Congrats on building a house on my dream lot, especially if there's a lake or creek! First off, who is living in the house: number, ages. What part of the country, what's the weather like?

Even without that info, the LR is not as big as it looks. A lot of space is lost to walkways from the MBR and foyer to the kitchen, dining, utility. Speaking of which, there is a direct view from LR to utility room? Not always the nicest view. You may be better off closing off the wall across from the MBR.

The guest closet in the foyer is right next to the MBR door, I don't think I'd like that. And maybe hinge the front door on the left, so you don't see the bathroom when you open the door!

It's a pinch to pass from LR to Dining Room.

uostairs, the bathroom looks like it belongs exclusively to Bedroom 2 on the top right. And trust me, there will never be two people in there at the same time, so make it one sink and gain more counterspace and storage.

I would make the halls much wider. They are very narrow in relationship to the size of the rooms around them.

Upstairs, why have the halls at all, unless you are going for a very traditional vibe. I think it would work well to have the bedrooms open off the landing, which is big. BR1 and BR2 could open at the back landing, BR3 at the front. The Bathroom could then have closets on either side of the space in front of the door, creating a vestibule of sorts.

Oh, and why not flip the upstairs so all the bathroom plumbing is in one place?

Oh (again) and what if the stair bottoms out at the BACK of the foyer, instead of by the front door? More convenient for hollering up for breakfast, or for seeing which teen still has their light on at 1:00am when they told you they DID finish their Chemistry lab homework. Don't ask me how I know this lol!

For the kid's bath upstairs - my advice would be 1) have one sink so each kid gets more storage space. 2) figure out a way for one to be in the shower/toilet for privacy so others can brush their teeth for bed. Your future teenagers will thank you.

No lake or creek just woods. Us plus 3 boys 7-15. Coastal Georgia. Hot and humid mostly. Winters are short and mild.

Have gone back and forth with getting rid of the opening. Doing all windows instead of patio doors. Maybe keep opening but do the windows instead of doors?

The utility room has a pocket door we can close off.

Will switch the door swing. Also if we ever want to leave it open it needs a wall.

Make island smaller? Or openings bigger?

They all share one bathroom now. But not at same time. Personal preference having two sinks. There is lots of storage in the cabinets. Plenty for boys.

Am not crazy about the narrow hallways upstairs. Yes we were going for a more traditional look.

Originally wanted u shaped. Ideally with them ending in the back. For the exact reason you did. Keeping an eye on the kids. But they kept sending them back like this. At one point he put a few more to one side but then it put the ceiling at back of foyer at lowest code allowed. Which I thought was weird. So I said okay just put them back to how you had them. Trying not to be a pain......

You literally have a landing for just one more riser? I suggest bumping out the "landing" wall just enough to have the stair in a single run, and put the rear left BR door at the top of the stairs, so you can get rid of the silly auxiliary hallway that now leads to it. You realize the way it's drawn the largest amount of upstairs space is given to stairwell and hallways?

Here in the bottom floor is all the space needed for walkways That is the space in the living room and the dining room that you'll be losing to walkways.

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Additionally your walkway from garage to house is almost the same length as the whole width of the house. It looks unbalanced.

If your rear porch is going to be facing north, it will be very dark as will your living room

Thank you for all the suggestions. Am solving some. Others may just have to be how they are. As we will be breaking ground soon.

Direction: We can face house south or south east. Making the back porch face north or northwest. Will be staking it this week.

Living Room: Get rid of fireplace and opening by master. Thought of moving fireplace back into hallway and putting wall up But if I do that have to keep opening by master....

Kitchen clearance issue: Make island smaller or make the openings by it larger.

Stairs/upstairs hallway: biggest issue from day one. Still working on it.

Door: Front door swing change.

Just an idea for the upstairs.

I like suru11's upstairs revision but also agree with others that the toilet and tub ideally would have a door between them and the sink area. Even 3 boys will appreciate a double sink. I think the idea to have the stairs come up from the back of the house is a really good one and might help with making the foyer feel less confined as well as improve the space utilization upstairs. I hope you can figure out a way to deal with the one step landing. What a pain.

On the exterior everything is symmetric except for the windows on the one story kitchen/laundry wing. Can you add one more window in?

Noticed there's no chimney, so hoping it is a faux-fireplace! I'm guessing the TV goes above the fireplace since there really isn't another place to put it. Are you sure you need the visual of the fireplace in your location?

The kitchen-laundry stretch does look long on the outside. An outside door to the laundry room would be convenient and useful, as well as break up the expanse. It would lose counterspace, though.

Without seeing things in 3D it's hard to tell, but the connector to the garage seems to not work well - think that it either need to be a little taller and have 3 windows or both. I am sure it's the last thing everyone is focusing on - but it's making the proportions of the overall look wrong.

And concerns about the flow - you are devoting expensive space to just passing through.

In the upstairs bath, rotate sink 90 degrees so you can create a separate shower/toilet room.

The loft space is nice to have, but it doesn't look to be very useable with the traffic patterns.

Downstairs, I don't like how you can see the bathroom door from the living room couch and possibly the kitchen. Not to mention both downstairs toilets look out tall, low-sill windows onto the front porch which is a bit awkward. I'd consider reworking that entire area, and maybe you could sneak your u-shaped stairs in as well.

On your elevation - the kitchen and laundry room doesn't look correct. Based on depth of that area, the roof line should be much higher (unless you are doing < a 3:12 pitch.) Reconsider window placement and sizes in that section as well.

I like bathrooms where you can sit and watch people come to the front door.

Here is what I came up with for the upstairs. However it changed the downstairs. Liked it better when the master door was not in view.