Mother and child painting cardboard house outside - Fiona Jackson-downes And Dirk Lindner/Getty Images Painting can be a therapeutic activity, and you don't have to be Van Gogh or Kahlo to enjoy it.
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 ...