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Spackle: How Much Can it Help with Home Remodeling?
Does spackle have a place in home renovation? Or is drywall spackle just a home repair material? Find out.

How to Reduce Noise in Your Living Space
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.

Painting Contractors:
Ready to put down the brush and let a painting contractor take over? Find out everything you need to know about painting contractors in this informative article.

Drywall Taping Techniques
After hanging drywall, you need to "tape" seams in the drywall before laying down the "mud" (drywall compound). Learn some basic tips here.

Drywall Mesh Joint Tape Defined
A definition of drywall mesh joint tape.

How to Fix a Large Hole in Drywall
Eliminate that large hole in your drywall that has been staring at you for months. Do this easy drywall repair, and have solid, "hole-free" walls once again.

How to Fix a Small Hole in Drywall
One of the easier tasks in DIY home remodeling is to fix small holes in drywall - and far easier than replacing the entire section of drywall! Learn how it's done.

How to Apply Color Wash Finish to Your Walls
Virtually unheard of two decades ago, color wash finishes have exploded in popularity recently as a way of giving walls a more interesting texture - with using only a sponge and some ingenuity.

Build a Wall to Cover Laundry Room Pipes
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.

Drywall Sizes and Thicknesses
Learn some of the basics of drywall sizes and thicknesses.

Cleaning Drywall Compound (Mud)
Second to cleaning up drywall dust, cleaning up "dried up" drywall mud is tough. Here are some basic techniques.

Texturing Walls and Ceilings for Real?
If you’re a person of a certain age, you most certainly remember houses from the 1960s and 1970s that had textured walls and ceilings. Any self-respecting house from that era had ceilings and walls with texturing treatment. Often called popcorn texture, this material was made of vermiculite or polystyrene.

Instantly Beautify a Room with Wainscot
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.

Soundproofing Walls By Adding Drywall
I’ve heard that you can soundproof a room just by adding more Sheetrock. True?

The Basics of Trim and Molding
What are the different types of trim and molding for walls, doors, and windows?

Simple Steps for Repairing Drywall Nail Pops
Nail pops are annoying imperfections that show up in drywall ceilings and interior walls, and can recur if they aren’t repaired properly. Find out the easy way to repair nail pops.

Repair Cracks in Plaster Walls
Plaster walls look great--until the moment they start developing cracks. What can you do about cracked plaster?

How to Salvage Molding and Trim for Reuse
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.

Walls and Trim: What is It? What to Do About It?
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.

How to Cut in Your Interior Trim Paint
"Cutting in" interior paint is a technique mainly reserved for professional painters. Find out their basic techniques.

What is Greenboard Drywall?
Learn more about where greenboard drywall should be used. Contrary to what some people may think, greenboard drywall is not used in shower stalls.

Wet Sponge Drywall Joint Compound Instead of Dry Sanding
Drywall dust is very fine and invasive. To reduce the amount of dust in your house, consider wet-sponging instead of dry sanding.

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

Joining Baseboards - The Scarf Joint
Tearing your hair out when trying to join baseboards? Using a scarf joint will help.

Interior House Painting Rules
Interior house painting is a potentially messy, time-consuming job. Follow these rules and I guarantee your project will go faster and be cleaner.

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