There’s an old painting technique called “sponge painting” that has been rediscovered and has become popular. It can give an interesting effect to your next paint job. The best thing about sponge ...

Martha Stewart and shows like "This Old House" and The Home & Garden channel have led us to believe that with the tap of a hammer and squirt of a glue gun, we too can transform our homely huts into ...

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 ...

Faux finishes have come a long way from pickling and sponge painting the walls. Offerings now range from imitation leather to Venetian plaster, and techniques such as glazing, faux marble, damask and ...

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 ...

Do-it-yourselfers, cast your paintbrushes aside. Sponges, combs and rags are proof that there’s more than one way to paint a wall. That’swhy more and more broken-color techniques — using one or more ...

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 ...

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 ...