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 ...

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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 ...

Q: I took off the wallpaper in my turn-of-the-century house to reveal real plaster. It has never been painted, and it is a little rough. I plan to paint the walls. When we filled several holes with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Living room with beige curved sofas, dark wood coffee table and off-white limewash walls. Since we started reporting on limewash ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The ancient ways of plastering walls are spreading into 21st-century homes. Many homeowners who want natural, durable and textured walls in their homes are ...

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 ...