That old bathroom.....

One thing that I hated about this house is that the previous owners had installed a bathroom under the stairs in what should have been the hallway from the front door.  I understand the need.  The woman living in the house was an older woman and she certainly needed a bathroom on the ground floor so it served it's purpose.  

It was a full bathroom complete  with bathtub... under the stairs.  There was a wall installed to create a door to the hallway.  There was also a door leading to the den/new kitchen.

     

One of the first things I said to Dad was that we needed to figure out a way to move that bathroom out of there yet still keep the second bathroom.  For a house this large, a second bathroom is a must!  So after Dad decided that he wanted to create a laundry room/bathroom in the old kitchen, we started tearing things out.  I should say he and his friend started tearing things out.. I was only there for the tearing out of the sink.  

So the tub, toilet and sink all got the boot.  In the process we also discovered that behind the toilet was a door opening into the dining room that had been covered over at one point.  That sealed the deal for putting the bathroom into the old kitchen because now we had an access point to the dining room.   With all the extra doors and frames that we had pulled out, we certainly could just add that one.  So Dad did. 

                                                                             

The next time I came in, he had torn out the wall that divded the space from the front hallway.  As you can see from this picture, the staircase has also been opened up quite a bit.

Doesn't that look so much better?  The air will flow through and it looks so much more like it would have looked originally.

And look at how open everything looks from the new kitchen!  This will really improve the heat flow. Now that the bathtub is out of there, Dad is thinking of building a closet under the stairs there but that may change as all plans usually do. haha.

I am so happy with how this part is coming together.