New Project: The Kitchen.

We have moved on from the living room to the kitchen.

The way the kitchen looked when we first moved in.

When we first moved in we removed the really ugly wood paneling from the kitchen. It was dark. It made the room that I think should be bright and cheery and easy to work in feel more like a dungeon. So we pulled the paneling down. Underneath we found cute old farm wallpaper. We did not know what to do with the wallpaper. It seemed too precious to rip off or cover up. So we left things as they were for a while. But finally decided we could not leave it in a half-finished state any longer.

Kitchen wall with paneling removed.

Bill came up with the idea of putting the paneling back up and covering it. Bill and his brother, John, filled the gaps in the paneling with Spackle. Then they sanded it down.

Paneling is back up, it has been Spackled, and John is sanding it.
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Afterward, Bill primed the wall and radiators.

Unfortunately, the wood stain from the paneling seeped through the three layers of primer.

A close-up of the stain coming through the primer.

Then I painted the wall with Valspar Satin color Churchill Hotel Maple. It looks nice.There is more work to do. We are actually going to pull off another piece of paneling and fill in the wall and paint it. There are a couple of walls with wallpaper that we will remove and paint. And Bill will install trim.