Even enlarged, it's a little small and hard to read, and the lighting plan is distracting. That said:

is the fridge in the DR and undercounter fridge? With the sink next to it, I'm assuming so, to make it a bar area.

its hard to tell where the machines are going in the laundry room.

Do a pocket door instead of a swing door between kitchen and mudroom. Takes up less room.

The kitchen seems a bit cramped, with no run of counterspace in the work area to work on, and the cleanup zone is very small. And a 24" pantry? Do you have another one, somewhere else?

When you walk in from the garage, you walk smack into the dining island. Can the mudroom be reconfigured so the door is 3' up, bringing you in between the dining and island, or between kitchen and island?

Will you have a treatment of some kind to separate the LR from the Foyer, like a stub wall, ceiling/floor change?

Why angled doorways upstairs? They kind of lessen the privacy level in the bedrooms, giving a view straight into the middle of the room.

The upstairs bath needs some natural light. Solatubes, perhaps?

Hope you like large hipped roofs!

Can you post your floor plan and not the electrical plan? It's very hard to read.

Also, why a hipped roof vs a gable roof? Especially over the garage it looks massive and top heavy.

From what I can see the kitchen/dining area could be laid out better. Your kitchen is quite small and will be dark stuck in the middle of the house like that. In fact your laundry/mud room appears to be larger than your kitchen work area!

You have lots of island seating. Do you really need a double island vs more kitchen work space? You have the double island seating and then have a dining table.

When people are seated at the dining table, it will be squished trying to get out to the porch in back. You have 12' but that's for the dining table and island. I have about the same space, but I also have sliders to my patio from my living room so the dining area sliders are not my main sliders.

You walk in and you're immediately in your living room with no definition between the foyer and living room. Something to define the two spaces would be good to do.

The living room is very large but my guess it will be awkward to lay out furniture because the fireplace is centered. So you have a long narrow room with the fireplace on one long wall centered. Have you tried placing furniture?

Your master closet is small and awkwardly shaped for two people to use compared to the square footage in the house.

Get rid of the angled entries into the upstairs bedrooms. You're losing lots of usable working space because of those angled entries. In fact bedroom 4 only has 8'4" of usable space between the door and the wall. That's a closet!

Do you really want the loft area open to below? Noise carries up and down the stairs. And frankly if the bathroom were moved to that side of the upstairs, then the bedrooms could be larger.

As for the exterior, it really needs to be simplified. Pick 2 materials. Not 3.

I would ditch the stone unless you're going to run it all around the whole house. Otherwise it looks like you put lipstick on the house.

BTW: A great book to read and understand about exteriors is called What Not To Build. I HIGHLY recommend it.

Plus those casement windows look out of place. Like black holes. They should be double hung windows with grid patterns in them.

Plus they're too short on the first floor. Like little peep holes vs windows to let light in.

Why are you adding another element of the transom windows in the master bedroom but nowhere else. Again it's an additional element on the exterior.

The trim around the windows is just wrong.

You do realize on hot summer days your dining area is going to be sweltering because you have no way to block the west sun coming in?

Why are there practically no windows on the south elevation? That's your best bet for passive solar heating/cooling.

I would run those wood columns down to the porch base and get rid of the thingys the wood columns are standing on. Those thingy's are for a craftsman house and this isn't a craftsman house.

The roof was the first thing I noticed, before Virgil pointed it out. :-) Any way you will consider redesigning a home that is only 1-2 rooms deep, instead of the three you currently have? That will bring the roof into better proportion, and increase natural light. :-)

First, do you really need a garage that's slightly larger than your kitchen, dining room, laundry, bathroom, office, two hallways and stairway ALL COMBINED?

I agree that the kitchen is downright small, while the laundry and half-bath are oversized. Not how I'd have allotted space; not how the average person would allot space. The kitchen lacks storage, and the layout could be better. Typically people want island seating so that someone can "perch" and talk to the cook -- but in this case, the cook will be across another island.

I really think the mid-house kitchen with two full walls is what's throwing this house "off".

Imagine yourself with a plate of steaks or burgers for the grill -- how do you get outside? The only door to the backyard is behind the dining room table ... so you scootch around the edge of the table, then squeeze past the chairs to reach the table ... make this a bank of windows and place a door elsewhere.

The back hallway between the kitchen and bathroom is wasting a great deal of square footage.

That big staircase will be expensive, yet it's tucked away in a hallway where no one will see it. If you're going to splurge on such an item, bring it out in the open where it can be a show-stopper!

The doorway into the master bedroom is just odd, and I think you'll have trouble bringing in large furniture.

I can't read the dimensions, but I question whether the bathroom sink can support two sinks -- even if it can, the vanity is your only in-bathroom storage; you'd be better off with one sink and space for drawers on each side.

As a first draft, it's a start ... but I think it can be improved tremendously!

Hope you like large hipped roofs!

I do not like the roofline, but that's personal opinion. What's fact is that it's a HUGE roof, yet it houses mostly just attic. Lots of expense for little return.

Agree on the kitchen - it will be dark and feel squooshed. I could more easily see a farm table for the second island and then towards the back - more of a sitting / hang out area. The second island seems more like stadium seating for the kitchen since there is already seating at the close in island. And I really don't like folks lined up like the judges on DWTS.

Before reading these boards I never realized how difficult it often is to get a sensible floorplan/elevation when building from scratch. In some ways I consider us lucky that our only option was to do an extensive addition to our house - while we have idiosyncracies, at least I can blame it on having to work w/in those constraints. A blank slate seems at times like too much of a good thing.

As to this plan, personally I hate these upstairs loft spaces - it reeks of the bonus room (something I discovered from house hunters), which always reads to me as "this house was so poorly laid out that there's a huge gaping space with no functional or aesthetic value"

I think you can do MUCH better. I don't like the oversize roof (do you have any idea how much re-roofing will cost someday?), no true entry, the MBR area being very tight - for a custom house, you need his/her walk in closets and his/her baths - much better for a marriage. I could go on but others have covered the areas that are real problems.

In northern climates I like to provide an air-lock at main entries.

And now that I take a second look at it, the front porch looks proportionately awkward.

Looks like all the opinions scared off OP. Profile seems to have been deleted.

Falls under the heading of be careful what you ask for................

When an OP removes their profile after asking for help, that tells me that all they really wanted was a pat on the back for how "wonderful" their plan is.

Just for our discussion then (and because I'm not from the midwest, but might like to be some day...)

I always thought northfacing garages in the upper midwest states was a no-no. No?

It's definitely preferable not to have the garage facing north. Last house had a north facing garage and driveway always had less of the snow melt throughout the day and more ice on driveway that needed salt than my neighbor across the street.

Same experience as AsylumPoint. In fact, our PO mentioned it and said "try not to be too jealous of the neighbors across the street" lol!

Onthe other hand, my dad has a north-facing garage and doesn't have much trouble. Of course, he has 6' eaves over the garage door (my next house will have the same!)

I know OP bolted, but the windows on the front elevation to the right of the door are not at all correct - there are stairs there so the bottom would be at or below floor level.

Since the OP isn't on the site anymore, can I just say, what was the architect thinking? For those of you professionals on here....is this a case of an inexperienced architect designing a house from the inside out? I really doubt the OP told the arch that THAT was the "look" they wanted for the facade. Most non-professionals have a general idea, either craftsman, farmhouse, colonial, shingle style, Tudor....that they communicate to the architect, and the architect can use. This just is a mess to my eye. It doesn't have a definable style...the windows and the asymmetrical nature of it could be modern or something? But that roof line! Anyway, I'm obviously not a pro and was just really curious about this since the OP is gone.

I suspect, although I could be wrong, that in this case, it's likely that "architect" is just used as a generic catch-all term for "home designer person." It's a fairly common thing, I think, unfortunately.

As Dame said, "architect" is tossed around in this forum without much understanding of who and what an actual architect is. Many consumers think that anyone with a CADD system and/or who produces drawings of a house is an "architect".

And then there are those captive folks who work in house or out house for builders and reproduce the plans that the builders prefer, with some adjustments for individual buyers. Any time one sees home designs with huge roofs which rely on lots and lots of roof trusses, this is a good guess.

FWIW, I think that two of the most (negatively) influential inventions in the house building industry may have been: 1) Mr. Carrier's invention of air conditioning which made decades-long of many differing regional designs for architecture obsolete, and; 2) Invention of the 2X roof truss which made very long spans ( and houses 4 and 5 rooms deep) economical and achievable. Both of these, unfortunately, apply to the design of the OP's house.

The scale of the entry on the front elevation and the "foyer" on the floor plan are both out of proportion for a 2800 sq.ft house.