Finishing details -- floor and ceiling

Finally, the true finishing details have started! The painting is still in progress, but the ceiling installation started earlier this week, as did the kitchen and entryway floor.

The ceiling must be painstaking to install. They are installing about 1/6th of the ceiling every day, so at this rate, they should be done mid next week. Before they started installing the ceiling, they had to install black strips of wood around the perimeter to create a shadow line.

To get the floor tile to flow seamlessly from the entry into the kitchen, they're installing it in long strips, starting in the entryway and finishing at the office, and then starting all over again. It's pretty cool to watch the installation happen.

Speaking of tile, the glass tile we ordered for the downstairs bathroom was supposed to arrive last week. I called and called and called, and finally got ahold of the warehouse who said we were waitlisted until August (!). Upon further probing it turned out that they had enough of the tile to fill our order in their New Jersey warehouse, so it's being shipped and should arrive next week. (Okay, getting to that point wasn't as smooth or as quick as this narrative might imply.)

The downstairs bookshelves are being installed next Tuesday, and the kitchen cabinets will, with a large dose of luck, arrive the second week of July. I hope and pray.

Everything is taking shape, but there is still so so much to do. Once the ceiling's been installed, the electrician can come in and install all the lighting and finish electrical (uh-oh.. I think we'll have to decide on the color of the wall plates... not another decision!).

More pics can be found on Kurt's website.