Smooth ceilings might look elegant, but they can lead to more noise and echoes throughout your home. Muffle the sound with one of these textures.

Damaged drywall—The ceiling shown in this article had flaking texture, plus stains and holes, so covering it all with a new layer of drywall was actually faster and easier than repairing it.

Achieved by spraying, troweling, or rolling drywall compound onto your walls and then "knocking it down" with a knockdown knife, this texture originated in the early 1990s. While the texture's ...

The simplest method for getting rid of popcorn texture on the ceiling is using ultra light gypsum board, and because it’ll just cover the existing surface, it’s okay to do over asbestos.

Most textured coatings are meant to be applied to new drywall or a rougher surface so they have a great chance of staying bonded to the ceiling. Roger’s semigloss paint has now become a barrier ...

Holding the scraper at a 45-degree angle, push the texture off the ceiling and into your drywall mud tray, being careful not to break the surface of the drywall underneath.

Textured popcorn ceilings were somehow popular back in the 1960s and '70s, ... To avoid gouging the ceiling, hold the drywall knife or popcorn scraper at a very shallow angle.

These approaches apply to textured ceilings, as well. If the wall in question isn’t painted, you can use the “Soak and Scrape” procedure to get that texture off the wall. Like so: ...

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 ...

Q: My home has "popcorn" ceilings, the kind with asbestos. The cost of asbestos removal is so high, I've decided to overlay the ceilings with drywall. The person I've hired to do the work ...

Q: We had a kitchen addition put on our home about 10 years ago. Decisions were made that now have us slapping our foreheads. My wife wanted a smooth ceiling with no texture whatsoever, which is ...