Dressed in torn jeans and an oversized old T-shirt, event consultant Moneeta Chainani, 28, has tied her hair up into a bun, the kind we imagine she would have had while dipping a roller sponge brush into a bucket of red paint and running it all over the bedroom wall of her two BHK Andheri apartment in an unrehearsed stroke, back in October 2011. Today, she looks at it and smiles.

Andheri-based event consultant Moneeta Chainani, 28, painted her wall last October. Pc/Rane Ashish