Dear James: I have an old house with plaster walls and many cracks that need to ... Although you can fix these spots, they are natural stress relief areas. Over time, small cracks may reappear.

Traditional wood wainscoting seems like it would be a perfect way to give the room character and the walls some relief. Can you apply wainscoting to drywall or plaster walls or do you need to nail ...

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

Their elaborate bas-relief designs also helped hide soot from oil and ... Before beginning any construction whose vibrations could damage existing plaster, such as cutting into walls for electrical ...

60 x 21 x 6 in. (152.4 x 53.3 x 15.2 cm.) The organic intersects the enigmatic in this white plaster wall relief by Jana Osterman. The work is polished with wax, giving it a light sheen. The artist's ...