Bamboo: An Eco-friendly Choice For Your Home

For the past 20 years, our culture has become more focused on the threat of global warming. Although you will find that not every city is focused on recycling, eco-friendly life styles, or sustainable living, people as a whole are definitely attempting to improve our environment with small, daily changes. Eco-friendly decorating has become a huge trend in recent years, and one of the largest "green" trends is being seen in window and floor coverings.

Bamboo may have one of the longest decor histories available. Used in ancient China over 7000 years ago, bamboo has been used as tiles for the floor, paper, room partitions, and coverings for the window to prevent the heat and rain from coming in. Woven together, bamboo is a powerful force to recon with Mother Nature. It can not only hold weight, but can be tightly woven together enough to withstand moisture as well. The bamboo plant itself can re-generate quickly after being cut, so it’s easy to understand the benefit it has to the environment.

Once you decide that you’d like to utilize bamboo in your home, the possibilities of how to incorporate it become endless. One of the more popular uses is bamboo window coverings. For indoor use, you may opt to purchase bamboo shades. They come in a variety of styles, include woven shades that keep out the cold or heat and are woven tightly enough to provide a darkened environment in your room. You can also purchase bamboo roman shades, which is in the roman blind style but features woven bamboo instead of fabric. Outdoor use of bamboo blinds is also very fashionable now. If you have a large deck that gets direct sunlight and no privacy, hanging bamboo blinds along the deck to block the light and the neighbors is a great decor alternative.

When decorating an outdoor area with bamboo blinds, you may wish to consider carrying on the theme and adding a large outdoor bamboo area rug. Natural material area rugs in bamboo, jute, or seagrass are an excellent way to cover a deck. They tend to be easy to clean and resist water, so you can go straight from your hot tub to your house without worrying about cleaning up a mess. Create your very own eco-friendly oasis with some well-placed patio furniture, a variety of live plants, and perhaps a water feature.

In tying your bamboo blinds and floor coverings together to create a stylish home, be sure to continue your eco-friendly focus by using environmental friendly paint products, materials with natural fibers for throw pillows such as hemp, and accessories with a green feel. You can purchase a wide variety of candles, recycled bottles, or wooden handmade decor that will complement your home beautifully.

Changing the way you decorate even one room in your home can open up a world of design possibilities for the rest of your space. The prospect of changing your lifestyle to one that is better for the environment can be daunting, but it’s the small steps that we take that can make a world of difference.

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