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Is Green building Important to Everyone?
Share/BookmarkOne thing we’re noticing here at BuildDirect is that bamboo flooring is really coming into its own, not as something of a substitute for hardwood, but in a league by itself. Most of this...
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Green Flooring Materials: An Array of Choices for Homeowners
Share/BookmarkHi everyone! Rob here. Today I’m privileged to have an esteemed fellow blogger, Paige Thomas from Reliable Remodeler, with a guest blog post about green flooring materials. She’s the...
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Bamboo: an untapped resource?
Share/BookmarkAs discussed in many, many posts here and elsewhere on our site, bamboo is a robust material as flooring, and in many other contexts. And I think too that we’ve outlined just how robust...
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Tips and Trends From Ty Pennington of Extreme Makeover Home Edition
Share/BookmarkTake a look at this interview of Extreme Makeover Home Edition’s Ty Pennington, who spoke with Redbook magazine. He covers topics from DIY tips, to green building materials, to how the...
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Long-term value in building materials still king
Share/BookmarkConsumers are gaining a growing consciousness when it comes to who they’re buying from. Ethical business practices, market innovation, and a rising awareness and emphasis on green...
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Buying Bamboo Floors By Color
Share/BookmarkBamboo flooring has really come into its own over the last number of years. This is partially due to the fact that bamboo has become the “poster floor” for green flooring building...
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Vertical and Horizontal Bamboo Floor Video
Share/BookmarkA few weeks back, we talked about buying bamboo flooring by cut. And featured in that post were two main choices in bamboo floor cuts; horizontal and vertical. As a kind of supplement to...
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13 Green Gurus You Should Follow on Twitter
Share/BookmarkWith our list of interior designers, and gardeners & landscaping gurus, we’ve gathered a list of gurus to follow on Twitter to help you with your properties inside and out. But, a...
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5 Ways To Go Green In the Kitchen
Share/BookmarkToday’s piece is a guest post from Bailey Harris. Bailey writes on insurance and home improvement topics for homeownerinsurance.org. Do you have a kitchen remodel ahead of you, and would...
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What To Know When Building A Strawbale Home
Share/BookmarkIn 2009, I was the local organizer for the GreenBuilt Tour of the New Mexico Chapter of the US Green Building Council. There were 14 homes on that tour – passivhaus, off-grid, passive...
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5 Environmentally-Conscious, Stylish Flooring Options
Selecting and installing new floors in the home in the 21st Century presents a savvy shopper with an expanding vista of options. In this era when we’re thinking about using natural resources and even...
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How To Choose Green Building Materials
As a term, ‘Green’ has been a hard one to truly define in broad strokes. It seems more appropriate to judge what is green based on a setof criteria, and to match products to that set of criteria on a...
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Prefab Homes Construction: Eco-Friendly Innovation
Prefab homes have had a negative associations attached to them; unglamorous, characterless, low-quality, temporary. But in addition to the falsehood of these associations, as it turns out, they are...
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Green Building with Insulated Concrete Forms (ICFs)
All green building materials are meant to save energy and natural resources, reduce emissions and create a healthy living environment for the occupants. Insulated Concrete Forms (ICFs) go one step...
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Constucting a Shipping Container Building: A Real Story
In the past, we’ve showcased the designs and advantages of container buildings. The ‘containers’ in question are metal, oblong modular units, once used to carry manufactured goods from abroad and into...
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Green Building Materials: Hemp and Hempcrete
Hemp has been around for centuries. It has been farmed in China for 5000 years, and George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and Henry Ford grew fields of it as an agricultural crop. It was...
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Green Building Materials: Reclaimed Wood
One of my favorite building and furniture materials is wood. It’s natural, durable, versatile and easy to maintain, and it provides a warm feeling to any room. How about a log cabin, a Frank Lloyd...
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Is Cork the Most Sustainable Building Material?
If you ever opened a bottle of wine, you have seen the main product made from the cork oak tree. Billions of corks are made every year, but only a percentage of the harvest is used. The remainder is...
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Reading Time: 2 minutesColor is an important element in the investment of any type of floor. And bamboo floors are no different, with distinctive color choices that provide an accent for surrounding...
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Reading Time: 1 minutehere's a video about bamboo floor cuts featuring our Co-Founder Rob Banks that gives you an even clearer idea about what these types of bamboo floors actually look like. Take a...
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