Another BIG change!

Kurt had a surprise for me when I arrived home from Denver. He had removed the ceiling above our kitchen. What a change to have a 12 foot high ceiling instead of the barely 6.5 foot ceiling...
Here is the kitchen with the old ceiling still in place and before our remodeling efforts of this spring....

Here is the kitchen before the new floor but with the new window (on the left) in place.....

Here is the kitchen today.... new floor (which Kurt did in May) and the raised ceiling and new beam overhead.

Taking out the lowered ceiling exposed the original ceiling boards-- and some of the old blue wall paper.

I really like the look of the boards in the ceiling- but there is no insulation above them so they will have to be covered when we put up insulation.