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Finally, after more than a year of looking at stark white walls, I painted my living room. Now, a beautiful saffron gold complements the furniture and polished hardwood floors and highlights my favorite pieces of art.

I love it.

Whenever I walk through the room, all throughout the day, I notice the way the light plays over the color, shifting as the sun moves across the sky. And, after putting it off for all those months, once I got to work I remembered how much I enjoy the quiet contemplation the chore affords. You can get a lot of thinking done when your hands are busy with a project.

It isn’t a big thing to get out the paint brush and do a room, but it pays big dividends. In the space of an afternoon I took a white box and turned it into a warm and welcoming space.

In one day my house, and my outlook, changed.

That’s the way big things get done. One step, one day, one project at a time.

This week in Home

When Kris Fiala rehabilitated a worn sofa, she rehabilitated a life as well. The story of her newly recovered sofa, done by inmates at the Airway Heights Correction Center, is our centerpiece story.

And, in this week’s Work@Home story, we meet a woman who turned a way to have fun with her own children into a career.

From the story of a couple who built a sunroom from the ground up to tips for keeping garden tools sharp and functional, this week’s issue is full of stories of people who know how to get things done.

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