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The doorjamb between the living room and the kitchen. “One day when we were kind of under the influence we started chipping away the paint and found that there were literally 15 layers of color on these walls,” says Mead. “But it’s cool because we got all the way down to the wood. It’s like a Gobstopper; it was bright red in here at some point. We were going to do the whole door frame like this but we sort of lost interest — there was a huge mess on the floor, and we were like our dog’s going to eat paint chips.’” Says Boatright: “It was a motif we wanted to continue throughout the apartment to make light of the age and use of the apartment over the years.”