Whoa!

I knew DH was going to be talking to some folks this week. The framer/carpenter was going to come over and they would figure out a plan for leveling the floors. There's a lot of elevation changes due to previous, not-so-carefully-planned "improvements" and some settling. So imagine my surprise when I came home to this:

Figuring if there WAS no floor in Living Room (where I usually enter the house), L would have told me, I gingerly opened the door to find this:

The Living Room and hallway have been stripped of original finished floor. The really bad parquet tile work, stripped off a month ago, had just been glued onto the original floor, probably in the late 70's or early 80's. This is the true subfloor and the knotholes are open to the basement.

The finish stairway guy was here (didn't expect him til Wednesday) and will work up a bid for doing the rails, balusters and newel posts. The treads will be hardwoods and the risers will be painted. There MAY be wainscoting along the stairwell wall. L's not convinced yet, but I think it would look substantial and classy.

In other news, we ordered the Celtic knotwork tile trim pieces. This is slate blue, ours will be a subtle sagey green. Yes, this is the same pix from a couple days ago.

They are probably 4-6 weeks out. L thinks the half-bath will be functional NEXT WEEK; 90% of the tile can go in. The trim and top course will be finished once it gets here. I thought we'd have to paint first, but L says we'd have to touch up after the tile guy was done anyway, so we might as well wait. Besides, then we'll know what the REAL color is.

We bought faucet fixtures for the half-bath as well. L bought the sink last week, but it's still in the box, so no good pix yet.

Did take a quick look at stovetop, but it is literally just a flat, black surface so that would not make an interesting pix.