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 ...

Learn how to texture your drywall after it has been mudded and taped in this video, which demonstrates a Santa Fe texture.

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 ...

If you want to give your home a welcoming, lived-in look, a little bit of texture can go a long way. A bouclé sofa or high-piled rug is an easy and obvious touch, but for allover charm, why not take ...

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 ...

Holes happen, especially in drywall. Sometimes they happen on purpose and sometimes by accident. You hang a painting or a photo on the wall and then decide to relocate it. You’ve now got a drywall ...