Wish I could be more positive but... 1) Your log-on name tells me you have 3 kids and that being a good mom is a top priority for you so I don't think you've noticed what a horribly long distance it is from the master bedroom to bedroom number 4! If a child sleeping in that room cries out for you in the night, would you even be able to hear them? And, if you heard them, how long would it take you to make the dash from your bed to their room? Consider: out of bed and across your room to the door (10 ft?) down first hallway (12-15 ft?), right turn down another short hall and across a large foyer (25-30 ft?), diagonal up thru the kitchen zig-zagging around the kitchen island (20 feet?) then u-turn down another long hallway (25 ft?) then right turn down yet another hall (10 ft) before you FINALLY reach the child's room? Bedrooms 2 and 3 aren't much more convenient. Parental privacy is one thing but with this design, you might just as well put your kids in a separate house entirely. 2) Even if your kids are grown and you are no longer concerned about little ones crying in the night or teenagers trying to sneak out of the house after Mom and Dad have gone to bed (LOL!); do you really want to pay for hundreds of square feet of hallway space when a better design could give you so much more useful living space? A 12'6" x 12'6" secondary bedroom in a 1700 square foot tract home is one thing, in a 4300 square foot home they ought to be more spacious. 3) The master bathroom toilet has no convenient spot for washing one's hands after using the facility... a major no-no in my book. 5) In a 4300 square foot house, I would want a more spacious guest powder-room as well...one that a person in a wheel chair could get in and out of. 6) I don't know why your architect is calling your pantry a "butler's pantry" when it does not open onto an eating area and therefore is useless as a staging area for serving a meal. It really is just a big pantry which is fine BUT it is not located conveniently to the garage or port cochere for ease in unloading groceries. I'd want my pantry in a more convenient location. 7) I don't see a doorway directly from your garage to the gameroom so I'm guessing you anticipate that the family will generally enter the house via the port cochere. If so, the mud-room is much too small to be of any real use and the laundry room is positioned so that anyone entering or exiting will have no choice but to traipse across any laundry that is being sorted (and as che1sea pointed out, you have no place to sort laundry except the hallway floor.) 8) The design manages to locate each of the secondary toilets so that a half-asleep child needing to use one at night is going to have to maneuver a rather long winding hike to the nearest toilet. Draw a line from each bed to the nearest toilet and you'll see what I mean. Would you want to navigate those paths in a half-asleep mode in the middle of the night? 9) The kitchen looks good on paper but strikes me as not being well \-designed for actual use. The whole "work triangle" idea is probably overused but whoever cooks in this kitchen is going to spend an awful lot of time jogging around that kitchen island. A nice big kitchen with room to spread out is nice - but not to the point where you need roller skates to prepare a meal. Frankly, if it were me, I'd take this back to my architect and tell him start over again fresh.

@tigerdunes thank you for the reply. I have a honeywell wifi connected thermostat that i'm happy with, unless i was going to get that nice trane touch screen, i'd prefer to keep my existing, looking at the trane slection, it appears honeywell oem's for them anyway, so i'm good with what i have. My house is an east/west facing, so in the evening, it gets pretty warm in the house, the upstairs is warm in the summer and cool in the winter, the house is about 15 years old. the salesman, did look in all the rooms of the house and measure. he said we would need to add a return at the air handler and probably another, seemed to know what he was talking about. i have friends who tell me they got their whole systems installed for $3-4K so when i'm seeing 7k, i'm just wondering if it's a rip off or not. (i know the equipment is not the same) I did have another 8k quote 2 years ago for a new bryant system, so it's "on par" with what I've received in the past but i know the 1st company was expensive any they overcharged for the repair i needed 2 years prior. if you think 7k is good price or even a bit high, i'm okay with that, because i believe the company will do good work and i have read trane has good equipment, but if it's thousands over priced then i'll want to look elsewhere.

There's nothing here that really jumps out and grabs me. It's informative, but doesn't call me to act. I don't think I would personally mention the toliets. Your "comfort" height might be someone else's nightmare. It makes me wonder: if that's one of the best "features" of the home....hmm....not worth my time. I know you'll have pics, but what style of house is this? Is it a ranch, 2-story, cape cod? What type of cabinets, countertops, flooring, any porches? Also I definitely would not mention the "no children" thing. Fine with the non-smoking, no pets, but you're entering into some delicate territory there. I realize you're not claiming you won't sell the house to someone with children, but it's pretty borderline in terms of federal housing laws and civil rights policies. In this "sue happy" time, it might be viewed as discriminatory by someone out there. Better safe than sorry. Ask yourself--why did I build/buy this house? What stood out about it to me? That's what I would emphasize.

Yes, I like this bedroom /bathroom /closet layout -- it seems very convenient. Not only because it's open to the laundry room, but because it allows for that little hallway off the bedroom to keep light /sound somewhat separated from the bedroom. I'm thinking that the hall linen closet could be more like a dressing cabinet . . . a built-in cabinet with space underneath for a laundry basket, and shelves up top for jewelry, a mirror, and photos. I'm thinking that the little hallway would be great. Yeah, I assumed that the hall bath would have a window added. I never said it though. Yes, we HAVE been through a number of iterations -- you say you've enjoyed watching, but sometimes I feel a bit like I'm comic relief. I started with the idea that I wanted a 1.5 story /Cape Cod /Southern house . . . and then my husband convinced me that a ranch is more practical for our retirement years . . . then I pushed back and returned to my original idea . . . and he's pushing again. i know that his desire for a ranch is more practical than a 1.5 story house, and I should give in on this one. As for the house being FINISHED, this is one of my requirements. NON-NEGOTIABLE. I have put up with wait-for-this and we'll-do-that-next-year for too long. Whatever we plan, we are going to FINISH NOW -- non-negotiable. Didn't I already say that? Well, I meant it. Since we are planning a house well beneath our budget, this is possible. Except for one thing: We're planning to build a bonus room, but it will JUST be storage. If we later need another room, we're halfway there. And a new thought concerning the kitchen and dining room: I'm wondering about switching the kitchen and dining room. The two spaces are actually pretty close in size, but IF we flip them, we could have nice large windows in the front of the house . . . in both the front bedroom AND the dining room (these need to match). IF we do this, we'd move the pantry door so it would face the kitchen. This would remove the problem of where to place the sink, and it would set the dining area over in a private alcove. We could also open the dining room up to the foyer, which would enlarge that small space visually. On the other hand, I really do like a U-shaped kitchen, and I like the current walk-through pantry tremendously. I do not love the dining room in its current spot, but it is plenty big and functional. And keeping it "as is" would be cheaper because it's already on the plans.