Chapter 730 A New Georgy-girl:>Ep26

• The idea definitely resonated with me; my only caveat was if we remanufactured the doors then they had to be made out of old, seasoned, reclaimed wood; I wasn't prepared to go with things like MDF or modern resin particle board, either; I wanted these doors to be made of the kind of figured, stained, deeply-waxed and polished wood the eventual owners' great-great-grandchildren would be running their fingers over and treasuring 100 years from now, not modern, lashed-up phonies. Luckily Georgy was in complete agreement with me; a house this age and quality needed sympathetic restoration, not a quick lick of paint and temporary modern fixes.
• Period floorboards and wood panelling were readily available, we could make the doors out of that supply of aged, seasoned Oak, Deal, and Walnut for one-tenth of what it would cost to get them custom made from modern, newly felled and kiln-seasoned wood; it's almost impossible to fake a genuine-seeming aged appearance with new wood, no matter how meticulously one sands, fills, stains, and French-polishes it, and the market we were aiming at would know the difference.
• Same thing went for the wainscoting; Georgy was raring to make it, she knew how to do it now, and she had her own ideas how and where to install it to suggest the elegant Period grandeur of the house in its hey-day