He stood on the wide-plank floor, craning his neck up at the roof, which is 29 feet at its ridge.

"In a hundred years, this will look like an old wide-plank floor, but it feels to me now like very modernist slabs of wood."

"You can't just take a sanding machine to a 100-year-old wide-plank floor," she explained.

He said the three-bedroom unit had wide-plank floors and a fireplace.

The youth hurried toward the back room, his slippered feet whispering on the worn and wide-plank floors.

The wide-plank wooden floors have both a rough-hewn look and the shine of glass.

The delicate fan-shaped window over the front door sent gray and purple shadows along the wide-plank floor.

The dining rooms indoors have a Colonial look, with burnished wide-plank floors.

"I've gotten used to the wide-plank floors, the 12-pane windows, even the lack of insulation in old houses," he said.

He was fortunate in that the original wide-plank floors had never been sanded, and all 10 previous paint layers were right there.