Q:I am trying to maintain a small house built in the 1930s. It has lapped redwood siding that is less than 1/2 inch thick with a 6-inch exposure. The siding runs under vertical boards butt-joined ...

Cut your beams, rafters, roof boards, and siding boards to size, then cut the joints. Start with the mortises and tenons. A standard mortise is 4 inches deep and 1.5 inches wide to accommodate a 3 ...

In this episode of Cabin in the Woods, we build a small timber frame porch over the front walk door, and once completed have to cut and install an extremely complicated sheet of metal siding.

When a father and son hired architect Joseph Koelbel to restore the exterior of their 1870s Greenpoint row house, the wood-frame house had been stripped of most of its original detail over time. The ...

In this episode of Cabin in the Woods, we build a small timber frame porch over the front walk door, and once completed have to cut and install an extremely complicated sheet of metal siding.