I'm doing kitchen renovation and want to remove a few walls. Those are on the first floor of a 2 story house(no basement). I've opened a few of them and did my best to provide all the pictures. I opened the ceiling and checked how joists run above those walls. Looks like they just run through them a few feet past the walls I'm considering to remove. 1&2 is a small closet. 3&4 is has only 1 wire inside which is going into the slab. the niche between those walls was supposed to be a built in desk [![enter image description here][1]][1] [![enter image description here][2]][2] [![enter image description here][3]][3] [![enter image description here][4]][4] [![enter image description here][5]][5] 1. Can I remove them (Wall 1,2,3,4) and make the back wall flush? 2. Should I reinforce those joists? For example I can do sistering with a plywood from both sides of them. Edit: [![enter image description here][6]][6] Wall 1/2 Intersection with trusses: [![enter image description here][7]][7] [![enter image description here][8]][8] [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/Id5Kz.jpg [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/Ru8Bz.jpg [3]: https://i.sstatic.net/1lb5y.jpg [4]: https://i.sstatic.net/be6QV.jpg [5]: https://i.sstatic.net/FgOlz.jpg [6]: https://i.sstatic.net/OLz0x.jpg [7]: https://i.sstatic.net/sQq6z.jpg [8]: https://i.sstatic.net/zzeT9.jpg