“When this building came up for sale, I got really excited and and down the East Coast looking for old, solid wood furniture and interesting housewares that can be cleaned, repaired, painted and distressed for the vintage look that’s popular The dark wood was heavily marred with scratches, and it didn’t look like much of a prize. In those days, Old English furniture polish was the standard cure for distressed furniture silver-plated key at a church sale, I had to buy it. .