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.

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Jelinek Cork Savannah works closely with students from Design for Ability.

Jelinek Cork Savannah works closely with students from Design for Ability. Design for Ability is a program that enables high school students from Chatham County in Georgia who may have special needs to learn job skills and give them a head start on building traits required by employers. The students who work with Jelinek have participated in assembling cork stoppers, packing and shipping product, and installing cork boards (such as shown in the pictures). 


Jelinek Cork Savannah: http://www.jelinek.com
Design for Ability: www.designforability.org

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Jelinek Cork / The Cork House voted Oakville's favourite flooring store! Thank you Oakville!

For the 2nd year in a row, Jelinek Cork and the Cork House are thrilled to be the Diamond medal winners of the Oakville Beaver Readers' Choice Awards for Oakville's best flooring store. 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. Along with cork flooring, the Cork House also offers bamboo floors. 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, June 24, 2014

Cool Furniture - Wine Cork Stools

Is there a more fitting way to enjoy a glass of wine besides being perched on a large wine cork? We don't think so! Check out this cool new furniture we are so happy to offer - wine cork stools.
 
Jelinek Cork Wine Cork Stools - sturdy and made of all natural cork.
 
Jelinek Cork Stools are solid cork - except a center hole to keep it light-weight.


Jelinek Cork Wine Cork Stools - all natural cork.

Jelinek Cork Wine Cork Stools - look and function great!

Friday, April 25, 2014

Cork Craft: Flower Pots of Cork

Welcome Spring! Spring is the perfect time to brighten up your home and garden while making use of some of your recycling. These containers are simple to make and mostly use materials you already have. Plant whatever you’d like – herbs, flowers, veggies.
Flower Pots wrapped in cork - a great way to re-use plastic containers.
What you need:
Empty plastic or glass containers or jars, recycled wine corks, cork sheets (preferable with self-stick backing) or cork fabric, potting soil. If the cork sheets don’t have the self-adhesive backing, you can also use glue. If you want the containers to be different colors, stain the cork first with a wood stain.
Re-use jars, containers, used wine corks and wrap with cork.
What to do:
1. Wrap the cork sheet around the container to measure the correct size.
Wrapping the container with cork sheets.

2. Cut the cork sheet to the size desired.
3. If you are using self-adhesive cork sheets, peel the backing off and wrap it around the container. If you are using cork fabric or cork sheets without a self-stick backing, use glue to adhere the cork to the container. Now the container is decorated.
4. To get ready for potting, cut a few recycled wine corks in half and put into the bottom of the container. These will help with drainage.
Add drainage with used wine corks cut in half.
5. Add potting soil to the container.
6. Plant what you wish – seeds, little plants, whatever.
7. That’s it!
On display and looking good - plastic container turned upscale flower pot!