Yeah, I've heard stories from folks who had wiring and cabling installed, drilled right through a pocket door - and then not discovered for a couple days, when they tried to close the door...oops!

That sounds exactly like something I would do. But hey, you fixed it. Sweet.

By the way, nice detail work on that - the step out around the shoe moulding (or whatever that's called), low profile so it tucks in behind that door, and the legs lift it high enough for cats to retrieve their mouse-toys under it!

Though I will say, having dealt with stripping wood, that in most cases the folks who paint over bare wood rank right up there with vandals in my book...that looks like some gorgeous detailed woodwork in that house, and seeing it all white is just baffling...leaving it all white, I understand - but who chose to paint it in the first place?

Painted...don't even ask, it can be all too heartbreaking. There's an amazing Greene and Green in Berkeley, the Thorson House, and I've heard that the upstairs bedrooms were all painted in the 50's. And some friends went to see the Gamble House, and commented that it "was too dark inside."

Although sometimes old woodwork was meant to be painted. Sometimes people will strip an old piece and discover that it was a "Friday cabinet," a piece made with all the odd scraps left over at the end of the week...

Actually, we just had a half bath put into our 1920's bungalow-ish Arts & Crafts house, and wanted a stained glass piece between it and the house's entryway. The "Tree of Life" at the Gamble House has always struck me, so we had the artists design our piece with that in mind. Not a copy, just a jumping-off point. Here's a few shots of the finished product:

Tree and Half Bath, daytime

Tree at night

Need some better pictures of it, but you get the idea...

Happily, our downstairs wood is mostly unpainted. Upstairs is a different story, but at least they kept the downstairs un-ruined...

Cool. I like it!

Bungalows we definitely like. Our own house is 1923, but with a flavor of European Arts & Crafts Movement (which we like even more) rather than American.

Re: tree of life -- Oooh, lust.... I wants it, yesss Precioussss....

But living in an apartment as I do the best I can do is painting a picture and hanging it on the wall. I'll get around to it, honest I will. (Tries to ignore the blank canvases and paint stacked in the corner, waiting for my Artistic Block to go away...)