That old bathroom off the living room is NO MORE

The very first time Curtis & I walked through the house, I told him the bathroom had to go.  What a weird place to put a bathroom... in the formal living room, directly across from the front door.  With a few "little" changes, it will be gone -- wahoo!!  That space will now be a mudroom/half bath, to be accessed from the back of the house, with a nice coat closet now in the living room.  Of course, everything is a work in progress, so right now, it is just a gigantic empty shell.  But one of these days, this place is going to start to resemble a real house, not just a real old house.

Before it can be anything, it must first be a big ol' hole.

The new doorway into the mudroom

Looking from the new doorway through the mudroom, into the living room.