Am involved with remodeling a 20's-30's Arts and Craft home in Ohio. We are planning to open the kitchen and dining area with a bar and have to reroute the knob and tube wiring in a section of the wall that that we are going to remove. Basically the house is primary wired - to all the bedrooms, living and dining room with K/T. The other rooms have been "updated" with two wire romex. The panel box is 60 amp with 15 amp breakers. My question is how to connect to the power and neutral with romex in the wall - of course the neutral and power being separate wires are running between different bays. So the power source would have to be connected in one bay and the neutral would have to be connected elsewhere. The romex then would be able to have a home run back to the panel. This brings me to my second "question". Since I have both the main bathroom and kitchen walls open I would like to upgrade at least those rooms so they can grounded and have "effective" GFCI's . If I put in a 150 or 200 amp panel box with ground - so that the new wire I run in the K/B will be to code, can I hook up the existing 60 amp box as a subpanel? As a side note I would like to rewire the whole house but with a concrete basement ceiling over a garage - in a two story house the first story is sort of "closed in" to running wires in open bays. Does anyone know of any "new' equipment out there that can aid a person undertaking such a project Thanks, any suggestions and/or advice would be most welcome.

Can someone tell me if this diagram would be safe and pass inspection should it be inspected? The two new hot wires to the outlet from the top and bottom of the switch would be run along the same 14/2 wire set. The Neutral/Ground wires for the new outlet would come from the chandelier on a second 14/2 set. The chandelier is switched on/off from another switch I didn't include in the diagram. THANKS!