Hi Alison,
Thankyou for your article, informative and useful and inspirational in a way - I keep wanting to start with my entrance - which is small enough - but just as often keep on saying later ... later. I am now determined to DO SOMETHING NOW and will go an purchase some paint pots to see what can be what.
Do you give lessons in painting? Maybe this sounds like a silly question, but there are techniques I am sure for DIY thumbs that could prove useful. Still, the Internet beckons too. I shall be back like McArthur said (Arnie too!)
Cheers