warehouse on Sycamore Road holds these exact sheets—golden-tan faces alive with that dense, undulating mottled figure—ready for the designers, builders, and architects who have made Decatur a quietly influential force in Southern interior craft. What changes between a mountain town like Deadwood and this vibrant Atlanta suburb is scale and pace, but what stays the same is the veneer itself: the same shimmering three-dimensional ribbon striping, the same honey-brown depth cut and shipped from Louisville with identical precision regardless of zip code. Decatur's thriving mix of historic bungalow restorations and modern commercial buildouts gives Black Mottled Makore a particularly wide stage, its amber warmth equally at home in a Ponce de Leon corridor restaurant as in a private library off East Court Square. That adaptability—material meeting moment in community after community—carries the story forward now toward Deer Park, where the
