Two parts ceiling

To be exact, it's not really the new ceiling but rather new soffit. So a soffit is the underside of an architectural structure such as an arch, an overhang or a dropped ceiling. Again, since there are no crawl space between the roof and the ceiling, to put in recessed lights a soffit needs to be built to house the fixtures. Another reason for the soffit is to have the top of the cabinets level with the ceiling.

The original soffit in the kitchen was found to have a 3 inch disparity corner to corner. Most likely it's due to the hidden removed post I mentioned in the beginning of July that we discovered after the cabinets were removed. Besides, the positions of the lights and the extent of the new cabinets make it impossible to reuse the original soffit. This is the first carpentry work in the house, and the crew seems to be rather efficient.

For the post between the living room and the kitchen there will be cabinets, so the post is extended to 16.5" to enclose the cabinets.

The second soffit is built in the bathrooms. Due to the new style ventilation, the 2nd bathroom needs to be connected to the exhaust in the master bathroom. To hide the pipeline to the exhaust, a part of the ceiling has to be dropped. I thought that would not look nice, so the compromise is to have a 6" drop down soffit in both of the bathrooms. The ceiling in an Eichler is already rather low, but at least it's better this way than having some random drop downs here and there.

I hope the finished ceiling won't feel too claustrophobic...

Other carpentry work includes cutting out the right space to recess the medicine cabinet. Seriously the amount of stuff between the walls are unbelievable. You can also see all the new electrical wirings all lined up there too.
Later on, we will soon have the built in faucet, toilet and more. Amazing use of space between the wall.

Just in case you don't remember, the picture to the left was before the cut out, the picture to the right is the framed space for the medicine cabinet:

this is the cut out framed space in the master bedroom

See all the nicely weaved electrical cables.

And last of all, the frame of the new door to the bathroom. It didn't use to exist, so now there will be a set of matching doors in the master bedroom.

Talking about doors, there are so many hideous door knobs. Of course the nice ones are just ridiculously priced. Actually so are some really crazy looking ones too. No surprise there.