without a drawing or something more to go on it's impossible to know what the problem might be. There's no inherent problem in having a DR share a wall with a bathroom as long as the door opens someplace else.

And as long as the toilet isn't up against the dining room wall.

If it is a spare bathroom get rid of it and call it a day. The money you save will allow you to hire an architect to design a better home.

I think we have no idea without a floor plan but IMO good sound deadening insulation is always good in a bathroom next to living space.

Sorry, but a guest going from the dining table into the bathroom and rejoining the guests back at the table is the WORST floor planning faux pas. Unpleasant noises is most uncomfortable, not to mention smells!!! Please try to redesign where the door will be, if not the whole bathroom.

I had this set up in a former house. It was built in 1919 and that’s the way it worked out whenever they added on and modernized it. It was always a pain. No one wants to be the one at Thanksgiving dinner to get up and pee where everyone can hear. However, it was an old house and we dealt with it. BUT, there is no way in hell I’d build new with that floor plan. You have major issues if that is your layout. Time to rethink, stat. There is no designing around it.

If you are building a house the bathroom does not have to be beside the dining room. The design needs to change. If you can't change the design, then your vision is limited and you need an architect.. The job of good architects is to save you from yourselves, to give you features that you love that you would not have thought of yourselves, and to to understand the code and what problem you may not have thought of. . Most importantly, the fee is likely gong to be equal to what you would spend on rectifying mistakes.

A good architect is also your advocate with contractors, trades, and civic officials. They can save you from those contractors who wold walk you down expensive paths.

In every remo that we have done, we insulate the bathroom , never have the toilet seeable from the door, avoid pocket doors, and make sure there is a sill under the door.

I hope this was not too harsh...

This is the floor plan

It reminds me of this Poopourri commercial. I dont think I would want that.

So, the guest bath and guest bedroom have two separate entrances and the guest bath entrance is right there off the dining room table? Am I seeing this correctly? If so, please don’t do that. Go back to the drawing board.

I'm sorry but while it's a nice small house there are too many other things that are not good.

1. That bathroom off the dining room and the way it's situated. It means the person will have to actually walk around the dining table just to use the bathroom. I'm sorry but it's a huge yuck factor.

2. The fact that your guests in the second bedroom will have to go into the dining room to use the bathroom.

3. To get to the washer dryer you have to walk past the main working zone of your kitchen which is unsafe.

4. The island and the kitchen as designed is barely functional. You have the large island turned the wrong way just facing the fridge. So to use the island to prep, means you have to take food out of the fridge, bring it to the sink, then take the dripping wet food across the aisle and around the island again to prep and then walk it back across to the cooktop.

Or you can prep in that very small space between sink and cooktop.

5. What is with the angled entries to bath and closet in the bedroom. Those are called space wasters.

6. Why the huge space between the two sinks?

Has construction started?

That plan has problems all over.

Will this be a primary or secondary residence?

Really back to the drawing board and if an architect came up with this shame on them.

amy, how far along are you in the process? I agree with everyone else who is advising to stop now, and rethink your plans.

No-one in this forum knows you. But what we do know is that building a new house is expensive project that also takes up a lot of your time and creates stress. That's why "good enough" plans are never good enough, and why the regulars here want the best possible house for each new homebuilder, and the house that gives you the biggest bang for your buck. The plans above aren't that house.

Ok I hate what I did. Can't stand a laundry without a window - It's a process and it takes time. Listen to people that is suggesting to fix plan issues before breaking ground.

Consider moving laundry to the other side. Master bath can be reworked.

Normally I don't comment on these threads as I see people getting all fired up over perceived or alleged problems that barely even register on me.

However this one brought me out of the woodwork. Please, for the love of all that is holy, don't build a dining room with a bathroom clearly visible from the dining room table. There is no "designing" around a toilet view while eating.

naf_naf has given you for free something that would have cost a lot if you paid for it, and ppf just made it a little better by reclaiming some square footage and reducing the hallway near the guest bedroom.

thumbs up to you guys(naf and ppf) for helping out houzzers.

Great work. Agree with D E. Who needs a hired designer?

Thank you ALL SO much for taking time out of your lives to help out a complete stranger!! I have rearranged the layout for the bathroom to better suit me based on all your ideas! God bless you all!

I would switch the place where the toilet is with the linen closet in the master in PPF's or Naf_Naf's plan. I think they nailed it for you.

One more thought. Once you redo the layout, post your kitchen in the kitchen forum