Painting a wall
Applying paint to a vertical surface — chosen surface change that the room will live with for years.
Painting a wall in a dream is the dream's image of a chosen surface change that the room will live with for years. The wall is large; the paint commits the eye to a colour every time you enter. The dream brings the action when a deliberate change of tone in your life — in a household, a workplace, a relationship — is being made and is going to outlast the conversation it came out of. A wall painted in a chosen colour cleanly is the dream affirming the change. A wall painted hastily, with the old colour bleeding through, is the dream noting that the change of tone was attempted without preparing the surface, and the old mood is still showing through the new.