ROCKLAND LAKE ‒ A damaged tree and a space where people would want to gather. Those are the main ingredients for a Knickerbocker bench. The benches, hewn from old wood in a functional design that ...

A towering 80-year-old walnut tree that shaded the Cooper-Siegel Community Library in Fox Chapel has a new chapter in its story. The gargantuan tree was felled in August to make way for parking ...

POP Projects is a collection of new and classic projects from more than a century of Popular Mechanics. Master skills, get tool recommendations, and, most importantly, build something of your very own ...

When the designers from Practice of Everyday Design were looking for a unique seating option for a client, they threw out the conventional design process and turned to a professional lumberjill to ...

HAMDEN — Chopped down in an act of vandalism in 2019, the town's 150-year-old "Door Tree" has since been transformed into two handsome benches that are now on public display. One of the benches was ...

Wood craftsman Sam French of Gill with one of the “cookie tables” he built for Smith College’s Neilson Library. The wood came from a venerable elm tree just outside the library that had to be taken ...