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Beyond taking down the wall which separated it from the kitchen (and having the new floors installed) the primary action was sanding the entire redwood wall to remove the dark stain – that was messy, messy, noisy work, with good help from brother-in-law Tim. Sister Sue and Jeph shared the job of removing paint from the Douglas Fir beam. That involved several courses of applying a non-toxic orange oil based paint remover, and scraping 50 years of paint from the beam.