Five years ago, my wife and i bought what was once a grand old Victorian style home, built in 1907. We got it for a song, because it had been neglected for many years, and, it was in this tiny rural town in Tennessee that had once been a very flourishing, promising town, but the interstates had bypassed it, and the train line quit running passenger cars through it.
What attracted me most about the home, is that most of the house was ORIGINAL! Still had old, wavy glass windows, lathe and plaster walls with wallpaper on walls AND ceilings!
Anyway, the thing i wanted to tell you, is that many of the rooms still had original woodwork (doors, door and window trim, baseboard, etc.), and i was struck by the 'fact' that each room had its own type of wood. The octagonal library had mahogany woodwork, the parlor had oak, the upstairs had quarter-cut oak, and the dining room even had burl wood, including the panels of the pocket doors!
It was a couple of months after working on it, that i realized that all of the woodwork was PAINTED to LOOK like different types of wood! It was all apparently southern yellow pine, a very hard species of pine that was very plentiful here back in the day.
Anyway, i thought you would like that. Of course, I'm trying to make the house livable, but preserving everything I can.
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