Here's what to do when your popcorn ceiling harbors dust, cobwebs, mold, or mildew. Textured ceilings, commonly known as ...

What You'll Need for Texturing Ceilings and Walls. To texture the walls and ceiling of an average room, the rental sprayer, the joint compound and the knockdown knife will set you back only about ...

How to keep popcorn ceilings clean. Regularly remove cobwebs and dust. If you see ’em, swipe ’em! “This will help prevent buildup and keep your ceiling looking clean,” Lee says.

Everybody loves popcorn with a movie.. Nobody wants popcorn on their ceilings.. Like cork walls, mirror tiles and avocado- green shag carpet, acoustic ceiling texture was all the rage in the 1970s ...

Popcorn ceilings are bumpy with sprayed or painted on texture that might also include popular, '70s era glittery sparkles. Many homes built between the late '30s through the '90s included some ...

My wife insisted on a smooth ceiling with no texture whatsoever. Easier to clean, she said. But how many people clean their kitchen ceilings, let alone an aging 4-foot-10 matriarch?

March 8 -- Each week, Good Morning America's home-improvement guru Ron Hazelton will answer your questions about maintaining and upgrading your home. Click here to submit your own question. Q ...

Though they were once the height of fashion, these days, many are wondering how to remove popcorn ceilings. In the middle of the 20th century, the textured feature perched above living rooms ...

While texture-painting a ceiling is not a solution for deep cracks, it is an attractive way to conceal light ones and add interest and dimension to an otherwise flat surface. After patching and ...

Chuck said such textured ceilings had been around since the 1930s. They became popular in the 1960s and 1970s, then started to fade in the early 1990s. Chuck has been in the home renovation biz ...

Before you do anything else, test your ceiling for asbestos. Popcorn ceilings gained popularity from the 1950s to the1980s because the texture helped soundproof rooms and acted as a fire retardant.