Q. I'm doing some remodeling work and I have to construct some interior wood walls. I haven't done this before and don't want to make mistakes. It doesn't seem too hard — actually it appears to be ...

In Episode 10 of the Building My Dream Workshop series, Cole joins the project to help frame and raise the final main wall ...

A poor framing job can bring a whole mess of problems, so we asked a professional framing carpenter how to build basement ...

Dear Pat: We are building a room addition to our house. A group of friends is going to help frame and raise the walls. What is the best way to raise them, and how do we take care of bowed wall studs? ...

Exterior walls can be framed with standard 2-by-4 studs, or larger 2-by-6s. Both are widely available, and easy to measure, cut, and nail — for you or your contractor. To choose between them, you need ...

Gallery walls are a lot like Eames chairs and that one mirror from Anthropologie: They’ve been trendy for so long that it’s safe to say they’re not really a trend at all. And they’ve stuck around ...

A fabricated header usually is made of two pieces of 2-by material with a half-inch spacer sandwiched between them. The spacer brings the width of the header to 31/2 inches — the width of a 2-by-4. A ...

Question: I own a summer cabin that’s been in my family for generations. My wife and I decided to make it our full-time home. It needs lots of work, which I intend to do myself. One of the projects is ...

Margaret Charnas' kids delay bedtime by standing in front of theirs, asking endless questions. Wynn Burkett wants her son to know his namesakes - four generations of Williams that have come before him ...