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 ...

Learning how to texture a wall can help DIYers transform boring surfaces or newly built walls into visually appealing ones with rustic charm or depth. Texturing walls also can help hide imperfections ...

Dear James: I am ready to put up drywall in an at-home office for my business. I have put up drywall before to divide one large bedroom into two, but the joints look bad. This room must look better ...

What does it really take to get a smooth wall finish when repairing or updating a home's interior? A HelloNation article provides the answer by focusing on skim coating, a drywall resurfacing method ...

There are few home improvement tasks greeted with more dread than finishing drywall. If you're like most people, you hope that you've already done your last finishing job. Unfortunately, if you enjoy ...

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 ...