Thermally modified wood (TMW) continues to gain prominence across construction, furniture manufacturing, and outdoor ...

If you're cleaning out your fireplace, don't throw away that wood ash. It contains many helpful nutrients that could benefit ...

Setting wood fence posts is tedious, so doing it correctly the first time is ideal. Here's what most people get wrong and how ...

If you live on a property lined with trees, then you’re probably used to having branches drop onto your lawn all year round–especially in the spring and fall. Getting rid of them will always be a ...

Kelly has over 10 years of experience writing about home design and improvement for many prominent publications. She also spent several years working at a tech startup for an interior design game ...

Staining a wood deck doesn’t just play up its beauty; it adds a layer of protection. The same holds true for staining fences, siding, or outdoor furniture. The best wood stains can help add years to ...

Grace Cooper is a writer who specializes in shopping. Her work has appeared in The Kitchn, Apartment Therapy, Culinary Hill, and more. I combed through Amazon to find cutting boards made with bamboo, ...

Wood stain adds a layer of beauty and protection to decks, fences, and exterior doors. And staining wood is a perfectly doable DIY project. But just because you can take on the task yourself doesn’t ...

When you learn that a piece of furniture has a veneer, does it make you cringe a little? Admittedly us, too. But wood veneers, in fact, are a traditional and structurally significant aspect of ...

Having spent 30+ years in residential construction, contracting, remodeling, maintenance and home repair, Deane now contributes DIY, informational and financial content as a freelance writer and ...

Imagine wooden wall panels that emit a soft glow at night or park benches that light up pathways with a gentle luminescence. This vision is becoming a reality thanks to researchers in Switzerland, who ...

Figure 1: Processing approach and mechanical performance of densified wood. The well-aligned cellulose nanofibres dictate the anisotropic mechanical properties of densified wood (Extended Data Fig. 9a ...