Builders have argued about this for decades — and the evidence is more interesting than you'd expect.

Salvaged beams from old houses hold secrets that new lumber simply can't match.

This is a follow up to my earlier post looking for flooring… as an alternative… I may have to get a bit creative with the last 400 sqft of flooring in our place as we have run over our budget (big ...

In an orange dumpster one recent Sunday morning, between old bricks and trash bags, Heather Olsen struck gold: rustic wood beams that once held the floor of a 100-year-old house. A nurse, mother of ...

One person's trash is another person's treasure, and Real Antique Wood in New Jersey is dedicated to finding that trash and transforming it into a new treasure, one historic structure at a time. This ...

St. Louis' turn-of-the-century brick buildings are full of massive beams from old-growth forests. Kyle Howerton, a principal with St. Louis-based developer AHM Group, is working on a new high rise ...

A pipe leak at our house made a patch of hardwood floor in the kitchen buckle and turn black. I suspect it was a leak, but have no way of knowing for sure because it happened long before we bought the ...