We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Made primarily from joint compound, ceiling textures are used for a variety of aesthetic and acoustic reasons. When your ceiling finish is ...

Textured ceilings have long shaped how homes look and sound, but not all finishes behave the same when it comes to maintenance and and renovation decisions.

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. Some of the walls and ceilings in our older house have tiny cracks and other blemishes that make them unsightly. Is texture paint a lasting remedy for this? A. Texture paint, which usually deposits ...

Everybody loves popcorn with a movie. Nobody wants popcorn on their ceilings. Like cork walls, mirror tiles and avocado- green shag carpet, acoustic ceiling texture was all the rage in the 1970s and ...