If you decide to go with solid bamboo flooring rather than engineered planks, you will then have three options to think about. You can choose from solid strips of bamboo with a vertical grain, a flat grain, or strands of bamboo. Regardless of which one you install, they are all equally resilient and offer a high-quality flooring alternative, so you can pick with the style that best suits your preferences and design goals while still knowing that you will have a durable, attractive floor. Thin bamboo strips that are placed on edge and then joined with adhesive to create vertical-grain bamboo have a butcher-block-like appearance.