Breezeway 6: trim and paint and more

On Monday the carpenter and builder busily added trim to all our door and window frames and installed our crown molding. Here are our beautiful deep-set windows, which means we can actually put blinds up within the frame of the window:

Our door trim (the door itself will be coming off):

The builder made a last-minute decision to add crown molding to the brick - he called to say that he reconsidered and thought it looked weird to end it at the drywall and we agreed to go with his judgment. I think it was a good change:

Yesterday, they primed and then today, they started painting (they didn't do any of the "cutting in" so the edges are still bare). We used Knitting Needles by Sherwin Williams, the same as in the living room to help create more of a single space despite the doorways. Here are some pictures between earlier in the week and today:

Now on to the status of the floors. This was our weekend - a fun combination of vinyl and whatever is under the vinyl.

On Monday, the rest of the vinyl came up. On Tuesday morning, this happened to our living room. This is the stage where the remodel really becomes real, when it affects the other rooms of the house. It's freaking me out a bit.

The wood is "conditioning" and expanding/contracting to the temperature and humidity levels of our house, and getting ready to become our new floor. On Monday they also did additional prep work by shaving the cabinet above the refrigerator to compensate for a higher floor. The team broke a water valve in the basement when they shut the connection to the fridge and then immediately replaced it and now, suddenly, the water spigot on the door is actually working for the first time ever. I guess it got an unintended repair...

Last but not least for now, a new addition to the project that I haven't had a chance to share with you yet. We decided a few weeks ago while the "attic" above the garage and new room were exposed that it was a lot of usable space if we could gain access to it. Our builder gave us a couple estimate for either a quick and minimal job or a more polished job. We cheated out and asked for just the basics - pull-down stairs and some plywood between the joists for us to carefully walk on. We can't store anything heavy up there until we add more support on the floor, but for now at least we can get up there and set the stage for a future project. For the moment, it means we have a hole in our garage ceiling: