The corner sink in the master bath takes up alot of space. You could straighten out that cabinet run and get some linen storage for the bathroom. Something like the mockup below. Depending on space: A) tall/sink/drawers/sink/tall or if enough space B) tall/drawers/sink/drawers/sink/drawers/tall.

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I wouldn't worry about the details in the master bath until you are totally satisfied with the flow of the house plan and the general layout of the rooms as they relate to each other.
Your architect needs to solve your hall issue. You've got about 200 sq feet of hallway if you include the hall he's given you between your closets. That would be unacceptable to me and I suspect you feel the same way from your comments. It's not necessary for you to settle for this!! Take your time and work this out.
He/she is wasting space right and left. Look at the side of your wraparound front covered porch for example, at 4ft it's too narrow to sit on and so no reason to go over on that side, so why is it there? The angled fireplace, angled toilet/hall wall, the angled mbr closet entry.... In a home where you are trying to get every square foot of space you can this is wasteful.
Sorry but I'm not feeling the love for your architect. Having just paid one a small fortune I know that it isn't free. :)

Actually that's just it. I do love the rest of the plan. We tried to take the hallway out but it killed the flow of the plan. WE much preferred it with. Would I rather not have that there? Sure but I'm not willing to cut down the living area or the kitchen area to get rid of it.

Also, we don't want to enter the master directly from the Living area and don't want our master facing the front.

Actually the side of the front porch is around 7-8 ft wide and something we can take off depending on how the facade looks.

he sent me a new version with a master bath that DH and I really like. I'll post it. Thanks!

chicagoans--thanks for your suggestions! We are still working on the master area--I'll show DH your ideas.

So good that you've got a plan to go forward with. Hope I didn't come off as being too opinionated.... we all like different things! You may have a vision for the hallways that makes it work!

The scale on the plans is probably off and had me thinking that your porch was smaller. Comparing it to the 13x13 study, I assumed that the floored area of the porch esp the side was around 4'. It's confusing on the piano room also since it's labeled as the same size as the study but looks smaller. Is your architect counting the closets along with the floor space on that room?

I really like your plan. I love that you have a Friend's Entrance near the garage, that doesn't pass through your laundry room. That is what I have now, and I despise taking guests through my laundry room. I love your big family room. You won't regret that extra space there. You can use the study as a guest room if you ever have to with a door into the bathroom to access it (elderly parents?). I know-my mom spent 7 weeks with me after a bad fall and I had to move my boys together so she could have a room close to me on the first flloor.

One thing I don't like-and this increases your sq ft instead of decreasing it. Please don't be too offended, but we almost built a home with a hallway like yours. I even purchased the plan. It was a Don Gardner stock plan. Hubby and I had the opportunity to see the home in person, and after we saw it I could not build that house. The hallway looked was too long and narrow--almost a bowling alley effect. I just ate the cost of the plan.

This could easily be fixed, could it not by making the hallway a foot wider? Think how much more gracious the home would feel with a wider hallway.

How wide is the hall? Maybe, I spoke too soon. Looking at your plan again-- it appears to be wider than I thought.

Red lover--The hallway is 3 foot 8 inches from sheetrock to sheetrock. In the living area, it will be open so more like a walkway than hallway. And actually we are still trying to figure out a way to take about 100 sq ft off. We're wondering if we can get it from the master area since we pretty much love the rest of the plan (although the study and piano areas have changed a little since the above plan.

Actually using the study as a possible guest room was why we put the doorway to the bath there. Great minds think alike!

gbsim--You're right, the piano room isn't 13 x 13. It was and we changed the dimensions, they just didn't get changed on the above. As for the porch, the bathroom off the study is 5 ft wide so I know the porch is 7 foot or so.

Thanks for all the comments! We will keep on working on that master area and hopefully get something posted soon. How did, "if I can build, I would be happy with a 2500 square foot house" turn in to, "we've got to cut down this first floor so we can get the second story on there..."? LOL!