The first pieces of baseboard you should install are along the walls where two inside corners meet. The easiest pieces to ...

Question: How is an interior prehung door installed? Is this job as easy as the salesman made it out to be? I am suspicious, as it seems that you need good skills to install a prehung door. Answer: ...

A. A carpentry question — love this! Don’t you just love old houses? My house is circa 1863, but I have new doors; I couldn’t take it anymore! The problem usually is with the position of the strike ...

A pocket door is a great way to pick up usable floor and wall space that normally would be occupied by a door's swing. You can buy and install a pocket door for as ...

Installing a prehung door—that is, a door that is already hanging in its own frame—simplifies the installation process, but that doesn't mean it's easy. You'll still have to adjust doors and jambs to ...

"I am going to withdraw from the world," says a snail in Hans Christian Andersen's tale The Snail and the Rosebush. "Nothing that happens there is any concern of mine." In the fall, snails get cold.

Do whatever is necessary to protect the flooring from damage. We saved the cardboard boxes from the luxury vinyl plank ...