When I was in highschool one of my friends lived with his large family in a house they had built themselves. The top floor was fully finished, but the middle floor and basement had never been finished, and when I knew him it had been a decade since they had moved in. His mother gave me the excellent advice of "never move into a house till it is finished--you think you will be able to keep working on it when you live there, but you won't". somehow, seeing these photos reminded me of his house...