Home Building Blog - Eco-Friendly and Green
Site inspection, April 28 2006
April 30th, 2006 by Ryan JohnstonMuch has happened in the past two weeks with our house project in Ramsay (to be clear, Ramsay is the name of the Calgary community where our house is being built - not our family name!). We appeared in the Earth Day edition of Dose magazine and were pleased with the attention and interest. We hope that some of our green and eco-friendly links have helped others. We had a lot of fun putting this website together and collecting links, stories and other peoples experiences with green building on the web.
As for our house project, our new contractor spent most of the past two weeks getting things in shape for work to progress again. This meant cleaning everything up, putting up a metal fence around the entire property, calling all new trades in and having inspections of past work, removing all the first floor, preparing for concrete pads to be re-poured (as a couple were in the wrong location) and cleaning out the in-fill which started to cave in.
No one was on-site when we looked around, as it was 6:30pm on a Friday night! But we were completely blown away by how the site has been transformed into a clean, professional and accurate work place. Our neighbor came out and told us how happy she was to actually see some work being done on the house. We assured her that we were also extremely exited to see the construction start again!
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Beautiful designer chest from renewable bamboo
April 27th, 2006 by Ryan JohnstonDesigner green furniture - Renewable bamboo
Bamboo has become quite the “it” material in design circles for its renewable properties and beautiful design possibilities. Crate & Barrel’s elegant Bento Collection of bedroom furniture is made from fast-growing bamboo. Flattened bamboo stems are layered and bonded with formaldehyde-free glue.
Each of Crate and Barrel’s Bento Collection pieces are handcrafted using traditional Chinese joinery techniques. View the entire Crate and Barrel catalog online.