” We also appreciate the wood grain, and the visible joinery. When the common man had natural wood furniture, with visible joinery — fine furniture was painted or enameled & joinery hidden, as a mark of quality.”
I just spent serious bucks at the behest of Mrs. TTR covering brick with stucco/sanded material (in part, bricks going through), putting rough rock or rough-hewn bricks in place of brick, wooden “board & batten” shutters in place of refined shutters, and gas lamps in place of electric lamps —— all in a rather successful attempt to make our nice suburban house (with a slate roof, though) look like a house an old English cottage circa 1500.
It’s very pretty, but funny.
Oh and paid some Apache kid to hammer at the bricks that show with a hammer on the sharp edges to make them look very, very old.
Hey, there is a use for an art history degree. OH, wait they used ultra-violet light, you mean like maybe Physics, huh?
That sounds cool.
A bunch of wagon loads of straw will hide that slate roof, ala Jane Austen's house.
To be true 1500 though, you'll probably need to dump at least one layer of straw on your floors and introduce a few mice and rats into that straw.