Bathroom

Shower and walls: tiled Perhaps use different/colorful tiles in detail sections such as recessed shelves in shower for storage, perhaps use fancy tiles on edge of shower wall, etc. Floor: tile or naturestone

Bedroom and closet area

Walls (in closet): completely covered in built-ins and shelves, preferably. Walls (in bedroom): drywall with trim at about 7', perhaps contrasting paint above and below rail. perhaps do wood paneling behind bed only. Floor: cork or something equally tootsie friendly Ceiling: wood paneling, do the bedroom fancy: say a slightly curved ceiling or a patterned ceiling, eg. orient the paneling so it radiates out from the center or something, or parquet, etc.

Media Room

Walls: wood paneling where the walls aren't covered with bookshelves or other built-ins, though the thought of covering every wall with built-ins is cool too. Ceiling: wood paneling (different from paneling on walls) Floor: Cork or something equally squishy so sitting on the floor is comfy.

Living Room (Vaulted area)

Walls: wood paneling with lots of trim: perhaps a chair rail or rail on wall where ceiling is in rest of house, etc. Ceiling: Wood paneling Floors: Cork or wood of some kind. (biggest concern with cork is that our future dogs will tear it up. from what i've read, cork is susceptible to pet's claws.)

Chimney

We are going to re-skin the chimney with stone veneer. Here's one that I like: Cultured Stone- http://www.culturedstone.com/products/productdetail.asp?id=21

Kitchen

East Wall: tiled up to open shelving, then drywall behind and above shelving. also, perhaps instead of tile as a backsplash, maybe just screw glass over something colorful, such as cut paper, leaves or paint, etc. West Wall: covered mostly open shelved pantry with something translucent behind, such as sanded plexi, etc so light will get down into stairway to basement. Booth: wood paneling on walls and ceiling. I like the idea of keep the ceiling high in there, but putting in an implied ceiling, and a beam across the opening at roughly soffit height (where the ceiling was before we tore it out).

Attic Access

This is a cool loft ladder: (click here and then click on "spacesaver staircases". I like the "Loftmaster.") http://www.afstaircases.com/index2.htm