Cork -- the same natural material used to seal wine bottles -- offers two possible solutions, actually. It is both a finished flooring, which, when properly sealed, offers a resilient, easy to ...

(You'll just need to re-seal it every five or so years to keep ... as an effective natural sound absorber," says Ferreira. "Cork floors can easily cut noise within a room, and act as a noise ...

On a spotless concrete floor, seven huge molding machines sit ... Synthetics are a small but growing part of the wine industry, and now seal about 9 percent of the 17 billion bottles of wine ...