I can think of several reasons there's no response.

Fortunately...no!

Oh, I love a house where the first thing you see as you drive up is a 3 car garage.

How do you know that this isn't a garage where the second thing you see as you drive up is a house??

How do you that this isn't a garage where the second thing you see as you drive up is a house??

English Mark?

I fixed it.

You guys are rough....

Some people apparently like the look of garages and I won't argue that point. But the friendship door right next to a front door? I have a friendship door now because I have a side load garage. I don't like the concept after building it this way 8 years ago but my wife still does. Either way, in this layout it is truly confusing. There is a spec house in my area that also has a friendship door on the front of the house - less confusing than this one. But our friendship doors that in style? It confuses guests and their hosts. Which door are they coming to? Are they driveway parkers or road parkers? Do they pull close to the garage doors or near the end of the driveway? Options can be confusing. Next house - 1 door! Circular drive for guests.

And some people like dark houses. I love that the only uncovered front elevation window is into a closet - that will really spill the light everywhere. And how the brightest room in the house by far is the master bedroom. At least the cars will have a sunny spot to park with uncovered windows on 3 sides.

But I get it - the front garage is huge for a modest house. And that driveway - a full 3 cars wide. There is a house around these parts with a 5 bay front load garage and the house sits on top. There is an entry way between the garage doors that heads back to the kitchen/family room. Kind of looks like a place you take your car to get serviced. Husband designed it - big car guy. DIfferent strokes I guess.

Mark - I have to say I was kind of annoyed by your tone on one of my threads but you do make me laugh....

David Cary, thank you so much for your post! Very helpful info! I have since decided to go with another plan, but your insight has been great!

I apologize if my tone or my comments are overly annoying. It is from my awareness of architectures effect on the human condition, and the human condition's effect on architecture. Too many times I see preconceived plans plopped on a site without consideration of how they relate to one another; or someone selecting a design and spend a multitude of hours trying to make it work for them. I see cookie cutter houses and it makes me aware of the amount of cookie cutter lives that are out there. I think it can be summed up by a quote by Bernard Maybeck:

"There is something bigger and better and more worthwhile than the things we see about us, the things we live by and strive for. There is an Undiscovered Beauty, a Divine Excellence just beyond us. Let us stand on tiptoe, forgetting the meaner things, and grasp of it what we may."

I have had certain events in my life that has effected me to have a little more humorous outlook on life.

There's some very substantive points here. Art and architecture have innate and very strong abilities to lift us beyond our every day pressures and monthly mortgage payments, helping us to see and enjoy the "undiscovered beauty" and enriching our daily lives. For that to happen, however, one must be aware that there is something called "undiscovered beauty" and want to find it. All too often, however, it seems the search is for the "forever" house, with the 3-6 car garage and giant mud room. Thanks HGTV!