Q: I live in a condo development. The association is requiring owners to paint their patio fences. The fences were made of pretreated wood and were painted gray. The paint has never stayed on very ...

Paint and wood don’t play well together because wood has a propensity to expand and contract when it gets wet and then dries. Most paints can’t take this back-and-forth motion and eventually crack and ...

Knowing how to paint wooden furniture can help you out in a multitude of ways, especially if you want to inject colour into your home or breathe new life into old furniture. But there’s a technique ...

During summer many homeowners tackle garden tasks they've been postponing - with painting decks and fences being among the most dreaded chores. Wooden decks and fences require repainting since the ...

From scraping to sanding to priming to painting, it’s delightful once you figure out how to avoid the pitfalls.