Q: Is it possible to paint over wood stained a dark walnut color? There is so much of it in our house – cabinets, trim and so forth. I don’t want to have to sand them. A: There is no need to sand ...

From scraping to sanding to priming to painting, it’s delightful once you figure out how to avoid the pitfalls.

Paint and wood don’t play well together because wood has a propensity to expand and contract when it gets wet and then dries. Most paints can’t take this back-and-forth motion and eventually crack and ...

With a long history stretching back to medieval times, wood paneling has had just as many "eras" as Taylor Swift. From the elegant wainscoting in Victorian mansions, to the groovy synthetic panels of ...

Designer/ TV personality David Bromstad smiling while holding a microphone - Desiree Navarro/Getty Images The Craftsman-style house is one of the enduring home designs from the early 1900s that can be ...