These days, smoothly-painted, wallpapered walls dominate the trends when it comes to home decor, which is all the more reason to remove texture from your walls. Removing texture, from orange peel to ...

Wallpaper is a way to make a bold decorating statement in your home, but some of them are not quite as timeless as we would have hoped when they first went up. Removing wallpaper from drywall is, ...

Achieved by spraying, troweling, or rolling drywall compound onto your walls and then "knocking it down" with a knockdown knife, this texture originated in the early 1990s. While the texture's ...

Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...