Sorry for the big delay in getting pictures up recently.  Things have been busy at work and we've had other commitments this spring besides the house...and even managed to fit in a beach vacation recently.  That being said, we have been working hard on the house, so here are the pictures to prove it.

Sarah nailing up some trim to cover the semi-ugly LVL beams and connectors.

The top of the beam along with the rest of the living room will get crown moulding at some point in the future.  Next we'll need to box out the columns.  In the background you can see the new hardwood flooring just waiting to be installed, but first we had to let it acclimate to the room's humidity for about a week.

The next step was to lay down 15# roofing felt.  This will help keep moisture from coming up through the subfloor into the hardwood.

...and here we go on the installation.  We're laying down 2 1/4" wide oak flooring.  We were going to go with an exotic wood at one point but A.) it's much more expensive and B.) we didn't like the idea of having a non-native wood in our old house.  So oak it is.

Here's my new toy; a pneumatic flooring nailer.  It's a Numax off of Amazon...only about $140 bucks and hasn't had a misfire yet.

By the end of the weekend we had about 75% of the living/kitchen area done.  We had a few mistakes to correct along the way, some minor, one major, but it should all be done fairly soon.