The starting point . . .

After months of talking about it on and off, we finally decided to go ahead and remodel the house. We started with this:

Picture 1: (the original layout of the house) - note, if you can, the view upon immediately entering the house - it was of the hall closet and bathroom.

And went through many iterations, beginning with the idea of just removing the wall that separated the kitchen and the “train room” (formal living room) . . . (this isn't exactly right - no hallway shown to the left of the front door. Sorry.)

To the “AHA!” moment of “what if we moved the bathroom and hall closet . . .

So the plan is all set . . .