| Making an old house look great is not as difficult as | | | | them if they would come and do a course for these |
| you might think. Here is some cheap tips you can | | | | pupils on painting techniques and they agreed. |
| follow to give a new life to your old home. | | | | The pupils from the school started painting the house |
| We moved into an old house in a part of town where | | | | after they did the course. They were having so much |
| all the houses look exactly the same. They all look tired | | | | fun that the school decided that they want to do this |
| and nobody really wanted to stay there. | | | | on an ongoing basis. Obviously not to many |
| This is what we did to make our house stand out from | | | | homeowners want this to happen to their house, so |
| the rest: | | | | we agreed that they can paint our house every |
| | | | season on the condition that the school supply the |
| 1. We went to a local paint shop and asked them if | | | | paint. |
| they have any paint that were very cheap. We bought | | | | Now this is were it gets really interesting. The local |
| a couple of litres from them in different colors. | | | | paint shops started sponsoring the pupils with paint but |
| 2. We went to the local schools and told them we | | | | expensive paint because their names are attached to |
| want to launch a creativity project where we need | | | | each project. |
| pupils to paint our house in any way they want to and | | | | Our house currently is one of the nicest looking houses |
| we will supply the paint. | | | | in town and it doesn't cost us a cent. |
| 3. We then went back to the paint shops and asked | | | | |