If you want your home’s cedar siding to live up to its reputation for longevity and decay resistance, make sure it’s treated or stained properly and checked periodically. Left untreated, cedar shakes ...

Q. We have a 30-something-year-old house with untreated fir vertical siding. We’ve lived here for nearly 20 years, and in the course of that time, we have practically rebuilt the whole house, ...

Q: We are negotiating to buy a house with cedar siding. It has a fairly new paint job, but the paint is peeling badly. What's the best way to remove the peeling paint? The siding appears to be in good ...

Generally seen on exteriors, the charred wood surfaces also have appeal for interiors. The Japanese Shou Sugi Ban art of charring wood as a preserving and finishing technique is more than three ...