Design
What Do You People Have Against Wood, Anyway?
Put down the devil’s paintbrush!
If you’re an Old House Person, as I am, you have heard this exchange a hundred times:
“We pulled up the horrible old carpeting and underneath we found the most gorgeous wood floors!”
“Who would cover such beautiful wood?”
You’ve also heard this one:
“We spent every evening and weekend for a year stripping all the old paint from the staircase and crown moldings. Who would paint such beautiful wood?”
By now, covering wood floors with carpeting is so recognized as a sin I assumed we’d all learned our lesson. But we haven’t. People today are complaining about “brown” cabinets and furniture, as if beautiful wood tones were the same thing as brown paint.
Perhaps all the cheap and disposable home decor — the kind that looks fashionable but falls apart after a year or so — has taught people bad habits. If you buy a small table made of particle board for $150, there’s no harm in painting it your favorite color.
