several rooms later , including a rather odd one with several power cables hanging from the ceiling and long tables that put her in mind of a manufacturing sweat-shop , she finally found what shed come looking for stacked neatly together where the hallway widened to one side and ended in large double doors that darcy supposed might lead outside in tidy piles was a large cache of tools , mops , brushes , rollers and trays and large paint pails labelled as white paint , and the much searched-for extension ladder .