Advantages of Using Bamboo in Your Home Garden

Advantages of Using Bamboo in Your Home Garden

Whether you’re just starting to design your home garden or looking for something special to make your garden stand out, bamboo may be the answer. Whether it be a statement piece like a bamboo fence or the subtle addition of a bamboo hanging planter, this versatile material can take your home garden’s design to the next level.

The advantages of designing your home garden with bamboo products don’t stop at aesthetics. Bamboo is trendy, affordable, sustainable and eco-friendly, so it’s something you can feel good about adding to your garden. In this guide, we’ll discuss what the advantages of using bamboo products in your home garden are, how you can bring bamboo into your home garden design through easy DIY projects and what kind of bamboo to get started with.
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How to Build a Duck Blind

How to Build a Duck Blind

As summer cools into fall, that means only one thing for waterfowl hunters across the country — the start of duck season is just around the corner. With season lengths and bag limits now being announced earlier than in previous years, you can start planning for hunting season months in advance. From scouting for the best spots to monitoring flight patterns of your favorite migratory bird species, you can prepare to have the best duck hunting season of your life. If you want to down as many ducks as possible this season, building an awesome duck blind may be your ticket to success. A good duck blind will allow you to hide comfortably for effective hunting all season.

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How to Decorate Your Interior Using Bamboo

Decorating your interior using bamboo

Bamboo is a material that represents breezy nature and the tropics, but it doesn’t have to remain outside. It also has a place in interior design, especially for spaces trying to capture the essence of island life. The use of bamboo in design has fluctuated in the past. In recent years, interior designers have been drawn back to bamboo in their creations, and they prefer it over industrial styles due to its natural appearance and the unending possibilities of this material.

The eco-friendly and stylish element of bamboo changes the ambiance of a room into a true tropical escape. Join the bamboo trend by incorporating bamboo in clever and attractive ways. Check out the following ideas to decorate inside your home using bamboo or dressing up your establishment with this material.

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How to Build a Palapa

How to Build a Palapa

Beaches, resorts and water parks have a distinct tropical ambiance that’s enhanced by many accessories and features, but the shelters that stand out at these destinations are the thatch-roofed structures — palapas. Palapas are found on coastal establishments and other themed locations, and these tropical huts offer an enjoyable setting to lounge in and avoid harsh sun rays.

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How to Build a Bamboo Roof

How to Build a Bamboo Roof

If you want to upgrade your exterior space, bamboo roofing can create a beautiful and interesting backyard look by adding tropical appeal to patios, tiki huts or umbrellas. Bamboo also provides great durability and longevity when cared for properly.

When building a roof out of bamboo, you can choose any style you want, including a bamboo frame with thatch or a bamboo tiled roof. In this guide for building a DIY bamboo roof, we will discuss a few styles of bamboo roofing and how to build a roof out of bamboo for your exterior living space.

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Bamboo Sticks

Buy Bamboo Poles

Wondering where to buy high-quality bamboo sticks? Look no further. Bamboo sticks work as great indoor or outdoor decor for your business. Keep reading to learn more about our decorative bamboo sticks for sale.

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Bamboo Poles: Stronger Than You Think

Bamboo is proven to be a reliable building material and is widely regarded as one of the most sustainable building materials in the world. It’s been used as an alternative to wood for thousands of years, and it has the durability to last many, many years while withstanding the elements — but just how strong is bamboo?

How Strong Is Bamboo?

Bamboo’s strength is often underestimated. When you first look at it, it is not as impressive in size as a tree, and it doesn’t seem like it could be as strong as steel. Additionally, you probably wouldn’t believe that bamboo could stack up against concrete or be comparable to a material like the futuristic and strong carbon fiber. However, one of the most impressive qualities of bamboo is its strength. Let’s look at some facts about bamboo durability compared to other common building materials.

Wood vs. Bamboo

Over the years, bamboo has emerged as a sustainable alternative to wood because it is strong, grows fast, is long-lasting and is fully recyclable. While bamboo is technically a type of grass, it is actually three times stronger than timber. It also has a higher tensile strength, so it can withstand more tension or stretching pressure before breaking.

Additionally, bamboo takes around three years to mature, which means it can regenerate quickly after being harvested. Trees, meanwhile, can take decades to reach maturity. Building with bamboo lessens environmental impact without compromising strength or longevity.

Bamboo vs. Other Building Materials

Bamboo has some impressive qualities that allow it to keep up with and even exceed the traits of other popular building materials like carbon fiber and concrete.

For example, some species of bamboo have a greater tensile strength than steel and can withstand compression better than concrete. Bamboo structures can also withstand harsh weather conditions like earthquakes, snowfall and hurricanes, making building with bamboo an appealing option.

If all of that wasn’t enough, bamboo accomplishes all of this while being far more flexible and malleable than any of the other materials we just mentioned, and it maintains the same strength as carbon fiber at a fraction of the cost! Bamboo is an amazing resource that provides spectacular durability benefits while being one of the most renewable building materials on the planet. As mentioned, bamboo grows much faster than trees and is most certainly easier to harvest than steel or concrete is to create.

The Amazing Benefits of Bamboo

Bamboo is one of Earth’s greatest resources and is a wonderful alternative to many of the building materials that most of us would think couldn’t be replaced! Furthermore, no resource that can boast the same reliability is nearly as renewable and eco-friendly as bamboo, and few materials are as beautiful. Let’s dive into some of the plant’s many benefits for building.

Durability

How durable is bamboo? Well, bamboo has proven itself to be a very strong and reliable building material throughout history, and there’s science to support this claim. Whenever bamboo faces off against other staples in the building material industry, it consistently outperforms them in strength and flexibility.

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Bamboo has a high strength-to-weight ratio, meaning it’s deceptively strong despite its light weight. Plus, when treated properly, bamboo becomes resistant to rot, decay and pests, adding to its durability.

Cost-Effectiveness

When thinking about the projects around your own home, there is simply no other material on earth that can offer the immense strength and durability of bamboo at the same cost-effective price. The plant’s affordability is primarily due to the rapid speed at which it grows. Since it reaches maturity in as little as three years, there is always an abundant supply ready for harvesting.

Eco-Friendliness

Bamboo is an incredibly sustainable material. It is renewable and recyclable, and cutting it actually stimulates growth. So, the more bamboo that gets harvested, the faster it grows.

Bamboo can also adapt to disturbed soils, reduce erosion and improve soil fertility. And we have to mention how bamboo stores and absorbs atmospheric carbon dioxide, making it an effective solution for mitigating the effects of climate change. Overall, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more sustainable building material!

Simple Growing Process

One of the best things about bamboo plants is they’re fairly easygoing and can grow very quickly. Like other plants, they can thrive with the right amount of sunlight and water. However, because of their regenerative nature after harvest, it’s important to remember that some bamboo species can overtake a landscape and become challenging to remove.

Versatility

Outside of the construction industry, bamboo is incredibly versatile and used to produce many of today’s popular products, from bedsheets and towels to toothbrushes, rugs and phone cases. It is widely loved for its strength, softness and antifungal properties. The bamboo pulp is also used in its raw form to make paper-based products.

Take Advantage of the Strength of Bamboo

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For your next DIY project, take advantage of the fantastic benefits of bamboo and experience strength, cost-effectiveness, durability and eco-friendliness that you won’t find in any other material. Check out our:

Forever Bamboo provides great prices on a wide variety of high-quality bamboo materials you need to complete your project, and we will also provide support for any installation questions. Contact us today to get started!

 

Forever Bamboo Tutorials

In the next couple of weeks we will be producing short tutorial videos that will be available to view on our website and new YouTube page. These videos will display our thatch, bamboo fencing, paneling, bamboo poles, reed fencing, Bac Bac matting, and Lauhala matting. In each video, we will be educating our viewers about each product and ways in which you can install and enhance your home or business.

Here’s a list of topics that will be discussed in each tutorial.

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