The details are an essential part of completing a renovation in a classic home or bringing a modish charm to a contemporary apartment. Speaking of details, a plaster coving provides the sophistication ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ornately styled plaster ceiling - Catherine Mcqueen/Getty Images The ceiling may not be the first place you look when you begin ...

Question: I have two questions. My first question has to do with the removal of stipple from the living and dining room ceiling. The house was built in 1950, and the walls and ceiling were drywalled ...

Q. We're buying a house that is probably close to 100 years old. It has been vacant for the past several years and needs a good amount of cleaning up and fixing up. One thing we're concerned about is ...

Follow the manufacturer's recommendations.l Place several border tiles in position along each edge, then fill in the ceiling with full-sized tiles.l Once you've installed all the full-sized tiles, you ...

If you regularly read our column you know that we are third-generation contractors. You also might recall that we grew up in a home built by our grandfather at the turn of the 20th century. The home ...