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Architectural Salvage

What is it and what do you do with it? What it is is a wide piece of interior window trim that was sometimes used across the top of a window to give the window more of a presence.  It was purely decorative and with high ceilings in the older homes it made the windows more proportionate to the height of the walls.  It also added a little drama and, heaven knows, Victorian homes were all about drama. I have been hanging on to four of these for about 10 years.  I have contemplated what to do with them and the day finally came when I actually did more than think about it. I have a couple unpainted ones too.  One idea was to paint some lettering onto the wide flat area but I haven't come up with anything clever or perfect for that yet.  So I went with my next idea that was to cover it in fabric. Some simple clean up was required.  It's also a good idea to determine how this will hang on the wall if that's the intent.  I think...