Painting the kitchen: I finished! And it looks great. It took me two full hours just to tape everything off - that was definitely the biggest job. I primed everything and painted the ceiling on Saturday, then put two coats of paint on the walls today. I've pulled most of the tape off - I'm finding that I need to score everything to get the tape to come off cleanly, so its taking a while. I still think it would have been better to paint prior to hanging the cabinets, or at least before the countertop and appliances went in. The refrigerator was the biggest issue - because I have a galley kitchen, I had to keep moving it to block the doorway to climb behind it and paint. But, its done! I took pictures - I'll post them later.