Its a peculiarly composite article in that the first half is about the cool advantages of several new technologies that conceptually boil down to extremely high quality and strength bulk plywood, so you can have a 12 inch structural beam that&#x27;s 40 feet long, etc.  This is new technology and it usually takes building codes awhile to accept new technology.  Every line of a building code was written on a stack of dead bodies, changing codes is a very serious business.<p>The second half of the article is completely unrelated, just interior decorating fashion is going thru its periodic fascination with finished wood a-la knotty pine wall paneling mancaves in the 1970s.  There&#x27;s nothing wrong with it although all those interior finishes could be done with veneer on metal or various faux processes having nothing to do with the first half of the article.