Finding the beauty in its simplicity, recent projects have incorporated OSB panels as visible design features in modern residential interiors, giving the widely-used engineered board a new meaning.

Looks aren’t everything, though. Oriented Strand Board (OSB) is a structural, engineered wood panel now used for about 70 percent of all floor, wall and roof sheathing in North America.

But unlike particle board, OSB has quite the attention-grabbing texture—those layers of wood strands create a funky motif that looks kind of like a flattened hay bale. All you have to do is ...

OSB (Oriented Strand Board) can be easily recognized for its distinctive appearance. This material consists of cross-oriented layers of wood strands compressed and bonded together with resin ...

In some cases, the plywood may be replaced by oriented strand board (OSB), which is made of wood strands glued and then compressed together. Engineered wood allows a homeowner to achieve the look ...

Oriented strand board, or OSB, the bonded wood-chip sheets commonly used as sheathing for walls, floors and roofs in new-home construction, is at record highs, in part due to a winter storm in ...