Mar 13 2010
Bamboo Floor Vase
Bamboo is a grassy plant that has been used for hundreds of years in China for everything from flooring to floor mats. It has also been used to make containers such as baskets and vases. This beautiful wood has become a favorite among designers looking to add an Asian touch to homes. A bamboo floor vase filled with an exotic arrangement or strategically placed in a room brings a natural beauty that is unrivaled.
Interior decorators also know that the theme doesn’t have to be oriental to bring in the beauty of a bamboo floor vase. Often, bringing in one piece of beauty to a room is all that is needed to make it stand out. A bamboo floor vase could be used to pull together different aspects of a room and tie them to each other in a beautiful design scheme.
Bamboo floor vases are available in many sizes, shapes and color shades. Some are beautiful in their own right and need no flowers or arrangements to enhance them; they are the art piece in themselves. Others are beautiful as a container to be filled with eucalyptus, cat-tails and other tall, beautiful flowering plants, both real and artificial.
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Designers and crafters who want their bamboo vases used for flower arrangements are careful to line them with materials that are used for plants. This is important to prevent the wood from being damaged due to the watering of the plants. Other designers don’t make their bamboo floor vases to be used for plants and so don’t add this material. They intend their vases to be used simply for their beauty.
There is more to a bamboo vase than its exquisite beauty, there is the green factor. Bamboo is an environmentally friendly material due to the speed with which it is able to regenerate. Using bamboo to make vases and other decorative objects prevents other materials, such as wood which takes many years to regrow, from having to be used.
Bamboo vases can be purchased from many different retailers on the internet and in traditional stores. Consumers should ask if the bamboo floor vase they are looking at is made from real bamboo or is a simulated, man-made bamboo look-alike. Faux wood materials are abundant in the market place and unsuspecting consumers who think they are helping the environment by purchasing a green product could be easily fooled.
Consider a bamboo floor vase for enhancing any room in the house or for sending as a gift. Beautiful, useful and a better option for the environment than many options, bamboo floor vases fit every decorating taste.
-Sharon Chapman
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