Drywall Repair & Wallcovering Services in Meridian, MS

Drywall work is the foundation that every paint job sits on. A flawless coat of paint on a wavy, poorly finished wall still looks bad — and a basic flat color on a smooth, properly finished wall looks expensive. ACO Painting handles drywall the way a finish carpenter handles trim: cleanly, patiently, and with the assumption that someone will be looking at it in raking light. Whether you need a single ding repaired before listing your house or a full hang on a new addition, we treat the work the same way.

Our drywall scope includes patching nail holes and small dings, cutting and replacing damaged sheets after water leaks or impact, hanging new sheet rock on additions and remodels, three-coat taping and finishing on seams and corners, and texture matching for invisible repairs. We work with knockdown, orange peel, smooth Level 5 finishes, and most hand-applied textures common to Mississippi homes built from the 1960s onward.

A drywall patch is only as good as the texture match around it. If the patch is smooth and the surrounding wall has knockdown, you'll see the repair from across the room — even after paint. Most general handymen skip this step or do it badly. We test-spray texture on a piece of cardboard, dial in the splatter pattern and knockdown timing to match your existing wall, then apply it to the patch so it blends seamlessly once primed and painted. The goal is for nobody to ever know there was a hole there.

We also handle ceiling repairs — the hardest drywall work because gravity and lighting both work against you. Popcorn ceiling patches, smooth ceiling repairs after recessed-light installations, water-stained sheetrock from roof leaks, and settlement cracks at corners are all routine work for us.

Wallcovering is having a real moment in residential design — bold accent walls, grasscloths in offices, classic patterns in dining rooms — and it remains the standard finish for many commercial and hospitality interiors. The work is finicky: walls have to be skim-coated smooth, primed with the right sizing for the substrate, the paper has to be hung plumb with crisp seams and no bubbles, and trim has to be cut tight without tearing the pattern. We install residential wallpapers, commercial vinyl wallcoverings, grasscloths, and specialty papers for offices, healthcare, restaurants, and hotels across Mississippi.

We also remove old wallpaper — usually the worst part of any redecorating project. We score, steam, strip, wash the adhesive residue off, then skim-coat the walls back to a smooth surface that's ready for either fresh paper or a clean paint finish. Doing this properly is what separates a wall that looks great in five years from one that's already showing seams and bubbles.