Bristol and Bath is selling a line of bathroom fixtures called their Second Chance Collection featuring products made from recycled materials such as barrels and tires.

Tweet Share A few weeks back I wrote about the new thick bamboo sheet material available from Totally Bamboo. Well, I completed and installed a mantel top job I did with the bamboo and here are a few pictures from it. The material is pretty darn heavy as you might imagine. This is 2” thick [...]

Tweet ShareSheet goods is the collective term for plywood, particleboard, Medium Density Fiberboard, and any other product that has been processed into a sheet of uniform size and thickness. And of all the sheet goods now being manufactured, the most exciting is still relatively new and unknown. How does one go about getting excited about [...]

Tweet Share The virtues of bamboo have been explored at length now: it is sustainable and strong—as strong as maple, some people say. And the weakness of it as a building material in the Western world—that spindly shape—is also evident. Now we have to determine what, if anything can be done with such a thing. [...]