Hi Experts, I have hired a contractor to redo the entire bathroom and he is suggesting using backer board with schluter system ( the orange tape like thing) to seal the corners in the wet shower area which will then be tiled. I insist on doing a mud job especially since it is the floor and would want to avoid cracks etc in the floor tile once installed. Any suggestions. Thanks. BV

Right now my house opens up into a hallway, and right off the hallway is the kitchen. The hallway seems so cramped that I am worried it will deter future buyers when I sell the house. Also, I don't like it. I'm considering removing the separating wall that creates the hallway, but that would make the house open up into the kitchen itself. I can't find anything on entryways on Google other than the normal enters-into-foyer or enters-into-living area. Does anybody have a house that their main entryway is in the kitchen? Here's a picture of my hallway: [ATTACH]33211[/ATTACH] - that's the kitchen entrance on the right in this view and it's on the left when you walk into the house. That other wall is the exterior wall/garage.