The bed retains much of its original brown paint and is dated 1790.

In fact, one reader told us, it had a fresh coat of brown paint and there were new windows.

"I was down on the floor covered in brown paint," he remembered.

Off to the right, the staircase was an exercise in peeling layers of brown and blue paint.

Blue, red, yellow, light purple and brown paints were applied to a white ground.

He hoped his own men would have the time to slap green and brown paint on them before the shooting started.

This failed, however, and on November 3 a road crew covered the painting with brown paint.

In 1964, museum workers scraped off all of the brown and white paint, getting down to the bare wood.

The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents.

Or do they coat their skin with dark brown paint?