You must be excited! Most of it works quite well. I have a few thoughts: Are you planning on your son and daughter sharing a bathroom? Is bedroom #4 a guest bedroom? If you have 3 bathroom, why not give each of your children their own? especially since they are different sexes and getting older. I would make bath #2 an en suite bath for bedroom #3. Swap the laundry room and bathroom #3. Then bedroom #2 can use bath #3. You can keep direct access to bath #3 from bedroom #4 if you'd like. The dining space in the family room looks tight. Make sure it fits your table. Make sure there's enought elbow room for the toilet in the master bath. The door from the garage should swing into the home.

You mention the possibility of a paid caregiver, indicating that aging in place is one of their concerns, yet the whole house is anything but age-appropriate. First the good: - Great sight lines at the front door. - Nice layout for great room, kitchen and dining area. And the bad: - The master bath is a study in inefficiency. Excess space in the middle of the room, yet a person using the sink must stand practically on top of the tub. An oversized shower (good idea for aging in place), yet the window is a problem. A toilet closet with a door that can't be closed once a user enters the room (and toilet closets are difficult for elderly to enter, as well as being difficult to clean). Your parents have allotted plenty of space to the master bath /closet, but this needs a whole re-do. Personally, I'd start by placing the closet in the spot that's now the shower; that takes care of the window, and it'll allow the shower to move "in" rather than being on an exterior wall. - The 90 degree turn into the bedroom does allow for privacy, but it can be difficult for an elderly person to manage. - The island prevents good flow in the kitchen, and your work aisles look narrow. In general, square kitchens don't work well. In a kitchen you want cabinets /countertops /space for your appliances; thus, rectangles, with greater wall area are superior. In contrast, squares allow for empty space in the middle, which isn't particularly what you want in a kitchen because that means your "important players" are farther apart from one another. I think I'd drop the two-island concept and instead go with a simple row of cabinets against the wall and a large island dividing the kitchen from the great room. This would be very affordable to build, and it would look great with that layout -- as well as increasing the size of a modest great room. - I like the dining room except for the door to the porch. Once you insert a table, it'll block access to the door. The great room doors are only steps away, and this door isn't needed. This dining room would look great with a banquette against the wall, and that would make the dining room more spacious. - The dining room must serve as a walkway to the secondary bedrooms, and you have a "bottleneck" in the spot where the kitchen and the dining room meet at the corner -- keep in mind you're going to have to bring bedroom furniture through that narrow spot. - I like jack-and-jill closets, but this one seems cramped and is just doors-doors-doors everywhere. Imagine if you ever needed to replace that tub - a new one could never be brought into that spot. - Do they need the e-space near the secondary bedrooms, or would that be better as a large storage closet? If you ever do have a paid caregiver in the house, a good-sized closet would be an asset for that person. OR, if they have lots of grandchildren who enjoy spending the night, that little spot could be a cool little built-in bunkbed right in the hallway. OR, you could move the half-bath to this position, allowing for a more comfortable laundry room. - The laundry room suffers from the same problem as the kitchen: The walking area is quite narrow, which is not age-friendly. Moving through that narrow hallway with a basket of clothes may not be so easy as your parents age. Note, too, that when you open that door, it covers up a portion of your folding area. All that wasted hallway space could make a nicer laundry room. It'd be nice if it could be closer to the master bedroom closet.

First this is overall a nice house plan. Congrats! I think ODD had a very good thought and it would be a combo of what Mrs Pete suggested and she suggested. This photo below is not a true divider but imagine if it was placed as Mrs Pete suggested to give yourself an entry. On the entry side is a bench with the windows (as ODD suggested) above it. The look can of course be made more rustic, more contemporary, etc depending on your style of decorating but the overall idea is a good one.Here is another example using just a niche instead, but again, what if it were a bench in the niche? The divider wall doesn't go to the ceiling (although it could), has an opening to show you briefly what is beyond and creates a welcoming entry. On either side of the divider wall would be an entry into the living room. Here is another idea to break up the entry with peak-a-boo looks around. However it's not as welcoming IMO as the above two. Again notice how the wall doesn't extend to the ceiling. However again, i think the first two versions are more welcoming in the sense that they create better architectural interest. Another idea is to put panels or bookshelf dividers on the sides to break up the space so again you don't feel like you're immediately walking into the space. However, I personally feel the ideas above are better as it creates a real sense of entry. Here's a few ideas but there are hundreds of ways this could be achieved. Maybe even with glass pocket doors? Question: Which wall in the master are you planning on putting your bed on? Do you want windows on a second wall in bedrooms 2 and 3 to catch cross breezes? I would suggest flipping the bathroom next to bedroom 3 so the toilet and sink are on the west wall and not the east wall. This is so if there is a couple is sleeping in bedroom 3, one won't be woken by the toilet flushing in the middle of the night. I would also consider a high fixed window over the tub. Make it high enough so water doesn't spray and folks on the patio can't see in. I say this so you can get some natural light into the bathroom. I would highly recommend you vetting your kitchen in the kitchen forum. That corner pantry would be a no go in my book for lots of reasons, plus the flow of the kitchen could be so much better with small tweaks. (Why is it that architects tend to be bad at kitchen design?) Make sure the master toilet door either swings out, or swings both ways. I have a door leading to my lanai in my master bedroom and while I'm not living there yet, I love how it opens up the space to the backyard. You might want to consider Mrs Pete's idea to add a door out the back. On the front porch, I would keep all the columns the same. While I like the design detail in the front porch gable, I don't like it repeated in the rear gable because in the rear it will be competing visually with the fireplace chimney.

Consider: Providing an opening between the carport and the Entry Porch and eliminate the door from the carport into the house. Rethink the kitchen layout to tighten up the work triangle, locate the double ovens just outside the work triangle, and relocating the entry into the pantry. Accessing the closet directly from the M. Bedroom without having to go through the M. Bath. Same concept with Bedrm #2/Bath. Eliminating the gas chamber in the M. Bath. Swinging the M. Bedrm's door in the opposite direction into the room. Allowing space around the (if that is a) freestanding tub for cleaning. Aligning the double doors leading to the Screened Porch with the main entry doors. Having the entry to the pantry only off the Entry. Eliminating the porch outside the kitchen windows. Allowing three feet of space for the watercloset in Bedrm #3's Bath. Making all porch roof slopes the same. . Your draftsman should be able to understand the comments.