The trim carpenter is still working. He's currently finishing up the curved handrail at the bottom of the steps. We were hoping that the painters would be able to get started tomorrow, but I'm not sure that's going to happen. I think the trim carpenter's going to need another day to finish. If the painters to come this week, then we are hopeful that the flooring will come next week.

We're not sure about this handrail, though. Since part of the wall going down is straight and part of it is curved, he had to do two rails attached to the wall. So there's a straight rail down 2/3 of the wall, then it ends, and the curved rail then starts and goes to the end of the wall. Then another curved rail with spindles will complete the stairs to the bottom. Strange....