@cpartist, I am not the OP, but wanted to chime about closets in Germany. Most often they are not built-in but are "wardrobes". When you move, you take them with you to the next place. This is extremely common. At first we hated this concept as we had to make many, many trips to Ikea to outfit our rental home. Then, the installation .... But in the end we loved the idea as it allowed easy furniture placement. I wish more American homes had this flexibility. What was odder though is how the lighting and the kitchen (yes!) go with the renter/owner to their next place. We only saw one or two places when we were house hunting that the kitchen and lights were still there. On our look-see, the current renter and the landlord actually argued over the toilet and whether it would stay or not. The renter put it in himself to replace an ancient one. The renter stored the horrible one in the basement and threatened to put it back in. Our realtor insisted that the landlord pay back the renter and leave us the new one. It was crazy. I loved the experience and would not change a thing!

I'm going to echo much of what has already been said: - you have to walk through the kitchen to get to the master bedroom. This isn't particularly a pet peeve of mine, but in this kitchen, it's as bad as it ever gets: The sink is the most heavily used single item in your kitchen, and yours is straight in the path of the garage entrance and the master bedroom. This sink location is an absolute deal-breaker ... you could move the sink to the island, but then you're running out of space. Note, too, that you're forced to walk through the kitchen to reach the pantry; ideally you want your pantry to be as close as possible to the garage so that you don't have to carry groceries so far. In conclusion, the kitchen, although fairly large, is choppy and really can't be made better because it's serving as a hallway. - the living room is a giant hall. Yes, it's the kitchen all over again; however, the living room will work ... it just loses space when you allow the walkways. - you say you have a 4 year old. I have a 3 year old and would not put his bedroom where he can stick his head out his door and peer into the living room. They're not small forever, but at that age, I would want a room more separated from the main living space. Eh, yeah. Growing up, my family spent time in the kitchen rather than the living room ... and I had the bedroom just off the kitchen. I overheard waaaaay too many things that weren't meant for my ears. At 9'8" wide the master closet isn't wide enough to have an island. You need 2' for hanging clothes, so that 9'8" - 4'(for hanging clothes) = 5'8". You need a minimum of 3' for aisle space on either side of the island. You could get away with 30" on each side but that would leave you only 8" for an island. Yeah, I was going to point this out. Note, though, that the 5'8" includes the wall thickness ... so you actually have less space than your breakdown allows. However, I do like the connection between the laundry and the master closet. You have good circulation throughout this area. The question is, with the washer/dryer on interior walls, how will the dryer vent? In the back hall are french doors that open onto...the laundry room. Why? Reason 1: To get some natural light into the back hallway. I'd make them sliders, which are more efficient and don't block the hallway with door inswing, and I'd move them to the master bedroom. This'd be good for fire safety and would allow direct access to the porches, which are a major part of this house. Reason 2: It provides quick access from the back yard to the powder room. Perhaps they're thinking of a pool? You have one child. Why would you need two sinks in the second bath and more importantly why are the sinks in a separate room with doorways? Agreed. I think bathrooms today are unnecessarily complicated, and it's cutting down on the function. In this case, it'd make more sense to place the linen closet outside the bathroom ... and place the sink and toilet next to one another ... after all, don't you want to wash your hands immediately after ... well, you know. Also, I don't see any point in the bathroom bump-out ... if you eliminate some of that unnecessary walkway /hallway. I have a front porch that is only 6' deep but my whole lot is only 9100 square feet. If I had more room, I'd have a deeper front porch. Eh, maybe. Front porches tend to be just for looks. I don't like the exterior ... well, I like the garage end, but the main house dormer looks odd, and the porch doesn't read "farmhouse" at all. If anything, it leans more towards Southern plantation because the pillars are tall and you have that porch roof under roof line instead of a farmhouse's simple roof ... but the exterior of the main house is just kind of odd. I don't mind eating daily meals at the island. We are both nurses & we work a lot of shift work & both have multiple jobs so no big deal there. We will use the formal for holidays/dpecial occasions only. Even if you only use the dining room occasionally, you still have the option to design it so that it's comfortable and functional. Why purposefully make it substandard? This house plan makes me think of one we considered for a bit, but rejected because of the same issues that your plan carries ...note that this similar version has a better connection to the dining room. Note, too, that this edition is 1960 sf, which is probably a more reasonable size for a three-person family. https://www.familyhomeplans.com/plan_details.cfm?PlanNumber=61297&OrderCode=PT101

The best houses are 1-1.5 rooms deep, absolutely no more than 2 ("rooms" include garages and covered porches). Light and breezes have a harder time reaching interior spaces when the house is fatter than 2 rooms. Because of this, the best course of action, I think, is to toss this plan altogether, sorry. :-( The Philippines is a beautiful, friendly country, with a rich culture... Would you consider hiring a Filipino architect to design you a great place that works with the spirit of the locale? You could really get something awesomely special! Side notes: -- Bedrooms on corners are awesome, but take care to place windows where you have enough space for drapes... extending the curtain rod 8"-12" on either side of the window is best, to make a window look larger, and to allow the fabric to be pulled completely away from the glass. -- Most Americans will think it's strange to have an outdoor laundry area, but if this is normal/expected in the Philippines (it was where I spent most of my childhood, outside the US), then having a powder room instead is a good idea, I think. :-)

Interesting, my grandparents built almost this same floor plan in the 1980s, but with a shed contemporary style and an attempt at passive solar design. Their house had the master on the main floor with access to the main floor bath both from the hall and through the closet. That bedroom was a little larger at probably 12x14, and the kitchen was probably 12x14 also, with an L-shaped layout and an eat-in kitchen table. The dining room was instead a deck, and the portion of the 2nd floor deck off the second floor guest suite that fell over the kitchen was instead an office. 15 years later they expanded the house by removing the deck and building a dining space, rearranged the kitchen to take up the full original footprint, and a third 2nd floor bedroom. Their house is compact, but has served them well for 35 years now. It probably helps that it also has a basement for storage.