The act required a paint roller, the kind usually used for painting houses, and one full bucket of paint.

The students helped with local projects such as paving basketball courts and painting houses, while learning about local cultures and development initiatives.

To support his running, he has worked odd jobs, waiting tables, washing dishes, painting houses, mopping gyms, sweeping malls.

Housepainting: I'll say this about painting houses: It's a great way to become familiar with the state's insect population.

But when he could not get work he liked, he took work he hated, like painting houses.

And so, painting houses in Puerto Rico is art instead of community activism.

Rural Studio achieves this transformation, of both materials and architectural conventions; painting houses to match jungle vegetation does not.

They are now doing all sorts of things - painting houses, delivering pizzas, driving cabs - to make ends meet.

They took the menial jobs Iraqis would not take: painting houses, repairing cars, fixing air-conditioners.

Chavez attended the local school and supplemented his newsboy's wages by washing cars and painting houses.