Stuff about paint
I actually just wrote this in an email to Christy, but thought, "Hey, everyone wants to know about paint!" So here is an exerpt from that email:

This little house is neat, but it did DEFINITELY need a lot of work. Let's see...the master bedroom was painted mint green and one of the walls was one of those full-wall-size photographs: this one of an old mill in the autumn leaves. I kid you not. All of that had to change. We had to rip down the paper, spackle the walls, prime all 4 walls so the green wouldn't show through, and paint.

The second bedroom is even worse. Two of the walls are painted a sort of midnight blue, two a daytime sky blue. The midnight blue walls are also adorned with dozens of little spaceships, stars, and comets, along with their King, a sleepy-faced half moon. The sky blue walls are adorned with clouds and a cheerful, yet really fucking creepy sunshine Queen. What makes it all really really bad is that it's all handpainted by someone who had zero, zero, talent. I mean, NO artistic talent at all. We're working on that room today.