You regularly clean your floors, furniture, and textiles—so why aren’t you cleaning your walls? Considering how much we lean against and touch them, you should make sure they’re as clean as any other ...

Oil-based paint offers a beautiful finish, so keep the walls pristine by cleaning them with a few simple, gentle staples you ...

Humans built the first walls thousands of years ago, and we’ve been avoiding cleaning them ever since. Smudges around light switches? Of course. A sponge and some gentle soap, and those high-traffic ...

If you've noticed those pesky streaks on your painted bathroom walls and wondered what they are, the technical term for them is "surfactant leaching." The streaks tend to appear in high-moisture ...

I vividly remember the first few weeks in the home we'd recently moved into, freshly painted with Benjamin Moore's iconic color, White Dove (which, as you might imagine, is a beautiful shade of white ...

Dear Heloise: I’m going to paint my living room, and I want to wash the walls first. What’s the best cleaning solution to use? Thank you. — Martha Brooks, via e-mail Probably the easiest thing you can ...

The thing that my decorating clients worry most about when they move into their newly redone apartments or homes is damage to their pristine painted walls. Although movers, installers and other ...

One of life`s dreaded chores–ranking right up there with moving and paying taxes–is having to clean walls. So you think: ”Maybe I`ll just paint. Then the dirt won`t show.” Well, according to Anthony ...