Goodbye Popcorn!

Scott and I are SO excited to be starting our kitchen remodel!  We've ordered the cabinets and they are scheduled to arrive at the end of April, so we've got a month to get everything ready.  We imagine this project should be fairly easy - just take down a wall, rip out the floor, and add an island...piece of cake! Haha!


There was just one slight issue with this "easy" project...most of the house had popcorn ceiling, but the kitchen didn't.  Our options were either to (a) scrap off all the popcorn ceiling or (b) add popcorn to the kitchen (although the idea of adding MORE of the dreadful popcorn gives me the heebie-jeebies!).  So we had our popcorn tested for asbestos (this would help determine our options) and it was asbestos free, so we started scrapping!

The finished dining room!  It is so much brighter and lighter! 

Thank goodness we don't have carpet because it created quite the dusty mess!  We're still trying to get rid of all the dust! 

It was a lot of work, but our ceiling looks SO much better and it hasn't even been retextured!  Once the wall comes down, we'll texture the whole ceiling! 

Next up - removing the wood from above the mantel and the wood wall from the entry way.  There is just way too much wood in this house! (I do realize these projects are not kitchen related, but are easy to do since we'll be working on the ceiling more!)