Lauren has six years of experience writing and editing home improvement content. She covered lifestyle, DIY, design and cleaning at The Spruce for five years and contributed home improvement pieces to ...

When it comes to home-improvement projects, repainting the interior may be a common idea, but giving the home’s exterior a fresh and protective coat of new paint should also be a consideration. While ...

Living in a 1920s-era house and, for years, periodically scraping peeling paint from its wood siding before repainting, we’ve decided that this is the summer to do a more comprehensive job and remove ...

Your front door is one of the hardest-working parts of your house. Not only does it have to withstand whatever weather Mother Nature throws at it, but it also has to deal with being opened and closed, ...