All About Bamboo Hardwood Flooring

Considering purchasing a bamboo floor for your home? Learn more about the fast-growing exotic hardwood floor, and read about one of the leading bamboo flooring manufacturers in the world - Home Legends. You'll also learn about some of the different, unique options out there, options you may not have heard of before!

All About Bamboo Hardwood Flooring

With each calendar year, Bamboo Hardwood Flooring continues to gain more and more popularity. In fact, it is quickly becoming the most popular exotic hardwood flooring option on the market. So what makes this hardwood from the orient so popular among the hardwood flooring industry and homeowners alike?

For starters, it helps that bamboo itself grows so quickly. Bamboo forests are fast world which only 24 hours in some plants as high as 48 inches in growing the growing forest. Bamboo that is harvested commercially has the lifespan of about 5-7 years, so sustainability isn't a concern as it is with other hardwood species.

Appearance wise, bamboo's light color and soft sheen is considered very trendy. People who have lots of windows in their homes and have light colored walls love the way the sunlight reflects off the wood and bounces from wall to wall. The most popular decorating trend is pairing the bamboo with light colored furniture accented with black.

Structurally, the wood is very solid. In fact, it is used in the construction of simple suspension bridges and even homes. It is important that when creating a structure made from bamboo, as well as a hardwood floor, that the wood is treated with certain solutions so it does not crack from moisture.

As bamboo continues to grow in popularity, there are becoming more and more options in color and cut. Home Legends is an industry leader when it comes to offering such a diverse collection of this specie. The woods in this company's Bamboo collection aren't just the traditional sand color - they come in rich, russet tones like Chesnut, as well as Honey and Walnut.

Home Legends offers bamboo woods in both solid and engineered. The company also manufacturers the very-rare woven bamboo flooring. Made from 100% recycled bamboo, it is shredded, compressed, and sealed, giving it that 'rough' appearance, which showcases an unknown textural element of bamboo. To further enhance the texture element, the rough wood is stained giving it the striped, tiger-look in Tiger Stripe wood floor.

Another popular element with bamboo, and Home Legends in particular, is price. Home Legends' prices are highly affordable, especially considering the cost of other exotic hardwoods. You can purchase bamboo for as little as $2.89 per square foot. That's cheaper than most domestically-grown hardwood floors. Now that's a bargain!

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