Kitchen Wall Color

Here is the color we are trying out in the kitchen for the walls. We'll see what we end up doing for the stove and cabinet colors so it may change.

Kitchen Drywall Sanding Complete! Time to Spray Texture.

So it got a little dusty everywhere with all the sanding. We spent all night vacuuming and cleaning the dust.

Then it was time to tape off all the doors and windows so we could spray the texture throughout the kitchen so the walls would match the rest of the house. Once all the walls are dry, we can paint around with our wall color we are trying out and finish painting the ceiling.

White Christmas

So Christmas Day wasn't exactly white but we did have some frost that stuck around throughout the day - much different looking than the day before when I mowed the lawn.

Removing Kitchen Floor

The linoleum on the kitchen floor will eventually be ripped up and we will refinish the fir floors. However, the back of the house used to be much smaller so half the kitchen has plywood underneath. We went to the ReStore yesterday and bought some more old fir flooring - 110 square feet - to start the process of laying new flooring. We ripped up a small section by the back door to see where the floor ended and plywood began. As you can see, there are many layers of paint on the floor that will need to be sanded off.

Copper Plating

All of the old door hardware was copper plated. It has worn off, so we decided to re-plate it all. Here is a trial of one piece mid-plating.