Whether you're thinking of redoing your kitchen or are looking for a new home, if you add (or get) textured walls to your ...

If you want to give your home a welcoming, lived-in look, a little bit of texture can go a long way. A bouclé sofa or high-piled rug is an easy and obvious touch, but for allover charm, why not take ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seasoned interior designer and design historian Alessandra Wood said she'd never put some colors, window treatments, and ...

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 ...

Material Connexion is a global materials consulting firm and a resource for innovative materials research and strategic materials insights. It is also a sister company to Home Accents Today, part of ...

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 ...