Shiplap and tongue and groove paneling are hallmarks of coastal, cottage and farmhouse decor. Which type of paneling is right for your project?

I ordered 400 square feet of tongue-and-groove yellow pine in 8-inch-wide, 1-inch-thick planks. Today, wood flooring is normally 3⁄4-inch thick or less—because it’s usually laid over a ...

Installing tongue and groove flooring increases the value of your interior. Purchasing factory-finished engineered wood flooring provides you with endless designs, sizes, thicknesses, colors, and ...

Hardwood flooring needs to be attached to a subfloor, usually plywood. Then, planks are nailed to the subfloor through the tongue, so the nails don’t show when the floor is completed. Engineered ...

Tongue-and-groove plywood is superior to regular plywood for floor decks because it creates a stronger, more rigid subfloor, and helps eliminate sagging and "bounce" at the seams between the joists.

Engineered Flooring . Engineered flooring—also called engineered hardwood flooring —is a solid core of premium, dimensionally stable plywood with a thin veneer of hardwood on top. The veneer ...

Laminate flooring expands and contracts with humidity, so it’s important to leave an expansion gap—usually ¼ to 3/8 inch wide—between the baseboard molding and the flooring.

Tongue-and-groove edges let the sections snap together and float over old flooring, plywood, and below-grade concrete just like plastic laminate and some engineered-wood floors. It caught our ...

Most shiplap and tongue and groove planks are wood. If you plan to paint the finished paneling, you’ll save money by using ...