This week’s column is a kind of part two to last week’s column on sponge painting. Our projects this time around are metal buckets made into planters, and they are larger and require a little ...

Walls are usually the largest surface area in your room, so it only makes sense that when creating a fabulous room, you should start with fabulous walls! But that’s easier said than done when you are ...

Sponge painting adds texture and depth to walls easily. By dabbing a natural sea sponge dipped in paint, you can create an ...

If you wanted to add a dramatic element to your walls in the early 2000s, chances are you considered sponge painting. Part of the appeal was that the technique is fairly intuitive—paint the base color ...

Many of our regular readers may already have discovered the joys of sponge painting, but we are trying it for the first time in this week’s column. When painting with sponges, you have lots of choices ...

Person's hand cleaning the bottom of a wall with soft cloth. - Fotoduets/Getty Images To clean your walls before painting, stick with a soft rag or sponge with warm water and maybe some dish soap, and ...