Q-I have an old painted chest that I want to put in a spare room. I know you can paint old furniture to give it a wood-grain finish without having to strip down to the raw wood. Can you tell me how? A ...

It takes one bad decision to learn an important lesson about wood: The wrong stain can ruin it. For me, that lesson came with the deck my dad built on our house when I was in high school. After a ...

If you’ve got indoor wood to finish, you need to know about something generically called coloured finishing oils. A phone call from a contractor friend last month got me thinking about this approach ...