If you want to revamp dark wood cabinets, take David Bromstad's advice and try this DIY technique that lightens the color ...

Whitewashing wood is a versatile and timeless technique that has been used for centuries to give surfaces a charming, ...

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Apply paint in the direction of the wood grain. Paint from the inside out, starting with the door’s panel and working your way out to the rails on the door. Advertising.

Q: My childhood dresser is beautiful but the wood stain looks faded. I’d love to update it with fresh paint and new hardware, but I’ve heard that you can’t get good results painting over stain.

Come on- you know the one's that have that yellowish wood stain color and you can see the grain of the wood. The wood tannins bleed through your paint like the photo above shows.

Oak has a very open grain. Buy some wood filler, which, by definition, will fill the pores. It also will assist in preventing paint to "soak into the wood"<BR><BR>This item is applied using a ...

Q: I'm building a small deck in the backyard and for cosmetic reasons, am painting it rather than finishing the wood. So, being cost-conscious, I am wondering whether using a Douglas fir 2-by-6 ...

Cut into a piece of older trim wood that hasn’t succumbed to rot and look at the end grain: Dark grain will account for almost 50 percent of the wood mass. In today’s lumber, it can be less ...