There are eight houses in need of sprucing-up, each more difficult to re-decorate than the last. Multiply by six skill levels and you end up with 48 different screens.

Each room in a house is painted simply by walking through it. Lifts are a vital ingredient in this medley which also features various itinerant paint buckets; they are your roving hazards. A little sweetie-pie is ever ready to dab her mitts all over your handy work but she can be kept amused and out of harm's way with a supply of candy-canes.

Now we can't do without bonus objects so there's paint rollers full to collect. Watch out for the steam pipes from building five onwards. Get the picture? A classic scenario given a fresh coat of paint.

Much use is made of the Nutcracker Suite; coupled with the ability to select the painter's gender and we have a program well suited to the family. A good example of its kind ad another excellent import from State Soft.