Pulled up the following on e-plans.com. Some are better than others but, yes, it IS clearly possible to get 5 bedrooms in a house under 2800 sq ft and there are plans available out there in all kinds of different styles that do it. The ones below are not even all of the ones on e-plans that meet your qualifications and I'm sure you can find other designs on some of the other on-line plan places. But these should help you get started and, if you decide you want to have a custom design drawn for, you'll have some idea of what is possible. 1 story plans #bedrooms/#baths/#garagebays(square footage) 5/3/2 (2795) - http://www.eplans.com/french_country_house-plans/HWEPL13929.hwx 5/3/2 (2789) - http://www.eplans.com/new_american_house-plans/HWEPL14271.hwx 5/3/2 (2746) - http://www.eplans.com/new_american_house-plans/HWEPL63436.hwx 5/3/3 (2721) - http://www.eplans.com/french_country_house-plans/HWEPL13926.hwx 5/3/2 (2718) - http://www.eplans.com/mediterranean_house-plans/HWEPL02849.hwx 5/3/2 (2653) - http://www.eplans.com/new_american_house-plans/HWEPL13923.hwx 1-story plus basement rooms 5/3/3 (2575) - http://www.eplans.com/craftsman_house-plans/HWEPL14465.hwx 2-story plans 5/3/2 (2799) - http://www.eplans.com/traditional_house-plans/HWEPL65446.hwx 5/4/2 (2795) - http://www.eplans.com/colonial_revival_house-plans/HWEPL09826.hwx 5/4/2 (2794) - http://www.eplans.com/french_country_house-plans/HWEPL09605.hwx 5/3/2 (2793) - http://www.eplans.com/new_american_house-plans/HWEPL07875.hwx 5/4/2 (2780) - http://www.eplans.com/colonial_revival_house-plans/HWEPL10861.hwx 5/2.5/2 (2764) - http://www.eplans.com/farmhouse_house-plans/HWEPL64753.hwx 5/4/2 (2757) - http://www.eplans.com/tidewater_house-plans/HWEPL68888.hwx 5/3/2 (2756) - http://www.eplans.com/new_american_house-plans/HWEPL08201.hwx 3 story plans (i.e., 2 story with attic or basement rooms) 5/4.5/2 (2773) - http://www.eplans.com/gothic_revival_house-plans/HWEPL05144.hwx 5/3.5/0 (2392) - http://www.eplans.com/contemporary_house-plans/HWEPL11202.hwx 5/2.5/3 (2789) - http://www.eplans.com/farmhouse_house-plans/HWEPL64734.hwx Hope these help.

When I had the master suite created in my DH's home up north, it was crowded for bedside tables too. So I got two wooden tall plant stands, with 12x12" tops. They fit perfectly fine. Then swing arm wall mounted lamps for each side of the bed. Enough room for a book on the shelf below and a glass of water or whatever. I never just use an end table when there is an option to have a small chest beside the table. That works even in a small room with limited storage space. Every item has to WORK to make the cut when space is scarce. And, in the bedroom in Alabama, I am going to be sorry to leave it for the BACK bedroom, which will become an ensuite master, because it is beginning to look SO comfortable. It is a west-facing bedroom, on the street. It has two PAIRS of windows, and the closet and entry to the bedroom are on a third wall. That leaves one wall which has no windows and no doors or other obstructions. However, I did not want the bed to be sideways in front of the entry door, so had to put the bed first diagonally in the corner between the two pairs of windows. This worked fine for a while, with the wicker chests I use for bedside tables centered between the windows. However, it was hard to make up the bed. So I decided to center the bed in front of the windows on the street wall. I closed the blinds to block the high heat coming through those windows anyway. And then I found some floor/ceiling grommet drapes at Tuesday Mornings! That is when I got DH to install crown molding wide enough to mount the double drapery rods, and I started planning 3 layers of curtains...grommet drapes wall to wall on both window walls, sheers on the second drapery rod, and finally the top-down roman shades using 90% shade cloth and Thermasuede fabric as a liner. I am almost done with the curtain project, but even with the shade cloth pinned in place on the west wall, the difference in heat gain is significant. This room is 12 x 12 give or take an inch. We changed out sliding closet doors for 2 pair of Jeldwen bifold shutter doors which I painted to match the crown molding and base boards and other wood work. The wicker chests are on either side of a full sized bed, with lots of breathing room. There is a rocking chair near the closet. There is a third chest between the closet and the door to the hall, and a wall mount TV is above the chest. So now I've ordered the Hudson queen size storage bed from Room and Board in cherry. It should arrive this month. I can hardly wait. It is a platform bed with no footboard, and no box springs, and it measures 60 x 80. A full bed is 54 x 75, so only a few significant inches of comfort which I look forward to having. But when the contractor finally comes, and bumps out the master bath for a tub and a long walk in closet, we'll be moving this new jewel to the back bedroom. This current bedroom will convert to a nice study/guest room. Only we seldom have over night guests, and may just put desks and bookcases in there until we move the contents of the up-north house. It seems to me that we have plenty of space in the 12 x 12 bedroom. Since we've repainted and made the room so peaceful, I will now take a horizontal break to meditate or read or chat on the phone. It looks good in natural or ambient light all times of day since northern exposures give true light, and the shade cloth gives a sense of separation from the street. Keeping active pursuits out of the bedroom is conducive to rest and separation from the cares of life.

Thanks for the comments. I really appreciate the feedback! We really have given thought to the doors, and the architects have been great about incorporating our real life into the house flow. Also, this house really doesn't have a front/back/side, it uses all sides, which is fine because we're not on a regular lot and I didn't want it to feel like we were. Here's probably more info than you want, but: marthaelena is right, there's a parking area in the front of the house. So front door is for people who park there, namely guests and my kids when they're old enough to have their own cars (which makes me break a sweat just thinking about it). You probably can't see it on the plan, but there will be a low stone wall or concrete wall directing people from the parking area to the front door. We need to add an entry closet. The mudroom door is for people parking in the garage. The side door on the west side (facing south) is especially for my husband. He gets dirty farming, plus has a farm truck that will be parked outside the garage, so that's a great place for him to enter with his muck boots on. In fact, I've talked about having an outdoor shower by that entry so he can clean up right there. That would be awesome! The door from the laundry room to the north is so I can carry laundry out to a laundry line. The line should be fairly out of view if I put it on the north side. The main outdoor area will be to the east. We haven't finalized it, but it'll either be a big deck (as shown) or a deck outside the dining area with steps leading down to a patio outside the living room area (steps will go down about 6'). If a deck, then we'll have doors from the living room and dining room out to the deck. If a deck/patio combo, then just a door from the dining room out (because the living room will be up 6' from patio).

"It shows needing 24,241 btu's cooling, with sensible load of 22,042 latent load of 2199, and and btu's of heating at 104,838" Your load calculation from loadcalc.net says you only need a 2 ton AC, but you need 110K BTU furnace for heating a 2200 sq. foot house in your climate. The numbers make no sense to me given that your climate is very similar to mine. The cooling load seems too low, and the heating load seems too high. You either entered the wrong values, or the free calculator is very poor at estimating. "None have provided a load calculation. I am guessing maybe a couple have done one." There is no need to guess. Either the contractor has done a calculation or he has not. Ask the question directly, and ask for a copy. Some contractors won't give you a copy because they don't want you to take their work and then buy form someone else. In that case ask him to show you a hard copy and have him explain it to you. If you were buying carpeting for the whole house, would you expect the contractor to come in and measure every room, draw up a plan on where the seams would be placed, and tell you options on how to minimize waste? What would you think if you got quotes from 5 carpet contractors each of which had very different amounts of carpet and none of them were what you estimated? Wouldn't you be asking "show me your measurements"? HVAC sizing is more critical than carpet sizing. If you buy too much carpet, you have left overs which you can either throw away, or put to some other use. The carpet that has been installed is not affected. If the HVAC is sized incorrectly, it will not function well, waste energy, on likely fail prematurely. All of that can be avoided by spending 30 minutes doing a correct load calculation.