Here is the site plan of the lot. Exact house placement is still to be decided, but gives you a rough idea.

Is it possible to get a higher resolution image? This one is difficult to read.

Let me see what I can do about the image being difficult to read.

How fun to have two little babies to snuggle...yay! And a spacious house to play in!

One thing that's nice in a family home is circulation, having more than one way to get from here to there. In this plan, there is only one route, right through the kitchen and LR to get to bedrooms, garage, laundry, front door. Could you somehow add a door from the kids' hall to the back hall? Perhaps by relocating the full bath by the back door? (Judging by the tub and location, I'm guessing you're planning on a pool or pond?)

Flip the first bedroom's door to the right side, so it's not so close to the front door and public spaces,

With a lovely, round entry hall, don't you want a nice powder room for guests, so they don't have to share with a child or traipse past the cleanup sink to powder their noses?

Would you like another door to the back yard, from the back hall?

be sure to post in Kitchens, they are so good at that space! For example, the corner angled oven might not be the best position, and the cleanup sink seems a bit far from where all the dirty dishes and utensils come from, and from where the clean dishes will go.

looks like you will have amazing views!

If you have more children as desired, will the two older ones move downstairs? Will you be comfortable with that? (Asking because I wouldn't, at any age)

Your bedrooms, closets and bathrooms seem to be nicely sized.

You might consider scaling back your great room, 27'x27' is pretty big. That is 729 sq ft. Try putting some furniture in the layout and see what you think.

Instead you could have a slightly smaller but still generous 20x20' or so (400 sq ft) great room and an additional slightly separate kids space with the remaining sq ft. The remaining 329 is enough for a 18x18' room, also quite generous. Then you could have an area for kids toys to be corralled and not out in your main living space. In my experience this needs to have sight lines to the main living space or kids won't use it. Later it can be a place for older kids to have friends over etc.

Or that remaining sq ft could just be trimmed to save money or dedicated to a guest or kid's bedroom upstairs.

You also might consider having the children share one one full bathroom (maybe #3) and convert the other (bath #2) to a powder room for guests and have linen storage in the extra space.

Right now your main family entrance moves through back halls and then through the kitchen (sharing space with where someone might stand to wash dishes). You might move the clean up sink elsewhere and use that area as a buffet space when you have guests and a drop zone for mail, groceries etc. as people move in from the garage. You also don't have any space dedicated to dropping shoes, coats, backpacks etc. as you come in from the garage. I know that is something that I can't live without :). When the rest of the floor plan is more set I would take the kitchen layout to the kitchen forum.

The house has a very irregular shape which will make your roof and foundation both more complicated and expensive. Depending on your budget this could be something to consider. Do you have an idea of what the exterior will look like? and what you want it to look like?

If you can have one garage bay side entry could you have all of them side entry? Most people seem to prefer that look, up to you though.

It looks like a beautiful spot and a lovely large lot. What kind of climate are you in?

Thanks for the suggestions. We met with the designer and have moved the first bedroom door away from the front entry. We have also bumped out the second bedroom to allow for the hallway to extend through to the back entrance. I posted the kitchen layout in the kitchen forum for feedback.

The great room is actually 22' x 22', the pictures are so hard to see.

We should have some elevations in the next couple of days, so I'll post them here to get feedback.

We have also swapped the tub and vanity so we can have windows by where the vanity is currently located. This will push that wall out just slightly.

Hi Mark Bischak,

Thanks for you comments. The house is going to have a tuscan design element, so that is why the round entry. The back of the house was designed to take advantage of the views. Do you have any suggestions to better improve the design? Not sure what rhyme or rhythm means in home design.

If the Tuscan theme is central, do you have any elevations to post?

What I don't really like about is the path from the garage to anywhere else in the house either goes directly through the kitchen or through a bedroom. I'd let circulation organize the floor plan. I posted some stuff in an idea book for other reasons but look there to see what I'm talking about. You only want traffic in the kitchen by those who are actually going to the kitchen to do kitchen stuff.

What I do like about it is it's refreshing to see a site plan posted. Although it doesn't tell us much here's someone who's at least thinking beyond the walls.

architectrunnerguy,

I should have some elevations in the next couple of days, and I'll post them here. We have changed the design to bump out the second bedroom to allow for the hallway to extend through to the back entrance. So there is another way around the house that doesn't go through the kitchen. The panorama photo I posted is from the lot about the center of the house with a view from South to North.