Sustainable lumber that looks great
If you spend any time in art or craft galleries in Florida, you haven't any doubt run across bowls and vases crafted from palm wooden. There's a element shot here that indicates palm timber's particular, "thready" grain pattern. The structure of a palm tree trunk is basically a tightly packed bundle of fibers and while its cut and stained the impact is without a doubt lovely. I do not know how famous palm timber is out of doors of areas in which fingers grown, however in this a part of the arena it is pretty famous stuff. I love seeing it: it's an natural, neighborhood touch and I've continually puzzled why it would not get used outside of bowls and vases.
Enter Smith and Fong's Durapalm . Smith and Fong is a San Francisco-based building product innovator and their Durapalm product is made from culled coconut palms. A coconut palm has about a 100 year lifespan as a coconut producer before it's cut down. Until Durapalm , the spent coconut palm ended up as more agricultural waste. Durapalm takes the palm tree and makes it into laminate plywood, similar to how bamboo gets turned into flooring.
That laminate plywood finally ends up as a sheet properly to be used as paneling or cupboard doors, it gets cut into planks for use as floors, or it gets reduce into what are essentially tiles after which used as wall cladding. It's virtually wild stuff and without a doubt not like some thing else you're in all likelihood to encounter in anyone else's house any time quickly.
Pretty neat all around. It's unusual, beautiful and sustainable --a triple crown. But where to find it? Why Indigo of course. Hurray Indigo!