Sponge Painting

When you hear the words sponge painting what kind of wonderful images is brought up for you?

Is it of your younger days when you were allowed freedom with the paints and the colours before your mother discovered you and stopped you from painting on the walls? Or do you get a feeling of adventure and imagine sponge painting to be something fairly out of the ordinary?

Well, if you're a painter or an interior designer of any variety you know that the reality of it is somewhere closer to the second guess than it is to the first one.

Although there is a slight correlation between these two chains of though. Sponge painting consists of painting on the walls but it's still not something that most people would let their children near, for the simple reason that there is a rationale to this madness.

With sponge painting the madness resides in the fact that when using the sponge to paint your walls, you're hoping for a pattern of sorts to appear, even if it is only a somewhat random pattern.

This means that handing the sponge over to your children just isn't going to come out quite the same.

So how do you set about sponge painting and is it really that difficult? It's not actually difficult and there are many ways to set out doing it. Like I said before what you're attempting to achieve here is a certain look and how you get that also depends on what type of interior design pattern you had in mind and also on what kind of sponge you use.

 For a more rustic look you would use a certain set of colourhs as well as a certain sized sponge.

One way to begin sponge painting is to paint portions of the wall and slowly sponge the paint in either a circular pattern, a vertical or horizontal pattern, or even randomly to achieve the look you were hoping for.

Sometimes this may take considerably more time than you figured it would and you might need to take a little bit more caution as well, but don't worry it will all come out alright at the end of the day.

Sponge painting the walls can be fun and most of the time is simple to do. The effect you end up with is also something quite different from the other painting techniques and quite delightful if done properly.

Try it out one day and see how you fare, if you don’t like it you can always paint over it.

But be watchful if your kids see you doing this they might get the notion to have a go at sponge painting themselves, then who knows how your walls let alone your home will turn out with their version of sponge painting.

So the best thing that you can do is to wait until you’re alone at home before you start your sponge painting masterpiece and never tell your secret of how you got this great new look.

Sponge painting is a fairly simple process but it looks like it was done by a high paid designer and not by you who knows little to nothing about painting let alone sponge painting. 

It can be your secret, we won’t tell that you got everyone out of the house, donned your painting clothes, got out your paint and sponges and had a go at it.  With this ideally forgiving technique even the beginning painter can sponge paint and come out with a great new look that is fresh and innovative.  Now that you have the great new walls what will you do about the rest of your interior design?