When painting a home with a wood exterior, it’s not unusual to find areas that are worn and weathered. In extreme cases, the entire house may be weather-beaten. Sometimes, a home is this way because ...

Reader Alden Smith of Wayne, Pa., offers some words of wisdom on deck care and maintenance: “My cedar-plank deck is 19 years old and is in very good condition. Each year, I apply Olympic ...

Weathered wood can refer just as well to the exterior of a dilapidated old house or a wooden structure just completed awaiting painting. In fact, from a painting perspective, any type of bare wood ...

Question: I live in a log cabin. The inside walls are rough cedar boards that run horizontally. The ceilings in our bedroom go up to a pitch of about 10 feet. There are beams with cedar boards in ...

Living in a 1920s-era house and, for years, periodically scraping peeling paint from its wood siding before repainting, we’ve decided that this is the summer to do a more comprehensive job and remove ...