Okay, here's the changes.
Living Room/Sitting Room/Dining Room/Kitchen
As you can see, I opened up the Sitting Room area by taking out the door frame and wall, and in so doing completely changed around the furniture in there. No longer are there the corner bookcases as before that wrapped around that room, but now has the tall built in bookcases surrounding the short ones and the window. I was able to spread the chairs out in there, add a round rug, oval coffee table, standing lamp, and even a potted plant/tree. Now that space seems so huge!
Also, I didn't like how plain the ceiling looked afterward, that the space seemed to no longer be defined as a separate area (I know, that was part of why I was opening it up in the first place), and just to make it visibly a bit separated I added a 'box' to create a blended beam so to speak. I'm not sure how to word that as I don't have technical training in architecture.
I did that same thing between the Dining Room and the Kitchen. I took out the door frame and the wall between the two rooms, added a blended beam for a visual distinction between the two rooms, and narrowed the China cabinet to fit better against that wall (also took off the wainscoting on that little strip of wall). Because of opening up the space, I ended up doing two small changes to the Kitchen. 1. I changed the wall color because now that part of one of its walls is now basically included in the Dining Room I couldn't just leave them blue. 2. I shortened the cabinets on the refrigerator wall so that walking into the Kitchen didn't feel so 'claustrophobic'.
I did keep the wainscoting on 2 of the Dining Room walls, basically as a 'nod' to the historic/retro roots of the original design.
I'm not sure I like how 'tall' the table set looks in the Dining Room, but that's such a small detail I don't really feel like it's worth fixing that.
Now, on to the Garage.
Different angles, plus an updated Front Aerial view, but the changes are more apparent I feel.
I found that there was enough room in the Garage for 2 cars, although getting out of both at the same time probably would be a terrible idea. Anyway, in adding the second car I figured it would be better to have 2 garage doors instead of just 1, so I shortened the one I already had in place then copied/pasted a second one next to it.
I also took the shine out of the floor.
Lastly, I figured that converting the Storage area above to Garage into an apartment of some sort would be way too much work, mainly because of how low the two sides get, that I just left it as is.
And finally, the screen shots for each level.
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