Original wood floors can be one of the most striking features of a brownstone or townhouse, especially if they have intricate parquet or borders. But many wood floors have suffered years of neglect, ...

Depression-era Wahoo grain bins are the centerpieces to the Grain Bin Antique Town southwest of North Platte, Neb.

The old-growth forests that once blanketed the Southeast are very nearly gone, but the beautiful wood milled from these majestic trees lives on, in the beams and floors, framing and siding of old ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neutral living room with vintage wooden bookshelves - Bulgac/Getty Images The simplicity of a neutral space in interior design has ...

POTOMAC, Mont. — At a lumber yard in Potomac, colorful stories can be found in just about every timber or piece of metal. At Heritage Timber the saying is "Old Wood Saved For Good." Its owner, Gary ...

The sheer variety of hydrangeas available at garden centers speaks to their popularity. Gardeners adore the billowy blooms and elegant foliage they bring to the summer garden. But sometimes hydrangeas ...

With a little effort, you can eliminate gaps, glaze panes and use caulk to make old wood windows more energy efficient and to help minimize the toll that time has ...

Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

MINTURN ” Every barn Chris Mech tears down saves several trees. It also puts old wood into new buildings. Mech runs Vintage Wood Supply, a company that strips old buildings ” often farm buildings in ...

A simple stick, shaped by ancient hands roughly 430,000 years ago, is rewriting what researchers thought they knew about early technology. Carved from wood and preserved in Greek sediments, it now ...