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The Look and Strength of Hardwood for Less: Strand Woven Bamboo Flooring

If you’ve been looking for a green flooring alternative to hardwood without compromising aesthetics, then bamboo flooring may just have what you’re looking for. Environmentally friendly, durable, and beautiful, bamboo is finally beginning to enjoy some of the popularity it deserves. The trend is definitely on the...read more
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The Business of Cleaning Bamboo Floors

Bamboo is a flooring material that is easy to maintain, which makes it an attractive green flooring option. Its maintenance is very similar to that of regular hardwood floors, at least the wood floors of the modern, hassle free variety. When...read more
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Five Reasons to Choose Bamboo Flooring

Many homeowners know for certain that they do not want to install marmoleum floors, vinyl tile, or carpeting in their homes. In fact, many know from the beginning that they’d like some type of wooden floor in their homes. However, traditional hardwood floors are not only expensive, they can be a bit finicky...read more
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Engineered Bamboo Wood Flooring Advantages

Homeowners of today don’t just want a ton of options; they want a ton of environmentally friendly green flooring options. Not only that, but they expect it to look good, install practically anywhere, and last for years. Is this too much to ask for? Absolutely not!

Bamboo floors deliver on versatility...read more
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Bamboo Wood Flooring is a Durable and Beautiful Flooring Option

Many homeowners desire the look and durability of traditional hardwood floors, but are concerned with the environmental impact that comes with producing the material. Although most hardwood flooring manufacturers use responsible harvesting practices, the fact remains that harvesting the tree kills it and...read more
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Bamboo Flooring Installation – Preparation

Bamboo flooring is a popular green flooring alternative to hardwood floors. Many homeowners worry about the cost of installation, but the truth is that many forms of bamboo flooring are do-it-yourself friendly. Installing bamboo flooring need not be the headache that some imagine it to be. Following these straightforward...read more
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Bamboo Flooring – The Beauty of Bamboo

Bamboo stands out as a practical flooring option due to its durability and reliability. Not only that, the beauty of bamboo radiates all throughout the room to give an interior the warmth that consumers want. The colors and styles of bamboo flooring make it an attractive and versatile flooring option for everyone. It is a wonderful alternative to hardwood...read more
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Advances in Flooring: Engineered Bamboo Flooring

While solid bamboo flooring is positively beautiful and exceptionally sound, there are certain areas in the home where installing the material could lead to problems down the road. The areas where solid bamboo does not perform at its best include any areas that are prone to moisture. However, there is an alternative that will still allow homeowners to enjoy this green...read more
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A Quick Guide to Bamboo Floor Installation Preparation

Thanks to its renewability and sustainability, bamboo flooring has given homeowners everywhere a green flooring alternative to traditional hardwood floors. Every bit as durable and attractive as solid wood, bamboo continues to enjoy a rise...read more
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Why Bamboo Floors Are Becoming the Preferred Choice

Bamboo floors have recently become increasingly famous as a flooring option, and even though bamboo flooring is not the same as hardwood floors, bamboo has tremendous potential as a flooring resource. It is durable, tough and environmentally friendly, and...read more
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Where Should Bamboo Flooring Be Installed?

Bamboo flooring is a versatile and tough flooring product. Though it is not technically a hardwood floor, many people do view it as such. It is decorative, useful and globally popular. Bamboo wood flooring is not only meant for laying aesthetically beautiful floors but also has multiple uses in construction,...read more
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Keeping Bamboo Floors Clean

Bamboo floors have gained popularity over recent years as a green flooring alternative. Although it gives an appearance similar to that of hardwood flooring, bamboo is actually classified as a grass. However, the way the grass is prepared...read more
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How a Bamboo Floor is Installed

Bamboo wood floor installation is not much different from standard hardwood floor installation. For homeowners, the primary motivation for doing bamboo wood floor installation is to save money. It can be installed in half the cost by doing it yourself. Installing a bamboo floor can be an easy weekend project.

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The Different Colors of Bamboo

Bamboo flooring is a popular, environmentally friendly alternative to the traditional wood floor. They are tough and durable, despite their technical classification as a grass, so tough in fact that they rate in hardness close to that of some of the most popular hardwood floors.

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The Different Cuts of Bamboo

When you think of bamboo, floors may not be the first thing that comes to mind, but the truth is that bamboo makes for some pretty amazing floors. Add to that the fact that bamboo is a completely natural, totally eco-friendly material, and you’ve got a green flooring material with looks near that of hardwood.

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Environmental Benefits of Bamboo

In an age of growing environmental concerns, bamboo flooring is the most preferred choice for consumers looking for green flooring materials as an alternative to hardwood floors. Bamboo flooring is the one of the most environmentally friendly flooring options you can select for your home.

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Colors of Bamboo Floors

Taking the flooring industry by storm as a natural, eco-friendly alternative to hardwood floors, bamboo flooring certainly has a lot to offer homeowners. This green flooring option, gives a certain flexibility of design one may not think...read more
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Bamboo From Harvest to Flooring

A common error some make about bamboo is that it is a type of hardwood flooring. Not to be confused with common associations of many species of grass, bamboo is actually a type of grass which matures into a material that can rival the hardness of maple! Being well adapted to the environment in which bamboo...read more
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A Bamboo Flooring Installation

A bamboo floor installation is not much different from standard hardwood floor installation, with a few possible variations. Some of the most important steps in the installation take place before putting in the bamboo floor.

The first step in bamboo floor installation is making sure the...read more
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The Bamboo Floor

The choice of a bamboo floor is quickly gaining popularity for both commercial and household use, especially in North America. Stronger and denser than many hardwood floors, a bamboo floor is highly resistant to moisture. It has been discovered as a brilliant alternative to traditional hardwood flooring....read more
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Bamboo Flooring Dos and Don’ts

As environmental awareness increases, more and more homeowners are looking to green flooring to complete the look of their home. While hardwood flooring is harvested (in most circumstances) responsibly, it still requires cutting down trees...read more
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Bamboo Floors

Bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants of the world. It produces a yield that is about 25 percent more than any other species of wood. Bamboo is now being used as a flooring material as well, as a part of the hardwood family, though it is technically a grass. In fact, it is one of the upcoming materials in today’s floor...read more
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Bamboo Flooring

When shopping around for your new floor, consider bamboo. Bamboo floors are not technically made of wood. Though they are harder than most hardwoods, they are actually a form of grass. Often grown in China and other regions of Asia, these hollow shoots are cut down, sliced into strips, and then laminated...read more
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‘Natural Cork’ versus ‘Bamboo Flooring’

Both Cork and Bamboo are easily renewable materials. Bamboo is a biologically a grass that grows at astronomical rates. Bamboo plants have been recorded to have grown 48 inches in 24 hours with a peak growth velocity of one meter per hour! Cork is the outer bark of the Quercus suber tree that is harvested every 9 years and continues to provide cork for 2 centuries or more.

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Floating Engineered Bamboo Flooring

If you are looking for environmentally friendly wood flooring, floating engineered bamboo flooring might fit the bill. Bamboo which is biologically a grass, grows at astronomical rates compared to hardwood yielding trees. It is therefore easily replenished. Another advantage is that bamboo plants can be irrigated with polluted water from which they extract carbon and cleanse it. Bamboo...read more
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Learn About Jute Carpets

Nowadays, we all hear about how we should be more responsible about taking care of the environment and how we should choose the greenest available options in our daily activities. This should be the same as we select the things that we put into our homes. One such available option that we can use for our homes are products that belong to the ‘green category’. Aside from green...read more
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Tips for Installing Bamboo Flooring

Thanks to its environmentally friendly qualities, Bamboo floors are gaining popularity. Bamboo floors are available in a variety of constructions, designs and finishes. A bamboo floor is essentially a type of engineered wood floor. Installing it is therefore relatively easy.

The ease with which a bamboo floor can be installed depends on the type of subfloor over...read more
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Bamboo Rugs

Considering its height, you might think that the bamboo is a tree. The fact is, bamboo belong to the grass family and it is the largest member for very obvious reasons. Bamboo has been used in the furniture and flooring industry for quite some time because the cost is a fraction of the price of hardwood...read more
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Learn About Bamboo Flooring

Hardwood floors have always been a very popular flooring material. But homeowners and interior designers, concerned about the environmental impact of hardwood flooring, have started considering alternatives like Bamboo flooring. In the last decade, Bamboo floors have become more common to the flooring choices...read more
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Eco Friendly Flooring

When we are planning to decorate our homes with beautiful flooring, we must not forget our responsibility towards the environment. It is important to select flooring materials which help in retaining the environmental balance. There are several eco-friendly options for flooring our homes or offices; we can take our pick from the many options.
 

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Flooring Installation

Flooring completes one’s home decor. It is an important aspect of the entire interior decoration of one’s home or office. While decorating or refurbishing your home, you must consider the aspect of flooring seriously. Flooring installation is not only functional but also adds a charm to your household....read more
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Know More about Carpet Flooring

When we talk about carpets, the first thing that comes to our mind is the Orient, royalty, plush luxury and sophistication. Carpets form an integral part of interior decoration. They can be placed by the hearth; an ornamental, decorative piece can adorn a wall of your living room, and small rugs can be placed in your bedroom or out in the patio. There are many ways in which you can use a carpet...read more
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