Thanks for the suggestion! You're the 2nd person to suggest flipping the bathroom and pantry. Makes my walk during conference calls a lot longer, but i think it's probably the right thing to do. Though hubby wants it to be a "short" walk from back door to pantry so he's not "carrying groceries halfway across the darn house!". Yes, the upstairs closet is a "laundry" (I forgot to change the label). The master closet is massive bc I work in Fashion and have a lot of clothes ;) It's been my childhood dream to have the kids bedrooms share a jack and jill bath. The hope is that with the tub/toilet having a proper door, privacy of pocket doors isn't a big deal for the sink area.

We put in LVP in a high-end home for the function with dogs and in a snowy climate and love it for function and comfort. We have stone flooring in the baths and laundry, carpet in the bedrooms and have whole house radiant heat. The stone conducts the heat the best and stays nice and toasty in the bathrooms. Like Mrs. Pete, I wouldn't like tile in the kitchen because it is so hard on your body to stand on for long periods and gives me a backache (for comparison we had tile in the kitchen in our old house for the last 17 years and before that we had sheet vinyl). There are some really fun sheet vinyls out there. I wouldn't hesitate using a cool sheet vinyl in the mudroom, laundry and child's bath, but I would probably go with tile in the guest bath (even without heating -- guest baths are usually fairly compact and a couple of plush rugs will take the chill off).

Below is an illustration of an exercise I sometimes go through on a project to point out the efficiency of the layout, how much of the house is dedicated to circulation space and how much room there is for furniture. Circulation space is unavoidable but the less there is the more efficient the layout is.This just addresses efficiency. Other design flaws I see are how insect screens are handled at the double doors in the dining and guest bedroom? Why are there doors there and not windows? Where will a guest entering from the front have their coat hung? If the door from the guest bath to the family room survives, where will the light switch go? Why such a big work triangle in the kitchen? Work triangles work best when they are a triangle. And the list is longer but I have to get back to work.

Also following as this is one of my wish list items (Mudroom, Pantry, Laundry room). For me, this pantry will be more of a Butler’s pantry (storage of formal serving items) as well as storage of duplicate food items (pasta, beans, etc.). I would still store my oils and spices in the kitchen, but these would go into thoughtful locations opposed to a “kitchen pantry”. Does this make sense? Please correct me if I am missing something!