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My house was built in the 1940s and is a California Ranch with stucco on the bottom half and wood siding on the top half. Over the years that I've owned it I've painted it myself once and had it painted professionally a couple of times. To my dismay, the paint on the wood siding where there is...

Hi! I just renovated my 1946 California Ranch bathroom and also had walls that were in pretty bad shape under the wallpaper. I knew that my walls were plaster and lath. I washed the wallpaper paste off with plain water and an abrasive sponge a few times being careful not to get the walls very...

Thanks Glenn. I'll let you all know. Too bad I didn't know about this web site earlier or I would have taken photos of the bathroom that I'm just finishing the renovation on. kai

I'm ready to start prepping a hallway in my home for painting and I have always wondered about the wallpaper on those walls and ceiling that has been painted over. Was that wallpaper installed to help hold the plaster together? The house was built in 1946 and moved to its current location in...

Just finished renovating my plaster and lath 1946 bathroom and I need to know how to best install new towel bars. The old ones were tight to the wall and secure. How do I install new ones securely?