Q. We just bought our first house, an American Foursquare, dated 1917. It has been vacant for several years and the interior is not in the best condition. We'd like to gut it to get rid of the sagging ...

Dear James: My parents' older house had plaster walls, but most builders now use drywall. I'm making a room addition. Which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. And if all the decorative perks of textured plaster walls aren't enough, turns out they're also long lasting and environmentally ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The ancient ways of plastering walls are spreading into 21st-century homes. Many homeowners who want natural, durable and textured walls in their homes are ...

Traditional three-coat plaster walls were engineered with a laminated system that gave them compressive strength closer to soft concrete than modern drywall. Plaster's dense mass reduces sound ...

Read Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 of this story. When it comes to real estate in a city like ours, with housing that spans the space of a few hundred years, there are two types of people in the world: ...

Dear James: We are planning a substantial room addition to our dream home. We are not on a tight budget, and we want everything done right. Should we use plaster walls or standard drywall walls? — ...

For our latest lookbook, we have gathered seven examples of homes where tactile and practical lime plaster walls give the interiors a natural, calming feel. Lime plaster is a traditional wall coating ...

Hanging anything onto a plaster wall is a bit of a challenge. Depth finders help locate studs behind the plaster, but drilling through plaster and lathe into a stud is often problematic. There are a ...

Plaster walls can't hold weight on their own, but the right tools can help you hang more than you think. Plaster was the construction standard up until the 1940s, when drywall burst onto the market.