Q. We live in a town home that is 32 years old, and all ceilings (except bathrooms) have popcorn ceilings. We have several cracks in these ceilings along the taping lines. Please advise as to how to ...

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If you cringe every time you look up at your dated popcorn ceiling, there is a way to remove the finish entirely, as long as ...

The venerable American designer Albert Hadley advised that “ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.” Hadley, who in his 70s, covered his own living room ...

When designer Bess Jones suggested that Barbara Mattox paint the recessed ceilings in her Paradise Valley home, she didn’t hesitate. “It absolutely changed the whole feeling of the house,” says Mattox ...

It seems every home has a room that is a sun porch, front porch, back porch or what ever type of porch you want to call it that has a plywood ceiling. My sun porch has just that. The ceiling is a ...

Unless you’re a paint expert or a hardcore DIY and home decorating enthusiast, all the different paint finishes and their meanings or what they will end up looking like on your walls can get a little ...

Hey, remember when the popcorn ceiling was a-poppin'? The embarrassing, weird-memory-inducing, spray-on, paint-on style treatment was wildly popular from the late 1950s to the 1980s. Some called them ...