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 ...

Venetian plaster, which looks like marble but doesn’t have the weight and expense of marble, has become a popular method of sprucing up a space, either outdoors or in, says Ronald Layman, a ...

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 ...

Decorative painter Kevin Walsh makes his living covering walls with designer techniques that include faux finishing. So he got a strange feeling when he saw rags, sponges and other faux tools being ...

Just because a wall has some chips or cracks — or even a hole or two — doesn’t necessarily mean it has to be replaced. There are two reasons to save an old wall surface: because it’s the best way to ...

Decorative painter Kevin Walsh makes his living covering walls with designer techniques that include faux finishing. So he got a strange feeling when he saw rags, sponges and other faux tools being ...

Building a 40,000-square-foot performing arts center which incorporates a sloping concrete floor, smooth plaster and brick exterior, a gypsum plaster finish inside the theater and multiple flooring ...