With a little effort, you can eliminate gaps, glaze panes and use caulk to make old wood windows more energy efficient and to help minimize the toll that time has ...

Transparent wood has been reported in Woodworking Network for years, but now new research has taken the concept a step further. Researchers at the University of Colorado has developed a see-through ...

A few months ago, we looked at the work of material scientists who had managed to make a block of linden wood see-through. Altering the molecular makeup to turn timber transparent is an impressive bit ...

Scientists have introduced us to a variety of revolutionary technologies in developing windows — windows made from rubbery polymer, solar panel transparent windows, and smart windows of all sorts — we ...

The Boardman-Mitchell House, a looming, mid-19th-century, Italianate structure overlooking Bay Street in Stapleton, will be the site of a seminar on historic wood windows to be conducted Dec. 5 by the ...

Old windows have both historic character and durability that can't be matched in modern, factory-made models. (ELIOT KAMENITZ / THE TIMES PICAYUNE ARCHIVE) Questions about old wood-framed windows are ...

Q: What’s the best product to use for finishing the interior of pine windows? I want to leave the wood its natural colour and I’m thinking of either waterbased urethane or tung oil. Which do you ...

My wife and I recently moved and are looking to install double glazed windows. The ones in our house currently are single glazed, and it gets quite cold without the heating on constantly. Our road can ...

In the course of its renovation, the listed building of the former university hospital on the Safranberg in Ulm, built in the Art Nouveau style, was converted into living space. As part of a newly ...