Artificial grass news tagged by: design

Apr

26

SYNLawn crashes a backyard with DIY Network

LAS VEGAS, NV — Will and Jayla, Las Vegas residents, experienced first-hand having their yard crashed by DIY. Yard Crashers, a highly popular home improvement show airing on the DIY Network, selected the lucky couple for their latest weekend project. Ahmed Hassan, professional landscape professional and host of the show, waits at stores looking for the perfect weekend warriors who could definitely use his help. Once he finds his target, Ahmed and his team follow the surprised shoppers home and completely transform their yards. This time Ahmed decided to transform a barren desert backyard into an oasis paradise for Will and Jayla using SYNLawn.

Working with the SYNLawn Las Vegas design consultants, the Yard Crashers team chose SYNFescue Platinum 320 for the 600 square foot installation. The lush appearance really brought the backyard to life and with it’s bright colors looked perfect on camera. Before the yard was “crashed,” the yard wasn’t a yard at all! Will and Jayla only had a concrete slab outside the backdoors, the rest was ... well ... a desert.

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• design
• nevada
• residential

Apr

13

SYNLawn Creates Wonderland at Bloomingdale’s

NEW YORK, NY — Display designers working for the 59th Street Bloomingdale’s in New York chose SYNLawn to create their version of Disney’s Alice in Wonderland. Window set designers selected SYNFescue 120 artificial grass for it’s ease of use during installation and for it’s affordable price.

“SYNLawn was very easy to work with,” said Ed Sylvia, Bloomingdale’s Operating Supervisor Window Display, “The artificial turf was easy to cut and sculpt into place, plus it fit into our budget nicely.”

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• design
• new york
• turf

Mar

01

New Spring 2010 Artificial Grasses

(New for 2010, SYNLawn announces many new and exciting advancements in their artificial grass products. This year all of our products have been upgraded with the latest in artificial grass technology for better performance, better selection, and better realism strengthening SYNLawn’s position as the market leader in artificial turf for landscape applications.

In addition to upgrading the entire product line, SYNLawn developed several new artificial grass products for this Spring. The new 2010 products enhance the existing lineup with better color and realism. The new landscape grasses available this year offer a wider variety of grasses featuring the realistic light tan thatch in the RootZone™, the texturized fiber supporting the straight blades, for a more natural appearance. In the artificial turf golf grass lineup two new products were added this year. These exciting new golf turf products were designed by renowned golf guru Dave Pelz to simulate the realistic “feel” of fairway grass.

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• design
• pelz
• turf

Sep

06

What yarn looks like real grass?

All artificial grass yarn falls into the category of either slit film or monofilament. The obvious questions is which one is the best choice? Slit film is made exactly as the name implies. It is extruded as a solid sheet and slit into smaller ribbons or tapes. Therefore, slit film does a good job of immulating wider blade grass when viewed from a distance. Slit film also has the advantage that it can be extruded at higher output rates than monofilament; therefore, a lower cost. The disadvantage is a slit film yarn will always be basically a flat yarn. Most real, wider-blade grass viewed up close has a spine that cannot be immulated with a slit film yarn. This spine also acts as a support and provides it with rigidity. Monofilament is extruded where each individual fiber is extruded out of an individual hole. This allows the manufacturer to make a variety of cross sections or shapes. This may lead to higher cost due to lower output rates; however, it makes a yarn that is pound per pound superior to a slit film yarn. It also makes a yarn that can be made to very closely copy the look and feel of real grass. The best example that people can relate to is a beam made of steel. A flat piece of steel does not have much rigidity or stiffness when compared to steel configured as an I beam. In our case the flat piece of steel would be a slit film yarn, and a monofilament could be extruded with a spine similar to the concept of an I beam. In summary, as a purchaser of artificial grass consumers should be aware that using a monofilament yarn may be slightly higher in initial cost. However, the resulting product can use different monofilament cross sections to maximize the properties that are required for their end use. For a complete list of SYNLawn products, please visit our website at: www.SYNLawn.com

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• design
• turf