Framing in Laundry and closing the exterior door

In our house the laundry room is part of the kitchen. So when you walked in the front door you could see the washer and dryer. We have talked to the neighbors and that is how all the houses are in this sub-division. That was something Mike couldn't live with. He wanted to enclose it to make it its own room. It was hard for me to picture it but now it makes total sense. 

The accordion door is the only thing that separated the washroom from the kitchen

As you can see the washroom was part of the main living area where everyone could see it.

View from the kitchen

Mike decided that the best way to close in the laundry room was to also close in the pantry shelves and make the pantry larger. I loved that idea. You can never have a big enough pantry. After demo of the small decoration wall Mike began framing in the laundry room. 

Framing the new wall for the laundry room

Add caption

At the end of the new wall was an exterior door. Since there is already a sliding glass door at the other end of the kitchen we felt that it would be okay to remove this door to add the bigger pantry.

We added insulation and electrical outlets

Next we will install the drywall.