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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From stained glass windows to intricately carved plaster, parquet floors to cased openings, there are plenty of features that add charm to historic homes. But when it comes to older houses that have ...