What to do w/ a Burly Heart Pine Board @ $70 sf: A-Door-able. Oil Massaging for eye Delights.
Have you ever seen woods that are Extremely Rare and wonder why? Like rare painting by God, or not happen to spy such examples as this: once hidden under 3 layers of paint, a $1,000 door.
As I have accumulated enough doors, windows, floors, siding, roofing, and parts to create 500 tiny houses, the time has finally come when the masses are turning away from McMansions toward sensible-sized living. What does it take to push the rest from thinking they need 500 SF per person in a house, with 8 ft tall ceilings or much more, vast closets and unnecessary floor to store things they do not need but hold, collections of what few now want, too old. Antiques that once seemed valuable are no longer in short supply as people downsize, seek additional income to buy food, pay for higher costs of fuel, and taxes that never go down. We have enough furniture and cloths made in this country to take care of a new generation if they were to salvage and reuse what treasures and surplus we have on hand instead of cutting more trees for wood or creating more glass. The world has given so much to mankind that they do not appreciate the limited supply of the resources it took to create our modern societies and how little is truly left before we run out of critical parts that form the foundations of our present version of a modern world.
Why not go back to being conservative in our use of building materials that could offset the pollution, the cost to transport from forests on the other side of the globe, for example? Why not salvage the massive inventories of bricks, wood, and means to build tinier communities that are more efficient, less redundant in the number of lawnmowers per dozen families, or cars as more share vehicles, costs, and thus reduce demand?
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