Imperfection is the Character

A builder mentioned it in passing, while discussing a recently completed project. The client preferred the walls when they weren't plumb and the floors not so level. It stopped me. Not because it was surprising, exactly, but because it named something that usually goes unsaid. A lot of time is spent in old buildings trying to fix the things that time has done to them. Here was someone who had noticed what time had done, and preferred it.