What is the White Church Gallery?

Mike and Carrie Zaitz are renovating an old Methodist Church in Grindstone City, Michigan. Mike claims he just wanted a place to work on his art. He sold Carrie on it, since she's usually up for adventures. From that happy December of 2011 till now, the investment in time and money has seen the church rebuilt from its glorious bones into a work of art, in progress. Carrie is documenting the process because, well, it's easier to hold a camera than to hold an edging sander. She's done both, because she is having an adventure, but it is Mike who drives this project with his intelligence, talent and energy. Together they are working toward creating an art gallery. A gallery which holds objects of beauty and inspiration, but which always points back to the source, our heavenly Father.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Scraping, Painting.

We've started painting the outside of the Church.


The first investment was a "Paint Eater."

The yellow device eats paint
Scrape, then paint. Scrape some more, then paint some more. Two coats of Sikkens white does the trick. You can hear the sucking sound as the old wood takes it in.





Upward!

Scrape

Pretty!

Paint

Now the north face...

Before


Scrape, paint, scrape, paint...

After
After two weekends, we made some serious progress...

After the first weekend

And after the second weekend. 
I wish I could just photoshop the rest of it in! Notice we started low. It's only going to get tougher as we ascend. But we can't stop now!

Meanwhile the road is being prepped. Two years of gravel ,then it will get paved. Right now catch basins and drain pipes are being installed. $$ Yowch!

Luckily it's not a long, nor winding road!


And the road will lead to our favorite place, White Church Gallery!


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