as nice as it looks, i cringe every time someone refinishes a bit of history like that... Yep, its just like old cars, the purist always hate the hot rodders, and customizers. And all the historians get shivers every time they watch HGTV and some home improvement show takes an old house and updates it from top to bottom..taking out the old claw foot tubs, gas stoves, etc.
Everything cannot stay the same in this world. I am a rather rebellious soul and I cringe at all the people who try and insist that things never change and that there is comfort only in tradition and keeping thing historically pure. Everything changes( well, except that little hole-in-the-wall home town I'm from back in Ky.)
