Q:I live in a home built in 1979 and want to create a smoother surface on my walls. They were finished with a textured finish of long strokes of finishing mud, which I have heard called a skip-trough ...

If you want to give your home a welcoming, lived-in look, a little bit of texture can go a long way. A bouclé sofa or high-piled rug is an easy and obvious touch, but for allover charm, why not take ...

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 ...

Painting a wall with a textured roller can make a room look fabulous if it's done correctly. If you're not careful, though, ...

When you make a drawing or painting with texture, you are showing how something feels. You can use different kinds of marks that show texture in your artwork. These pebbles have a smooth texture. The ...