Ceiling prep

Our redwood is here!!! We ordered a bunch of redwood through my father in law, we got it for a heck of a deal! Now the work begins.

My dear husband getting ready for a long day of spraying lacquer on all of the boards.

We rented a sprayer from a local equipment rental place and got some lacquer from Sherwin Williams. The guy was supposed to sell us semi-gloss, and gave us satin instead. Oh well, we used it anyway. It turned out fine after a few practice boards.

SO pretty!!! We stacked them all to dry, and unfortunately some of them were still a little tacky, so we had to sand a bunch of the boards before putting them up. Or rather Rudy, the guy that put them up for us, had to sand. Lol!

A friend ripping out the hideous flourescent lighting in the kitchen.

another shot of lighting getting ripped out.

Ewww! 

Kevin started working on the lighting, he had to put in a bunch of can lights in the living room and move the lights above the bar and remove the old ones (that is what he is doing here).

His adoring audience ;)

There were only TWO. LIGHTS. IN. THE. LIVING ROOM. Really. The black patch is tape from when Kevin took out the old nasty brass can lights and the lights there now are the new ones.

In the process of adding can lights

Look at the beautiful ceiling. Just look at it!!

full shot, and all lights done! Ready for wood.