Faux Floor Finishes Part 2
This blog post is for Robert and anyone who owns a Victorian house with original floors.If you read my last posting I gave directions on how to restore or touch […]
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Restoring Faux Wood Floors in a Victorian House
This week I received an email from a reader with a very unusual question. Unusual because I had never heard about faux wood floors– faux wood walls and doors but […]
When is Oak Furniture not Oak Furniture?
If it looks like oak furniture is it oak? No, not necessarily. From the late 1890’s until the early 1900’s manufacturers offered this style of furniture as a budget friendly option to furniture made of straight grain oak or quarter-sawn oak. So how can you tell if you have real oak or as they called it then “fumed oak”?
