It is finished! (almost)

After four long weeks of installation we finally have a brand new central air-conditioning system!  Our house did not have central air before.  Instead, we relied on an old, clunky wall unit in the living room, a window unit in Emily's room and a ceiling fan in almost every room to make things tolerable.  Our house also has a hot water heat system, so there was no existing duct work.  Everything had to built from scratch.  This meant giving up a space in the main room of the basement, lower ceilings in the basement, giving up the back of a closet in the main floor hallway and a little less space in the walk-in attic.  All in all, it's a small price to pay for comfort (at least in my opinion).  We also had to decide where all the holes would be cut in the walls/ceilings/floors for registers.  Thankfully, most of that work got done while the kids & I were gone and Austin had all the mess cleaned up by the time we got back. :o)

The project is not entirely finished because Austin has to drywall over the duct work in the closet and remove the old wall unit and patch that in.  We also have to eventually decide what to do with the basement ceiling.  It had been finished with white square tiles nailed onto strips on the floor joists.  The tiles had to be randomly removed to make way for the new duct work, which hangs down below the floor joists in some places.  A drop ceiling would make it really low and cave-like.  Leaving it all open makes it look more unfinished.  Any good ideas?