POPULAR WISDOM

摘要

FIRST YOU NEED some reclaimed wood. Mine came from friends and neighbors who heard about my project. One, PM contributor Richard Romanski, lives and works in an 1876 church-he had saved some of the pews, and gave me a pile of beautiful mahogany slats that had supported Methodists' butts for generations. He and his wife, Susan, also had saved some clapboards from the old parish hall, and he put those on the pile. Another contributor, Andy Northshield, knew of an old house being torn down, and showed up with a pickup full of tongue-in-groove boards with a century of patina. Everything was of equal thickness, half-inch.