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 ...

Q: My wife and I live in an older, rustic home, and we’d like to freshen it up with some paint. What’s the best paint for wood surfaces in our home, indoors and out? Is oil-based or water-based the ...

The first apartment I rented as a poor twenty-something had crappy wood floors that were painted brown, a fact I never much thought about until years later, after I bought my first house and had to ...

Reader Alden Smith of Wayne 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 semi-transparent, ...

Two current exhibitions apply a pictorial strategy usually associated with Minimalism — the “unitary” or allover image — to representational painting with differing results but with equally resounding ...