So I am terribly trigger shy and definitely sorry for being such a bother. I spoke with realtors and as I imagined and you all suggested, we will lose value and buyers with a 2 bedroom house. I have been thinking of some alternatives. 1. Use 1/3 of the office space to the edge of the window as a large closet for the master bedroom. Turn the window in that office to a door to the backyard and make the kitchen space and the remaining 2/3 of the office an open kitchen and dining area. Steal 2 feet of kitchen space or add to the current half bath, to make it a full bath and make the dining room bedroom #3 with full bath. We will probably end up using that space as the office. 2. Move the kitchen into the dining room and use the window in the current dining area as a door to the backyard. Remove the half bath and include that space in the kitchen to make a kitchen/dining area. Wall off what was the kitchen,to create a bathroom and walk in closet for the office, which will now function as a small master bedroom (11x9). 3. Use 2/3 of the office to make a closet and bath for the master bedroom. Make the dining room a bedroom, and expand the kitchen to include the other 1/3 of the bedroom, and the current half bath for a kitchen/dining area. Use the kitchen window as backyard access. The only trouble I have with that idea is the fact that you will have to walk to the other end of the house to use the bathroom if you are in that 3rd bedroom. The layout of this house has been kicking my butt for 4 years now. I will not let it win! Do any of these options make sense? Any thoughts or suggestions. I think the one thing we decided is that we are not moving unless we have to move outside of this area altogether because of work. Let me know if you have questions.

I do appreciate all the suggestions. I somehow always thought I need to machine wash, but maybe I need to reconsider and be able to hose down. It's just that in the area we are, we shut off the outside water in the winter. I will look into the water hogs as so many of you endorse them. Deeinohio, I must be doing something wrong because I love that website but no way do I see $7 rugs? And localeater I went to look at yours and it is no longer available. This is reminding me that years ago someone posted a rug in front of their sink that totally tickled my fancy. It was pretty reasonably priced,and I hemmed and hawed and did nothing. then I forgot about it. When I finally tried to find it, it too was no longer available. (ItAbbey Rooster dontyaloveit was Abbey Rooster. linked here for your entertainment)

Several back doorsways. They are doorways that are in relatively large walls.This may be too difficult to explain....but I will try. House is a ranch with walk out basement. On the main level: One doorway is a 8 foot tall set of double French doors flanked by two foot windows toward the end of a 40 foot long x 12 ft wide screened porch. Entrance is straight on from porch. The porch will have three fans with led lights so we are thinking no light per se for this doorway as neither wall sconces nor an overhead would work. Another French door is from a sunroom onto a 6x6 landing. This landing entrance is straight on and also connects to the screened porch. To the side of this door is the 20 foot wall of sunroom windows. We are thinking a 21" tall x7.5 w fixture here on the sunroom window side. The sunroom walls are in Hardie plank, so it has an exterior look. Inside the sunroom are two entrances both of which are French doors. One is straight on entrance and the other is a 90 degrees turn on the wall abutting (doors are basically together in a back corner). Each of these single French doors is 3/0x6/8. We are thinking same fixture as 8/0 door but in 16" height x 6"w one for each door. Finally on lower level, under the porch is a 3/0x6/8 French door. It is almost in the center of the 77 foot length of the house. We are thinking same fixtures as above in the 16" height. The lower level ceiling will be finished out with three overhead light fixtures..flush type same line as the doorway fixtures. We were also going to use the same 16" high fixture on the garage stoop door. Straight on, 18" overhand at the end of a 24 foot wall. We are a bit concerned the fixtures are too big.

They need to be complimentary but not identical - frequently front doors are a little fancier, which isn’t necessary on a family use back door. But if they have the same basic style it’ll work better. (Ex, both raised panel but the front door has fancy glass and a sidelite where the back is plain, that sort of thing. Not raised panel on the front but plain slab on the back if they’re visible at the same time, that would look odd. Likewise a fancy Victorian front door with molding and then a MCM geometric simple back door would look odd.) (Which is almost what we have - front door is original to the house, 1930s kind of Arts & Crafts/Victorian not quite specifically either, back door was moved in the 1950s so it’s totally different and MCM looking. But on ours you can’t see the doors at the same time so it’s way less obvious.)