There is a wide variety of housing styles in Dallas, with actually very little uniformity between neighborhoods. In real Texas style, you can live in everything from a simple ranch house to a Mediterranean-style mansion to a high-rise building in different parts of town. Meanwhile, Dallas is a sprawling city that’s growing bigger every year, which has developers, designers, and house painters scrambling to keep up with the demand. Thornton Home Painting

I’m interested in the intersection between design and technology—whether for drywall or robotic vacuums—and how the resulting combination affects consumers. I’ve written about consumer advocacy issues for publications like The Atlantic, PC Magazine, and Popular Science, and now I’m happy to be tackling the topic for CR. For updates, feel free to follow me on Twitter (@haniyarae). Thornton House Painting

A moisture meter will let your contractor know if there’s moisture in the stucco before starting. The wetter the material, the less ready it is to be sanded, painted, finished or covered. Your contractor will use a premixed stucco repair patch material to fill any small holes and will paint on dry days to avoid sealing in water. Painting rough stucco requires more paint. Brush painting stucco costs $112 per 100 sq. ft., roll painting costs $55 per 100 sq. ft., and spray painting stucco costs $25 per 100 sq. ft. Thornton House Painters