commercial tradition toward residential refinement. University Park demands that its interiors speak with quiet authority, and Black Limba's golden brown heartwood, threaded with those grey-to-black veins that give the species its name, meets that demand with a presence no painted surface can replicate. Where Tulsa's palette leans toward warmth held in sandstone and terra cotta, the estates lining these tree-canopied streets call for wood that carries its own internal architecture—figuring so distinct that each panel reads as singular, yet darkening over time into a continuity that rewards the patient eye. That slow deepening of color, the sapwood's pale greyish tones gradually converging toward the heartwood's richer registers, means a foyer paneled today will feel even more rooted by the time a homeowner has lived with it a decade, a quality that aligns perfectly with a neighborhood built on permanence rather than novelty. It is precisely this trajectory of aging that makes the transition from University Park northward into Upper Arlington so
