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How to remove a popcorn ceiling

Do the scrape test Before you start removing the old popcorn texture, do a simple scrape test in a small area of the ceiling.
Though they were once the height of fashion, these days, many are wondering how to remove popcorn ceilings. In the middle of the 20th century, the textured feature perched above living rooms around ...
There’s a lot to love about older homes—the character! The quirks! The superior construction materials!—but one thing modern homeowners usually don’t like about an older home? The popcorn ceilings. If ...
Removing textured “popcorn” ceilings is a time-consuming and messy task, but with a lot of elbow grease, smooth ceilings are within reach. Step 1: For ceilings installed prior to 1980, purchase an ...
Everybody loves popcorn with a movie. Nobody wants popcorn on their ceilings. Like cork walls, mirror tiles and avocado- green shag carpet, acoustic ceiling texture was all the rage in the 1970s and ...
Q: Our church has a garden with a long, curving brick walk. Weeds and grass grow up between the bricks, making an unsightly mess. We thought of pulling and digging out the weeds, then spraying an ...
Much to the relief of homeowners everywhere, some bold and bizarre home design trends from the past (like avocado-colored bathrooms ... what?) can be easily updated. Yet for owners or prospective ...
OVER the years, home decor trends have come and gone. Popcorn ceiling is one trend that blew up in the mid-1900s, according to Insider.com, but now many consider it to be an eyesore. You'll now ...
Q: Our home was built in 1970 and has a textured ceiling and paneled walls in the living room. We started to remove the paneling, which caused some of the ceiling texture to be scraped off. It then ...
Popcorn ceilings are on their way out. This subtle and attractive texture is taking over instead — it's clean, modern, and ...
Though they were once the height of fashion, these days, many are wondering how to remove popcorn ceilings. In the middle of the 20th century, the textured feature perched above living rooms around ...
Textured popcorn ceilings were somehow popular back in the 1960s and ‘70s, and surprisingly they’re still being applied today, especially in condominium complexes. The problem is people don’t seem to ...