The Tudor inspired home that I’m currently renovating (see these posts) has several arched doorways with curved corners. I recently widened the doorway between the dining room and kitchen in this smaller home to open up the space and improve the traffic flow through the kitchen. Check out this post to see how I did [...] Read More

The Inglewood home we’re remodeling is full of plaster from around 1940. Earlier plaster walls consisted of coats of plaster applied over wood lath that supported the plaster. In the 1930′s something called “rock lath” was developed which was basically a pre-manufactured gypsum board made of plaster between two layers of paper. It’s very similar [...] Read More

I’m in the drywall phase at my garage conversion project. I’ll admit that finishing drywall isn’t one of my favorite parts of the job, however, it is satisfying to see the finished product and knowing that the quality of my work will be enjoyed for years to come. I’ve covered my process for ‘mudding’ drywall [...] Read More

The old garage/utility room is finally starting to look like finished living space. After passing our rough-in inspections it was time to insulate and drywall the place. The insulation was fairly straight-forward. The walls are 2×4 studs so normal R13 fiberglass rolls worked well for this. The bottom 16″ of the walls, however, are concrete [...] Read More

I know a lot of homeowners who have a room full of 1/4″ paneling sheets and dream of flat drywall instead. The kitchen that I’m currently remodeling in Inglewood had paneling covering the old plaster walls. Removing the paneling might have brought the plaster with it and presented a bigger project than my client wanted [...] Read More