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If you're looking for an ultra unique, beautiful, and semi-green flooring option, then fruit pit floors may be just the ticket.

Stone Fruit Floors is one company producing fruit based floors. According to Stone Fruit Floors, their floors, "Consist of peach pips that have been packed by hand onto a glued surface and filled with a silica sand and resin mixture then sealed with a twin-pack urethane. The sharp edges of the pips are grinded off to expose the red hue of the pips and to make the floors comfortable to walk on with bare feet."

Very neat. You have to see the gallery at Stone Fruit Floors. These floors sound a little quirky, but they're actually really nice looking. I love how each pit is unique, thus creating a floor that no one else has.

The only issue I see is that these floors aren't totally green. Although, some blogs and articles are trying to hard sell them as such. Both resin and urethane are used to create the floors, and neither is all that green. On the upside you have to note that pits are extremely renewable, each growing season in fact. Also, I'm thinking that the art of these pits might be able to be used in other ways - such as accents in an earthen floor, if you could grind them off well enough. It's nice to see creative reuse of products.

There are pluses and minuses, as with most green home issues, you need to weigh which points matter most to you. You can learn more at Stone Fruit Floors.

[Image via Stone Fruit Floors]