Not Your Typical Bamboo

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The August/September issue of Canadian Homestead arrived from the printer’s last week and it’s gorgeous! One of the features in the magazine is on bamboo, and it’s many uses. When you think bamboo as decor, you’re probably thinking of green stick-like plants as part of an Asian decor theme, but bamboo is now being used in SO many other applications!

My in-laws are currently in the process of renovating an older house. When they started on the kitchen, they discovered old wood flooring under the lanolium. They’re original plan had been to repair and refurbish the old flooring but when they discovered that the price of repairing the old, partially rotted flooring would be more then laying new hardwood, they decided to go with new flooring instead and ended up choosing a lovely bamboo flooring, shown in the picture on the left. This is strand woven bamboo, created by pressing bamboo, and it is stronger, more dent-resistance and moisture resistant the most hardwood flooring. It’s also gorgeous!

The other benefit of bamboo, other then it’s strength, is it’s environmental friendliness. While trees take decades to reach a large size, bamboo is full size and ready to harvest in 5 years. Bamboo also spreads new roots very aggressively so you don’t have the soil erosion problems that occur with tree harvesting.

Bamboo can be used for many things beyond flooring. The experts at Global Access Distributors use bamboo to create flooring, furniture, cabinets, mouldings, fencing, doors and more. You can also get bamboo veneer if you are looking to recover your existing cabinets or other wood items. Here are a few great pieces in Bamboo from Global Access Distributors, you can see more on their site as well.

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