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 ...

Each week, Mansion Global tackles a topic with an elite group of designers from around the world who work on luxury properties. This week, we explored how to add texture to walls and ceilings in a ...

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 ...

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 ...