Here is a closer shot of the kitchen Porcelain floor tile. You see the plumbing for the island and are looking at the inset for the refrigerator next to the door to the pantry.

This is one of the windows. The jamb extensions had to be built out to match the 13 inch thick walls. The stain color was a challenge, because Pella would not divulge the exact formula. We came close and they look very nice.

The great room fan fills up the space nicely. At 8 feet across it is more a piece of art than anything.

This is the kitchen again with all of the flooring done. At the bottom you see the island plumbing, the pantry door is on the left, and the breakfast nook will be by the windows.

Here is a little view of the green accent walls… there are little bits of green through the whole living area accenting the architecture and creating an art piece. Here you are looking at the living room (between the sconces) above there is an arched window, that is the reading room with the entryway below.

This is looking the other direction from the same place as the above picture, if you were to walk around the wall on the left you would be looking out the front door. The window you see there is the dining room, above that is the library with the catwalk leading to the reading room.

Ever wonder what 3000 sq feet of wood flooring looked like? Here you go!

and now to install it… They got the entire upstairs installed, plus the master bedroom while the guys were here! Hard workers!

AND they got the whole house primed and painted a beautiful cream color.

Wow has it been busy around here! 

Bullet points:

First the sheet rock was put up at floor level, while the tubing was being laid for the in floor heating. Then the gypcrete was poured. The drywallers finished putting up the sheet rock and hand taped and mudded everything (we ran dehumidifiers, electric and propane heaters constantly to dry the floors, walls and keep the place warm in -20 to 30 degree weather for the last month while they worked) They worked on texturing this last week, followed closely behind with primer by our favorite helpers again! The guys (Don and Joe) came BACK again this month and have been priming, painting, fixing, building, installing, running errands and are now putting down flooring… With a tiny bit of card playing if they aren’t asleep when then get back at night.