Question: I am ready to put up drywall in an at-home office for my business. I have put up drywall before to divide one large bedroom into two, but the joints look bad. This room must look better ...

Small holes are quick and easy to fix with joint compound and a putty knife. Medium and large holes are more extensive and also require a piece of drywall to use as a patch. Both the prep and ...

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 ...

When you texture the walls of your house, you accomplish two things. First, you transform boring-to-look-at surfaces into pitted, peaked, and otherwise visually appealing objects of interest. Second, ...

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Home Improvement Ask the Remodeler: The walls are gone, and the ceilings are cracking Plus, how to retain heat in a 1970s ranch with changing rooflines. Applying joint compound on thick doesn’t help ...

Q. 1. When applying joint compound, I end up with small holes. What is wrong with my technique or the joint compound? 2. In your Nov. 18 column, you stated that in northern areas, black or ...