Q: I live in a condo development. The association is requiring owners to paint their patio fences. The fences were made of pretreated wood and were painted gray. The paint has never stayed on very ...

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 ...

It's the little things that turn a house into a home. Something small like a Welcome sign displayed in the entryway or a cute ...

I just built a cedar deck railing. I was going to paint it and call it a day, but now my wife wants me to stain it to show off the wood's texture and color. That sounds like a lot more maintenance ...

A freshly painted room looks crisp and clean. But there's a lot more to getting that look than just the paint and your ability to roll and brush neatly. There are lots of small things that ...

Q. We live in a house built in the 1970s. Several rooms have wood paneling that I would like to paint or wallpaper over. Would the grooves need to be spackled first? Or do I need to tear off the ...

XO, MaCenna teaches how to paint bathroom cabinets to look like real wood.