Learn about cheap DIY flooring ideas. With inexpensive pine or spruce, you can have the wood floor you’ve always dreamed of. Pine makes a terrific finished floor. I installed more than 1,000 square ...

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We have antique heart pine floors (originally, subfloors) and a few planks are water damaged beyond repair. We’d like to replace those boards, rather than re-doing the whole floor. There are a number ...

The dents and scratches in the floors of old New Orleans houses speak to years of celebrations and lives fully lived. These imperfections add character and charm, and when an old floor has to be ...

Q: We hired a local handyman to help renovate a bathroom and rework two entry-area closets into a unified closet with bi-fold doors. This meant replacing some of the wide-plank pine floorboards in our ...

Reclaimed wood is expensive. Think about it: Companies are delicately salvaging a part of old buildings in a way that doesn’t destroy any of the wood, and this takes time. A lot of time. And then ...

A few years ago I got an email from Mark K. He’s from B.C. and he’s been asking me questions as he builds his beautiful log home. Mark’s latest questions have to do with choosing finished flooring, ...

We need approximately 6-10 pieces of old pine floor board for our Brownstone. The existing floor planks boards are 4 and 3/4 across but would buy anything a a little bigger. Please contact me offline ...

Lee Wallender is a home improvement writer of nearly 20 years and specializes in home remodeling, repair and maintenance. Sami Allen is the managing editor at Forbes Home, with over seven years of ...