I don't know how much land you have and how close you are to the neighbors or high on the hill you are, but if the gorgeous view is to the front of the house, you might consider switching the master bedroom with the master bath so you can see the view from your bedroom window.

Your master closet does seem to have a hallway going through it. It just seems very long and meandering. Maybe if the bathroom could both be more rectangular, it would help. I like how the master has a door to the laundry, that will be very convenient.

I don't know where you plan on putting the bed, but if it's on the wall between the great room and the bedroom, you will be looking directly into the bathroom. If it's on the opposite wall, then no problem. Also, some people on this board have had concerns about the great room and the bedroom sharing a wall because of noise.

It looks like your nice large kitchen, dining room, and great room all relate nicely to one another, but still remain their own space. However, bpathome has a point about the powder room being so far away from the action.

It looks like you have a great start and it's going to be a lovely home.

If the view is to the front, then why are your main rooms other than your kitchen facing the rear of the house?

If your front faces southwest, I don't think you should block the front of the house with a closet, a laundry room, an entry, a staircase and a pantry. I think your main rooms should be looking out the front and the view.

Additionally since you're in Michigan, passive solar heating is so important.

What is with the tiny office that will barely fit in shelving?

I agree with you about the master closet.

Also where are the elevations and the rest of the drawings? A house is NOT designed one floor at a time but each floor and the elevations need to be designed together. The exterior needs to relate to the interior, and even the land. You don't stop designing at the walls.

I agree with CP except Michigan is one of the worst states for solar anything.

The most important things are that all the floor plans should be designed together (along with the exterior form) and it seems the most important spaces are not arranged to take advantage of the best views.

Is there a good reason for angling the garage?

I'm a little partial to Michigan homes.

Thank you, all, so much for the feedback. I really appreciate it.

Bpathome: phenomenal ideas about reworking that right side of the main floor. I love your idea of the friends/family entrance and adjusting some of those spaces to make it more kid-friendly. Your comment about your boys getting distracted while walking in to get a water bottle totally cracked me up! Been there myself a thousand times and would never have thought of adjusting that space to make it more user-friendly for them, but ultimately, me! :-) Thank you for the ideas!

Let me answer a couple questions that you all had.

1. The whole house actually has been designed together, not piecemeal. The reason I didn't include the lower level, bonus space over the garage, and the outside elevations is because those are currently being reworked by the architect and he's making so many changes that it seemed pointless to even show those at this time.

2. I should've clarified that the views are beautiful out both the back and the front of the house, but the front is especially gorgeous, with the added bonus of being a spot where my boys will likely be playing and riding bikes, so I like the idea of placing the kitchen with those views so I can keep an eye on them most of the time. But the back yard views are lovely, too.

3. We will have neighbors behind us, but probably won't see their house much because we have a deep back yard and a buffer of woods between us.

4. The office is small because we will have an office in the basement if anyone ever needs to work from home, which neither my husband nor I, do. (Yet I know it's important for resale, so we will have one). What we really need on the main floor is a "home management center" instead...a place to have a couple of filing cabinets, a printer, charging center for phones, and a place to drop and deal with mail. We don't have a desk top computer (both my husband and I use laptops). Thus the small size of the main floor "office".

5. The garage is angled because the contour of the land on the right side of the house is very low. It's going to require a lot of fill to get it to a manageable slope and to bring a driveway in over there would be difficult. So that pretty much eliminates a side entry garage. And other than a front facing garage, we're basically left with the angled option.

As for the master closet/bathroom area, it occurred to me to square off that area, too, but even in doing that, I'm not actually gaining a ton of usable shelf/hanging space. I gain a little, I suppose, but moving around in it is still tight because of its narrow nature. I suspect that entire closet/bathroom area needs to be reworked (i.e., remove the walls as they're drawn in those two rooms and start from scratch with the existing footprint to reallocate space). My brain just doesn't work this way and I'm TERRIBLE to "seeing" the potential on paper, which is why I was hoping that someone here would have some ideas about how to fix it.

I like your plan for the most part. Like the others have said, your powder room is quite far from everything, but it's a powder room. Not that big a deal to have it a bit farther away in my opinion.

How about something like this? Excuse my basic editing..I don't have the access or the knowledge for any real photo shopping abilities. I bumped out the bathroom to the left about a foot and squared off the top part of it. So yes, you did gain sq. footage, but I don't think a huge amount. I didn't draw any doors, just the openings. You get a much bigger shower (I personally hate corner/angled showers), you get a bigger vanity, bigger toilet room and a bigger closet with more usable walls for hanging space. I didn't put the linen closet anywhere, but I think you've got a few options. You could reduce the size of your vanity and/or tub and put the linen along side that. Or you could put the linen in the closet itself since you've gained some space anyway. Or I think it could fit across the from the tub if it's a shallow one. Hard to tell with no measurements. Laundry access from the closet is nice, but if you wanted to gain a little more hanging/shelf room, you could eliminate the door to the laundry and you'd still only have to walk around the corner to get there.

Or something like this. On this one I only squared off the top and but did not bump it out at all to the left.