| Go on a trip to a state or national park. Enjoy the | | | | willing to have a tolerance for many of these defects. |
| beauty of the trees, the fresh air, the beautiful sounds. | | | | Bamboo shades will often have a twist, a bump, or |
| When you go home, you do not need to leave that all | | | | irregular folding. This is minor, and not unattractive, but |
| behind. There is so much beauty in nature that you can | | | | just enough to help one perceive the custom crafted, |
| bring some of it home with you, and install it in your | | | | mountain cabin style of the natural shades that are |
| windows. The beauty of nature is the true presence | | | | bamboo shades. |
| of woven wood bamboo shades, and when using | | | | Of course, the sales of the designs, and the taste of |
| natural bamboo, this is not only a beautiful product, but | | | | the consumers are fully related. Consumers have |
| also an ecologically friendly window treatment. | | | | voted their tastes with bamboo shades through their |
| Bamboo is a natural product, the result of one of the | | | | choices in colors. While there are a few white patterns |
| fastest growing trees in the world. The bamboo used | | | | available in bamboo shades, these happen to be the |
| in real woven bamboo shades will have been selected | | | | lowest selling colors in the category of woven wood |
| from trees that can grow as much as four feet or | | | | shades. As white is the most important color range in |
| more each month. This rapid growth allows consumers | | | | shutter, shades, and particularly wood blinds, it is among |
| of bamboo shades to feel ecologically right while | | | | the lowest in popularity for bamboo shades. |
| bringing some of this natural beauty into their homes. | | | | Consumers are choosing these shades for their |
| The natural stylings of bamboo shades comes from, | | | | beauty and their natural appearances, as evidenced by |
| among other sources, the fact that the pieces are | | | | the inverted sales of more dark colors than light paints, |
| woven together in a traditional style. The process is | | | | as compared to other products in this product group. |
| not much different from the actual weaving of fabrics, | | | | We should revisit, given that we have focussed on the |
| but the bamboo shades use full bamboo sticks as the | | | | natural look, what it means to take these beautiful |
| fill, so the “fabric” is a random looking | | | | trees and mill them into attractive bamboo shades. |
| assortment of various colored bamboo reeds and | | | | Unlike most other wood based products, the raw |
| tubes to make a real fresh from the jungle look. | | | | material used here is rapidly renewing. The fact that a |
| Another element that helps make bamboo shades | | | | bamboo tree can grow four feet in a month is only |
| look natural is the manner in which they are stained. | | | | part of the story. These trees grow very aggressively, |
| Many wood products are stained or colored in an | | | | and new trees become available for harvest quickly. |
| attempt to make every piece look identical. Bamboo | | | | So, while you may feel that you are hurting nature to |
| shades, on the other hand, are prepared and stained in | | | | bring it inside, it is just not the case. Bamboo is nearly a |
| order to preserve the true nature of them. The rough | | | | miracle wood in natural resources. The wood in each |
| edges, the hard bamboo grain, and the large bumps | | | | bamboo shade is replaced quicker than it is used, and |
| and joints all lead to an inconsistent finish, and make | | | | there are new techniques being developed to grow |
| the sticks unable to accept a uniform coating of the | | | | more bamboo, even in non native habitats. |
| colorants. This means that every stick will have an | | | | Relax in nature, enjoy the hike, the beauty and the |
| entirely unique color and appearance. | | | | sensation of being out there, “in it.” That is what |
| The actual production of bamboo shades, the | | | | a bamboo shade will help you do when you design |
| fabrication, creates a final product that has the look of | | | | your home spaces. These incomparable shades can |
| a custom crafted hand made product. Do not get this | | | | allow you to decorate and bring in the great out doors, |
| wrong to think that you will see horrible flaws and | | | | ming that back to nature look real. At the same time, |
| defects, and that there will be glue dripping all over. On | | | | the transplant of that outside beauty to the inside, will |
| the contrary, these will all be captured and cleaned, | | | | not hurt the environment, so consumers will not have |
| and the end product will be a unique customized | | | | extra “eco-guilt” when they choose bamboo |
| design, and this uniqueness of the bamboo shades is | | | | shades. |
| what you are seeking. However, you will need to be | | | | |