Gallery: Awesome Portuguese House Has ...

We knew we hit the renewable resource jackpot when we stumbled upon this quirky and corky home in Northern Portugal, whose facade is almost completely covered with cork blocks. Like, cork you could pin your grocery list to. We dig it - cork is a renewable resource, it's impermeable, heck it's even buoyant, so it actually makes a lot of sense to use it as a cladding material for a house. Although, in most parts of the world, using this much cork would probably put you on notice, but since it's located in Portugal, harvester of 50% of the world's cork material, we'll let it slide since it's sourced locally.