More Changes to Remodeling Plan

Scott wanted to rethink the moving of the bathroom. We decided (at first) to keep it where it is. Had we not changed our mind later, the first bedroom would have been closets and a laundry room. The second would still be our office. The entry to the bathroom would have been through the office, then the laundry. 

One other brainstorm was to think about storage under the stairs. I went looking for inspiration and found pictures like the following. 

I wanted that SO BAD. 

But Scott went back to the house and looked closely to see if the new ideas would work.  He said the stairs would be too overwhelming in the space we have and that the kitchen would be too small. In the end, we decided to stay with our previous plan, which is to keep the expanded kitchen into the bathroom and use the second bedroom for the bath/laundry combo.

Another thing we noticed when we were there yesterday was that the office has two windows, one of which looks out onto the sunroom heat pump. While the river is in the distance, it's still a pretty hideous view. So we decided to remove that window and put a couple big windows on the nature-preserve side of the house.

One new brilliant idea Scott had was to use a couple feet of the bathroom for a pantry. Here are the latest, and hopefully, final plans.