Do you Bamboo??

Look at the groovy hula skirt on that last one!

We have a couple different bamboos growing in our yard…a Black and a yellow striped .

Quintessentially tropical.

Beautiful, yes…But also an amazing sustainable building product..a high yield renewable resource.

I was lucky to have recently won some bamboo sheets from Annechovie.

They. Are. Amazing.

Sooo soft, so breathable. luxurious. I am in love.

So, unfortunately, is the big black dog.

Yeeesch. Just keepin’ it real, folks.

BUT…

Linda Garland, who now lives in Bali REALLY bamboo’s.

She is an architectural, interior and landscape designer who builds homes made of Bamboo.

This one, in east Bali, was featured in the recent Architectural Digest.

Not a nail was used…everything is pegged together using traditional Sumatran architecture and building principles.

Even the walls are made of woven inky blue black plaited bamboo!

From the tented bed the owners can look out to the ocean.

Then…because everybody needs a guest house

she concocted this gorgeous morsel on the property, too!

Linda has been creating and living in Bali for the past 35 years.

Ooooh...I went off into pocketa pocketa dreamland on that sentence...I wanna be that Linda.

Her own estate is also made of bamboo…which she rents out…

Takers?

You, too, can learn to make or grow your own house out of bamboo here.

Seriously.