You will find the tutorials for the other items in the series here.
My selection files. Place these in your PSP selections folder (or another location of your choice). [NOTE: If you are having trouble opening the selection, move it to the selections folder inside PSP - for some reason PSP sometimes won't recognize them in other places]. My seamless fill tile. You may download my materials here. My color chart. Right click on it and save to your computer.
Step 2. Add a new layer. Load selection 1 (selections>load from disk - then navigate to the location where you placed the selection file). Flood fill with color #1. Contract by 1 (selections>modify>contract). Flood fill with the "ph05fill you downloaded (scale 100 angle 0). Deslect. Apply an inner bevel using the settings in the screenshot.
Step 3. Add a new layer. Load selection 2. Set your foreground color to #1 and your background color to #2. Flood fill with color #1. Contract by 1. Set your fill styles to gradient (sunburst) and choose #1 (foreground-background). Use the settings in the screenshot, and flood fill your selection. Keep selected.
Step 4. Go to effects>geometric effects>twirl. Set the degrees to -720 and apply.
 Step 5. Hide the color chart and background layers. Merge visible layers. Save as a psp file. It's now ready to use with your house. 
Step 6. Now to make the wood pieces. Turn your color chart and background layer back on. Add a new layer. Set your foreground color to #1 and your background to the fill pattern. Choose your preset shapes tool, rectangle (retain style unchecked, antialias checked, create as vector unhecked, width 1). Draw a rectangular shape for your piece of wood.
You can make your wood pieces different shapes by using the deformation tool. Here's an example - to do this, just click on your deformation tool, hold the control key down, and pull one end down a bit.
 Make as many pieces of wood as you'd like - deform them, rotate them, resize them until you have something you like.
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