A substantial update
Yeah, I’ve been bad at posting updates. I’m sorry. I promise to try to do better next time (emphasis on try).
The good news is that we’ve made incredible progress with the house. We’re not living in it yet but we’ve got most of the items necessary for living installed or scheduled to be installed this month. Our painter finished up over the weekend and our electrician has been incredibly patient with us as we’ve delivered fixtures to him in bulk.
Over the course of this week we hope to get some toilets installed and pass our final electrical inspection, which will in turn mean we can turn on our air conditioner. Once the air conditioner runs for a week or so we should have the bulk of the moisture out of the floor so the flooring company can install the patches, sand, stain, and coat the floors. While we wait for the floors to dry out we plan to install the cork floors in the kitchen and then assemble and mount our kitchen cabinets…
Anyway.
I’ll skip the slideshow and just post the pictures with some comments for context. I apologize for the poor quality but I was trying to get as many as possible before it got too dark — since we still don’t have electricity yet!
Here’s the view from just inside the front door.
Flipped around. We still haven’t figured out what we’re going to do about the side of the stairs.
The really awesome, translucent-bladed fan. I can’t take credit for this idea; I stole it from Jason Hammond’s modern home journal/blog From the Ground Up.
A view from the living room to the dining room and kitchen.
From inside the studio. The fireplace stays!
The central data panel for the house.
The downstairs half-bath. The lines are a little straighter in real life 
A view of the mud room/back entry.
The properly re-installed downstairs A/C unit. The second time is the charm apparently.
Up the stairs…
The laundry room
The hallway. The Master Suite is on the left, two bedrooms on the right, and a bathroom at the end. The leg is Agnes ducking out of the picture…
Inside the master suite. The walk-in closet is through the door.
The other side. The master bath is past the french doors.
The french doors are tall. Eight footers (for when Yao Ming visits).
The shower still needs some painting done above it, so it will stay under plastic for a few days. The glass enclosure should be in very soon!
The office/bedroom 1.
The guest bedroom/bedroom 2.
The guest bath.
Back down the stairs. We still need to find a lighting fixture for this area…
And the thing that capped off an amazing year: The tankless water heater!
Another view of this fabulous piece of green technology.
More to come as we finish more!