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 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 ...

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 ...

Painting textured walls can feel intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. Whether your walls have a light textured finish or a heavy texture, going over them is completely doable with the right ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Arroyo, General Manager of San Antonio’s TexFix, says texture started out as an added feature for walls and ceilings to ...

Q–Is there any way, other than sanding, to remove a textured paint from the walls of my house? A–I assume you want to smooth the surface. Some professionals smooth over the texture by troweling on a ...