You’re welcome to copy the following clause into your own building contract:

Bamboo is a mystical plant: a symbol of strength, flexibility, tenacity, and endurance. Throughout Asia, for centuries bamboo has been integral to religious ceremonies, art, music, and daily life. It can be found in paper, the brush, and the inspiration for poems and paintings. It is a material that had interested me for a long time and I yearned to know more about it.

Timber is a wonderfully familiar material that delights our senses, whether touch, sight, smell or sound. It is one of the most fundamental materials with which we make things and is inseparably connected to the history of mankind.

I have prepared this post to assist those seeking to find an Australian hardwood that is right for them and right for the application...