10 Fashionable, Functional Interior Home Products
From high-performance features to on-trend styles, these interior products offer new design options from floor to ceiling
Easy Fix for Ceiling—Designer Finds the Key with Armstrong Ceilings
5th Wall provides opportunity for texture and interest in a room
Framing Best Practices That Help Prevent Drywall Cracks
A home's constant movement can wreak havoc on gypsum wallboard unless you take these steps with your framing components
A Checklist for Building Party Walls the Right Way
Party wall mistakes can be costly to fix. Use this guide to avoid them
How to Manage Moisture in Walls: Tips for Designing and Building
Moisture trapped in a wall can cause extensive, costly, and harmful damage. Take these steps to prevent it
Wall Framing Techniques to Improve Thermal Performance and Lower Costs
An optimized value-engineered approach to framing kills two birds with one stone by reducing lumber costs while boosting the home's thermal performance
Walls + Ceilings
HousingZone's articles, surveys, ideas, trends, and tips on walls & ceilings for residential builders, remodelers, and architects serving the residential construction industry.
Quality Matters
How to Avoid Drywall Problems From Truss Uplift
Warranty service calls and related costs to fix drywall cracks and nail pops are easily avoided by getting a few simple details right when installing trusses
Products
Best of IBS 2019 | Huber Engineered Woods
Expanding its ZIP System building enclosure product collection, which eliminates the need for housewrap and roofing felt in wall and roof…
Surfaces
Surfaces + Textures by Jennifer Stoner
Tips for creating bold statements and adding subtle accents with wall (and ceiling) paper
Surfaces | UFP-Edge
In keeping with the ancient Japanese charred-wood technique of shou sugi ban, UFP-Edge has expanded its…
Surfaces | Environmental Stoneworks
Two new profiles, Barn Wood (shown) and Clean Brick, join Environmental Stoneworks’ line of stone…
Top 100 Products
2017 Top 100 Products: Structural, Insulation, Housewrap
Products from BASF, Boise Cascade, Boral, CertainTeed, Dow Corning, DuPont, GAF, Georgia-Pacific, Georgia-Pacific Gypsum, Huber Engineered Woods, Icynene, Kimberly Clark, Kingspan, Nisus, Norbord Industries, Simpson Strong-Tie, Sto, and Weyerhaeuser
Surfacing Materials Take a Natural Bent
Nature informs current trends in wall treatments, countertops, and tile, in natural materials and impressive man-made imitations
Quality Matters
Tips for Conquering Drywall Cracks in Walls and Ceilings
At best, drywall cracks are annoying; at worst, they hint at a deeper issue. Follow these steps to keep your drywall crack-free
Stone Profile | Eldorado Stone
The Vintage Ranch stone profile from Eldorado Stone offers the character and warmth of…
The Oddest Objects Found Within Walls
For centuries, people in different cultures across the world have concealed meaningful items and artifacts within the structure of a…
