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Bathroom Improvements Materials

Published August 4th, 2008 in Accessories, Basins, Baths, Carpets, Furniture, Iron, Mirrors, Nylon, Painting, Sheet, Showers | 3 Comments »

Any materials used in the bathroom must be smooth, moisture resistant and easy to keep clean. Flooring materials must also be antislip for safety.

It’s important to choose materials that will provide long service and help to create a bathroom

Which looks and feels good to use. (more…)

Show Woods (Prestige Timber)

Published March 15th, 2008 in Furniture, Indoor, Oak, Windows, Wood | 5 Comments »

Stinkwood (Ocotea Bullata): This popular wood is now very scarce. Stinkwood is an excellent furniture timber that lends itself to beautiful finishing, sound jointing, and unlimited indoor life. It shows up brightly against light (like tiger’s eye). The older darker wood is almost unobtainable and the second growth and lighter coloured stinkwood has very little to recommend it in preference to blackwood.

Green stinkwood has an unpleasant smell, hence the name. Grain medium open.

Blackwood (Acacia Melanoxylon): This is not an indigenous wood but has been cultivated extensively in South Africa. Colour varies from black to light redbrown and furniture can appear piebald if the wood has not been selected carefully for colour matching. (more…)