Q:I live in a home built in 1979 and want to create a smoother surface on my walls. They were finished with a textured finish of long strokes of finishing mud, which I have heard called a skip-trough ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ask DIYers what their least favorite home renovation task is, and you'll likely hear "drywall" and "painting" more than a few times. So when ...