This latest installment of our quarterly series with the designer takes a deep dive into how materials and shapes add spice to multifamily. Think of pattern and texture as a spice that is one part of ...

Q:I live in a home built in 1979 and want to create a smoother surface on my walls. They were finished with a textured finish of long strokes of finishing mud, which I have heard called a skip-trough ...

As documented in Nixon-Darcus (2014), in northeastern Tigrai, there is a cultural preference for coarse textured surfaces to grind large cereal grains such as wheat, barley and sorghum while smooth ...