Painting can be a therapeutic activity, and you don't have to be Van Gogh or Kahlo to enjoy it. You also don't need a canvas.

When Racheal Jackson bought her 1978 fixer-upper in Vancouver, Wash., she considered the wood-accented house a blank canvas waiting to be made over with color. The designer and artist took it one room ...

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