Music room door should be of the "hidden room" book shelf or other disguised portal variety. Don't forget a good sneaky storage book under the stairs as well. Come on over to r/hiddenrooms for more inspiration.

1. Every time the furnace or water heater fires up you’ll hear it in the bedroom
2. Does the foundation actually have all those uneven exterior lines?
3. The bathroom definitely needs a shower, before walls are up so that you can get a one piece shower unit in there.

Easiest way to remove tile is to just cut the drywall out in sections, easier to move 5 big chunks then 1000 tiny pieces, then just replace the drywall and mud it

Same exact thing happened to me when I did my backsplash.

Ive weakened the grout with a handheld grout saw, then I’ve used the chisel that you have pictured along with a hammer to chisel the grout out.

Then slowly chisel the tile from multiple sides and gradually angle the chisel outward to apply force. If you use a lot of force with an outward angle to pry the tile out, you’ll take a lot of wallboard with it. You want to chisel between the tile adhesive and drywall all the way down/across the tile until it just falls off.

The bathroom is a bit tight even if the door won’t hit the sink. Is there a reason it’s recessed? It looks odd being not flush with the kitchen/bar area. Make sure you can get a toilet that fits properly with your walls. A friend bought a house where her toilet had to be on an angle to fit in the room but then it would not seat to the outlet.

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Maybe a double door going into your storage/HVAC room. It would make moving in larger objects easier.

Drywall is incredibly cheap.

Who cares. Rip it all off.

No need to be a prick, OP was asking if there was a better way to go about it because the damage was more than they expected.

Same here. Every time I have taken tile down I just assume I am replacing the drywall.

what....? do you think tiles are put on like lego? of course its going to damage the wall behind it.

Pretty dusty if you do that

Seems odd the builder would rough in a toilet and not a shower. Even without a shower I'd make the bathroom bigger, at least 5x6 with a minimum 30" vanity. No need to do a cramped half-bath in such a big basement.

Like others have said, stop removing individual tiles. Instead, cut all the drywall and it’ll take the tile with it still attached. Instead of replacing with new drywall, replace with hardibacker instead.

They make a new tile backer board. It cuts like drywall. It should make your repair easier. It comes in 1/2 & 5/8” and it’s available in 4’ x 8’ sheets. It’s the same deal as densglass. Only, it’s made for tile imstallation

On that note, put a closet in the office of there’s an egress window, and now it’s 5/3.

This looks great. If it were me, I'd swap the bar and theater area. Better view of the TV from the bar stools and more room for a crowd to watch the game or movie.

That is just personal preference though. Have fun with the build. I really enjoyed doing my basement back in the day!

Last one I did tried that a bit. Was looking at patches and repairing. And just cut it as straight as I could. Then just replace with a rectangle of drywall. Less patching. Less work. And faster. Most importantly less dust everywhere.

Ha this is exactly our scenario

What did you use for that? A dremel or something?

I had a similar issue recently. Our kitchen only had tile behind the stove and the sink. When we started our remodel it was impossible to get it off without destroying the Sheetrock so we decided to just cut around the tile with an oscillating tool and replace the Sheetrock sections.

Do the shower, you instantly move into a new category of buyers who search for 4 beds 2 baths instead of 4 beds 1 bath. (Or 4/3 instead of 4/2) but you know what I mean.

Consider mineral wool insulation too. I can rock my dual SVS PB2000 pros in my basement theater while my kids sleep upstairs.

I used thermafiber ultrabatt and it's amazing!

Yes, this! Put hardibacker up in it's place, and put new tile back up. You'll spend less time just tearing it all off then trying to be gentle and salvaging it.