Accomplished but not done

After fighting us tooth and nail for two plus years, the great city of San Francisco finally relented and gave us a certificate of occupancy for the house. To share this news with everyone, and to save a bit of money, I found an absolutely incredible deal on a great banner to hang on the house -- here is the only time the banner was used and it is still in absolutely pristine shape:



I think it would look pretty good on the house:



Just like the last time this banner was used, our mission is nowhere near done. In fact, in most construction projects it takes a while to work out all the details that are left over from construction. For example, here is the contractor working on the punch list on this famous project (he claims they are only a couple of weeks away from getting the last couple of items off the list and that the Pharaoh could not be more pleased with the progress):



We don't have that kind of time and to move things along, in addition to banner shopping, we have been attending to lot of details that will turn this house into a home:

For example, the window coverings were installed this week. These are the high tech vertical drapes for the front windows. Here's how they look when they are open:



Press a button on this remote control ....



And they close off automatically:



The master bedroom and master bath got somewhat less high tech Roman shades:





The master closet skylights got cellular shades that let in the light but keep out the UV rays.





To compensate for the loss of direct natural light, we added a little extra lighting:





Some bits of furniture also got here:




All that work made me a little tired and I decided to take a nap in our recently-delivered bed (a tad uncomfortable, at least until the mattress gets here):



Some of our high-tech communication gear was also installed:




Despite all of these accomplishments, bits of green tape remind us that the mission is far from done:



Let's hope the post "mission accomplished" work is nowhere as arduous or as dangerous as it was for the original owner of the banner. We have some work ahead of us, but I am not planning on a surge any time soon.