This homeowner's guide to plastering will help homesteaders understand how to work with plaster. Commonly used as a protective finish over exterior walls, plasters also offer durability and beauty for ...

If you are in the final stages of a self build or renovation project then it is highly likely that you will be thinking about the different types of plaster and plastering techniques on offer.

One of the last steps in many a brownstone renovation is to apply several thin layers of plaster to the walls to achieve a satiny, smooth finish, also known as a skim coat. But tinted plaster walls ...

Read Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 of this story. When it comes to real estate in a city like ours, with housing that spans the space of a few hundred years, there are two types of people in the world: ...

Building a 40,000-square-foot performing arts center which incorporates a sloping concrete floor, smooth plaster and brick exterior, a gypsum plaster finish inside the theater and multiple flooring ...

Given its ubiquity across U.S. dwellings, you'd think nothing can match up to drywall when finishing a wall. Made by compressing gypsum plaster between layers of paper pulp, drywall sheets are often ...