Last night, we were watching Designed to Sell on HGTV. The couple whose house was up for sale is very "green" and one of the products the designers brought in was compressed paper countertop. I keep forgetting to show Ba'al the Enviroglass website in our What we're Looking at list. But the compressed paper made me show him. We also looked up compressed paper.
Enviroglass makes countertops from glass bottles and resin. There's another company on the east cost that does the same thing but their selection is somewhat limited and the choices available aren't as interesting as what Enviroglass offers. The other benefit to Enviroglass is that they basically custom make every countertop slab. They also make the same product as a terrazzo-style flooring.
There are also several companies making compressed paper countertops. I'm mildly interested in these but not so much that I want to go with this over resin and glass. The countertops are made with layers of paper and renewable wood bound with resin. Interesting but I have a hard time believing these will really stand the test of time. All the companies we looked at are in the list of links over there.
I guess I'm leaning towards the glass and resin option in part because we've lived in apartments for so long that I was lots of color when we build our house. Bits of colored glass looks perfect.
We also caught an episode of What's with That House that included a self-sustaining house in Arizona. The homeowners had some interesting ideas but the bathroom went just a little too far by having a composting squat toilet. As told to Ba'al last night, that's just a little more self-sustaining than I care to go. I'm a wanna be hippie but I want some comfort in the bathroom!
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