Walls, Ceiling, and Trim

What is tileboard and should you consider remodeling your kitchen or bathroom with tileboard?

Get great closet organization ideas from California Closets.

Learn how to create a cottage style bedroom. Easy ways to make a cottage style bedroom out of an ordinary bedroom.

Here are some dining room designs you can duplicate for your own house: a gallery of dining room design pictures.

Get great ideas for home office design ideas. Use home office designs here and duplicate for your own office.

Find out about how to snazz up your house period-style with retro wallpaper.

Within the world of home remodeling, what is a shim? How are shims defined?

Not all wood panelling is bad. Learn about 2 types of wood paneling that go up fast and look terrific.

Should I convert my spare bedroom into an office and laundry room? Would I lose value if I convert my bedroom into an office/laundry?

There is one little surprising trick you can use to soundproof a room. Find out how to soundproof a room considerably by doing just one thing that doesn’t cost much money.

Is it easier and cheaper to build an interior wall from steel rather than wood studs? Steel studs may be cheaper but not always easier.

Does spackle have a place in home renovation? Or is drywall spackle just a home repair material? Find out.

Quick tip - check out Dutch Boy Twist and Pour paints to make your painting jobs cleaner.

What does the word substrate mean in relation to home remodeling? What are types of substrate surfaces?

A reader asks how to reduce noise in his condo. The answer is not an easy one, but by combining a number of methods, you can greatly reduce the sound in your living space.

Studfinders work great on drywall, but what about tile? How do you find a stud located behind tile?

Find out how to add baseboards to your walls, and give your rooms a totally new look.

Not as easy as it looks - hanging wallpaper requires a delicate touch and a healthy dose of patience. Learn the basics of how to hang wallpaper.

One of the more irritating aesthetic parts of a laundry room is the messy "spaghetti" of pipes and wires behind the washer and dryer. Learn how to cover them up with a false wall.

Wainscot is a wall treatment made of solid wood such as solid pine, hard wood veneer, molded plastic, or pressed board. Wainscot was popular for many years before it fell out of favor in the 1950s. Recently, though, wainscot has been experiencing a renaissance.

I’ve heard that you can soundproof a room just by adding more Sheetrock. True?

What are the different types of trim and molding for walls, doors, and windows?

You've got wall and trim problems and don't know what it is? Bulges in drywall and cracks in your plaster? Find out here.

Wooden trim and molding can set off doors, windows and walls and provide the finishing touch to a room. Although you can purchase custom-made molding, using salvaged trim is an easy way to save time and money. In older buildings and homes, where original woodwork is often difficult to match, salvaging trim may be the only way to maintain uniformity throughout the structure.

Mold remediation has become big business in recent years. But is mold remediation worthwhile or is it all just a big witch-hunt?

Let's look at the various ways to find a stud within a wall.

Tearing your hair out when trying to join baseboards? Let the scarf joint help you out!

Opening up walls, floors, and siding brings also opens up opportunities for extra home improvements.

Sister a bad wall stud or floor joist rather than tearing out and replacing it.

Cutting millwork have you scratching your head? Create templates and get through this job fast!

I answer a good question about how to tilt a framed wall into place--in a basement.

Has wood wall paneling--a staple of the Sixties and Seventies--come back around?