Hope this is better

Again, how large is your property? (I'm trying to figure out why you would need or want an angled garage?

What direction does the house face?

Views?

Where does the stairway go?

I would strongly suggest that whatever you decide you post your plan on the kitchen forum because right now your kitchen does not follow the best use of space for how we work in a kitchen.

Honestly, I hope in terms of materials used, this isn't your final elevation drawing because it's quite honestly, overdone. You have brick, stone and siding as well as 4 gables on a hipped roof and the gee go in the gable. It looks like you have transom windows on top of transom windows.

Cpartist our property faces north with a slight tilt to the east. First off we like the angled garage and second where we're placing the house on our property and the gate location makes an angled garage more practical. It will cost us less money for the driveway and make it shorter. My husband does not want to move the gate to a different location. Our property is 5 acres and the gate is located more to the right of the property where as our house will be closer to the center of our property. The second gate is located to the left of our property and further away from the house location. My view from the back of the house will be my horse barn and a bunch of mesquite trees. We do have a mud hole in the back as the locals refer to as a resaca. It is used by the irrigation district to water the local crop fields. Most resacas are beautiful but ours is at the end and looks terrible but were keeping it that away because of the taxes. But I don't want to get into the resaca debate, right now. It will stay a mud hole. LOL

I've already posted my kitchen in that forum and we've had this discussion. This is what we are going with.

the stairs go up to the bonus room over the garage. It's going to be a space for the kids to hang out in and after they leave the house it will become either a guest suite or storage.

I think the exterior looks fine. We used the Le L'attesa di Vita house plan as our inspiration for the floor plan and this picture as the exterior inspiration.

We love this exterior and don't think it's ugly or over done. I guess it's a personal decision. Not everyone is going to agree. That's what make us different.

I prefer #1, although you will have a bit of a walk from the garage to kitchen. With your large closets between the great room and master, I wouldn't expect noise will be an issue.

I think your kitchen is similar to mine if u search my name. I don't know how long your island is, but I find having 3 feet right of the sink and 18 inches left of the sink (nearest the clean up sink) very good. I would find little to no counter between the island prep sink and wall cleanup sink a problem. Good luck with your build.

Are you OK with adding distance between your garage (family entry) and the kitchen?

This exterior is *too much* for my area, but may be perfect where you live. (And you didn't ask about the overall plan, which seems strange to me: The MBR off the back hallway; the cross-the-bedroom from bath to closets; crossing the foyer from kitchen to dining.)

Thank you everyone! I'm going to go with house 1. and be done with it. I've gotta stop worrying if I have the perfect house plan. I'll never commit to it and finalize the plans.

Just a few commits

The walk from the garage to the kitchen won't be a bother. It bothered me more that I could see the kitchen from the front door.

Chisue the reason I didn't ask about the overall plan is because I've already posted asking about that in a previous thread and we've decided this is it. I was only asking if I should flip the kitchen and living room. We also have reason for the master to be in that location as my husband works shift work. It's quick access from the garage to our room when he comes home at 3am. Our kids are teens so they can live on the other side of the house too. No problems there.

Nightowl. There will be a prep sink on the island near the fridge. It's not pictured. I have a wall oven in the island near the big sink.

Thank you everyone for your kind words.

In my inexperienced opinion, House 1 would be the way to go. First I would hate to see my kitchen from the front door. It's also nice to have a little separation of the living area and the dining area. At my house the two are combined and it's hard when the adults want to talk around the table and the teenagers want to dance to music or watch tv in the living room. Also with house #1, the living area is a little closer to the powder room which will probably be more convenient. I understand your anxiety as my husband and I are in the design process right now and there are soooooo many things to consider. Good luck, your house looks great!

We have shift issues my way. I think you will hear the garage door at 3 a.m. and the master suite configuration isn't really conducive to shift work bathroom/closet use. Have you given any thought to how you want that to function?

How far do you want to carry groceries from the car to the kitchen?

Will there be snow falling on the roof?

Safe rooms should be labeled "Storage" or "Here is Where We Keep Our Valuables".

I don't care for two doors to a bathroom.

I would not say this is terrible... but I think you are settling. Why?

There are some issues with both options. It is not built yet.

I hope this arrangement will prove good for you. I hope it will appeal to a buyer one day.

I might add that if you are doing vaulted ceilings and hard surface flooring it will be loud. Have you lived in an open plan before? My layout is very similar and open does not equal 'quiet' by any stretch. I can hear my husband open the freezer to put his ice pack away at 3 a.m.. Ahhhh, the joys of an open floor plan.

I'd really think on the sound transmission and if I had it to do over I'd push the master back so it did not share walls - with the living room the kitchen the laundry the anything besides the master closets. Truly and honestly - my 2 cents. I would tell the architect "I want to live like there isn't someone sleeping in the next room" when there IS. I don't want to have to worry about emptying the dishwasher, using the microwave, the washer and dryer. It's those normal everyday things that are perfectly fine during the day noises but to the person sleeping it sounds like a lawnmower at midnight would to the rest of the world.

The inspiration photo is far nicer than the drawings. IMO that is because the house in the photo is made up of cross gable roofs on a traditional main gable roof and the drawings show the cross gables attached to a large hipped main roof like most of the current internet and builder designs.

ding ding ding - WHY must everyone gravitate toward the hip roof? Does it make the house seem "grander" or bigger or what? because the inspiration photo is elegant and keeping continuity on the roof STYLE and just changing the direction of the gables (dormers, etc) is pleasing to the eye.

If you're happy with the plan, pull the trigger! #1 makes most sense to me.

I don't understand about the roofing. Where is the hip roof at? I requested a gable roof. It looks gabled to be. Can you all show me what y'all are talking about because I'm confused now. We're going to finalize the plans tomorrow evening so please show me what you are talking about so I can bring it up at the final meeting and that it gets corrected.

Plan 1 would be my choice. Now I do wonder about noise from the laundry and powder room more than any other noises. Those closets will block a lot from that shared wall. We have the TV on the wall like that and our daughter's room behind it with a reach in closet and you don't hear anything.

cpartist, what is wrong with the kitchen? It looks very functional to me.

Also you arrangement in the laundry of the washer and dryer doesn't seem to work too well with venting. Are you planning on venting it into the garage. My inlaws has that and I guess it is better than a roof vent, but still not as good as venting outside.

Also from the picture it looks like the dryer and washer are switched in order and that could cause you issues with door swings as more and more models don't offer the option to change the swing anymore.

You do have a hip roof at the middle section of the house.

The circled area is a hipped roof.

cpartist, what is wrong with the kitchen? It looks very functional to me.

Actually my comment was made before sabrinatx mentioned she's including a prep sink on the island. With the sink on the island, her kitchen is very functional.

The best layout for a kitchen follows the ICE (refrigerator) to WATER (sink) to STONE (prep area) to FIRE (cooktop). This assumes that you take your food out of the fridge, bring it to the sink to wash and then over to the prep area near the sink to cut, chop, etc. From there it usually goes into the pot to cook.

What made it look inefficient was the walk from the fridge to the sink carrying food and crossing the cooking area. With the prep sink in the island, it eliminates that.

I think the closet position will buffer the living room decent but I'd be worried about the noise generated from the master bedroom itself - doors open and closed and lights on and off and foot traffic from bed to bathroom to closet and then back out the master bedroom door. Can you do a vestibule entry? Hindsight I'd try for that so you only have one door into the bedroom and then the master closet and bath are off the vestibule. If we ever build again........ha!

All the water that falls on the roof surface within the red circle in the image two comments up accumulates at one point. If it is not managed properly it will cause problems.

Mark is correct; you need a roof plan or a perspective drawing in order to be sure the roof configuration will not be a problem. I suspect the garage wing will need to be pulled several feet away from the entrance gable/portico or more if the project is in snow country. Look at the way it was done in the inspiration photo.

Thanks I'll bring that up with the designer. Fortunately we live in south texas and snow is no issue for us.