Reclaimed Wine Cork Cupboard Doors

My wife and I drink a fair amount of wine. And we’ve saved our corks for many years, not only from bottles opened at home, but also at restaurants and parties elsewhere. Several years ago, when we gutted and renovated our kitchen, we created a shallow “pantry” in the wall that separates the kitchen from the dining room. (In our small space, we needed to maximize the storage space, and this seemed a creative and practical solution.) I had the idea to create doors using corks; we used a lot of the ones we’d collected ourselves, but one of the four doors has only corks donated by friends and work colleagues in response to a minor “cork drive,” to honor their large contribution to this project. Although corks vary a bit in diameter, I determined that on average 13 rows would take up 11 inches, so that became the inside dimension of the door frames, which were custom-made by my handy and talented father, and the design and dimensions of which very closely match the style of kitchen cabinets we had installed. I pained the frames a Behr (Home Depot) color called “Chianti”—how’s that for appropriate? I glued the corks into the frames using Liquid Nails.

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