When you're ready for a ceiling refresh, don't overlook one trend enjoying a well-deserved comeback. Natural details permeate today's most popular interior styles, giving tongue and groove wood ...

Make sure to finish the surface of the wood before installing it on the ceiling. This is less messy than painting overhead and you can touch up any spots later. Installing tongue-and-groove wood ...

The old tongue-and-groove porch ceiling became a stylish wainscot on the walls, for example, and Wiesler saved all the original (wavy) window glass to reuse in new four-panel slide/fold windows.

Meredith Press, $14.95. "Years ago, porch floors traditionally were made using tongue-and-groove fir flooring. Fir is strong, durable and doesn't readily warp or cup. Today, however, top-quality ...

Preserving a T&G porch floor. If you want a covered porch with tongue-and-groove flooring — and you want it to last — consider these tips from the Southern Pine Council. Slope exposed soil ...

(Grant Therkildsen/The Times-Picayune archive) A reader recently asked for advice on maintaining the 110-year-old heart pine, tongue-and-groove porch floor which extends across the front and wraps ...