Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Interior of a modern bedroom decorated with modern furniture with pastel tones. Believe it or not, there are ways to smooth walls ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 One room in my home has two layers of early '70s-era wallpaper on the walls. The first layer has proven fairly easy to remove with a chemical solution from a hardware store, but the second layer is ...

Peel-and-stick wallpaper is best applied to smooth, clean walls. For a clean finish, go slow when applying removable wallpaper and work top down. A sharp utility knife is essential for crisp cuts and ...

You stare at flawless paint yet the room feels colder as daylight thins. The new season asks different things of walls. Across Britain, designers are walking away from glass-smooth finishes and ...