Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A brown and white horse peeks its head through a red barn door. - John Elk Iii/Getty Images Horsehair plaster (also known as ...

Perhaps one of the most polarizing terms in home decorating is simply, “textured walls." They were in, then out, but now—perhaps to the surprise of many—they’re very in again. This time, it's all ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The ancient ways of plastering walls are spreading into 21st-century homes. Many homeowners who want natural, durable and textured walls in their homes are ...

Lime is the principal binder of most traditional mortars, plasters and renders and is used in all historic building conservation and renovation projects in some form or another. The world of lime is a ...

In Alistair MacQueen’s House & Home piece describing the restoration Magdalena Wallhoff conducted at her 500-year-old chalet in the Swiss Alps, you write that “she rolled up her sleeves to apply ...

A month later after the plastering was done, everything on Mr Joseph Mugisha’s walls in the house started falling down. “I think the contractor just didn’t put enough cement in the sand because it is ...