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 ...

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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 ...

In this video, I'll show you 3 progressively advanced ways to create a "wood look" on any surface using this one special paint. Each "diy" technique adds a few more steps, making it easy to achieve a ...

You can save about $800 by staining an average-sized 350-square-foot deck yourself, and about $4,000 if you're refinishing a typical 2,300-square-foot house. But think twice: "Never again!" was the ...

Q: I'm building a small deck in the backyard and for cosmetic reasons, am painting it rather than finishing the wood. So, being cost-conscious, I am wondering whether using a Douglas fir 2-by-6 versus ...

Q: We had aluminum siding removed in late spring 2021 and found most of the wood siding underneath was good. We replaced some and had the house painted. But the paint is already peeling — mostly on ...