Please, No Textured Walls

last year

This is a PSA and a Plea to never, ever, put a texture on your walls. Stipple from roller painting okaaay I guess, but nothing more.

My house was completely textured when it was remodeled in 2000-ish. They used a "heavy knockdown" texture. It is not unattractive and I guess covers up wall imperfections, but it is impossible to exactly match for wall patches and other repairs. You can use hopper and sprayer, loose mud, knife, and get a heavy knockdown but it never looks exactly like the original heavy knockdown. Heck the original texture varies from room to room, presumably depending on mud consistency, humidity, the guy's biorhythms that day, etc.

I curse whoever made that call.

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mojavemaria
last year
Price out what level 4 or 5 drywall finish costs and you will see why there are a lot of textured walls. We have a small plug in texture squirter and can get a good match with our knockdown.
chicagoans
last year
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Smooth walls and ceilings are common in my area and for the two remodels I've done I don't think the builders ever even asked my preference, they just made them smooth. However the home I grew up in (built in 1931) had textured real plaster walls in the (tall) living room and dining room. Repairs to the walls were tricky as a mismatch in texture would show. (But it was really beautiful anyway.)

Now I live in a house built in 1985, complete gut remodel in 2023 (by me.) The only room that has textured walls is a powder room and it drives me nuts because I'd love to put some bougie wall paper in there. I wish I had had the contractors smooth it out when all the crazy messy work was being done before I moved in. So John I'm in the smooth walls camp too.
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chispa
last year
Another smooth walls and ceilings person!

Always lived in houses in the northeast with smooth walls and ceilings, until our Spanish style house in CA. Hated the texture and, even worse, bull-nose corners! When I added wallpaper to the master bedroom, I had to have the walls skim coated.

When we built in 2021 in FL, I was aware that most homes here are done with some type of texture. It was a custom build so one of the requirements we had was that the walls and ceiling be completely smooth. Our builder had no problem with that. When we were going over the details, on site with the drywall guy, he tried to talk me into adding some texture to the ceilings. Most of the larger living spaces also had beams, so it wasn't like he had to achieve a smooth surface across a whole room. I told the guy if he couldn't do smooth ceilings between beams, which weren't that far apart, then maybe he was in the wrong business! He did smooth walls and ceilings and I have no complaints with the finished product.