Are you thinking of DIYing a dining table, but aren't sure what wood to use? Here's a roundup of the best types of wood to consider for this project.

Among the offerings — walnut, cherry, poplar, oak, mulberry, cypress and ash, according to a Montgomery Parks statement — will be celebrity timber: wood salvaged from Maryland’s historic ...

Reclaimed and rough- or live-edge wood is a big trend among American ... and kiln-dried hardwood — red and white oak, cherry, walnut, poplar, pine, hackberry, ash, red cedar, maple, hickory ...

from red gum eucalyptus to antique poplar. “With furniture, everyone wants the same wood — oak and walnut,” Jackson says. “But there are so many different woods out there. Throughout the ...

From wild cherry, oak, black walnut, poplar and magnolia to box elder, spalted maple and osage orange, hardwood trees abound in the state, giving local artists who work with wood an abundance of ...

Native Americans used the inner barks of the yellow poplar for medicinal purposes, including making cough syrup and as a remedy to treat arthritis and cholera. The soft and light wood of the ...

Q. Color change of wood...why? The variation is killing us. A. As you probably know, wood is made up of wood cells that look like miniature soda straws. The cells are often around 1/8 to ¼ inches ...