Photographs are coming to the website soon, but in the mean time give us a call if you have a current need, we’d love to talk to you!!

Also, in addition to our faux wood beams and mantels, keep an eye out for our garage door panels.  This promises to be a VERY popular product line.  Looks great, weather resistant, light weight?  Doesn’t get any better than that (Yeah wood, we’re looking at you!!!)  Again, for more details please give us a call, 817-886-8471

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We are now offering a large selection of Ceiling Domes, Medallions and Wall Niches from the increasingly popular Ekena product line (another Texas based company, which our Texas based customers will appreciate!).  With ceiling domes, medallions and wall niches in stock in North Texas, items typically ship within 24-72 hours, convenient in those very rare instances which builders/homeowners need material in a hurry

The best part?  There are more items coming to the website soon!  Our IT guy can’t keep up with our pace, so you’ll have to check back to the website in a week or so for more info. 

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Woodland Faux Beams & Ceiling Panels

Old World Traditions is now carrying the popular Woodland Faux Wood Beam!  The Woodland beam is available in multiple colors and, best of all, can be customized to any size/length.  The sandblasted texture provides enough deep grain to fit with a rugged/rustic motif, while still being straight edged and smooth enough for more contemporary taste buds.

The Woodland ceiling beam is also available with endcaps – and can be fire rated – thus making the elusive “faux wood mantel” a reality.  Lead time for these beams is typically 4-6 weeks.  Check out our product site at www.owtraditions.com, we’ll be adding Woodland sizes/pricing in the coming weeks!

Visit us in the capitol of Texas at the Sunbelt Builders show on October 20-22

It is that time of year again, the Sunbelt Builders Show is almost here! October 20-22 the exhibit floor will be open and once again Old World Traditions will have our corner booth showing off all of our faux wood beams, brackets, outlookers, shutters and more. We’ll even have some real cantera stone on display!

After doing the show at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas for the past four years, the show moves to Austin, Texas and we couldn’t be more excited! We have loved doing the show in Grapevine (if you haven’t visited the Gaylord Texan Resort/Hotel you need to put it on the list…just an incredible place) but I am so eager to see what Austin is all about. We have sent a lot of faux beams to the Austin and San Antonio areas and I am looking forward to meeting many of our customers face to face for the first time!

Tickets to the show are $50 for TAB members and $75 for non members, however we have been given a small allotment of tickets to give out to attendees, so if you are interested please give us a call at 817-886-8471 or shoot me an email at clint@owtraditions.com…but you had better act fast, these will go quickly!

If you are from South Texas, Central Texas, East Texas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio…wherever, we hope to see you there!

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Thanks to Sanctuary Living Design for the images of their latest project in Los Angeles, California. They were hoping to achieve a Tuscan/Mediterranean feel with the addition of our 5×8 Rustic faux wood beams and I’d say they succeded! Notice our decorative straps were also used at the joints of the beams, creating an even more rugged feel.

It is always helpful to receive photos of this high quality to add to the gallery. I can’t tell you how many people state how helpful the photo gallery is to their decisions on faux wood beam size/layout/etc, so it is great to add this to the collection.

I’d like to point out how good of a job designer Janene Kraft did with the color theme throughout the residence, the curtains, flooring…even the couch pillows! Well done Janene!

Visit our website at www.owtraditions.com for more info!

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Quote of the Day: “Ain’t no such thing as a hill for a highstepper!” (Less country version: “There is no hill to steep for the highstepper”…I think the first one has a better ring to it!)

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Private transfer fees are written into neighborhood deed restrictions and typically throw 1 percent of a home’s sale price back to the original developer each time the home changes hands over the next 99 years.

Unless the governor vetoes the bill, Texas will join 33 other states that have banned or restricted private transfer fees in recent years.

Private transfer fees aren’t common in Texas, but they have been marketed to developers as a way to create an income stream in a down market.

Under current law, it’s possible that a homeowner could have a transfer fee in a neighborhood covenant and not realize it until he or she resells a home.

In the standard real estate contract in Texas, homebuyers agree to accept any restrictions that are common to the subdivision. And even if a transfer fee were to turn up in a title search, few people read all the neighborhood covenants and restrictions before signing.

Under the legislation, new private transfer fees are not allowed, and developers who have existing fees on properties must file a notice of the obligation in county property records by Jan. 31, 2012, and update it every three years, or the transfer fee is void.

The bill passed unanimously in the Senate and 142-1 in the House. It was sent to the governor’s office Wednesday. A spokeswoman in his office said he would “thoroughly and thoughtfully review it before he makes his final decision.”

Homeowner and property owner associations are not affected by the private transfer fee bill. Some neighborhood associations use transfer fees for community improvements or charitable work, and they still would be able to do so, unlike developers. And something like a fee for a club membership that transfers with the property also would not be affected.

Freehold Capital Partners, a company started in Texas and later moved to New York, has been selling developers across the country on a plan that would attach a private transfer fee to homes.

Freehold hopes to create a secondary market for the fees. The idea is that developers would get money upfront from investors who would get a 99-year income stream.

In response to Freehold, the National Association of Realtors and the American Land Title Association have been trying to restrict private transfer fees across the country, saying the issue is one of protecting consumers’ home equity and keeping title records transparent.

The company had opposed a provision in an early version of the legislation that would have voided existing transfer fee obligations if they did not comply with federal or state agency mortgage loan guidelines. The company’s lobbyist had said it did not want the bill to retroactively effect existing fees.

“Freehold is pleased that language impacting existing transfer fee covenants was removed,” the company said in a statement Wednesday.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency also has proposed a rules change that would bar Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from guaranteeing loans with transfer fees attached.

Jeremy Yohe, ALTA director of communications, said it appears that those rules also will focus on private transfer fees and not those by homeowner associations. “That money is actually used to benefit the property,” he said.

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