The nook is gone!

We decided to open up the floor plan just a bit more.  The original plan was to have a little "nook" outside the powder room so that we would have some privacy from the living and dining spaces.  If you were to stand in the middle of the living room, this would have been the view:

The wall in the middle of the drawing is the nook.  Beyond it, the powder room.  The dining room is to the right and the office ("play room" for now) is to the left.

But, now that we've seen the space without walls, we decided that we didn't want the privacy nook after all.  Screw privacy, we want more space!  The entire floor will gain more openness and more light.  And it gives us another reason to make the powder room a show-stopper.  

We've added a half wall between the sink and toilet in order to eliminate a direct line of sight to the toilet (but the sink and mirror will still be visible from certain parts of the main floor).

From a design perspective, this means that our power room will have to coordinate with the other spaces, especially the living and dining rooms.  It will also need amazing wallpaper and some great lighting.

Back to Jonathan Adler I go...

Progress... and more progress!

I hadn't been inside the house for a week, and wow, a lot of progress was made.  I kept driving by waiting for the roof to go up... but as it turns out, the roof was delayed until next week and so they took a hammer to the inside.  More like a sledgehammer.  No bathroom, no kitchen, no bedrooms, no walls... just memories and dust.   

The wall is now gone between the kitchen and Jules' bedroom.  Our kitchen will be located in the same location as before but the dining room will be moved to the back of the house where Jules' bedroom was located.  With the walls gone, it feels much more open.

This photo is looking from the living room into the new dining area.  We removed the original brick fireplace to create flow and openness.  Finally, the house doesn't feel like a 1940s box house - it's starting to feel like it was built in this era.

Here is a photo of the former main bathroom.  The tub (and everything else) is gone and it will be converted into a funky powder room.  IMHO, powder rooms are the place to go nuts.  So we will.  Pretty much anything goes.

This is a photo looking from the new living room/entry area across the home and into... the powder bath.  (Yuck.)  I really REALLY did not want a floor plan where you could see into the bathroom from the main living space.  We originally created a little "nook" off the powder bath so that you could not see right in, but at this point, we're not sure that the nook is the answer.  We're brain storming ideas so that we can keep the open floor plan without a line of sight into the bathroom.  Hmmm...

Overall, I am very pleased with the work.  The team of 6 is working hard and gettin' it done.