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DIY you can finish on a Saturday

Practical projects for the rooms and outdoor spaces you already have — tools, measurements and the steps in order.

Three overlapping painted pumpkins with orange and white streaked through each stroke

Load Two Colours on the Brush at Once

By Mia Caldwell

Autumn window painting with a shaded fox, toadstools and an oak leaf border

You Cannot Paint That Fox. Paint the Border.

By Mia Caldwell

A painted row of pumpkins along the bottom of a classroom window, leaving the glass above clear

A Row of Pumpkins Divides Between Thirty Children

By Mia Caldwell

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Three painted pumpkins with simple faces on a playroom window

You Paint the Pumpkin, They Paint the Face

By Mia Caldwell

Autumn harvest painting across a shopfront, filling the lower corner and leaving the centre clear

A Shop Window You Cannot See Into Looks Shut

By Mia Caldwell

Black cat and bare branch silhouettes against a painted cream moon on a window

Paint Silhouettes and You Cannot Get It Wrong

By Mia Caldwell

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