One of the reasons that I bought my 1905 Neo-French Renaissance house was that it had ornamental plaster ceiling decorations and medallions. The decorative plaster ceilings had been either badly ...

Thirty-five years ago, when John Doherty was doing rehab work for Campus Apartments, removing old plasterwork to make way for drywall, he was struck by the beauty of the buildings’ antique plaster ...

A friend recently divulged her plans to trowel plaster onto her living room walls and then have craftsmen comb the moist material from top to bottom, creating an eye-catching corrugated surface. It is ...

BUFFALO, N.Y., April 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Can decorative plaster and gilding really be saved, even when they appear beyond repair? According to a HelloNation article, Restoration Expert Brett ...

Jeff Poree Plastering is a big operation, with a 15,000-square-foot casting shop in Mid-City that goes through 1,200 pounds of plaster on a busy day. Its 33 employees range from new apprentices ...

Sometimes, on a nice afternoon, Jeff Poree drives by the Peristyle in City Park, where he and his workers spent three months in 2012, resurfacing every bit of the century-old ceiling and ionic columns ...