Outside, leaning out of windows high up on the fourth floor are men wielding paint brushes.

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But the chairs were still trimmed with chipping red paint, and the floor tile seemed, as ever, to fall just short of exhibiting a regular pattern.

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Paint all over the floor.

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Paint cans by Kelley Walker and Wade Guyton line the floor, a chocolate disco ball by Walker hangs in one room, canvases by Neo Rauch and Imen Dorf cram the walls.

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In the couple's mock-Tudor house in Scarsdale, New York, which they share with their three kids, stalactites of peeling paint droop down from the kitchen ceiling, and linoleum curls up from the floor.

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