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Cheers! from sunny central coast California. On our way to work today screaming up highway 101, we came across this crazy cruiser! Stoked on the sunny morning the dog sat a a top this man’s cruiser just enjoying the ride. Today is a good day! 

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Hello Friends of Green Leaf Bamboo Doors we want to invite you to visit us at the Dwell show in LA. The show is being held at the LA Convention Center June 22 -24th. For more information please visit the following link; http://dod.dwell.com/ We will be showing doors from all our

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One of my favorite flavors of bamboo is called the “Budda belly”, and its for good reason. Check out the photos of the belly on this bamboo! There are an estimated 1200 species and 91 genera of bamboo throughout the world. It grows from the freezing mountains of the Himalayas

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Pinoy designer’s bamboo, rattan car showcased in Italy It seems almost unimaginable to build a car from bamboo and rattan but such a car does exist and it was made by a Filipino — renowned furniture designer Kenneth Cobonpue. “Phoenix” is what 43-year-old Filipino  Cobonpue calls his design, the world’s first and

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Our most recent project included flush bamboo doors with stainless steel inlays. The client wanted to match their honey colored strand woven bamboo on the interior passage way doors. We ran the honey colored woven bamboo horizontally across the door divided by 1/2″ strips of stainless steel. The hardware on the doors is brushed nickel and

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I recently came across the architecture of de Hoog and Keirulf. The project that caught my eye was a ocean sciences building. I fell in love with the shell shaped roof that mimics the centers focus.  Rix is ​​the Center for Ocean invention that was

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I have been fortunate to go out to Catalina Island, one of the channel islands found off the Southern California coast, on several occasions. I love the tile found on the island and the classic Cali style. This last time I learned new facts about the architecture of the famous casino building.

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 Mcgraww Hill offers a course on bamboo as a building material. The course is a presentation designed to earn you 1.00 AIA/CES Learning Unit.  Their website states, “The course reviews how bamboo is sustainably grown, harvested and manufactured to create a variety of plywood, flooring and other products. Special emphasis is placed

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Hello friends,   This last week Elliott, national salesperson for Green leaf Doors, and I traveled to Palm Springs to promote our bamboo door collection. Although we had heard about the vast array of wind generators it was awesome to see these giants lined up across

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