DEAR DESIGNER: We recently moved into an old house. One of the bedrooms has fancy plasterwork on the walls that is dated and busy. What can I do to hide it? Tearing down the wall is not an option at ...

Colorado Skim Coating is excited to share that it has improved its Skim Coating Textured Wall service. This service is designed to provide top-notch wall finishes for homes and businesses. The focus ...

Traditional skim coating, like many construction jobs, is a craft that requires considerable practice and skill to master. If you watch professionals, they use a combination of trowels and drywall ...

Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

Colorado Skim Coating announces its ongoing commitment to providing high-quality skim coating services to both homeowners and businesses throughout Colorado. They focus on improving the look and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learning how to texture a wall can help DIYers transform boring surfaces or newly built walls into visually appealing ones with rustic charm or depth. Texturing walls also can help hide imperfections ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: Welcome to the 62nd installment of Brownstone Boys Reno, a reader renovation diary about renovating a brownstone in Bed Stuy. See the first one here. They also blog at ...