Cool-looking buildings, too.

What's funny, is I haven't really paid a whole lot of attention to the stone work while I was working on these doors.

They really don't build them like this anymore. Even high end building, say, on the north shore aren't as detailed.

If you think about it, it's crazy. As far as I know, these were just apartments in the early 1900s.

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Mr. Dixie works magic with wood, and he has taught me to see quality.
Nice job!

Oak has gotten sort of a bad rap. I think do to the fast grown saplings that get used these days.

One of my friends always says "honey oak, yuck!"

a nice piece of rift sawn or quarter sawn oak is beautiful. I almost passed on the pieces I picked for the first door casings as I thought they would be too dramatic. But those stripes really make the door. They really show in the left casing in this photo.

I've been tempted to do my kitchen in QS oak. But I'm worried about resale. Everybody wants cherry cherry cherry.

Down here in the South, you see a lot of pine wood flooring, and cypress mantels.
One of the nicest things about buying the older houses here, all the wood floors, the molding, window sills, doors are solid wood, stuff that I treasure and love being around.
It kills me when the old oaks are felled in a storm and people cut it up for firewood.

Good for you. Thanks for sharing. What transformations

I gotta ask ,how did you apply the stain ?

Timely but the finish is just right ! That is just a amazing ,and that is some really good works you did there. And you got to get a close up look at the works of craftsman of old. Makes us humble with all the tools we use today.And the architecture.

This is a pic of the old Smith Tower in Seattle. An old client from years gone by bought the place and saved it from a terrible thing that could have happened should the tower had fallen into the hands of those nasty developers.
they restored the building completely refurbished the inside ,sand blasted the outside and brought it back to life.

I wasn't in on any of that but I did get a look at the plans ,surveys ,so fourth. The old guy was doing the business well up into his eighties ! It was restored than sold to a N.Y. investment outfit. And of course it still stands.
It wasn't all him but he was the life blood of the real-estate development corp.
A group of investors .

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