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 ...

Textured ceilings have long shaped how homes look and sound, but not all finishes behave the same when it comes to ...

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Q: Our home was built in 1970 and has a textured ceiling and paneled walls in the living room. We started to remove the old paneling, but this caused some of the ceiling texture to be scraped off.

Popcorn ceilings hit their “heyday” in the 1970s and 1980s. Also known as an acoustic ceiling for its noise-dampening properties, popcorn ceilings were both an architectural choice. They made ...

Do the scrape test Before you start removing the old popcorn texture, do a simple scrape test in a small area of the ceiling.

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