It's spray on popcorn finish. It sucks. You can't paint over it, it has to be scraped off as if you try to paint it, it will come off on the roller, or you can pay someone to scrape it, re-finish the ...

Q Am I right that when sections of plaster break away from the lath, an accepted repair technique is to roughly fill in those gaps with drywall and then drywall over the whole wall or ceiling? — M.H., ...

In the late 1970s, Barbara Schiller and her husband bought a decaying brownstone in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, then in its early stages of gentrification. The house was structurally ...