Face Lift

Last week we decided that the kitchen could use a little paint on the ceiling and on the walls. It should only take us a day to paint. So off to Home Depot we head.

After an hour or so, that's right an hour or more, we are headed home with paneling for the ceiling, two new light fixtures, a new ceiling fan, (the old ceiling fan hung down a little to far and to walk under it was to put the top of your head in danger and I couldn't open the cupboard doors with the fan on) and light yellow paint for the walls. I have that sinking feeling that our two hour job is going to grow into a monster again.

It took one whole day just to put up the furring strips to hold the paneling, we found that part of the original ceiling was starting to detach itself from the rafters and it would not have held up without the furring strips. Another 2 days were spent getting the paneling attached to the ceiling, thank god for neighbors. It took 3 people, Hubby, myself to hold it in place and another person to use the staple gun to shoot it into place, At times I felt like I needed a 45 mag. to shoot, I can see the humor now, but at the times I got rather distressed when I say go left, my left of course, only they were facing the opposite way and moved it their left, which was my right.

The light fixtures went fairly smoothly until we both had a brain fart, and wired the second light backwards, it didn't start a fire, but we did burn out two switches, until we noticed that we had wired the switch wrong. We self installed pull switches to the light so that we could leave the ceiling fan on all the time, but still turn the lights off.

The next few days were spent painting, washing the outside of the cupboards, installing trim and all the piddley stuff that has to be done to get things back to a usable space, (I got to eat out a couple of those days because you couldn't use the kitchen to cook in). I only had one more project for the kitchen and it's face lift would be complete. That was to put something in that hole in the wall. Little Louie finally had a place to call his own, Little Louie is another story in itself, one day I'll tell you all about him.
Done at last....... (Now as I look around, that hall way could use some paint......)