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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We recently bought a row house and all the walls are textured. We originally thought of having the walls skim coated, but after speaking to a couple of contractors we are reconsidering it. Beside the ...

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 ...

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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When you see a painter freehand a perfectly straight, clean line without using painter's tape, it's fair to assume they have entered into some ...

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 ...