in the owner’s unit, we combined two bedrooms to make a larger master bedroom and closets. when the dividing wall and closets were ripped out, it left a track in the floor where there weren’t any floor boards. our floor refinisher did an amazing job repairing it. he felt like it was a compromise to leave a vertical stripe, but i sort of like it. it tells the story of the house’s history. i’ve lived in many rental apartments with inconsistencies like this, and i love trying to guess how the house might previously have been laid out based on clues like floor board patterns, mismatched moulding, bricked over windows or doorways.