I don't know if there'll be any lightning to capture. It all stays up in the clouds rather than shoot bolts we can see. That's been the case for a while now and it's frustrating. It's not very frequent tonight either and not worth standing outside to wait.
No, we won't paint the paneling. We'll leave it as it is. You're right that it isn't real dark paneling so we can live with it. The other house has dark paneling in every room but the kitchen and bathrooms and it was depressing.
The living room is large and there's no wall between it and the kitchen so it's a nice open, airy space. Da kittehs like it. :-)
The wall Hubby took forever tearing out was where the carpet and wood floor meet. The room was all carpet originally and why Hubby's B-I-L put the wall in and ripped out that section of carpet is beyond us.
I like that open concept. I wish ours was, but this house was built in the early 60s and the rooms are small, closed off and the windows small. We could have probably opened up the kitchen/dining and the living room, but we never had the kind of money it takes to do that kind of remodeling. Plus I hate the house and never wanted to deal with it.