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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...