Question: While paging through a home-decorating magazine, I saw a vaulted ceiling that was covered with wood. The look was stunning. I have a corner room of my home that has two drywall ...

Locate the rafters above the ceiling drywall. Nail a 2-by-6-inch backing-board across the rafters so that its bottom edge touches the line drawn on the wall. Space the backing-boards about 3 feet ...

You should not have a problem converting a vaulted ceiling into a curved one. Some headroom will be lost at the walls, but people seldom stand flat against a wall anyway.

Q: I would like to get rid our popcorn ceiling, which contains 2 to 3 percent asbestos. We plan to cover the cathedral living room ceiling with paneling. The bedrooms are in no danger of being ...

A: A vaulted or cathedral, ceiling with just two long cracks indicates the ceiling finish is common drywall. If the ceiling were plaster, the cracks would be spider web fashioned in several places.

The seams in our cathedral ceiling have separated twice in a number of places since moving into my six-year-old home a year ago January. I’ve had them repaired each time, but noticed the same ...

Popcorn ceiling If you have a heavily textured ceiling and just don’t like the look, you have a few options. With unpainted texture, the most common approach is to mist it with a spray bottle and ...

The ceiling in the rooms should be flat and true with trusses because the long bottom chord of each truss becomes the ceiling joist to which the ceiling drywall is nailed. If you prefer a vaulted ...