There are some lovely details to your plans, and I love the elevations! With a home of that size I would make each bedroom with an ensuite bathroom including the boys rooms. It will make a difference for resale down the road. Upstairs you have 2 bathrooms not attached to bedrooms. I would lose the half bath and make duplicate baths where the Jack and Jill is now. or, keep the half bath and add the second ensuite. The extra cost for 2 baths with those bedroom is minimal compared to the overall cost of the home. The bath in your daughter's room is huge. Bigger is not always better. (I have had big bathrooms and a big house and sometimes the bigger rooms feel like a hike to get across! Especially the distance to the toilet in the middle of the night. The toilet should be closer to the bed in case there is a middle of the night in the dark trip to there) As the mother of a teen daughter, I would recommend a double vanity/sink, huge counter space and expansive well lit mirror that will accommodate a gaggle of teen girls putting makeup on and doing hair to get ready to go out or just because. That will make a bigger difference than all the floor space in there :)The only reason I would make that attached bathroom that big is if I thought I would use that room and have the kids doubling up in the other bedrooms there when smaller so you are all close. I would move the closets in your daughter's room to between her room and the other bedroom for sound proofing. That would allow some reworking of the bathroom. Noise proofing between rooms will go a long way to peace between teens who are playing music or games. Downstairs, where does the dining room table go? I would swap the entry closet with the half bath that is right by the front door. This moves that half bath right across from another bath, and it might be more clear one can be eliminated. Or keep both for big parties. The closet by the front door it too far as is. Awkward for guests to be arriving while other guests are exiting the bathroom right there! If guests come with purses or coats, where will they drop them? Maybe you already planned a bench in the entry area? If there is a long hallway that is interior and will be dark, I really like a window with direct eyesight as you walk down the hall. Such a window in your daughter's room such that if her bedroom door is open, you see out it if you are going down the hall. But it would give her more privacy if you had her bedroom door off to the left and the end of the hall could be a closet or lit shelves or niche. There is also an opportunity for a window at the end of the hall on the extra bedroom past the game room. If that is a guest room, not to be too paranoid, but would you want a guest up there with your kids so far from you? Is there supposed to be a door on that room? It can be made so the bathroom is outside of the room. It is far enough down a hall it is private if not attached. I would consider adding a closet to the "den" downstairs as a better guest room/bedroom alternative/extra storage space, and adding a door there. In general I try to avoid long halls since they are wasted space. I would add more closets overall such as to the game room. You can't have too many closets :) The mud room layout is inconvenient. You have to come in and go around the wall. I would have it be a bigger room without that dividing wall that is easier to maneuver and drop armfulls of stuff off (coats, backpacks etc). Folks here can give you more specifics. Overall, You have a very nice plan. There are just some nitpicky details I would change if it were mine :) But it is not mine, it is yours. So read all of the comments. Ignore the ones that are not right for you. And keep making changes til it feels right to you incorporating the comments that you agree with! As others said, you need thick skin to post here. So hopefully you will get some helpful ideas from all of the comments! :) :) I hope no one scares you away. I will look forward to seeing in progress and finished photos of your home! lafdr

If I'm reading the dimensions right, your island will be 7,5', tight for 4 seats in a row. But you can have seats facing the range wall and another facing the sink wall which may be better than having 4 on one side. I also think it would be better to have a prep sink on the island. I'd move the DW to the other side of the main sink, so you'll have another prep area besides the island. If you can move the window towards the corner a little or can live with a sink not centered under the window you can have cabs next to the DW for your plates/glasses. That way one can do cleanup or set/clean the table while another is busy b/w the sink and the range.

Cait, I totally understand where you are coming from. We also have a special piece of land we're going to be building on. So exciting!! It's totally normal at this stage in the process to look over stock plans to get an idea of what you like and don't like. I've noticed that people on this forum are quick to tell you to get an architect, (which is very important!!), but when you're just researching ideas and trying to figure out where to start -- that advice isn't helpful. I mean, could you imagine a meeting with an architect happening like this: Architect: So, tell me about what you have in mind for your home. You: No idea. I didn't look over other plans at all. I have no idea what I like and don't like. Architect: *Scratches head.* What I did find helpful was to make a list of things I really wanted our house to have. I mean... ultimately, only YOU will know how you need the house to function. For instance, I knew that our garage had to be on the left side at an angle to accommodate the driveway on our lot. I knew that I wanted our bedroom to be on the right side of the house. I knew that I wanted a playroom off the living room. etc. Then, I printed a few stock plans with features that I liked and made notes and put together a folder for the architect. Things like --- I like the layout of the kitchen on this house because it has these specific features that I want. I like the front porch of this house. etc. Just to give him an idea of where to start. I didn't go completely overboard because I wanted him to have some creative freedom. But ultimately, he is creating MY house that I will spend MY money on and live in FOREVER, so of course I want to go in with ideas and a must have list! He said he was very thankful for my folder and thoughtful research! Anyway... I do agree with some of the others about taking out the "friends entrance" on this particular plan. Only because it's so close to the front door that it isn't necessary. Nice pantry!! Ours will be fairly similar. My husband loves to cook and I have an obsession with serving platters. Haha! I don't think your kitchen will be too dark because you'll have light coming in from all those windows from the living room and breakfast area. But, you'll definitely want to make sure you put in a generous amount of lighting.

@tatts I came here for informal design help as I lay out my house. I think some people understand that and others do not seem to understand that. I understand that details about the house location and whether it is sewer or septic are lacking to some folks. I appreciate that me just moving things around in a house in a photo editor doesn't make any sense in the real world. Just because I post an idea or edited floor plan of something does not mean that is is going to be built that way or built at all. I have a site engineer, my GC, and a design & structural engineering firm. @roccouple Thanks for all of your thoughts! I really appreciate it! I'll think about axing the fireplace as it definitely eats some space. We like having a fireplace but we don't plan on using it often. We consider it our secondary heating source in case we lose power but maybe we could do something different. The garage is a little out of proportion of the house..We tried to find a balance. :-) you guessed correctly we have a couple of cars, 3 motorcycles, and will most likely end up with a couple of snowmobiles in a year or two. I have a decent amount of tools to go with the toys and we also have lots of outdoor gear. The garage is actually going to be pretty tight space-wise! @mnmamax3 Thanks! We were thinking about trying to put the W/D inside of cabinets or something similar so we could potentially close a cabinet or closet door. I'm also thinking we could add a door at the entry of the mudroom (from living room) just how @mama goose_gw zn6OH did in her most recent post.