It's spray on popcorn finish. It sucks. You can't paint over it, it has to be scraped off as if you try to paint it, it will come off on the roller, or you can pay someone to scrape it, re-finish the ...

In the late 1970s, Barbara Schiller and her husband bought a decaying brownstone in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, then in its early stages of gentrification. The house was structurally ...

Editor’s note: This story originally ran in 2010 and has been updated. You can read the previous post here. As Americans, we can feel patriotic when considering tin ceilings. It’s one of the few ...