Furnished content.
For most of my life, I thought wood that was grain-painted looked like an unprintable bad word that rhymes with bass. Many pieces of furniture were grain-painted to make a less-expensive wood look like a nicer wood. During the Arts & Crafts era, pine was painted to look like quartersawn oak. If you go back in time a little further you see plain woods that were painted to look curly []
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