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 ...

They’re looking just a bit puzzled. Sheri Jackson and Jodie Cariveau have just had a 90-minute class in sponge and rag wall painting from Lee Smith, lead interior designer at the Home Depot in Tustin, ...

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 ...

October 24, 2016 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google The next time you’re painting chair spindles or the bannister of your stairs, ditch the paintbrush and grab a ...

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 ...

Sponge painting, a technique for applying a nice color over a base coat, achieves a multi-tone finish. It has subtle and natural character that’s more interesting than a plain-painted surface. Use it ...