Hallway

Unfortunately, I don't have a before picture of this hallway or the bookshelf that used to be on the other side. Steve captured it on video - but it will be a while before I figure out how to splice and post parts of that.

This is the hallway that leads into the existing kitchen (left) and living room (right). The opening that is shown below was blocked off so that you had to pass through either the kitchen or the living room to get anywhere. That makes sense for an apartment, but not really for a single family home. We had suspected that this was once a hallway because of the cased in bookshelves on the other side.


If you look at the opening on the far left in this second picture, you can see that it was framed the same as the doorway to its right, which goes into the kitchen. Since we are closing off the kitchen opening by putting in a bathroom and using the existing living room as a bedroom - it made perfect sense to get rid of the bookshelf and return it to a hallway. It was hard for me to let go of the bookshelf (so hard I didn't take a single picture of it before demo). Having the kitchen cabinet in the soon to be reading room will certainly more than make up for the lost storage space.