Thats awesome dude, you should paint it. It looks sorat "unfinished" plain. If you lived by me and i actually knew you, i could draw and paint cool dragons and mushrooms and weird shit like that becuz im a really good drawer. But since that wont happen. I think you should get a match(s) or lighter and like burn it make it a darker color. You might fuck up on that part so id be careful. You could get some cool like glazed (dont know the name) like OAK/dark wood color and paint it with that. That would look sweet. This would be cool: