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 ...

This new wall-coating trend veers on the side of subtlety, but will make your home look and feel more natural, particularly ...

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 ...

In Part 3 of our 3-hour plastering series, we finish the job and reveal the final smooth wall! 🧱✨ Watch the troweling, ...

As days get shorter, flat paint stops flattering. Designers whisper that touch, shadow and grain do what gloss never will. Across the UK, a quiet revolt ...

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 ...

Dezeen Showroom: Clayworks has created a range of Smooth Finishes clay plasters that are made entirely from natural materials and offer seamless, earthy surface finishes. UK brand Clayworks developed ...

Removing the plaster from a vintage house is a nasty job. It generates yards of debris and creates clouds of dust that go everywhere. We have some advice: don’t assume the plaster has to go. In fact, ...