Bamboo is the perfect wood for cooking and serving ware due to it is water resistant, and inhibits germs and bacteria. You won't have splitting and mold like you would with other types of wood.
The best part? You'll be saving the planet while you make your kitchen beautiful. Bamboo is the most sustainably grown and eco friendly wood there is. It grows to harvest height without pesticide or fertilizers in only 3-5 years. Going green actually improves the look of your Decor.

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This lustrous serving bowl is so beautiful, you'll want to display it even when not in use. It's footed design makes it a great center piece for both elegant upscale decor and country themes.

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The cutting board with carved in mincing bowl is the perfect companion piece for avid home cooking chefs. After chopping and mincing ingredients, and separating them from their peels on the board, they are ready to be added to your salad or pasta in the the serving bowl.
Your culinary creation deserves to be caressed by fine utensils. Natural Home's matching mixing spoon, slotted spoon, solid turner, slotted turner, and spaghetti fork are fine work tools, and so pretty, you'll want to display them on the counter in Natural Home's Bamboo crock. The oval shape allows for easy viewing of utensils while saving counter space.

Using the crock as a stand, make a bouquet of beautiful, strong, and durable bamboo utensils:



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Great gift ideas, these cooking and serving ware products by Natural Home are so affordable, you can get the whole matching set. Perfect for wedding gifts and bridal registry!
Home Design Writer Posted this on June 29, 2009
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Perfect for busy kitchens and a sort of “kitchen in its own right”, this handy portable kitchen cart with breakfast bar gives plenty of additional storage space for kitchens as well as providing some rare mobility for food preparation. It has a paper towel bar on one side and a rack for bottles on the other and it travels on heavy duty, locking rubber casters for safe and secure movement. With plenty of extra storage space, pans, dishes, plates and foos can easily be stored and arranged for swift and easy access. Drawers and cabinets allow for a wide range of storage options. The breakfast bar collapses for storage purposes and makes a terrific and cozy space for breakfasts.
some thing like this is so handy it has been a trade secret of great cooks all over the universe. Isolating a work space for specific purposes and just plain expanding a kitchen by virtue of this well-thought-out kitchen cart are ideas that are super timely and great for food prep in general. Easily assembled and incredibly sturdy, this ingenious item might just be a must-have for your place.
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Home Design Writer Posted this on June 27, 2009
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A kitchen where delicious food is created, is a kitchen where the cook feels good about life. What things make you feel good about life? Bring those elements into your kitchen decor.
If romance inspires you to create gorgeous meals, then hang photos of your loved one on the kitchen wall, and train garlands of edible flowers to creep from your windowsill planter box, in through the window, and around it. Place candles around the kitchen, and use romantic lighting when you cook. Your cooking then becomes an offering of devotion, seduction, and admiration.
If your cooking is your connection to your heritage or your ancestors, decorate your kitchen with your ethnic art. Frame one of your favorite ancestral photos, and hang it on the wall.
You can also place old hand written recipes in layers to cover the kitchen table, and then cover that with a sheet of clear glass. This makes a rustically lovely decor focal point, or a classically elegant one if you write the recipes in calligraphy. Your guests will ooh and?ahh over this creative design.
If you want to cook healthful meals, hang a picture of yourself doing a realistic activity that can only be done with a strong healthy body (relative to your own circumstances), and a focused mind. If you have a family, hang photos of them showing off their health and strength as well. For instance, a photo of your child proudly displaying a school assignment that earned a high grade, or flexing her/his biceps and smiling with white teeth, shows the rewards for eating healthful foods. Hang colorful charts depicting the ratio of proteins to carbohydrates that you need, and hang pretty pictures of beautiful organic fruits and vegetables. These will give you an appetite for what is good for you, instead of tempting you to eat junk food. Natural produce comes in all colors (even blue - for blueberries), so you can make a gorgeous rainbow on your wall.
Home Design Writer Posted this on June 25, 2009
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Storage is one of the basic things to consider when decorating. Some storage spaces are hidden from sight, while others may be more prominent in a room's overall design. Kitchen cabinets are a standard form of storage in cooking and dining areas, and are usually incorporated into the very core of any kitchen, built in, along with counters and other elements. However, as your family grows, so do your kitchen storage requires, and it may be time to think about more storage solutions.

This pantry or kitchen storage cabinet can be a great solution in any country styled kitchen. It's simply, made of solid wood and has a nice decorative embossed door, in plain white to match most existing decors. With a most affordable price tag, no wonder it's one of the more popular of its kind on Amazon.com.
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Home Design Writer Posted this on June 23, 2009
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Look at that lovely face staring out of that lovely face clock. What a beautiful way to bring the unspoiled wilderness into your home. The layering of the trees in the foreground and the moody sky in the back ground make you feel as though you've just parted a thicket and come across this majestic creature serendipity. Perfect for out door enthusiasts, country interior decor, and canine lovers.
A great gift idea.? Is your birthday boy a self described “lone wolf”? Does your honey sing beautifully to you in the moonlight? Or does this clock simply add the perfect touch to your rustic design theme? The colors are easy to match with your room's decor, and the picture is unique enough to avoid being kitsch.
This wood clock has quartz movement for time keeping accuracy. The unconditional replacement or refund guarantee means that for a full year you can trust the warrant against defects in material and workmanship. It was made in the USA, so the labor practices were regulated. The clock uses one AA battery, and the diameter is about 11.5 inches. It comes with a hook on the back for easy hanging.
This clock also reminds us that time is running out for Alaska's wolves, and that if they are to survive, we must stop the government approved slaughter of these intelligent, social, and ecologically necessary animals.
There are so many reasons that this is the right clock at the right time.
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Home Design Writer Posted this on June 21, 2009
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over here's a fun wall design element. This cheerful looking frog was hand cut from steel drums and hand painted in Haiti. What better way to enliven a tropical or bamboo theme than with a splash of color? In addition to the sultry island evenings this art piece brings to mind, a reminder of fragile rain forest eco systems prompts us to waste less. Made from a steel drum, this piece of art is an example of creative reuse.
The Chinese consider a three legged toad to be a good luck symbol likely to bring good fortune and help you to make money, some thing we could all use a bit of help with these days. This frog is therefor a good part of a Feng Shui design for the kitchen, which is the symbolic room of abundance and wealth. If you have a bathroom, laundry room, or pantry room with no window, the Feng Shui masters suggest adding a red decor item. This little red frogy is just right for the job.
kids will love this bright and happy little frog. He helps turn any room into a jungle. A hanger on the back makes it easy to wall mount this pretty fella. Approximately 9″ W x 9″ H, this extremely durable metal decor item will last, and is appropriate for use in your garden as well. Hung on a door, this frog helps small kids to identify their own room.
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You can add turtles, parrots, sea creatures, geckos,? butterflies, dragonflies, and frogs of other shapes and colors for a more diverse wall eco system, or to distinguish between doors to separate rooms.
     
The abundance of different fish and sea critters would turn your bathroom into an underwater kingdom of color. You'll feel like you're diving in a coral reef.
  
A great gift idea, the affordable price allows you to buy as many as you need. Just click on the pictures over here and get to the product page.
Home Design Writer Posted this on June 19, 2009
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over here is a lovely and complete dinette set of simple elegance and durable and very strong construction. The lightweight lines offer a lightness to the overall look that allows the home's other features to stand out. The gorgeous wood finishing of the top and of the seats themselves provide a natural look which is always somewhat appealing in dinettes and offer extremely easy cleaning and maintaining. The durable iron base of both chairs and table make for an incredibly sturdy set, destined for a long and enduring future.
The set comes quickly in packaging and is easily assembled, offering a nearly immediately-available and comfortable-looking setting especially effective on wood floors. The “Dirty Oak” finish, so called owing to the coloration of the lacquer, is finely grained like all Oak wood and is perhaps the most durable material imaginable for an item in this price range. Gorgeous, light and airy, this beautiful dinette set makes a splendid eating and entertaining area, casual yet yet pretty.
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Home Design Writer Posted this on June 17, 2009
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Remember, you aren't a ship's galley slave; the kitchen must be pleasant as well as functional. This means, for instance, that you should design your kitchen with lovely windows that look out at a beautiful view. Large windows keep the kitchen from becoming claustrophobic. If the view is nothing special, use window boxes to create a garden view that will obstruct the view of anything ugly.
If your kitchen is dark and the light from the windows has a blue quality to it, use yellow or orange filmy gauze curtains to create a warm sunny glow; it will improve your mood, motivation, and the look of most food. Your artificial lighting should be warm colored as well. Now available are energy saving florescent light bulbs with a warm soft light that doesn't flicker. Decorate your walls with just a few sparsely placed pieces of art that add splashes of color. This will not shrink or crowd the room visually, and yet it will make the kitchen more homey and personal.
Finally, avoid the ultra modern kitchen designs where every surface is metallic. Those were developed for easy sterilization, but are alienating and harsh when you sit in them. You aren't running a hospital cafeteria. Give your chairs cloth covered cushions in beautiful colors , and use a pretty potted plant or flower as a focal point for the table. Use bamboo or polished stone counter tops , both of which are strong and easy to sterilize, but give the room an earthier feel and a splash of color.
When your kitchen is both lovely and practical, the food will taste and look better. Your happiness and comfort will affect your cooking.
Home Design Writer Posted this on June 16, 2009
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Your kitchen is the center of hearth and home. It is where you do the most of your home work, where you entertain your most familiar and cherished guests, and where you nurture your family. The decor in your kitchen should support all of those functions. Therefore, the kitchen must first be organized well to enable efficient and easy work conditions, and then made homey and beautiful. Design decor can effect both.
Work smarter not harder. Imagine that your kitchen was a factory. How would you arrange it for maximum efficiency? First, arrange your kitchen ergonomically. Build counters and sinks and stoves to fit your height. Give yourself a comfortable stool or chair to support you when you are pairing and peeling. Store heavy things in a way that will allow you access to them without hurting your back.
Build twice as much shelving and cupboards as you think you need. You don't want to have your appliances cluttering your work surfaces. If you must lift all those gadgets every time you want to clean your counter top, you'll clean less frequently than you would if the counter was already clear. Hang or mount what ever you can on the wall, instead of having it sit on the counter.
Home Design Writer Posted this on June 16, 2009
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With its bright white base and light colored wooden top, this kitchen cart is just perfect for a casual American Country style kitchen. While it doesn't have an aged look now, it is made of solid hardwood and will age with grace with years of use.

Obviously, this more than just a decorative item. It's a great way to increase your work space in the kitchen, with room to prepare food, and serve it as well. And do not forget those neat storage cabinets and drawer!
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Home Design Writer Posted this on June 15, 2009
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A cozy table for 4 can compress into an even cozier table for two by dropping one of the two “leafs” on either side. The result is a more angular, rectangular table perfect for card-playing, games of all kinds, intimate seating and taking up far less space. Constructed of rubber wood, this indoor item is a gorgeous blond wood, well-finished and lacquered and simple in the classic style. The turned legs are attractive and very sturdy, allowing for elbows and items with weight comfortably. 40″ by 40″ and 29″ high, it fits nearly any room unobtrusively and comfortably.
Like any well-finished kitchen or dining room item, it wipes down with a wet rag for cleaning and stands as a perfect table for flower settings or other arrangements during larger events. Durable and trustworthy, strong and attractive, this gorgeous set makes a fabulous household addition with many possible uses. As a primary table for small apartments and homes, the drop leaf factor compresses it well and makes it a perfect adjustable item for featured entertaining or simply being out of the way.
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Home Design Writer Posted this on June 13, 2009
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In the dining rooms and banquet halls of exclusive Southeast Asian resorts, you'll find hand-spun glass. The beauty of the craftsmanship makes it valuable as an elegant decor piece. Natural Home glassware utilizes 100% recycled glass incorporated in this very same hand-spun technique, for an eco friendly product fit to serve royaly .? In a small artisan workshop, each hand-made piece is drafted? from100% post-consumer glass to produce a highly functional work of art, demonstrating the? talent of the craftsman.? Less waste ending up in landfills is the goal of using recycled glass, and timeless beauty is the goal of the craftsman. Put together, you gain a center piece that will bring you pride every time you see this translucent sculpture displayed. The lovely play of light and color will present any drink you serve in style. The quality of the hand spun accented finish will delight your guests.
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Your table will be an artful exhibit of graceful form when you complete the set with the Natural Home recycled glass hand spun accented bowls and serving platters, both available in different sizes.

Can you imagine how the colors of your salads,? soups, and dips will be enhanced by this hand spun glass? Food served from glass tastes better as well. Bon Appetite!

Anything presented on such a platter becomes gourmet and more appetizing.

The square platters are available in both large and small. There is also a rectangular design.

Perfect for serving Japanese sushi and sashimi, French cuisine, desserts zig-zagged with melted Belgian chocolate,? or for making your child's first attempt at cooking look better when the family pretends to eat it amidst much praise and adulation.
You'll love the way light dances on your table and display cabinet when you combine all the pieces in this collection to form a decor set. What could be a more perfect wedding gift for a bridal registry?
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Home Design Writer Posted this on June 11, 2009
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This beautiful Bar Cart features the famous quality and craftsmanship of Totally Bamboo brand . Perfect? for wine and cheese presentation when entertaining guests and accommodating parties, the Bar Cart boasts the following features:? The top is done in Parquet End Grain Butcher block style, with a juice channel groove. The wine rack fits up to 18 bottles. The hanging stemware rack allows for mobility with out breakage. 2 stainless steel towel racks and a utility drawer on easy glide sliders for practical frequent use make this cart more than just an eye catching center peice. Extra glasses and bar essentials fit safely into four shelves . Heavy duty locking coasters allow the bar cart to roll across the floor for convenient service.
Made out of gorgeous and eco-friendly bamboo, you can be proud that your bar cart was made from renewable resources. Classically elegant taste combined with responsible shopping ethics; you are a winner with this lovely design choice.
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Home Design Writer Posted this on June 09, 2009
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This table is made from recycled plastic milk jugs that would otherwise be clogging a landfill and seeping into your groundwater. So, if you need a plastic kids table you won't have to worry about, over here is the more eco-friendly option. You can let them paint, color, work with clay, dissect pomegranates, and do anything else you wouldn't let them do on your favorite wood furniture. It makes a good back yard picnic table as well, due to you can leave it outside in the elements all year long. Made to look like redwood, this won't be an eyesore when you look out at your garden. It will blend in beautifully with your landscaping. Your kids will really appreciate this gift. Their legs won't fall asleep dangling in the air, due to this table and bench set is just their size.
This 4 foot long table will never require chemical treatments for weather proofing or insect repellent and it won't rot, mildew or swell and crack. That's less hassle for you, and less exposure to toxins for your kids.
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The very same company brings you a better way to stash your trash:

What better way to bin your garbage and items to recycle, than a recycled plastic domed trash can with a pretty container made of the very same material? It looks like wood to keep your yard and side walk looking good, and it's made from recycled plastic to keep the planet looking good.
Another? win win item from Engineered Plastic Systems.
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Home Design Writer Posted this on June 07, 2009
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Bamboo is one of the fastest-growing plants on planet earth, and therefore an extremely sustainable and eco- friendly material for furniture and accessories. Additionally, it is aesthetically pleasing and its neutral colors are easy to match and combine for interior design.? This ladder shaped rack is perfect for drying extra guest towels, organizing magazines, or displaying a collection of quilts. Lean it against a free wall and move it from room to room as you see fit.? Bamboo is light weight, very sturdy, and water resistant.? This product is handmade in Vietnam by fair trade partners. Extremely practical, durable, good looking, and affordable, you can be socially and environmentally responsible while creating beautiful home designs that won't stress your wallet. What more could you ask for?
The Gaiam bamboo ladder has dimensions of 72″L x 15″W; and weighs 6 lbs.
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Also, check out the Gaiam bamboo bath tub cady, and the Umbra Boomba tooth brush holder tumbler, and soap dish, all made of bamboo, for a coordinated bathroom theme.
Home Design Writer Posted this on June 05, 2009
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Beautiful young horses lovingly enjoying each other's company in the soft pastel spring sunshine –the image is so optimistic it makes you want to go out for a walk and be thankful for the universe's beauty. This cutting board is as well pretty to put away when you're done using it. You'll want to display it on your kitchen counter or with your china in the dining room. You'll have more motivation to chop organic vegetables for healthy meals when you're inspired by the image of these healthy strong young herbivores.
This tempered glass cutting board is easy to keep clean,? is dishwasher safe, and has dimensions of 11.5 inches x 15 inches. The cutting board has protective clear rubber feet so that it doesn't slide off your counter. Made in the USA, the Artworks cutting board comes with an unconditional replacement or refund guarantee.
Country decor starts with images of the country, and this one is iconic. A perfect gift idea for anyone born in the year of the horse in the Chinese zodiac. According to the principles of Feng Shui, the three horses over here represent family harmony, and will encourage good family (or room mate) relationships, if displayed where you can see it from the table where you eat.
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Home Design Writer Posted this on June 03, 2009
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Spas use bamboo bath mats for good reasons: The bamboo grips the floor, so it is safer; it won't skid. Bamboo is water resistant and has antibacterial properties. Bamboo mats are much more durable, so they last longer than other materials. They roll up for easy storage.
You can see why spas prefer them. do not you think you deserve all these benefits at home? do not you want to feel safe stepping out of the tub? do not you want your mat to last, so you do not need to keep buying new ones? do not you want to be able to dry your feet on a hygienic surface? Wouldn't you like to be able to roll it up and stash it when you're cleaning the floor?
You could put a couple of these by your outdoor hot tub or jacuzzi to keep your feet clean while getting in and out. I like using them in the kitchen, due to they do not get as nasty as other mats when you drop food on them. They are easier to clean as well.

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Those are good reasons; over here are a few more:
Bamboo's beautiful and understated neutral color goes with any decor. If you buy other bamboo? accessories (see previous posts), it will match and create a lovely design theme.
But most importantly, it is made from the fastest growing sustainably farmed wood on the planet.
Doesn't that make you proud to stand on these mats?
Home Design Writer Posted this on June 01, 2009
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