Bamboo floor for our house - #greenbuilding in #Houston
Another Saturday, another selection! Today we visited Alpha Flooring to select the material for the wood floors in the house. Our plan is to have wood throughout, except for the bathrooms, which will be tile, and the mudroom and darkroom, which will have a vinyl like floor. Even the kitchen will have wood.
As always, three considerations are in our minds - look, green and budget. In this instance, the three came together beautifully in our choice of bamboo. Our architect had recommended that we take a good look at bamboo, but our initial inclination had been not to consider it. However, once we saw it, and especially the vertical cut, we really liked it. We have chosen Vertical Spice from US Floors - see web-shot below. It has a wide range of colors in it, leaving us many options in terms of matching furniture (and we already have a fairly decent sprinkling of different woods in the house...). We like the color - it will go well with our goals for cabinets. And bamboo is very green - rapidly renewable as harvesting it is more like cutting grass than cutting down a tree, and it is manufactured in a relatively green process. LEED points are available for using bamboo - how many I am not exactly sure, but better to gather some, in our (potential) quest for the Gold.
It really clicked - felt like this was the right choice for our project: a contemporary yet warm feel. Green. And remarkable easy on the budget. We await a formal quote from Alpha Flooring, but we know that this product falls near the lower end of the range we had in mind, probably erasing a little from the budget are working on. Happy day!
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by Oliver Bogler
