Oops, I Muraled Again

A crafty couple in Jackson Heights cover their one-bedroom apartment in floor-to-ceiling color.

- BY WENDY GOODMAN

A crafty couple in Jackson Heights cover their one-bedroom apartment in floor-to-ceiling color. Again MADISON BERG and James McGann try not to buy anything new. They drove hours upstate to pick up a living-room couch they found on Craigslist. And on a drive to the Catskills, they found a lamp and a chair on the side of the road and hauled them back to the city. Considering the monumental work McGann has done painting their Jackson Heights apartment, it’s clear the couple, both in their 30s, know how to economize on materials too.

“We go to the Home Depot ‘Oops’ paint section and see what they have,” Berg says, referring to the discount corner of the store stocked with incorrectly mixed paints. “That's how we decide what to color a room.”