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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regret flooring choice (bamboo because it is sustainable, but has so many dings/dents I hate it).

Location of recessed lights in the kitchen.  They are so random, rather than thoughtfully or logically placed.

Finally, I wish we had placed some pocket doors in locations that are generally open.  Not so much an issue now, but when the kids were little, and we were entertaining, there was no way to close off the open floor plan that we love, to keep the noise from floating upstairs and keeping them up.  Would have been easy to do at the time, now there is electrical and other things in those walls.[/quote]

The bamboo is sustainable, the glue is far from it.[/quote]

Is the bamboo really sustainable if it is dinged up and going to get replaced after just a few years?  The oak floors in my house are 140 years old. They were made from oak trees within 2 miles of the house. Yes oak trees take a long time to grow, much longer than bamboo. But in 140 years new oak trees have grown in their place.  The house built down the road from us in 1990 has had the floors replaced twice.  The second time to get rid of bamboo. That bamboo was shipped across the pacific ocean. Part of using "green" products is buying locally and thinking about when they will need to be replaced and the amount of energy that goes in to manufacturing the product.  I'll stick with hardwood floors.[/quote]

It's not sustainable.  Same with bamboo fiber in clothing, it's green washing.[/quote]

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