If you are planning on selling your home for top dollar, be careful about basing your remodel on early last-century touches - for two reasons. But really, most homes constructed after the 1950s were just not built that way. Nor is it normal to find shiplap, wide planks of rough-hewn wood, under the “sheetrock.” In today’s trendy renovations, some homeowners convert the rough boards to their walls. What most of us do find is typically concrete, likely the slab the house is built on, hiding under the carpet or linoleum du jour. There are exceptions in older towns such as Orange, Tustin, Santa Ana and Anaheim. Here, we almost never expect to find 100-year-old wood floors laying beneath the avocado green shag carpet, just waiting to be discovered and given a light sanding before being put back into service. You know, it looks old but it was sanded and painted a month ago. There are a few vintage stores scattered about California’s southland, but more typically, our version of restoration hardware is a full-blown retail establishment, such as Restoration Hardware, which pumps out costly fabricated items.
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