DEAR DESIGNER: We recently moved into an old house. One of the bedrooms has fancy plasterwork on the walls that is dated and busy. What can I do to hide it? Tearing down the wall is not an option at ...

Beginning a lite reno on our new house (new for us, it’s circa 1920). The plaster ceilings in the top floor have some old water damage and our contractor recommended that he sheetrock them instead of ...

have just purchased pre-war with walls and ceilings in bad shape. assumed i would skim coat, but one of the contractors i met with said to sheet rock over the plaster walls instead. he claims that ...

Q: The walls of our 1938 San Francisco home are lath and plaster, with a canvas-like fabric over the plaster. There are cracks in the plaster, which can be seen through the paint as raised creases in ...