Here are a few other issues to consider:

-The bedrooms seem kind of small and awkwardly laid out. There's wasted space with those hallway entry ways

-Lose the bedroom access to the guest bath from the bedroom. Just make it a hall bathroom.

-The master bathroom/closet space could be reworked much better

-If you close in the outdoor living space its going to make your home very dark, and that's going to one giant long space.

-However, you don't have a dining space. The nook is too small with the stools and outdoor access.

-That pantry is in a pointless location and is an awful space.

-There's no coat closet in the entrance

-This is going to be a complicated and expensive roof line

In the spirit of learning everything you can, I hope you've perused and read over many posts on this forum from people in the planning stages of their build.

Included in the advice you'll likely read:

- The home should relate to the site, taking into account views, topography, how it will sit on the lot (in relation to the sun at various times of day), and so on. Does your home relate to your lot? If so, great! But that's not typical with a stock plan.

- 'Fat' plans can lead to massive ($) roofs and dark interior rooms

- Angles are hard to plan around and are sometimes used when an architect is either squeezing a building into an odd shaped lot or trying for something 'interesting'

- Lots of corners and bumpouts can lead to expensive foundations and roofs (and tricky roof lines that can lead to water drainage issues)

- You might also read something about copyright issues when using plans you find online.

I'm not a pro (just repeating some good things I've read here) so I hope others join in.

Hi, Dekabal,

I like the plan, but my assessment is influenced by what would work for my family's lifestyle needs and without any consideration of the attributes of your neighborhood, your particular building site and your budget.

On a separate, but related note, please be aware that stock plans enjoy copyright protection. No amount of revisions you make invalidates the original copyright owner's rights if their plan served as the starting material for your design. I'm not an attorney (thankfully) and I'm not looking to debate the fine points of architectural copyright law with fellow houzzers, but rather to keep you out of potential hot water. Frank Betz and other stock plan designers are making good money in federal court pursuing copyright violators. Purchasing a stock plan is a lot cheaper than going to court.

Or, at the very least, you should not describe in detail your efforts to use a designer's work on a public forum. The designer does not need to register the work with the Library of Congress before the infringement occurs but If roe designer has done that, he/she would be eligible for statutory damages, attorney fees, and costs of the suit.

If they contact you, be sure to inform them that Medieval heavy timber truss construction was not a feature of the Craftsman Style. Unfortunately, you can't counter sue for that.

Get rid of the angles unless there is a compelling reason the site offers for the plan to be angled.

It may or may not matter to you, but that's really not Craftsman style.

More importantly, the roofline is going to be quite expensive to create. Unnecessarily, too. I'd go for a total redesign.

Why does Bedroom 2 need TWO entries into its bath?

Too much wasted space.

I'd say more, but right here I want to stop.