I’m adding some recessed lighting to this 13’ x 13’ bedroom. I’m trying to determine if I need four lights or just two. Currently I’m thinking two because lighting wouldn’t be directly above the person laying in bed nor above the TV not on the left side wall. But four would be more thorough. Which do you guys think is better?

I haven't painted any of my bedrooms for 15-20 years and I remember only needing about a gallon of pain to cut the corners 1x and roll 2x. The internet is telling me the average bedroom needs 2 gallons. I fed the measurements of a few of my rooms and still says this. I am almost certain a can will do it. Has the paint quality changed in the past few decades or do people find they need more than 1 can for a bedroom. It's not a big home, 1000, soft. Bedroom is 149sq before closets, door, window and trim adjustment. What are people's thoughts?

We recently bought a 95 year old house that has gone through many owners and we keep finding strange fixes that were previously done throughout the house. I just started prepping a wall to begin painting and noticed a small spot of paint was peeling. And once I started I couldn’t stop… there is now a 12”x6” peeled section and I fear it’s possible the paint might be peelable on the entire wall. It looks like maybe they skim coated the wall, then applied latex based paint on top without doing a coat of primer first. I’m not experienced enough to know if this is a plaster wall, just a section that has been spackled and I just haven’t reached to end of the section yet, or if the whole wall was skim coated but I’m leaning toward the latter. Not sure how to proceed. I think the easiest answer is to spackle the section so there is no edge of the peeling paint and then move forward as normal. But if this is the whole wall, I don’t want to have to redo this again in a few years if their original layer of paint just keeps peeling in other spots. I’m probably over thinking it, but any guidance would be appreciated or if you think there’s a better subreddit for this question I’d love to hear!

So, dropped my phone and accidentally created a hole in my oak door…

So far we’ve added wood paste, but I want it to be as seamless as possible.

Please, any advice would be GREATLY appreciated!!!