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 ...

Cleaning your walls before painting helps the paint stick better and stops peeling, bubbling, and streaking. Use mild soap and water with a soft sponge to gently scrub walls from bottom to top in ...

For most homeowners, learning how to paint a room is a quintessential part of maintaining or renovating a home. And, if you’re a beginning DIY’er on a journey of redesigning or updating your space, ...

Paint jobs are a quick way to update and transform a room. Even though it is one of the easier DIY projects, slip-slapping paint over walls is not always a savvy approach. A shoddy paint job will need ...

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 ...