After 35 years in the same house, I have finally decided to put a powder room on the first floor. Why did I wait so long? The simple answer is that there was no place to put a powder room that didn't require giving up parts of the house I liked just the way they were. But the decision has been made and demo begins tomorrow! This is the layout of the first floor. Obviously, if money grew on trees, there would be some really fancy solutions that would probably include an addition and a bigger kitchen. All of which would be lovely but not in the budget. Realistically, I needed to do this within the parameters of the exisiting footprint. I mapped it out in my mind in a varitey of places but it always came back to putting it in the alcove of the dining room. The entry to the powder room would be through the existing panty. The door would start at the wall on the right ( just out of the photo...very hard to get a good shot of this small...