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December 3rd, 2006

Split Bamboo

KINGFISHER SPLIT BAMBOO FLY ROD WOOD HANDLE MARTIN REEL

$195.00

ANTIQUE HAROLD ALLISON FOUR PC SPLIT BAMBOO FISHING ROD

$99.00

Different Ways to use Bamboo Fencing

Bamboo has become an increasingly popular material used in interior decorating and backyard remodeling. Bamboo fencing can look elegant, and it lends an air of comfort and relaxation to a patio or garden. But bamboo fencing can also be used in-doors. Depending on the style of fencing panels or rolls you use, bamboo can look sleek, tropical, casual, or professional. Here are a few ideas on how you can incorporate bamboo fencing into your home décor.

Line a Room’s Perimeter
Wallpaper perimeters seem to be a thing of the past and bamboo is growing as a more unique and creative choice when it comes to lining the walls of a room. Thin, split bamboo panels serve to add texture and style to a room’s borders without being overly cumbersome.

Bamboo Panels as Art Frames
Bamboo panels can work great as backgrounds for wall art, instead of using the usual framing methods. Paintings or photographs matted against bamboo, even without frames or borders can acquire a unique, organic look. It’s simple, aesthetically appealing and has the effect of making the images stand out more sharply.

Stylish Room Dividers
This works especially well in shared living spaces, whether they be offices, living rooms or dorm rooms. If you want to keep an area separate or create a more harmonious design by sectioning off different parts of a room, bamboo fencing panels can do the job and look great. If you want a more professional, upscale look, try using fine polished black bamboo.

Bamboo Storage Space
By sectioning off a part of your backyard with bamboo fencing, you can hide any unattractive elements and use the space as a storage area. It gives you a place to put unused furnishings or backyard tools, and it looks a lot more stylish and organic than a large plastic or metal storage compartment.

Window Borders or Shutters
For a more organic-looking alternative to white, plastic window shutters and borders, try bamboo. Measure your windows’ size and cut the bamboo panels to the appropriate width and length and use them as shutters and frames to create a tropical, cool look.

To learn more about how a bamboo rolled fence can be incorporated into your backyard decor please visit http://www.intermap.com.

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Ryan Frank is a 23 year old blogger and writer living in San Diego, CA.

A Bamboo Pc?

OK, it was a gimmick. The laptop launched at the Hanover computer fair in March, with a laminated bamboo casing around a pretty conventional computer won’t make a dent in the rising tide of plastics sold around the world.

But it was a little demonstration of what can be done, and, if proof of bamboo’s versatility were required, consider it proven.

Bamboo is surely the only plant providing sources of food, building materials and woven fabrics. One of Edison’s early light bulbs had a carbonised bamboo filament. Its strength, resilience and cheapness make it a widely used scaffolding material throughout Asia. The fibres of bamboo poles have high strength both in tension and compression. Its compressive strength is roughly twice that of concrete and bamboo has roughly the same tensile strength to weight ratio as steel. And now there’s a bamboo laptop!

Bamboo ticks lots of boxes for anyone buying eco-friendly items for the home. For a start, it’s a highly sustainable raw material. Some species of bamboo grow at more than a metre every day. Local people can cut down as much as they need for carving, weaving, sawing or splitting and still have as big a forest at the end of the year as they had at the start. On the global warming question, since it comes from a plant source, any bamboo product contains a significant part of its weight in atmospheric carbon. Any plastic equivalent has added to the atmosphere’s carbon level!

Another point; because it’s natural, bamboo has variations in quality and appearance that make it difficult to use in most mass production processes. You can be pretty sure that a craftsman has produced any bamboo item you buy. If you go to a reputable source you’ll also know that the craftsman got a fair wage for his or her work, and that no one was exploited by western buying power. Finally you’ll be sure that the product you buy hasn’t accumulated air miles in its journey from craftsman to your home.

With eco credentials as strong as these it’s amazing that bamboo products can also be very beautiful. Picture a skilfully made bamboo box, lovingly lacquered with 15 layers of natural shellac. All natural, and really lovely.

In fact you don’t have to picture anything. Here’s a link to a UK supplier of eco friendly gifts and homewares. Check out the knife blocks in their kitchen accessories range. Bamboo box, natural lacquer, filled with bamboo skewers to provide containment for any shape of knife. Fantastic.

eco, bamboo and recycled gifts in the UK: www.biomelifestyle.com

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Eco gifts and recycled homewares in the UK