Consumer Reports' tests identify the best wood-look, durable tile flooring for your kitchen, hall, mudroom, bathroom, and other high-traffic areas.

If you're not able to install hardwood in your home, you may be considering faux wood. But how do you choose the right kind without sacrificing durability?

Simulated woodgrain is one of the worst offenders. It's supposed to make the car look like a woodie, where wood was originally used as a structural part of the vehicle.

Faux Marble Painting Techniques One of the easiest and most impactful ways to update a wall is to paint it with a faux painting technique. And you can take it up another notch by adding a decorative ...

But wood products are nice because they bring some warmth and texture to the primarily urban sites where we work. It helps to start to ‘code’ those projects as residential by bringing in these softer, ...

Fiber cement architectural panels fill this need well. Recent advances in simulated wood appearance have resulted in very realistic-looking cladding. Moti Marziano, AIA, an architect with Bay Design ...

But Casio’s new Mofrel system does something truly innovative: it can add 3D textures to your printouts, turning flat paper into faux leather, stone, wood, and even simulate embossed stitched ...

MILWAUKEE -- Cubs closer Kerry Wood had another setback Wednesday when the blister on his right index finger prevented him from throwing a simulated game. The All-Star hurler was scheduled to ...

2. Real wood interiors While simulated wood interior options have long been available with quality-built replacement windows, they’ve typically fallen just a bit short for discerning homeowners ...

A team of engineers in Buffalo, N.Y., recently built a house on a shake table -- a device that can simulate an earthquake. They wanted to see how a typical wood-frame house would fare in a quake ...