Posted on 2014-10-11 9:54:13
People interested to create eco friendly homes are more and more interested to use this incredibly durable, versatile and sustainable material for their flooring. Due to the versatility in which bamboo adapts to almost any interior decorating theme and due to added feature of giving breathtaking look to the entire house bamboo floors are aggressively preferred for flooring options. The best thing is bamboo after dying with different colors becomes extraordinarily beautiful either with finished or with unfinished look. Many times keeping natural look, feel and color of bamboo intact also happens to be the best flooring choice. Within everyone’s budget and with infinite choices homeowners redecorating their homes in small budget can also easily gain astonishing floor in cost effective manner.
Designs Available in Bamboo Flooring
Natural Bamboo: Bamboo stripes after initial production phase are boiled which clears it off all the impurities. With this process natural color of bamboo is enlightened that is similar to blond wood color. Avoiding further coloring or dying processes bamboo is preserved in its natural color. Now it is time to press and glue the bamboo boards together that converts them in to solid bamboo planks.
Carbonized Bamboo: Usually bamboo floors with dark colors are considered carbonized bamboo, which is carried out with pressure steaming process immediately after stripping. More often carbon is main ingredient in steaming process that helps in evenly dying bamboo strips from inside. Thus, not only surface is carbonized but also the bamboo stripes are dyed or colored from inside. Usually colors ranging from caramel to honey and from dark brown to coffee are achieved through pressure steaming process. However always keep in mind due to carbonizing of bamboo it loses its strength by almost eight percent so you have to be careful while choosing carbonized bamboo colored floorings.
Stained Bamboo: Immediately after the bamboo plans are produced using staining process bamboo planks can be colored or stained in multitude of colors. It is the job of bamboo flooring distributors to dye bamboo floor planks in almost any color according to the preference and choice of consumers. Using either panting technique or hand rubbing bamboo planks are stained in colors to meet the expectations of consumers.
Bottom Line
Due to the modern technology, it has been easy these days to process bamboo boards in variety of colors and patterns. The best thing is bamboo surface can be keep finished or unfinished offering consumers all the flexibility in selecting bamboo flooring as per their preference and needs. Therefore, you need to understand and evaluate every option you have at hand while opting for bamboo flooring.