Raising the Roof

Today we start the tedious process of raising the roof, er, ceiling in the kitchen. We tried to do so yesterday with just us two, and that was hilarious. We quickly learned that two people alone can't put up a ceiling because of the weight of the drywall. We are going to recruit a friend or two to help us get it installed. Hopefully it will be a quick project.

While Alan was working in the kitchen last night, I was working on stripping the paint off the old cabinetry that we will be reusing in there. I had sanded them down, thinking I could just paint over the old paint, but they weren't as smooth as I had hoped due to there being about ten coats of paint on them. Seriously, there were about ten different colors. Crazy. I am using a Citrus-based paint stripper because it is low VOC, biodegradable, and because I don't want my skin to peel off if the stripper were to get on me. The stuff is great. It smells amazingly good, not a chemical type smell at all. It seems to be doing the job, too.