I tried 44 SF of corn last year planting essentially according to Mel's spacing. It was way too close and the cobs never fully formed. It ended up as chicken and goat feed. I will not be doing corn again. Too little return for the space requirements. That said, as long as you are only doing one variety, succession planting should work. I did 2 varieties and I got cross pollination, which was bad. So I guess if you can plant all you want of everything else in one bed, go for it, just don't overcrowd the corn and don't let it shade your other bed when it gets too tall. Good luck and enjoy your garden! Here is a link that might be useful: Sinfonian's garden adventure

Without dimensions on the plans, it is difficult to tell exactly how big the Living Room area is but, it LOOKS to me like you should have plenty of room for a reasonable amount of furniture in there without it looking or feeling cramped. I think the way the master bath is designed is very I personally would not want to devote as much square footage to the bath as this design requires but it is different and looks fairly functional. If your shower won't have doors then I suspect you'll get a bit of water splashing onto the floor outside the shower but with tiled floors that probably won't bother you. I don't think you'll be able to switch the laundry and toilet as Yillimuh suggested tho unless you're willing to lose your hall closet. Too bad because it would have been good to have the toilet a bit closet to the bed and nice to have the laundry closer to the closet. Since you mention you're retiring, have you given much thought to the possibility that you or your spouse may one day become wheelchair bound. One problem with "toilet rooms" is that they're usually too small for a wheelchair to get in/out of. So, people wind up having to tear down the walls surrounding their toilets. While your toilet is tucked back out of the way, consider if you had to take the wall with the pocket door out completely to allow wheelchair access, would you still be okay with entering your master bedroom thru the bathroom then? Do look into sound insulating the wall between the game room and powder room. The game room is nicely positioned to be repurposed as either a formal dining room or a formal parlor if you or a future owner should ever decide to do so. If used as a formal dining room, you wouldn't want to be able to hear the sounds from the powderroom during dinner. Finally, do you mind my asking where your garage is? At first I assumed it was next to your kitchen and I was going to comment that your kitchen might be a bit dark since the only natural light would filtering in from the sunroom...but then I noticed the window over the sink - so the garage can't be on that side. Then I thought it might be at the front of the house (in front of the kitchen office) but, again, you have windows there so that can't be it. Is the garage "semi-attached"? (i.e., connected to the house only via the mud room? If so, please be aware that if you're on a slab, the mud-room section of concrete may be highly subject to cracking. That piece of concrete slab like a small bridge between two very large slabs of concrete. It is natural for monolithic slabs to tend to shift around a little bit. As long as the entire slab moves as a whole, you don't get cracking. But with that "bridge," the garage slab and house slab will basically be two independent slabs and will probably move independently of each other. The bridging section probably won't be strong enough to force the garage slab and the house slab to "move together". And, if they move independently, cracks will show up running across your mud room floor. Even if you have cuts in the concrete to direct cracking to a specific spot, it may not work. I know because I have a similar design with a screened porch connecting my garage to my house. The screened porch is 10 ft wide by 14 ft long. (14 ft from house to garage.) We got our first crack across the screen porch slab within two months of the foundation being poured! After almost three years, the cracking and shifting seems to have pretty much settled down - but we have a half-inch wide crack running clear across the screen room floor in one place and a second smaller crack (maybe 1/8 inch wide) running across clear the screen room floor in another spot. The cracks look pretty ugly but at least it is a porch floor and eventually we'll put down composite pavers (made of recycled tires) to cover the cracks. I'd have been sick if the cracks had been in my nicely tiled mud-room floor. Just thought you ought to know.

Is there are garage? Not shown on the plan, but listed on the sf. And where do the stairs from the first floor go, since stairs are not shown on the second floor? Would it make sense to move the laundry to the first floor . I envision coming home with dirty wet beach towels, swum suits, etc. not wanting to carry the mess up to the second floor. Would you want to enlarge the deck off the mbr so that bedroom 2 would also have deck access? Or is that a private deck for the mbr only? The bath off bedroom 2 has doors on both the toilet and shower. Do you need these to be in separate areas . Or could you remove the wall and have the shower and toilet combined? If you eliminated the door to the sink area from the bedroom, it would probably make the closet more usable. I'm guessing this is a guest room, since it has 2 double beds. There are no dimensions, but the master closet looks tiny. Its labelled as walk in, but I suspect there is only room to stand in there. The whole closet looks about the size of your toilet stall. I think the whole master bath and closet could be reworked. You have a tiny closet, yet a huge open space in the middle of the bathroom. I'm not sure where those stairs go, but the ones on the right come up to the deck and the window to the powder room is right there as people make the turn onto the deck. Which means you will want to keep that powder room covered at ALL times.

Think twice about the corner lot. I live on one, and I won't again in the future: Your backyard privacy is reduced, and the kids' bus stop is on my corner . . . which means they're cutting through my front yard and sometimes leaving trash in that area. It also means we have to cut the grass in the ditch on two sides. On the positive side, parking is easy when we have guests. Oh, and we have the fire hydrant ON our lot, which does reduce our home owners insurance a bit. Front window: I do think it'd look better if it matched its mate on the opposite side of the door. Yeah, I see that it's just a window into the utility room, but so what? What you care about here is the outside look. Yes, a 4x4 shower is fine for a simple, plain shower. My current shower is 3x4, and I never touch the walls when I'm in there (Admittedly, I can still buy pants in the children's department, but my husband who is normal adult size doesn't complain about its size either). A 4x4 isn't a showstopper that'll earn a spot on Houzz, but you won't be irritated every time you step in either. We are going bigger in our new house only because we want space for two shower heads and a stool -- we're thinking of our elderly years. In fact, looking at your closet, I'd suggest you steal a bit from the shower and widen the closet. A walk-in closet that has storage on only one side is a waste of space. If you steal 1' from the shower you'll still have an adequate shower . . . and you could have shelves on that closet wall, which would DOUBLE your closet space. This closet, as it's drawn, isn't particularly "master". If you keep the bedroom this size (and squarish), you could even insert a reach-in closet on the wall shared with the secondary bath. In addition to the extra storage, this would give you some "sound insulation" from the bathroom. Another option, more expensive than a closet: Built-ins. You could have a massive number of drawers on the bottom and bookshelves on the top -- it'd look great and provide massive storage, and give the modest closet, that would be useful. I'm completely ambivalent about the transom window. I think your dining area looks comfortable now. Not oversized, not undersized. If you're thinking it might not be big enough, consider inserting a built-in bench across the whole back wall . . . that will take less space than chairs against the wall, and it'd look great in that area. This would garner you more usable space without increasing your square footage. However, I think I'd slice a couple feet off the back end of the master bedroom anyway. It appears almost square in shape, which doesn't do anything but give you empty space in the middle of the room. I'd flatten it out across the back of the house, which will save on building costs. Width matters more in a bedroom (and this one looks wide enough for a king bed) than height. Figure up how many feet you'll have at the foot of the bed and decide if that's adequate. Looking at the back wall again, I'd definitely straighten it out. It'll save you money, and I see no reason for the jigs and jogs. Sorry, I'm not "getting" the concern about the kitchen wall. I don't see a problem with a portion of the kitchen being "hidden from view". In fact, I think it might be good to have the stove out of view when it's full of messy pots! I think the fireplace needs to be on the back wall. This would allow you to have two sofas oriented towards it comfortably. If you place two fireplaces in the room as it is now, you'll have a big empty space between the seating area and the kitchen. Oh, wait -- you were asking about the fireplace in the basement . . . I was answering for the main floor. However, I think the advice is applicable to both areas. I would suggest that you "stack" the two fireplaces. This is a pretty substantial money saver. Actually, considering the use a fireplace actually gets, I'd keep the second fireplace at the top of the "I could do without this" list . . . or consider an enclosed gas fireplace, which is MUCH cheaper than a full-out masonry chimney for the secondary unit. Other options might be a wood stove (which doesn't have to be real wood -- can be gas), which is more efficient than a real fireplace and is incrementally cheaper. Or, if you really just wanted it for the looks, consider a fake fireplace with an antique cast iron front . . . or flowers in the summer, candles in the winter. Basement bathroom: I'd move it to UNDER an upstairs bathroom (or kitchen plumbing) and then adjust the bedrooms to fit. Plumbing is always expensive and difficult, so place it first -- it'll save you money, and if you have short plumbing lines, you have fewer problems in the future -- fewer areas to leak. How to arrange areas in the basement? How many people will live in this house? What spaces do you actually need? I don't think any of us can answer this question without this information. You seem to have ample space upstairs; I'm not really seeing the need for the huge basement. Those were your questions. Here are a few thoughts of my own: I don't like that angled door going into the secondary bathroom. I think it's going to feel odd to walk in the door and be essentially pushed towards the wall. I think you could do away with it by incorporating the little hall linen closet into the bathroom itself. Anyway, storage INSIDE the bathroom is better than storage outside. You've planned a good-sized kitchen, but no pantry. A pantry is your best and cheapest storage. I also don't like that when you enter the house, you must walk all the way around the staircase and through the great room to get to the kitchen. So often you're carrying groceries, and this is just more steps for no reason -- your garage is RIGHT THERE. I'd want a more direct entrance. I'm not loving the elevation, though admittedly this is partly a matter of taste and preference. It just looks kind of wide and boring with so much roof and so much garage. It'll take a ton of landscaping and upkeep (says the person who currently lives in a long ranch house . . . and isn't going to do it again). Consider your sight lines: When you walk in the front door, you're looking the side of the fireplace. When you walk down the bedroom hall, your view is a bathroom door . . . and angled bathroom door. From the garage, I assume you're looking at a pretty hall table -- good. And once you're in the great room, the sight lines are top notch. Why is the master bedroom door scootched up to the right? It's already conflicting with the closet door, and this seems to make it worse.