Original wood floors can be one of the most striking features of a brownstone or townhouse, especially if they have intricate parquet or borders. But many wood floors have suffered years of neglect, ...

SAGINAW This time, one of the community's leading historians says the find is bigger than the first. Historian Thomas Mudd isn't shy when talking about what construction crews dug up Wednesday morning ...

Bruce Wadleigh is in the business of preserving history. He uses wood from old barns and other buildings to make new structures — everything from wall panels in restaurants and shops to floors in ...

This is a detail of one of the hundreds of boards that Sarah and Karl Reiss used to cover one of the walls in their home. Across the board, it’s the living room of Karl and Sarah Reiss’ home that ...

With the proper tools and materials you can fill those unsightly holes in your wood floors in just a few minutes. Old homes were typically heated by floor radiators. But those radiators don't last ...

CAMBRIDGE, Ill. Leaned up against the fence, sitting along the gravel driveway under blue tarps and filling every building on the farm are piles of old barn wood, painstakingly stacked by Jim and ...

So, what do a sugar refinery in Brooklyn, a drug store and distillery in Baltimore and a barn in Delaware have in common? The answer to this First State riddle is they all have been sources of salvage ...