It frustrates me that I can remember the location of the powder room, which I never used as a boy, but I can't remember if there were flower boxes beneath the Windows I often climbed into at night.

We removed a full bath downstairs and converted it to a powder room, opening up a back hall that had probably been original and vastly improving the flow of the house.

The architects also added a mudroom, powder room and pantry to the communal zone.