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  • The faux-wood "branches" reclaim otherwise squandered desk space for Post-It notes. $93, alessi-shop.com

    Cute Co-Workers 2011

  • Later, watching Walter with my Mom on the faux-wood console TV I saw some old guy get on a big helicopter and another old guy take his place.

    Turning point (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Held monthly in the basement of the Mountain View Methodist Church, the whole event emanates a nostalgic ambience made up of cool, waxed linoleum floors and faux-wood paneling that instantly evoked the postwar elementary school buildings of my youth.

    Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

  • A Texas-like shape repeated several times on each slat of the faux-wood paneling that covered the walls.

    Maud Newton's 'Conversations You Have At Twenty': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature 2010

  • Held monthly in the basement of the Mountain View Methodist Church, the whole event emanates a nostalgic ambience made up of cool, waxed linoleum floors and faux-wood paneling that instantly evoked the postwar elementary school buildings of my youth.

    Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

  • One day during one of my document-signature deliveries to “Mahogany Row,” as the faux-wood paneled executive suite was called, John Hansen, one of the Vice Presidents, asked me to step into his office and wait while he signed some papers I would take back to Julie, who was waiting for them.

    Office Politics Katie Norton 2010

  • A Texas-like shape repeated several times on each slat of the faux-wood paneling that covered the walls.

    Maud Newton's 'Conversations You Have At Twenty': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature 2010

  • A Texas-like shape repeated several times on each slat of the faux-wood paneling that covered the walls.

    Maud Newton's 'Conversations You Have At Twenty': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature 2010

  • The purple shag-carpet-covered living room had faux-wood paneling and furniture that could only have been found from Dumpster diving.

    Blood Lite II: Overbite Kevin J. Anderson 2010

  • Instead, I leaned against the cold faux-wood door and guzzled my Cosmo to drown my loneliness and the residual desire that still had my insides all twisted.

    Fat Chance Rhonda Pollero 2009

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  • As in 'a faux-wood Formica table'.

    March 29, 2008