Wood Retaining Wall The beautiful color of this cedar wood retaining wall by @tedmade.woodwork shows off the plants on both ...

Building a new home, cabin or room addition? You need to know the types of exterior building materials available and the pros and cons of each.

The buildings on the place were 150-plus years old and had yard-thick stone walls. The house was stuccoed on the outside and was in fair shape, but the barn had been badly neglected. Its leaky ...

One wall of cabinets spans floor-to-ceiling ... The house is no longer all stone outside. For a more contemporary look, the remodeler sided the top half with cedar. The couple haven't started ...

to act as both a sub-cladding moisture shed from water absorbed by brick and stone and as a device to allow the home to shed excess moisture through the exterior walls. That tar paper was ...