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 ...

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 ...