Ask anyone to name a hardwood, and it’s a safe bet they’ll reply, “Oak.” There are good reasons for this. Of the more than 600 extant species of oak found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, 90 are native to the United States, making the hardy, attractive, and...

One sure fire way to refresh an interior is to put in new hardwood flooring. But for most of us, the idea of replacing an entire floor seems overwhelming, unless you’re lucky enough to find a good, reliable, reasonably priced contractor to do the job. There are now...

There’s always something interesting to discover at the Historic Home Show, an annual event in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, dedicated to the restoration, renovation, and furnishing of traditional and historic houses. For me, this year’s find was D.R. Dimes &...

 Our sister organization, the American Hardwood Export Council, does extraordinary promotional work around the globe. Last fall, they collaborated with the British architect Alison Brooks and Arup, the multinational engineering firm, to produce “The Smile,” a timber...

I’ve been a major fan of Instagram, the photo-sharing social-media network, since it launched in 2010. Design aficionados like me were attracted to platform’s clean-and-simple aesthetics—an elegant grid of square images, each with a hidden caption that’s revealed with...