Almost there, except not

It's been a slow few weeks, all things considered. We have several more coats of paint and a floor, and lovely doors and windows (that absolutely will need covering with room darkening curtains.

The IKEA Pax closet unit are up and starting to be drywalled into the closet corridor. We had to adjust some of the lighting in that corridor that didn't match what the plans said--they were installed centered on the original walls and not taking into account the closets themselves, so there was some extra patchwork that had to happen, which will require yet more paint. (If the picture below doesn't make sense, don't worry--it's a lot of confusing lines and angles--I'll devote more time to it later.)

The pocket door to the hallway was fully reframed and patched back up. It's more level with the rest of the doors and the trim is more symmetric, so that's back on track too.

AND we have a deck. We love our color choice, though now that we see it together with the paint on the siding, we realize that we paired two different grays that fall in similar brightness levels, but with one cool (the deck) with one warm (the exterior) and it's...maybe a bit odd? I don't think it's bad though, and I don't know what our other alternative would have been (a dark gray deck would be hot under foot, we don't really use browns or other colors anywhere else, and our exterior matches the rest of our house). We still do not have railings because of a complication there that happened when we switched from wood to metal, which is a story for a different post.

But the biggest thing we are still missing is here:

It's hard to feel like we're getting close to the end when we don't have a roof. We had estimates and then we had revised estimates and then it was supposed to come last Wednesday but then it was supposed to ship last Wednesday and our poor contracting lead has been on the phone with the roof company every day.

We've been told it's coming tomorrow. We shall see.