Every Boy Dreams of Swinging a Hammer at a Wall

So after about a year of hand wringing, architectural and engineering work, and pacifying the obstructionists at City Hall, we have begun the remodel. In short, we are:

• Converting our old office, laundry, mudroom, and full bath off our kitchen into a larger laundry room, mudroom, 1/2 bath, and pantry.
• Opening up the kitchen and putting in a big island (or continent as the architect says) (I don't recall the exact moment the kitchen became part of this, but I am sure Jamie used some Jedi mind trick on me.
• Converting the oversized media room into a guest suite (and taking about 150 feet of adjacent attic space for a sitting room.
• Adding a back stair case to (1) allow the kids another option for sneaking out at night, preventing death from fire to our shuffling parents, and to prevent the inevitable stalemate at the existing stairs during our nerf battles. 
• Converting our formal dining room into a homework room/Jamie office
• Adding Matt's inner sanctuary above the new homework room.
• Installing a trolley joist system on the ceiling of the garage (hey, we have to add a new beam to support the existing one; might as well do something manly with it.
• Most likely rebuilding the entire house after I say "close enough" while doing the electrical work.