Relocating the bathroom door

The biggest privacy enhancer of our project? By moving the bathroom door from the hallway to the master bedroom closet, we'll gain a master suite.  We'll have our own bathroom for the first time since 2001!

As a bonus, we're also gaining a pantry area across the space where the door used to be.  Score!  You can see one remaining shelf of the teeny-weeny old pantry in the first photo below.  The opening below the shelf is the cold air return for the furnace, so that stays.  We'll be putting a message center/phone nook (or maybe a wine/liquor nook?) over the cold air return in the space where the pantry used to be.  New pantry cabinets will be installed to the right.

View from hallway: framing the wall across the old
bathroom door

Framing the phone nook

New bathroom entry from the master
bedroom closet

Drywall around the nook, new hardwood being
installed through the hallway

Old bathroom door now covered in drywall