New hardwood nearly done

Well, we're almost there, with about $2800 worth of hardwood, $500 worth of tile and materials and $2000 in installation costs. Hardwood installed in living/dining room, den, foyer, and bedroom hallway. Tile installed in entranceway at front door, kitchen, master bath, and 1/2 bath. It's been a long haul, nearly two weeks, but in my previous experience, that's about what you expect with any home projects, it always takes longer than projected.
The floor man completed the hardwood installation yesterday and comes back today to put up baseboards and threshold covers, but other than that, he's pretty well done.
This first pic is of my den. I was pleased to see that the hardwood was just a shade lighter than the walnut paneling, which makes the room really come together. I don't have the braided rug down yet, waiting for the floor man to complete his final touches and then will put it down later today, more pics after that. This still looks pretty rough, because I haven't cleaned up yet, but it gives you an idea of the looks of the room anyway. Click on a pic to see a really large version of it.

This next pic is of the bedroom hallway. Again, no baseboards yet, but I was pleased to see that the new hardwood really goes with the wood color on the doors to closets and bedrooms.
I had not planned to put rugs in the bedroom hallway but then hubbie started grousing about cold feet, so I found the ones in the pic at TJ Maxx yesterday. They're not perfect but at least they match my other geometric contemporary rugs in the living room and foyer. I'll probably end up replacing these.

Next: Carpet removal in the bedrooms and see whether the hardwood in them needs refinished. The color of the existing hardwood on cursory inspection is not very far off what I had installed, so this is going to be interesting to see whether I have to get it refinished.
I was pleased to see that the previous installers only used a wood strip with nails in it to secure the carpeting, which hopefully is going to make removal a bit easier. The floor man said the strips in the rooms where he worked were not very hard to break loose, the key is going to be trying to get them up without marring the finish.
I've been researching this and bought a mini-pry-bar at Wal-Mart yesterday to try to make this a tad easier. First, however, I have to empty out the stuff in the bedrooms that I put there to empty out the living/dining room and den, which should take about a half-day. Whew! This home improvement stuff is really WORK!