Surviving Adulthood: Our most current project: Week One

What you're looking at here is a view from our master bedroom toward the hall leading to our master bathroom. As you can see, we have a long hallway (which, by the way, is complete wasted space) leading to our bath, which happens to be rather small. In fact, we almost didn't buy this particular house because of the cramped space back here. However, we decided that if we bought the house, we would remodel the bath/hallway as soon as we had the time to do so.

We toyed with the idea of having a contractor come do the
work for us since

we were originally told that a permit would be required to do the renovation. However, after having a contractor give us an estimate, and finding out that no permit was required after all, we decided to do the work ourselves. So here we are, day one of our remodel project. The photo above is of the bedroom before construction began and to the right is a view into our tiny master bath.

The general idea is to demolish the existing doorway, seen here, and move the door to the end of the hall nearest the bedroom, thus enlarging the bath area with no real detriment to useful bedroom space.

This will involve the following:

1. Remove door and existing doorway (along with carpet and trimboards)