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70sEraVet

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2. Seven years ago, my wife and I had the opportunity to buy a Victorian house
Fri Oct 10, 2025, 09:40 AM
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It may actually be more of a Queen Ann, but we call it our Victorian home. It was sadly neglected, but, on the other hand, many of the rooms seemed untouched since it was built in 1908. We have tried hard (within our budget) to retain the original flavor of the home.
One of the home's strange extavagances is that the woodwork (doors, door and window casings, baseboards, etc.) were PAINTED to look like the wood grain of different kinds of wood! The foyer is painted to look like walnut, the library looks like mahogany, the living room like burl wood, and the entire upstairs to resemble quarter-cut (tiger-striped) oak. We owned the house for a couple of months before we realized that the wood grain was painted on!

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