Horsehair plaster (also known as lime-hair plaster) is a mixture of lime, sand, water, and horsehair. Horsehair is added to the base coat of lime plaster for added texture and reinforcement, helping ...

Q: We recently purchased a 1926 colonial in Melrose with mostly horsehair plaster walls. This is my first experience with plaster walls, and I'm afraid they are going to crumble when I hang artwork, ...

Question: We live in an older home -- say, built around 1905 -- that has the old horsehair plaster on the walls and ceiling. We would like to do over the ceilings and paint the walls.

Q: My old 1920s house has horsehair plaster. I would like to paint it, but my wife says she does not want to paint over the paper, which is about 10 years old. How to start and finish? A: The paper is ...