definitely better, anyway. (Although the reason we have taken off half the doors in the house is symptomatic of *why* we're doing this addition in the first place: my dresser is in the way of where the craft room door would open upstairs, and ditto on the refrigerator & the kitchen door downstairs... but even so, we're quite open plan, which is great up until you want to ignore someone, or keep the cat out of the way.)