I've been lazy here for the last couple of months, so I'm going to try and play catch up over the next couple of weeks. We've finished up the room (though we don't actually have any furniture for it) shown in these pictures, but I'll just pretend it's not done yet here! This is the purple room, which is the room we replaced the windows in, an upstairs bedroom, we ended up taking it down to the studs, as we the wiring was pretty shady in there. Part of the walls were plastered, you can see the hallway walls in the picture below, which is drywall over plaster.
All the power in this room is on a new circuit, so the other bedrooms are less stressed as well. Of course, I also managed to run cable and cat5 up to this room, because I can't help myself.

Julie and I drywalled and taped the room over a long weekend. She was an animal hanging drywall, so in the next room, I'll be leaving all that to her. I'll just come in when there's painting to be done. I figured people would appreciate the complete mess of drywall dust that we had partway through the sanding, mudding cycle. You can also see the beginning of the "bay" window seat builtin. The window seat will have three small bookshelves in the front and hidden storage underneath, which will be accesible from the top via a trap door. You can see the three bookshelf boxes in the picture above, I'd just leveled them on a base and attached them to the floor and each other (hence the clamps hanging off of them). When I did this I was planning on building and staining pine face frames.
We painted the room kind of a sky-blue color. We're planning on doing white trim in here, so we wanted a rich color to set off the white trim. We want to do paneled walls with a plate rail in here, so lots of white against the blue. The walls actually came out quite good, which is probably a minor miracle and only took 3 mud/sand cycles. I was prepared for more, but we did a pretty good job, I think.
We found a hardwood supplier in the next county over that harvests and mills locally (Schuyler county), which was pretty cool. It took two trips by me and one trip by Julie, but we finally decided on birch with a cherry border. We had intially thought Oak, then I wanted cherry with a maple border, on and on. Finally, Julie really liked the look of Birch, and so we went with that. We used 3 1/4 strips, but I think I actually like the 2 1/4 better. The mill has also recently started making quarter-sawn oak and they're doing up to 10" wide stuff. If only I could get my hands on some unfinished walnut 2 1/4 flooring I'd be a happy man! Either way, I managed to just barely jam 160 square feet of birch and cherry hardwood flooring in the Audi, and I figured you'd appreciate the picture. Around every corner, the pile of wood tried to squish me, but I made it home! Snow and all!