Only being critical but like lots of things about plan.

Hate the pocket door to powder room. They don't seal as well as a regular door.

Don't like the windows in master as they arrange with the nightstands but that might not be reality. Either way, make sure your desired window treatments aren't awkward with the nightstands.

Is lower level just for guests? The downside of lower levels is the foot stomp from above that is not easily mitigated.

Personally done with tray ceilings after having several.

Can't figure out that master bath but did I mention that pocket doors don't seal well? Mind you I have several in our plan but they are never bathroom related. Those doors are just used too often. When I wake up before my wife, I don't want to mess with a pocket door that makes more noise and doesn't seal as well.

I am still blown away by single sinks (in large homes of course). My wife and I brush our teeth at the same time. Or sometimes she is washing her face and I want to brush teeth. We have a 1800 sqft townhome rental and we have 2 sinks. Necessary?- of course not. But when you have the room.... Just the clutter and my wife has very little.

I don't like the off center dresser in the master. I don't like the interaction of the dresser with the window in the master. I hate the 4 separate window treatments in the master - and I have 3 planned. Last house was one. Break out the motorized blinds and your pocketbook (I know - lazy).

Speaking of lazy - I don't like the folding door to the pantry. I don't like folding doors at all. A secondary bedroom closet perhaps. But otherwise, we don't see them around here. My memory is they feel really cheap - but that may have changed.

Laundry far from use points (and so big). But that is a personal thing of course.

Obviously there a lot here that you will not change but I do think the conversation is helpful for any other looking at it.

The lower level bath could use some work. Is it for kids who live there? Or is it for company? Either way, one door. And, if you want it compartmentalized, put the toilet and sink in one space, making a powder room, and the tub behind the door. This keeps other guests from having to see the personal items, used towels, etc.

In the main floor guest bath, can you swap the tub and toilet? I'd rather see the tub from the bed than the toilet.

In the main floor powder room, consider putting in a solatube for light. We remodeled our tiny interior hall bath to have a pocket door--so glad we did, for room to maneuver IN the bathroom--and a solatube, with lights over the vanity for nighttime. Though it did happen that once a guest couldn't figure out where the door was (seriously?), and several asked how to turn off the light...the solatube.

Thanks for taking time to comment. The stairs near the laundry room go up to a bonus room (bedroom) and bath above the garage.

Will re-think the downstairs bath with the 2 entrances to toilet/shower. Also, the pocket doors to bathrooms. I was concerned that a regular door would get in the way of traffic, but do you think that is not a concern since the walkway is fairly wide?

In laundry room, I would like more counter space, and agree there is wasted space in there, but haven't really come up with anything better. I am considering adding to the pantry and bench with hooks area and reducing the width of the laundry. Thought about adding a drop down counter type folding area in there along the right wall as you walk into the room.

As far the the single sink in the master....everything is relative. We have one small full bathroom with a PEDESTAL sink in our current farm house and survived with us and 6 teenagers all sharing that one bathroom, so this will seem like a dream just having our own bathroom with a sink. And a counter in the bathroom - what's that!!?!? :o)

It is not a folding door into pantry, but the drafter didn't have an accurate door to put there like we wanted. It is supposed to be 2 small doors that open in the middle.

Thanks again for the input!

I am really opionated today. A solatube is not cheap and to light a powder room is a waste. And why do you want to confuse guests with door and light issues? You will never save energy with a solatube in a powder room and do you really care to have sunlight in there? For all the time you spend there?

Why 2 small doors to a pantry? Twice as hard to open. You are right about the powder room door but why in a house this big is this an issue?

Sinks are fairly cheap.

Do you really need a bedroom over the garage? You are how many years from being empty nesters? Not judging or telling you how to live your life.

David, the solatube was a couple hundred dollars, true, but considering it also had an integrated ventilation fan and made the bathroom less of a black hole during the day, we felt it was worthwhile, especially with little kids. We also had one each in the interior upstairs hall and above the stairwell, which was probably more cost-effective. Previously, the hall light was on much of the day, especially in winter, but with the solatubes we didn't turn the light on until after 5:00 in winter, after 8:30 in summer! And since it was a side-split house, it also carried light to the lower-level stairs, too. And an added entertainment value: lightning storms!

David is absolutely right about the two small doors to the pantry. What a pain, you will always have to open...and close...two doors! With stuff in your hands, most likely, and often in BOTH hands. One door. That's all you need. And if it opens out into the hall as you show it, it's easy to push shut with your foot. And if you need it, you have room to hang storage on the inside of the door.

You could absolutely do a regular door on the powder room, and have it swing out. That gives one room to walk in and not have to squirm around to close the door, and the door is more likely to close...and quietly...when one leaves the room.

I didn't read the comments so if I'm repeating, I apologize.

I don't like the tub bump out in the master bath. I don't think you need to bump it out so why spend the extra money.

Seems to me with such a large home, you'd have a second sink in the master. After all you have a second sink in the guest bath which makes less sense.

I think if you move the door to your bedroom and your master closet, you'll have better wall space for your dresser and you'll have more useable closet space. Plus, if someone comes in late, they won't be waking the other with the lights being turned on from the closet. Additionally, now the closet will be closer in that it's in a straight run to the bathroom.

I also don't like that when you come in from the garage you have to make a detour to the right to put away coats, etc. If it's just adults in the house, it will be fine, but with kids???

Don't like the pocket door for the powder room. It's the only public toilet in the public area and it will get lots of use. I'd make it an ousting door.

I would seriously rethink bifold doors. I have them in our rental and the suck. BTW: They are awful. Oh and they are cheesy feeling. Can you tell I dislike them? LOL.

I'd look to other ceiling treatments rather than trey ceilings. They're a bit dated.

Will bedroom 2 downstairs be used as a bedroom? If so it's quite a hike to the bathroom in the middle of the night having to maneuver around furniture and the bar in the family room.

That downstairs bathroom is just awful. I'd make the bedrooms longer and stick the bathroom between the two bedrooms and create some sort of hallway for the two baths with the entry to the bath from the hallway.

Ok just read this:

It is supposed to be 2 small doors that open in the middle.

Make it a single door. If you're carrying stuff, how will you open two doors at once?

I've had a LOT of experience with pocket doors as we used them extensively in our house both times we remodeled. I don't have them on any bathrooms for all the reasons others have explained.

But then I rented a mews house in S Kensington for a week last spring. Mews houses are quite small and this was a very narrow one. It had pocket doors on every door except exterior ones. This included the doors on 3 bathrooms - all pocket. But these were like no pocket door I'd ever seen before! They were slab doors and were VERY thick and very heavy. My doors are solid wood at home, but they're traditional 6-panel doors, and nowhere near as thick or heavy. The door frame for the doors in my house is pretty shallow; the door frame in the London house had a much deeper recess for the pocket door to close into - probably 1/2 an inch deeper at least. My pocket doors are not noisy, but they are nosier than a regular door; these were smooth and seamless.

If I were building a house (or remodeling) today and pocket doors would be useful, even on a bath, I'd do a lot of research and find out how they do them in the UK. They are nothing less than fabulous.

You must put two sinks in the master bath. I know this is your forever home, but when you go to sell it, two sinks in the master bath will be expected. You are going to be sorry that you devoted all that space to a large tub and the master shower is so small as a result. I would try to incorporate a linen/storage closet in the master bath, too. I would rework the whole master bath.

There is a terrific void created underneath the landing of the stairs. Use that opportunity to frame for a storage or coat closet.

I've had solar tubes, too. I'd move the one in the power room to the master bathroom. But, that's me. They do provide amazing light.

Thanks for the ideas! The space under the landing is a utility area in the basement.

My beef with the solatube is that there is air leakage - mostly to unconditioned spaces, there are water leak concerns (minor perhaps), and then there is a R1.5 hole in what is commonly a R38 attic insulation. That energy loss can never be overcome in a powder room light. A powder room LED - 8 watts at a generous hour per day - is $.25 a year or so. So the solatube's very conservative cost of $100 over a light is a 400 year payback. If and only if - there was no heating and air issues. Those issues completely dwarf the energy savings.

You might have a fan with your solatube but I would suspect it is not the quietest, most efficient, and powerful fan for the money.

Now - hallway. Totally different story. But not without its downsides.