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What does taping, mudding and fish nets have in common?

2/23/2016

 
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​They are all topics this week!
OK, the taping and mudding are fairly straight forward.
Our drywall upstairs has all been taped and mudded.  They now look very flat, smooth and if I may say myself, beautiful:)

The floor was protected by laying down paper (which held up a lot better than I ever thought it would).

Work on the tile should be starting by early next week.

​OK, now for the seemingly out of place fish nets...​



This week we had a meeting with our interior designers at
LiLu Interiors.

Lisa and Christina have been invaluable in this process, and they were yet again this week.

A few blogs back, I mentioned a little divot we designed into the concrete of the walkway between the garage and house to hold one of those mats used to get dirt off your feet on your way into a house.



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Well, I had originally thought the mat would be one of those heavy duty industrial rubber mats you see at many commercial buildings.  Built to last, but still built with rubber (oil).

Lisa and Christina, knowing the importance of environmental aspects of products in 
our selections, thought there was a better option and went hunting for it.

Sure enough, they found something, not only more environmentally sound, but also much more interesting looking (I kept playing with it during the meeting!).

It is from a company named Forbo and is called "coral".
It is a mesh of fairly thin yet stiff "vinyl" feeling material shown above.  It is ridiculously good at taking dirt off of shoes and the dirt can simply be vacuumed up occasionally.

And it looks, in my opinion, really cool!

Best of all, Forbo uses 100% recycled waste material in most of their products.  One of those is discarded fishing nets.
These fishing nets, if simply discarded in the oceans can cause damage to the ecosystem, ensnaring turtles, whales, birds, etc.
Making these useful will, hopefully, drastically reduce the number of abandoned nets in the ocean.
You can read more about that here, or go read about Forbo's Health and Environment position here.


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