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 ...

While there are many reasons for smooth, featureless walls, when you want the look of stone, brick, wood or other high-end architectural finishes, patterned concrete makes an attractive, inexpensive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...