Safety concerns following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 led to building safety codes that limited the use of wood in construction. While it was one of the first and most common materials used to make ...

When I moved into my first house, I bought a midcentury modern platform bed with a spindle headboard. While I loved the style, issues quickly arose. Assembling it was a chore; the instructions were ...

While no building is truly fireproof, construction materials and systems can make a building fire safe. Fire-resistive construction gives time to discover a fire, suppress it before it spreads and ...