Check out this interesting post on the sustainability value of bamboo in the South. If you’re inspired, DwellSmart in Mt. Pleasant is sure to have some beautiful bamboo furnishings (plus it’s a local business!). If you’ve got to go national, a search on bedbathandbeyond.com yields 558 bamboo products, not to mention the countless online retailers [...]

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Try wallpapering your floor!  ReadyMade Magazine’s blog has a fun post about a 1948 Popular Science article advocating just that.  And before you think it’s a ridiculous idea, it turns out that the PS magazine conducted a test for durability; Amanda, the ReadyMade post author, reports that “after 5 months of heavy foot traffic, they [...]

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