When buying baseboards in the past, you only had just one choice: natural wood, usually pine or hemlock. Now, the choice of materials for baseboards and trim has expanded to include MDF and plastic.

When you're redoing your kitchen, you have several common kitchen cabinet finishes to consider. White painted cabinets surged in popularity in the 2000s and 2010s, and, while stained cabinets are ...

A U.K. technology developer has developed a world-first technology to recycle MDF waste – and recover wood fiber from it. With research and development spanning six years, MDF Recovery recently ...

Q. What is the main difference between MDF and particleboard? I see a lot of variations in weight it seems in MDF. Is this important? A. The difference between these two products depends, in part, on ...

For years it has been a cheap - but ugly - substitute for real wood. But now MDF could be moving up a class. Researchers at Warwick University have found a way of making the board, which is made from ...

For some years now, wood has received an increasing amount of attention in the construction industry. With concerns raised about sustainability and the carbon footprint of buildings, new construction ...

Dutch designer Arno Hoogland has developed a technique for transforming MDF panels into walls and furniture with hypnotic 3D textures. In a solo exhibition for Milan design week, Hoogland showed how ...

I just moved to a new city so I could go back to school. Now I’ve got to furnish a new apartment on a graduate student’s budget. Tell me, just how bad for the environment is a fake-wood bureau or ...