For an environmentally friendly/harvested bamboo flooring 1 company, maybe 2 fit the bill. Unfortunately, none of these seem to have an affiliation with a big chain store. At least it’s on their poorly translated, though beautiful web sites. It seems if you want flooring you have to contact them directly. Not my style.
I was hoping to find a brand that I could then look for somewhere online or in-person, but this seems not to be. So, I’ll take my chances. The website for monitoring deforesting techniques is interesting. Forest Stewardship Council
Some of the suggestions for flooring online where Shaw and Mohawk. The price to beat is $3-$4/sq ft. Shaw wanted $7-$8/sq ft, which would raise the cost of the whole project by 30-40%. No thanks. And Mohawk had a bug on their web page that only affected bamboo flooring. Nice. They seemed to only have one choice for bamboo.
Home Depot was thin on bamboo flooring. There were a few samples, but nothing in stock or on display. They seemed to have a few more sample display racks than Lowe’s, but none of them had bamboo. So, that puts them out.
Three more paint colors from Home Depot yesterday. They have drastically fewer choices than Lowe’s. None of them really seem to be it. HD only offers samples in quarts. So, now I have quite a bit of mostly useless paint. How come I almost always walk away from HD feeling disappointed? Maybe I can use them along with the leftovers from cutting trim and other projects this year to make a set of blocks for Christmas.
This week PBS had a thing on Router tables. They looked really useful. The simple shop on the TV program only had a Table Saw and a Router Table for making everything. I was thinking I could use that to custom fit a windowsill to the windows.