Paintbrushes gone wild

THANK you for the article on Doug and Mary Kottler’s color-filled home [“They’re Just Wild Inside,” April 3]. My dad once knocked out a wall and, after finishing off the larger room, took black paint and blocked out large rectangles. He handed my sister and me (we were around 10 and 12) paintbrushes and lots of cans of colors, and he told us to fill in the rectangles. Then my parents went out for the evening!

Over the years, we had people stop to see “the wall.” We had no clue who they were or who sent them. My grandmother refused to sit facing it.

Zee Schaffner

Valley Village