Q:I live in a home built in 1979 and want to create a smoother surface on my walls. They were finished with a textured finish of long strokes of finishing mud, which I have heard called a skip-trough ...

Texturing walls is a traditional way of adding character to a wall or covering such imperfections as drywall taping inconsistencies, but not everyone loves the ridges and swirls of knock-down or the ...

Q:My husband and I just bought a house that has a "skip-trough" finish on the interior walls. We would like to make the walls smooth and then repaint them. One friend advised us to apply joint ...

IF you live in an older home, chances are you have ugly, bumpy walls. For some unknown reason there used to be a time when plasterers thought it was the ‘in’ thing to give walls a textured finish. It ...

These days, smoothly-painted, wallpapered walls dominate the trends when it comes to home decor, which is all the more reason to remove texture from your walls. Removing texture, from orange peel to ...

Transform your blank walls with these gorgeous modern wall trim ideas including wainscoting, board and batten and accent ...