Q: Our very old wood floors are in good shape and were refinished right before we bought our house 10 years ago. But now ...

An expert explains what factors to consider when deciding whether you should restore or refinish your hardwood floor and what both of the processes involve.

The pros advise you stay away from too much water, harsh chemicals, and abrasive cleaners that can scratch, strip, and warp ...

A little oil will do wonders to even out the finish and deepen the color of a tired-looking hardwood stock ... back to life—and it doesn’t require refinishing. This trick requires only ...

If your decking has cracks, looks dirty, or suffers from mildew, it’s time to decide whether to refinish it or replace ... Ipe Ipe is a beautiful hardwood traditionally harvested in South ...

The ability to refinish a wood floor, allowing it to last for generations, is the foundational attribute that has traditionally separated real wood floors from all other flooring types.

The all-wood platform is comprised of a hardwood top, an SPF quarter sawn pine core and a wood backer ... The ability to refinish not only makes hardwood a multi-generational product but also ...

This would be a game changer. The German company ASB GlassFloor is looking to replace wooden basketball courts with glass ones — shattering hoops’ hardwood tradition. To create the floorboards ...

These trees – larch, oak, alder, pine, spruce and elm of a length ranging between 3.5m (11.5ft) to less than 1m (3ft) – have been holding up stone palazzos and tall belltowers for centuries ...

Much has changed since 2001, when creative director D.W. Pine produced his first cover for TIME. (That cover, for a story about online privacy, rendered a desktop computer as a heavy-duty lock.) ...