This story has been updated. Q: Our plumber had to cut two holes in our dining room ceiling and remove a section of original cast-plaster crown molding to assess, access and make repairs to the second ...

A regular reader sent in these photos of his recent efforts to repair the plaster crown moldings in his Clinton Hill brownstone. Turns out that back around 1910 someone added a screen to the parlor ...

We suffered our first (of many, we’re sure) major set back last week, as the combination of having opened part of the ceiling to run electrical and having an army of workers tromping overhead brought ...

To make crown molding correctly, plasterers must constantly run a blade across the top of the plaster as it dries. “Turn away for even two puffs on a cig and you’d have to throw the whole thing out — ...

When my family began renovating our 19th-century brownstone in Brooklyn, the initial plan was to restore the time-worn plaster crown moldings. Then we learned that the artisanal-level work would cost ...

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 ...