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 ...

While there are many reasons for smooth, featureless walls, when you want the look of stone, brick, wood or other high-end architectural finishes, patterned concrete makes an attractive, inexpensive ...

You stare at flawless paint yet the room feels colder as daylight thins. The new season asks different things of walls. Across Britain, designers are walking away from glass-smooth finishes and ...

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 is underway. Smooth emulsion yields to ...