Bamboo Cabinets

January 7th, 2010

Bamboo Cabinet Pictures

Bamboo is one of the oldest materials used for building furniture in China because they have an overabundance of it. In the West, bamboo is becoming a big design feature because of its ability to regenerate. When you cut down a tree, the tree is gone and you have to plant a new one. When you cut down bamboo, you get an entire stalk of bamboo, but it can regenerate and grow back rather quickly. This makes it an incredibly eco friendly building material that, as the environment becomes an issue on the forefront of people’s minds, makes building with it more appealing.

The great thing, though, is that bamboo looks really great. A lot of artsy types of designs go for bamboo because of its brightness, but also because of the effectiveness of it. Bamboo is really strong. More importantly, it’s really inexpensive. Because it continuously regenerates, there isn’t a shortage of it. Therefore, you can get a very modern, deco looking set of cabinets made of bamboo for, often times, half the price of what natural wood would cost. Add to the fact that you’re doing your part to help the environment and bamboo cabinets are a great investment.

The strength of the bamboo cabinet comes with the fact that it is actually a type of grass, not wood, that it is made of. Because of this, each individual strain in the sheet of bamboo used for the cabinet is an individual piece of bamboo. Because it is like grass, there are no knots and twists in the wood that would jeopardize the strength. An interesting fact about bamboo is that it is actually stronger than wood. Therefore, the bamboo cabinets will be able to hold more and handle more than wood. People don’t think of bamboo as strong because it is a grass, but the old saying goes: one arrow can be broken. A bunch of arrows cannot.

Bamboo cabinets are a great investment because they are inexpensive and they are strong. Some carpenters refuse to work with it because it isn’t real wood, but there are a lot more cabinet makers who are realizing the incredible power and pull of bamboo cabinets. These cabinets are strong and look great. If you are considering getting bamboo cabinets, look for a wholesale bamboo provider and see what their costs are. Call up a cabinet maker and tell them what you need, they’ll tell you how much wood you’ll need and you can then buy it. Get some custom made bamboo cabinets and enjoy the incredible strength and bright look to the cabinets. There’s a reason the Chinese have used bamboo for thousands of years.