Editor’s note: Welcome to the 62nd installment of Brownstone Boys Reno, a reader renovation diary about renovating a brownstone in Bed Stuy. See the first one here. They also blog at ...

A There are several reasons why paint can fail to adhere to plastered surfaces, and without inspecting your home it is difficult to say which one is most likely. However, when I read you’d “had ...

IF you live in an older home, chances are you have ugly, bumpy walls. For some unknown reason there used to be a time when plasterers thought it was the ‘in’ thing to give walls a textured finish. It ...

Save the plaster! This might have been the rallying cry of Julia Child, were she a preservationist rather than a chef. “Preserving nice plaster work, if possible, is always worth it,” reBUILD Workshop ...

If you are in the final stages of a self build or renovation project then it is highly likely that you will be thinking about the different types of plaster and plastering techniques on offer.

The more discriminating decorator (and why shouldn't you be one?) takes their preparations very seriously in order to achieve a blemish-free foundation on which to apply their rolls of Neisha Crosland ...