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 ...
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 ...
Achieved by spraying, troweling, or rolling drywall compound onto your walls and then "knocking it down" with a knockdown knife, this texture originated in the early 1990s. While the texture's ...
A ll of us have heard of mud walls, possibly the wall material for majority of standing structures in India today including all rural buildings. Of course, the increasing presence of burnt bricks and ...
Dale Pierrottie is an expert at building traditional mud walls, such as the bousillage used in the western section of the LaPointe-Krebs House in Pascagoula. Pierrottie spent two days at the 1757 ...
A Bengaluru couple's innovative "breathing house" featuring mud walls built with waste bottles, rainwater harvesting via hand pump, and traditional elements like a 150-year-old door has gone viral.