My wife and I recently bought a really old house that we're going to renovate. First step is to pull down some badly-installed sheetrock in the entryway to expose the original shiplap boards underneath. We want to paint those so that we get the effect of having the exposed wood. She was trying to put together a project plan last night. For reference, I'm a project manager by trade, so it's clear this wasn't going to go so well. Two of the steps involve pulling down the existing sheetrock, and finishing the boards underneath, and she could not figure out what order to do this in. I spent 20 minutes explaining why you had to pull the sheetrock down first before you could paint the boards underneath. I have no idea how I managed to not run screaming from the building. She kept saying "I have to think visually". Ok, I get that, but we finally got to the point where I said "you're ready to paint, but you haven't pulled the sheetrock down yet. What are you painting?". The answer is "sheetrock", not what she was looking for. I'm still not sure she believes me.