Leaving old shellac can be a toss-up for me. I’ve run into trim where the shellac was still holding up after decades, just a bit dull or scratched in ...

Mixing old and new is always a gamble. I once tried to modernize a 1920s bungalow kitchen with a stainless steel fridge and it just looked like a spac...

That hits home. I once got ahead of myself tearing out a kitchen before checking the crawlspace—ended up with a whole mess of rot from a slow leak nob...