One of the best assets a home can have is a wooden deck. It’s where summer meals are eaten, morning coffee tastes better, and where you spend evenings watching the sunset. But wood is temperamental.

The Sherman Bridge, a wooden bridge linking Wayland and Sudbury, Massachusetts since the 18th century, is showing its age and stirring up debate over its future. Originally built in 1743, the bridge ...

Deck Doc in Northbrook, IL educates Chicago residents on annual deck maintenance, emphasizing preventive care, professional ...

Chicago Deck Expert in Glenview, IL shares practical deck maintenance tips for homeowners, emphasizing preventive care, ...

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Discover the best winter foods, feeder placement ideas, and maintenance tips to keep your backyard birds healthy.

Readers wax poetic on town and country, plus menopause treatments and 50-year mortgages. Following Keith Moore’s Nov. 10 ...

The dent sat there like a bruise, right at eye level on the hallway door. I noticed it while juggling keys and shopping, the little crater catching the afternoon light as if it wanted to be found. The ...

Surveying might be the dull overture to buying or selling a boat, but it needs to be done right, Hughes tell us.

Q: I’d like to propagate a family member’s camellia as a memento, but don’t know when cuttings should be taken or what’s the ...