She minimized paint (using plaster walls inside, stone outside and steel-clad windows) so as to avoid retouching work.

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Every day, he wandered through his rooms, calculating how long it would take to patch the fractured plaster, paint the blotched walls, and glaze the windows.

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We're long past the point of plaster and paint.

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