April 9, 2007
Bamboo Flooring
As Melanie briefly mentioned in the comments of the previous post, Kim and I will have solid bamboo flooring throughout the entire first floor of our house. Bamboo is actually a very fascinating plant, and there are several environmentally sound reasons for using it as a building material (and hemp, Melanie would say, don’t forget hemp!). But I’m not really an environmentalist in any sort of traditional sense, so I’m not going to preach about the use of bamboo over mainstream hardwoods for floors. I just happen to think they look gorgeous.
As such, we found such an amazing deal on some prefinished bamboo, that we’ve already purchased some 1800 square feet of it. This is not the best picture, but what you are looking at is 77 boxes of flooring, lines up in the sunroom of the extremely tiny rental house that Kim and are currently living in. One day I’ll write about a post about my penchant for finding deals on inexpensive flooring - best deal so far: tile for the powder room in the new house: 7.5 cents a square foot - and this bamboo will certainly be included in that post (though Kim actually found this one first). Anyway, this is the first major purchase for our new home, which won’t even begin construction for at least a month and a half.
Better pictures coming soon. And hopefully, floor plans!