth.

Jelinek Cork Wall Tiles - Natural cork walls
Natural cork topped wall tiles - adding an attractive focal point to a wall.
  Questions? The friendly and knowledgeable support team at Jelinek Cork is happy to help.