Here is the new floor plan. You can see most of the wall between the hall, living room, dining room, and kitchen has disappeared. The bay window is only shown in this plan, but that's just because I didn't draw it in the first one. It already exists. We are adding two baths, one at the back of the house and one in the hall. What used to be the bathrooms in the duplex are now pantry and closet space. You can see the back bedroom is very small and it is the only one directly connected to a bath and has the big closet. This presents a problem, because no one wants a 9 x 12 master bedroom. So we decided to add a connecting door between that bedroom and the one next to it. That way if someone wants they can use the middle bedroom as the master and use the back bedroom as sitting room / office / dressing room / nursery if they want. The whole thing can be closed off as one large master suite. Or if they don't care about the size of the bedroom, they can just use that one. You can see that it will hold a queen size bed, dresser, and nightstand. This plan is not totally accurate - there are some windows missing and the actual square footage is closer to 1800. I am not exactly an expert at drawing these. The line between the living room and the dining room is supposed to represent the fireplace, which is of course about three feet deep. It will be freestanding between the two rooms and open to both.