Framing new hallway opening and removing closet

What is now the kitchen will become a guest bathroom and a four foot wide hallway leading from the existing living area to the new kitchen/dining room area. The picture below shows the newly created hallway opening.

 While at it, I reinforced the supports in the wall holding up the main  living room beam. With the new hallway opening in place, we removed the old kitchen door and blocked up the opening left behind.

Also removd the kitchen and bedroom ceilings. The material we removed was 100 years old and was a masonite  type product. It had become  very brittle and was sagging and coming away from the ceiling joists.There was also quite a bit of 100 year old dust collected up there :0)

Removed the closet from the bedroom to make the future guest bedroom larger. The addition will have a closet space for the bedroom leaving the 9'x12' area open.

BEFORE

AFTER