Lumber and Sheet Goods - Page 29 of 46

Q: My brother and I have worked together building many houses. He insists that we can let the joints in the layers of a built-up center beam fall between the…

Q: My kitchen-cabinet doors need refinishing in the area of the door handles, where years of greasy hands and fingernails have nicked through the finish, leaving greasy exposed raw wood. The cabinets…

Sliding or hinged, big panes or multilite, these glass doors should be built to withstand the elements as well as years of abuse.

Yes, recycled lumber and plantation-grown lumber cost more, but designing smaller houses, orienting them for solar gain and minimizing job-site waste don't.

Revolving shelves on heavy-duty carousel hardware make the most of a kitchen corner.

While building a set of stairs recently, I noticed that a crack had developed in the bottom of one of the vertical-grain fir stringers. Because they were exposed on both…

Assemble the frames with pocket screws and trim plywood panels with molding for a traditional look.

Q: The interior walls of my mountain condominium are covered with tongue-and-groove clear cedar paneling. The paneling, installed about 15 years ago, has darkened with age as cedar usually does. I’d…

Made from cast concrete, so-called phony stone is good looking, affordable and easy to work with, but best of all, gravity is not required.

With the stairs as a form, gluing up commercially available bending rail is easier than it appears.