Learn how to make wood polish at home with simple, natural ingredients. Wooden furniture, floors, and accessories are timeless, but they do need care to maintain their natural beauty. Instead of using ...

Touch-up. When removing glue squeeze-out, sand with the grain using P220-grit sandpaper. Keep the block flat against the work to avoid rounding over an edge. Shield adjacent surfaces with a wide ...

In addition to finding the right sandpaper grit for your project, and knowing when you can stop refining (and stop sanding!), proper wood sanding technique is also important. From the editors of Fine ...

Plus, common mistakes to avoid.

While wood isn't likely to ever go out of style in home designs, certain tones definitely fall out of fashion. Remove or ...

Wood finishing is one of the last processes in the manufacture of furniture or cabinets and the first thing seen on the retail floor. The wood finish emphasizes the mission of the furniture, cabinets ...

Wood is one of the most enduring and beloved materials in home design, but just like paint colors and tile choices, certain wood finishes can quickly fall out of fashion. In this House Digest ...

It takes one bad decision to learn an important lesson about wood: The wrong stain can ruin it. For me, that lesson came with the deck my dad built on our house when I was in high school. After a ...

I tested three paint and varnish strippers and one varnish-only remover for a DIY furniture project. While all four products worked to remove the original finishes, there were two clear winners. I ...