I'd bring the master bedroom closet in to the middle of the house. This will allow you to have windows on two sides of the bedroom, while also forming a sound barrier between the great room and the bedroom. I also agree that the closet needs to be wider to be useful. Is that the washer/dryer in a closet in the master suite? I'd hate that. With no place to keep laundry baskets or to fold clothes, you're constantly going to have piles of dirty stuff right in the master bedroom doorway. I like the idea of having it NEAR the master, but not in that space. Also consider how you're going to vent the dryer. I can't see the master bathroom well, but it seems to be very spread out ... for no real purpose. For example, you have two sinks crammed together in a small vanity, which means no drawer storage ... and then acres of empty space leading to a windowless toilet closet. With this much space, everything should be comfortable -- what you have now is just lots of floor space. I'd look at eliminating the square-footage-gobbling hallway. The kitchen is over-sized. When people say they want a large kitchen, they usually really mean they want a highly functional kitchen that'll make cooking easy. Lots of counterspace doesn't = highly functional. Consider how many extra steps you'll have to take in this kitchen to prepare a meal. Consider, too, that you're planning a monster-sized pantry, which is the best and cheapest way to store your stuff -- you don't need that PLUS all those expensive countertops. I'm assuming Bedroom #2 is for your son, whom you describe as medically fragile? Is that bathroom adequate? I'd consider taking in some of the butler's pantry to allow more space for his special needs. Note that this bathroom has no storage space -- I'd want at least a linen tower. The jack-and-jill bath also has no storage space. Also, you'll want to flip the door in the bathtub/toilet room so it doesn't prevent someone from entering the tub. This room is very minimal. In the other hall bath, with the toilet on one side and the sink on the other, how can anyone enter the shower? Since all the bedrooms are already served by a bathroom, do you really need this shower? As a powder room, this'd be comfortable -- as a full bath, it's too crowded. Overall, I think the secondary bathrooms are really quite lacking. All of them need storage, space for a clothes hamper and a trash can. I'd give up the flex space and enlarge the bathrooms. Note that in the girls' bedrooms, with closets on one side and window seats on the other side, the girls can only place their beds in one spot. Finally, I don't like a garage-shoved-out-in-front of any house, but an oversized garage will really overshadow even this fairly large house. Honestly, I think you can do a whole lot better than this house plan.

C L, I know it’s frustrating but please add me to the crew who say you have to find a lot first. Unless you’re looking at a cookie cutter cornfield flat generic square parcel (and even then orientation matters!) you really can’t look at a layout until you have a place. I have fought against this for years - perusing floor plans and drafting up ideas while we looked at sites. My husband, who does this for a living, wouldn’t ever indulge me in more than just a basic list of desires and features until we secured land. And he never drafted up ANYTHING unless we were dealing with a specific site and testing feasibility. I HATED it. I wanted to plan and dream. But after research and time and more experience I’ve come to see the wisdom of what everyone else (and my spouse) were saying. Like Holly said, even just popping a house to the other side of the street means a complete shift in the layout of the rooms to maximize views, sun exposure, minimize winds, line up the driveway and garage, massing of the spaces and roofline, etc. And a site with any interesting topography or trees really needs to have a plan customized for it. It just does. The land we ended up with is in the windy Midwest on a somewhat steep incline, with lots of views. SO different than the other one we considered, which was sheltered in a lower spot on a piece of converted farmland, with a ravine on the west side. And those two sites demand completely different styles of house, not to mention changes in shade/sun design, styles of entryway, basement, etc. They’re four miles apart and night and day different. I cannot plop the same basic house ideas on both of them with equal success. Your design time right now, pre-site, is best spent prioritizing your wants and needs. Make a list on what you want your house to do or how you want it to live, and what it MUST contain, what it should contain if it fits, and what would be nice but not critical. Ask your husband to do the same and compare. If energy efficiency is important to you, for example, figure out if it is for eco-consciousness or durability/redundancy, because those two different facets will cause you to come up with entirely different solutions (especially if cost is a major prevailing factor). Do you want high end bones but can deal with mid grade finishes? How flexible do your spaces need to be? Can you double up or triple up function of things like bedrooms and office space and craft rooms or skip a second full bath to reduce cost and still live comfortably? Etc etc etc. Use this time to flesh out what you want, not how it will look. Once you know what you and your spouse value, you can search for land with that in mind, and give an architect a solid and highly personalized list to help him design YOUR perfect house. You’re digging st the wrong part of this process by trying to make floorplans work - that’s an answer, but to the wrong question. What you need to do is find a place before designing a dwelling. Dwellings should not exist independent of their place on earth. I have had to eat crow on this one, but it really is such wise advice.

Jessica P, we are building your third house plan's bigger sister: https://www.architecturaldesigns.com/house-plans/country-home-plan-with-marvelous-porches-4122wm We felt that the extra 300 sq ft to make the room sizes slighty larger was worth the minimal cost increase, which is why we choose the larger plan. It has better size bedrooms, and a larger kitchen and living area. With this open floor plan, remember you need room for pathways between rooms which takes up usable space, and makes the dining room/living room become smaller. One major criticism of this house is the covered porches, however this was a selling point to me. We spend so much time outside, that we felt it was okay to lose some natural light for awesome outdoor spaces. If you have any questions about this plan, let me know!!

@Kristin S - I was thinking the homework space might end up somewhere in one of the bedrooms upstairs. We don’t need the en-suite on the main level immediately so might use that as an office / homework space initially. Thanks for your suggestions. @Mark Bischak - thanks for you suggestion on the MBR entry. And yes I am working with a local architect. @The Cook’s Kitchen - not entirely sure about the roofline yet but will definitely keep the structural support in mind given the open floor plan. Thanks!