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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DON"T buy a house if you don't like the 'period' look such as floors, bathrooms, etc. New floors in an old house would kill it.[/quote]

Nonsense. Many older houses have crummy wood flooring that adds nothing to their appeal, and even with floors that were originally in good shape, there is a limit to the number of times you can refinish them. [b]You can use beautiful reclaimed wood to replace your floors. Replacement doesn't need to mean shiny, plastic-looking blond wood.[/b][/quote]

I believe in keeping features original to the house when possible, but this is a good point.

Reclaimed wood is expensive, but can be lovely. You can also make new wood selections to blend as well as possible. Think long boards and non-knotty cuts/ species/ lots to mimic the stock that would have been much more available 100+ years ago. And yeah, no shiny, short-boarded blond finishes.

On the one hand, we do need to keep central city housing stock improved and relevant. On the other, it's sometimes a shame when the people who have the right to make these decisions don't choose sympathetically.[/quote

Most of the original heart pine floors in DC row houses from the 1890s and later includes knots and also, when refinished and not stained has a fairly light if not "blond" look to it.  Though I completely take the point abotut the shiny boards which look plastic and out of place ot me.[/quote]

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