According to Niel Poland (MD of Mullican Wood), we could be seeing a shortage of hard woods as early as January 2010. He says the US hardwood harvests have declined by 50% in the last 10 years.
Here is a copy of the audio interview.
Paint Your Walls So That They Explode Into Life
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Your walls are an important part of your room.
There’s no point decking up your room with the most amazing furniture, if you’re going to leave the walls all plain and blank. You will change the feel of the whole room just by adding a touch of style to your walls.
Here are some simple tips which tips which may help you in making your walls all stylish and classy.
One of the most straightforward thing that you can do to jazz up your wall is select a wall painting system that will compliment your decor.
There are several wall painting styles for you to choose from. These include rag painting system, color painting techniques, sponge painting techniques, etc.
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Being Eco Friendly at Home
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Living a more eco friendly or sustainable lifestyle is quickly becoming a very hot topic for many South Africans. Not only is this a matter of saving the earth, it is also a matter of being frugal, too. Kids aren’t cheap and recycling and reusing are great ways to help save the Earth and save money. A lot of people really just make it a hobby to find creative new ways to recycle and reuse various household items such as shredded paper for example. Here are some great and simple ideas for recycling paper, conserving water, saving electricity, and adding eco friendly furniture to your home. [Read more…]
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Easy Designs For Kitchen
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Whether or not you might be just moving in to a brand new place or you are trying to update your home decor, chances are you’ll find yourself faced with a kitchen that wants a brand new touch. Even more daunting is when you find that you are going through this process while on a very tight budget. Kitchen designs will be fairly costly, in spite of everything, once you get right down to it and add up the various, many little prices which accumulate in the course of the process. And that’s not even contemplating the bigger prices! [Read more…]
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A designer builds an eco-kitchen …
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As more & more people become aware of the environmental issues facing our planet, they have started to look at eco-friendly alternatives.
In this post, a designer, Joshua Foss, walks you through the process of building an eco-kitchen. Part of the process was selecting eco-friendly materials – and guess what he (and his client) chose? Yip, you guessed – strand woven bamboo boards.
Here is a teaser:
The rest can be found here:
Designing an eco-friendly kitchen
Joshua Foss’ web site – Thrive Design Studio
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A designer uses bamboo panels for his clock designs
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We love the creativity we see in those who use bamboo – we see new applications all the time.
Keith Moore Modern Clocks & Lighting shows us a few great applications for bamboo panels in his clock designs – great for that unique interior design project. [Read more…]
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Bamboo coffee table – sustainable furniture design
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Strand Woven Bamboo coffee table – side view
Make a Bamboo coffee table, you ask???
DIY ready bamboo boards are ideal for the DIY enthusiast. Working with solid wood requires all the prep time to get the timber ready for assembly.
Bamboo boards, with all the qualities of solid hard woods, simply need to be cut to your required dimensions.
In this post we’re going to take you step by step through the making of a bamboo coffee table.
See how it’s done … [Read more…]
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White Bedroom Home furniture – The way to Paint Shabby Chic White Bedroom Furniture
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Elegance and beauty start with white. The reason why Shabby Chic decorators choose to paint and decorate with all white and antique white furnishings, is simply because it totally goes with everything!! Even if you’ve little kids you can still enjoy the beauty of white. Yes you might need to keep up on your dusting, but your house will remain cheerful, cozy and nicely worth it. White bed room furnishings is extremely versatile. [Read more…]
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Tongue & Groove or Click Lock?
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Laminated Solid Bamboo - Click-Lock with pre-installed underlay
Click Lock systems were initially popularised with laminate flooring systems. Their big sell was that they reduced the cost and increased the simplicity of an installation. A number of designs have been patented, but the most common tend to be UniClick and Valinge. When Engineered flooring started becoming popular, the obvious choice for installation was to use a click lock system.