511 E MIRROR LAKE DRIVE, FRUITLAND PARK, FL 34731

Folks these days like to toss around the word “luxury” like it don’t cost nothin’. “Luxury vinyl,” they say—as if a concoction brewed up in some faraway factory could hold a candle to honest wood. Well, I say thbbft to that nonsense. What we’ve got here is the real article: old-growth, tight-grained Southern pine, cut and milled back when craftsmanship meant something and trees had the decency to grow slow and strong. You’d pay a king’s ransom to lay hands on wood like this today—if you could find it at all. And it’s everywhere underfoot (save the kitchen and baths, where practicality gets its due). Floors, baseboards a full nine inches tall, door casings five inches stout, wainscoting risi…