Twenty five days??? Slow down, cowboy!!! Finish that floor and stash a few extra boxes of flooring in the garage. Reassess after baby arrives. Things might look different then. Best wishes, Amy.

Do you really want all that extra dust and mess with a new born !

This is not the time for a big demo! Put the flooring down, repair whatever gets messed up in the process, and relax before the baby comes. I hope that flooring won't be off-gassing. That may take weeks to dissipate.

FYI my first born was 25 days early! Get the floor in and don’t try to remove the wall. Does this floor need to acclimate first? What a knucklehead husband to come up with this carp 🐟 right now?!

no, no, no, no, no to any more renovations.

and the flooring should have set in your house a few days before being installed. I'm thinking he didn't read the directions, no telling what will happen with a wall removal. sorry (not)

Ditto all of the above. When you revisit this --next summer-- I think you will find a reason for that little wall...privacy for the entrance, load bearing...SOMETHING. With my second, I sat on the steps counting the minutes between contractions as DH was getting his basement electrical inspection!!!

STOP Tell him to clean up the mess go get some more flooring on sale stack it somewhere and wait for baby . In about 6 months when you are settled into baby life then get a structural engineer to tell you if that is load bearing . Common sense will return I promise.

You will not be happy parents with all that business going on. You can do it later.

Well, I gotta give the guy props for caring about his home and being willing to dive right into a project that he believes will benefit his family. I agree that this isn't the time for such an undertaking, but there are countless worse things that a young man could be doing with his time.

I would let him know how greatly I appreciate his good heart, but insist that we take it down a few notches and revel in a more quiet preparation for the baby. Best wishes to you all.

I’m glad you all agree with me. I think he’s having a mid life crisis as we have been married for 7 years and it’s just been the two of us. Everything we said we wanted to do with the house, we just kept putting off. Now I think with a baby on the way he’s realizing the space could use some improving. We had unsteady floors, but we had time to baby proof all that.

Believe me it will still be waiting for you a bit down the road.

Oh........ More to come! Step it up honey! :) Not you, him lol

I agree with everyone--this is NOT the time for a major renovation. You have no idea how your lives are going to be upended with a baby. You need a calm, clean, organized house to live in during your first few months. We waited until my firstborn was 2 before doing our first major renovation--the kitchen--and THAT was disruptive with a toddler.

Give him a big whoop, whoop for participating in the nesting process! Then ask him to slow down, let the floor acclimated and start installing as soon as he can, without panicking anyone.

I did something similar, crazy hormones! I was 3 months pregnant when I had my appendix removed, the old fashioned way, 8 plus week recovery. We had just closed on a house and would be moving just after Christmas. I was bored after move in and started picking at wallpaper, then wood paneling that covered the old plaster and lathe, just peeking....needless to say my husband was shocked when he came home. He simply sat me down and we worked out a plan. No hysterics, just a plan we both could abide by.

This summer is our last big push, back foyer including upstairs bathroom. Our son, that I was pregnant with, will be helping😉There's time, the house can wait.

Good luck and enjoy!

HGTV is not your friend. It and similar programs and websites exist solely to sell home "improvement" goods and services that you don't really need.

John Prine's solution.

Be sure to point out to him that when that wall comes down, the ceiling will have to be repaired/replaced/redone.

I'm guessing that the wall is structural. Even if it isn't, tell your husband that everyone here thinks it is :)

It looks like the previous owner probably wanted to remove it or open it up, but realized that it was structural and therefore just punched holes in the wall and left the studs where they were and trimmed it all out. That's the only reason that I can conceive that they'd have those four openings instead of one big opening.

Your posts helped tremendously. My husband finished the floors PRAISE GOD!!! Now that the emotions have subsided, I must say I now understand where he’s coming from. That wall sort of created the mid center focal point for our living/dining room, but we have since decided to do away with our formal dining room and just use our eat in kitchen instead. We still have this hutch left on that side, which I think continues to leave remnants of a former dining room and the kitchen is too small to move it there. It’s only still owned by us because he doesn’t want to part with his grandma’s China patterns

@greg_2015, if you notice the line on the floor, there used to be a wall that went from the back to where that line imprint ends and then that was the opening. This wall never existed. It was added when they removed the first wall.

Re: greg_2015’s comment, Amy- We flip-flopped the kitchen with the dining room in our first house and they built a new wall where there was none, and removed the existing load bearing wall. So the new wall became the load bearing wall.

Glad he got it done! Now you can have the baby with a clean slate!

Omg my floors are done!!!! Now I’m thinking bc he didn’t get to know out a wall that the walls need updating on paint. This man will be the death of me