How to remove textured walls?

I skim coated the walls in our bathroom when we updated it. It was heavy, leather roller texture from 1970.
Wiped down walls, sanded with 220 grit drywall screen, removed dust. Primed with Zinnser 1-2-3. Thinned sheetrock mud with a bit of water just to make it spread smoother.
Applied mud with a roller and 12" knife, one wall at a time. Smoothed with an 18" rubber blade. Smoothed with a damp drywall sponge to take ridges out of the surface. Sprayed orange-peel texture once dry. Primed and painted.
It's not overly difficult, but you have to be patient.

What kind of texture?

We had the one where someone in the 60s used a rubber roller and it looked like the walls were melting. I took wide rubber putty knife and applied a thin coat of mud along all our downstairs walls. It took out most of the texture but now it's a very very light texture that is way more tolerable. Adding flat paint also helped hide some of the texture.

easy peasy....if you don't really care how flat the wall looks after you're done.





Difficult if you want to not see any imperfections when a trouble light is shined down the walls in every direction.