On Saturday, February 6, 2016 at 8:42:46 AM UTC-6, John H. wrote:
On Friday, February 5, 2016 at 7:50:21 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 12:00:46 -0800, Califbill billnews wrote:

Mr. Luddite wrote:


We also have dark green Corion on the kitchen counters and the island.
It's about 18 years old now I guess. Looks ok but it has scratches here
and there, especially on the island because it gets a lot of use. I
sanded and polished it a few years ago and it helped. We were going to
replace it with granite but since we are selling the house it doesn't
make any sense although the owner of the realty company wanted us to do
it. You can't listen to them sometimes. We
also have light hardwood floors that have intricate dark mahogany inlays
in it. She wanted us to re-do the floors in a dark stain because that's
what is currently popular on HGTV. Told her fine. She can pay for it
if she thinks that is so important. Turns out, it wasn't. I mentioned
it to the people that are buying the house and
they were flabbergasted that she would even suggest such a thing.
The inlays would be hidden and they are what make the design of the
floor unique.








Dark floors might be in, but we had dark cabinets originally in the
kitchen. Much lighter with natural maple cabinets. And the floors are all
hickory.

We are big on red oak and cypress here, living room, dining and
kitchen with a stone fireplace/entertainment center, a fake stuffed
moose head and a garden gauge train running through the whole place.

It is not like your normal home I guess

When my wife wanted to go shopping in downtown Stuttgart, I would make a beeline for the LGB store. Then I'd spend an hour or so drooling over the beautiful steam engines. Like this: http://tinyurl.com/jqzhk4d
But I couldn't rationalize the thousand, or much more, Euros to buy them.

Like this: http://tinyurl.com/jqzhk4d "

On man!