Ceiling Progress

We spent our long weekend (courtesy of Martin Luther King Day) putting up trim boards. After we finally finished putting up all of the drywall, we then painted the entire ceiling a bright white (Valspar Ultra White in a Satin finish) to contrast with a light grey walls.
*Most of the time if I am doing light walls, I will continue the same color up onto the ceiling, but with this decorative ceiling we decided to paint it all the bright white our other trim and baseboards will be.
After giving our necks a few days' break, we got all of our trim boards up. We decided to glue and finish nail them, just to make extra sure they would stay put.

This is what it looked like when we got it all up:

Looking pretty good, right? Well, from far away, it doesn't look too bad, but close up, this is what it looks like before we fill in all the nail holes and caulk all the seams and edges (oh, and give it all one more coat of paint):

Yes, still lots of work left before we can pronounce this project done -- but we're making progress! We're planning to have the living room/dining room part of the ceiling completely done this weekend. (It never hurts to hope...)