The floor goes down...

Couldn't resist a picture of the six-month old cherub. This is her while her Dad pounds away with his nail gun.

A picture of the hearth that Todd finished (mostly) in the fall. He's still putting tile on the wall under the light switch to the left and tiling the mudroom to the front door (also on the left).
This shot shows how the tile and the ipe wood color go nicely together.
Todd pounds away. The square behind him is the cistern lid that now has wood on top of it. The lid will lift up with two recessed pulls that will the routed in to be flush. The door will be under a carpet and heavy so that no little people can pull it up and fall in.
Down the hall for the longest run of wood.
Todd finished laying all the ipe today. Tomorrow he has to fill little plugs where he screwed the wood in where it was too close to use the nail gun. He's also relaying the sycamore flooring in the small dressing room. Floor finishers will be here on Wednesday.