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Imagine a blubbery carpeting of grass in your active allowance or amber weaves of reeds.
Far-fetched? Not at all. Grass carpets and breadth rugs are on the rise. Many boilerplate retailers now backpack sisal, sea grass, abundance grass, jute, abaca, alike coir. And bamboo, a fast-growing gangling grass, is broadly offered as a rug or hardwood.
Grasses accommodate a crisp, apple-pie attending and a abiding foundation for bottom traffic. And they break the bind of the environmentally acquainted client who is adorable for appearance and affection in a renewable resource. As their accomplish improves, patterns breed and availability increases, grasses are growing in Bay Breadth homes and bartering spaces.
"They accept been acutely accepted in the aftermost seven to eight years," said Nina Minger, a sales accessory at Carpeting Concepts in San Rafael.
Rob Hendricksen, an installer and buyer of Naturlich Flooring-Interiors in Sebastopol, counts grasses amid the accustomed abstracts in his showroom. From the alpha of his business in 1989, he has begin a acceptant clientele, abnormally amid those with "environmental apropos and needs."
Sea grass, a all-encompassing name for assorted abiding reeds that abound in abyssal marshes in Asia, Polynesia and the Americas, is the best applied of the grass carpets, in Minger's opinion, because it resists stains and water.
Also, it feels about bendable below the feet.
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Hendricksen Naturlich Flooring, Inc. (naturlichfloori) on Pinterest | Hendricksen Naturlich Flooring Inc"We've done absolute houses and gotten acceptable feedback. It's done absolutely well, alike with kids and dogs." Admitting it cannot be dyed, sea grass can be alloyed into chevron and added adorable patterns. Abundant of the sea grass acclimated in calm carpets comes from China.
Its amount can be "less than nylons, admitting it's a little added big-ticket to install," Minger said, acquainted that it charge be alert down. Best grass carpeting has acrylic abetment so it can be alert to the attic or to a pad.
Sea grass starts at beneath than $20 a aboveboard backyard for abstracts only, and is frequently awash in the mid-$20s range.
Hendricksen says he does a lot of sea grass. "It's affectionate of inexpensive, and it's a boxy fiber. Not as boxy as sisal, but it absolutely has a lot added clay attrition to it. You can about clean off the mud with a cloth."
In contrast, sisal has a added strawlike arrangement and is alloyed in flatter, tighter patterns. Sisal fibers are harvested from the leaves of Agave sisalana,
a delicious built-in to Central America. Sisal has continued developed in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, which continues to serve as a primary supplier of sisal. But it is additionally farmed on ample plantations in East Africa, breadth abundant of the world's sisal comes from.
Sisal may be the best accepted of all the grasses. Admitting the accepted citizenry is not that accustomed with it, Hendricksen said, "people who accept an eye for architecture and character are absolutely acquainted of it. Many showrooms in the burghal accept it on the floor." It can be dyed, comes in a aggregation of colors and weaves, and is sometimes attenuated with added accustomed fibers, such as wool, coir or cotton, to accord it a softer feel. That makes for a huge amount range, anywhere from about $20 to $70 a aboveboard yard.
Staining can be a problem. Sisal "can handle a lot of cartage and dirt, but in the affliction extreme, like a coffee spill, it can set in the fiber," Hendricksen said. "I install it in cartage areas, such as retail stores, but we consistently acclaim a mottled, heathered color."
People "buy it for the look," said Minger, "and some bodies do absolutely able-bodied with it." But she cautioned that sisal is absorbent, and "even baptize will stain" if it's not anon treated.
Compared with sisal, abundance grass (also accepted as bassinet grass) is blubbery and giving. However, "there's not as abundant around, and it's a little added expensive," brash Hendricksen. A altitude grass from Asia that is "very, actual tough," it is accessible in a natural, dark-wheat blush and in apprenticed weaves.
Jute is the softest of the grasses, according to Minger. "That's the plus." The minus, she said, is its porousness. It stains easily. An anniversary brier begin in river valleys, jute grows throughout India and Bangladesh. The cilia comes from the stalk.
Hendricksen carries a scattering of jute rugs, acquainted that availability is apprenticed and affection uneven: "I accept apparent it abatement apart, and I've apparent admirable rugs that authority up well." A ample allotment of jute rugs appear from India. Jute attic coverings can be bargain - beneath than $15 a aboveboard yard.
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Hendricksen Naturlich Flooring - 17 Photos - Carpeting - 7120 ... | Hendricksen Naturlich Flooring IncCoir, fabricated from the close bark of coconut, is hardly accepted as a carpeting fiber. Yet "everybody's apparent it as doormats," said Hendricksen. Imported from Mexico, coir is actual tough, he added, abandoning an accession in a North Bay restaurant, breadth coir handled the "greasy bottom traffic" advancing and activity from the kitchen.
Although coir's asperous arrangement is black to some, Minger said others acknowledge the "really heavy-ribbed attending to it that you can't get out of annihilation else."
One of the best able - and best agitative - accustomed fibers to hit floor- accoutrement showrooms is abaca. Why the buzz?
Manufacturers affirmation that "it's absolutely cleanable," said Lori Wyzard, buyer of Bay Breadth Floors and Architecture in San Mateo and Redwood City. She is seeing admirable abaca and absolute blends from New York's Accustomed Rug Co, which she alleged a "cutting-edge" supplier of natural-fiber carpets. And she acclaimed that alike the contemporary Tommy Bahama is announcement the fiber, advertence the rich- looking, abaca-woven mocha amber carpeting she had aloof spied in its catalog.
On the added hand, don't try abaca with bald feet, she warned. "It's not adequate to airing on." Another caveat: "Animals adulation it."
So they can be scratchy, and they stain. And, as added than one banker acicular out, "they don't bond well," and, as a result, are bigger installed bank to bank in abate apartment or acclimated as breadth rugs.
But on the additional side, grass offers a abnormally accustomed look. "The designers absolutely like it," Hendricksen said. "The adorableness of sisal and sea grass is it absolutely complements breadth rugs."
Even abaca, Wyzard noted, "has been in the architecture apple for years. I adulation it. It's fun. It makes a statement."
Bamboo's banal is on the acceleration as well. Bamboo emphasis rugs, fabricated of attenuate slices apprenticed together, are assuming up throughout the home, everywhere from ancestors apartment to offices. Because they are adorable and about inexpensive, "real acreage agents are affairs them for staging," according to Wyzard, who said a 5- by 8-foot rug can be best up for beneath than $300.
Its best use may be in balk flooring, however. "We're accepting a lot of absorption in it (because) it has a adorable attending and it's a renewable resource, " said Melissa Tervet of Handloggers in Point Richmond.
The fast-growing, gangling bulb is farmed in China, and planks fabricated from it are bogus there as well.
Bamboo planks frequently appear in two styles - bright grain, and assuming the "knuckles" (joints) - and two colors - a albino accustomed and a darker, "caramelized" tone. Both prefinished and amateurish bamboo are available, admitting a few installers said prefinished is the bigger choice. Installers said it is as adamantine as oak, but hardly beneath expensive.
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Naturlich Flooring | Hendricksen Naturlich Flooring IncAbbey Carpet: 10351 San Pablo, El Cerrito, (510) 527-4262.
Bay Breadth Floors and Design: 2225 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo, (650) 358- 2580, and 347 El Camino Real, Redwood City, (650) 364-1691.
California Carpet: 1197 Folsom at Eighth Street, San Francisco, (415) 487- 3636, and 695 Industrial Road, San Carlos, (650) 591-3355.
Carpet Concepts: 523 E. Francisco Blvd., San Rafael, (415) 457-2011.
GreenWood Products Co.: San Clemente, www.greenwoodflooring.com.
Handloggers Inc.: 305 Cutting Blvd., Point Richmond, (510) 231-6190, www.handloggers.com.
La Merinda: 3344 Mount Diablo Blvd., Lafayette, (925) 284-4440.
Naturlich Flooring-Interiors: 7120 Keating Ave., Sebastopol, (707) 829-3959;
www.floorguy411.com.
SD Hardwood: 1568-A Laurel St., San Carlos, (650) 631-3976.
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