If Smokey isn't getting into trouble when you are there and if he has not gotten into trouble during the times you do leave him out and alone, I say he is ready for the full enchalada of free run of the house. I probably would have tested him with short time periods, say when you were going to be gone for just a couple hours before doing a whole day, but the only way to test is to do it.
I was very paranoid about Tucker when we first got him because he had had surgery for a blockage from ingesting stuff he shouldn't have at his previous home. We couldn't crate him because he absolutely panicked in the crate so we kept him confined to the kitchen, first without Hannah and then with Hannah. He had significant separation anxiety in the confined setting. Since he wasn't getting into things when we were there, we eventually just tried giving him free access to the house. I was so nervous, but it worked out just fine and he no longer had the separation anxiety when he wasn't confined.
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