Technically, there’s no such thing as pine wood stain. All wood stains work well on different woods, pine included. ... Best ...

A: Patching a wood floor and making it match is always tricky. But from the pictures you sent, it looks like your handyman didn’t try very hard. He seems to have sanded the new boards to get ...

When you’re giving your friends tours of your new floors, make sure to mention that heart pine is the same wood—all 270,000 board feet of it, milled by Jamie and his team—used by Renzo Piano ...

But while pine—a softwood defined by its brown knots, smooth exterior and relatively straight grain—was once an interior faux pas, it’s now enjoying a renaissance. Whether clad wall-to-wall in more ...

The buyer may still want the pine floor, but he or she at least will be forewarned about its performance. In general, the softer the wood, the more easily it can scratch. There also is a trade-off ...

Q:I refinished my pine floors on the first floor of my house. Now a very hard whitish caulking between the boards is crumbling and breaking up. What can I do to get rid of that stuff? It looks ...

Q. Some of the yellow pine floor boards in my third-floor condo (probably built around 1900) have large gaps between them that collect dust and cat hair. They are unsightly, and I think they may ...