Q: I want to do some interior repainting, but the ceilings have dark stripes on them that I was told are caused by burning candles and my wood stove. The stripes don’t seem to wash off. The stripes ...

Q: I made the mistake of walking through several million-dollar homes one afternoon and saw a feature that I want to install in my own home: a coffered ceiling. I have a living area that I would like ...

AIt’s easy to find a joist in the ceiling from which to hang the fan mounting box. A gadget called a stud finder reads differences in density electronically and lights or beeps to tell you when you ...

Q Am I right that when sections of plaster break away from the lath, an accepted repair technique is to roughly fill in those gaps with drywall and then drywall over the whole wall or ceiling? — M.H., ...

Q: My son and I were wondering what is the best way to hang a 25-pound punching bag from a ceiling? When we tried to hang the bag, the hole in the plaster started getting larger and larger. Finally, ...