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 ...

Q: My childhood dresser is beautiful but the wood stain looks faded. I’d love to update it with fresh paint and new hardware, but I’ve heard that you can’t get good results painting over stain. Is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Knowing how to paint wooden furniture can help you out in a multitude of ways, especially if you want to inject colour into ...

Living in a 1920s-era house and, for years, periodically scraping peeling paint from its wood siding before repainting, we’ve decided that this is the summer to do a more comprehensive job and remove ...

For creating art projects that will last, you need the best paint pens for wood. Whether you prefer an oil-based or water-based pen, the right writing tool can help make Etsy-quality decor or ...

Browse the local flea market or scan Craigslist, and you'll find a surplus of affordable but dated wood furniture. From '80s oak dressers to grandmotherly side tables, these vintage pieces might seem ...

I do a lot of painting on poplar. Currently I prime with a spray paint from Home Depot, sand, and top with a satin of gloss spray paint also from HD. Sometimes I topcoat with a clear satin ...