Entry to upstairs from the inside

I think i will start the reno blog with little projects that have made life easier as i go and get round to different things...before the big redo!

This is a before shot of the dining room west wall, prior to cutting the opening to access the stairwell. I was working midnights for three and a half years, when the bathroom on the main floor was too far gone to use regularly I was forced to go outside and upstairs to shower and use the bathroom!

This was certainly not fun. A friend took out a doorway opening and now i can go up and down the stairs to my computer and my bathroom on the second floor no matter the weather and on the inside!