At 11'11" you don't really have enough space for island seating in the orientation you're planning. If you cant fit laundry upstairs as mentioned upthread, you should look at making the family room a utilitarian space as suggested by mama goose. Please don't make the rest of the main level layout awkward just to preserve a family room. You don't need three eating areas. Leave the living room a living room, the dining can become part of a kitchen with island and you can turn the breakfast nook/kitchen into the dining room with a nice patio door to the back yard. Here's a layout that puts a closet, laundry room and hobby room/office in the present family room so you can keep a nice kitchen/dining/living layout in the main part of the house.

We want to build with ‘aging in place’ in mind. Looking at wide hallways, one floor, Everyone says "wide hallways and such", but that shouldn't be the focus, if aging-in-place is your concern. I was very involved in my grandmother's care (she died five months shy of her 100th birthday), and neither hallway width nor doorway width ever caused her the least trouble. You can find loads of reading on this topic, but things that actually gave her trouble included: Her #1 problem was changes in flooring. The change from linoleum in the kitchen to carpet in the family room threw her to the floor more times than I care to remember. As such, one of my #1 goals in my house is 100% flat flooring /0 changes in flooring throughout the house ... I'm planning that literally only the shower will be a different flooring. Throw rugs were not her friends either. Entering and leaving the house was a slow process for her (and she was embarassed by it), which required all of one step. She had two walkers, one she left in the garage and one she kept in the house ... she had grab bars placed by the door, and she'd switch walkers once she was in/out. Normal aging (not accidents) tends to mean first using a walker when you leave the house ... then needing it inside the house. You do need a place to store the walker by the garage door, so consider a mudroom with a piece of furniture that can be removed later. My grandmother was able to do her own laundry ... but she could only carry a small basket down the hallway on her walker. You're already thinking of the laundry room being close to the master closet, which is good. Consider adding a commercial laundry basket to your plan (not unlike a shopping cart, something that gave her good balance and made her feel comfortable ... she'd often leave her walker in the car and have me bring a shopping cart to the car door for her). You can buy them on Amazon for around $100 ... and you can plan a spot under a counter for it to "hide". If you read up on aging-in-place, the ability most people lose first is bathing, so it's sensible to pay close attention to your bathroom. Don't skimp on your shower size. Instead of a built-in bench, consider a teak stool, which could -- one day -- be removed /replaced with a hospital bathing chair. You definitely want a hand-held shower positioned so that you could bathe yourself from a seated position /a helper could stand behind you to wash your hair. Consider whether you'll be able to reach your shower supplies from a seated position. Consider adding a body dryer, which will remove the need for towels (unless you have long hair). Toilets in closets are bad for aging-in-place ... they're essentially a stall from the mall moved into your house. My grandmother had trouble entering /using a stall with her walker, even a handicapped stall. Be sure you have something solid (wall with plywood instead of drywall) or a vanity on each side of the toilet so you can install grab bars. Both of my grandparents developed issues as they aged that necessitated "supplies" near the toilet. Plan for some shelving or a cabinet turned towards the toilet, and you'll be set. If you want a bidet seat (so you can spray water instead of wiping), install an outlet behind the toilet. Consider where you will store medicines. Will you want them near the kitchen or in the bathroom? Consider your routes for taking trash from the kitchen to the can ... and the can to the street. My now-RN daughter worked Home Health during her college years, and she emphasizes that ALL elderly people seem to want a big window where they can sit and look outside. She also emphasizes the importance of a fire-safety door in (or near) the master bedroom. We have 4 large dogs so we would like a mud room that leads directly outside to back or in the garage. That mudroom would have a dog bathing area in it as well. I am so excited about my dog door plans. The door will open from the laundry room into a small dog run (we only have one dog, and he's 30 lbs). The dog run will include a gate that will open into the larger /fenced back yard. This means we will be able to leave the dog in the laundry room, and he will have access only to his dog run OR to the larger yard ... but it'll give us control. We need two other dedicated bedrooms with their own toilets and sinks – they can share a shower/bath combo or they could have their own. Do these need to be on the first floor, or could they go upstairs? Upstairs would solve your sprawl-problem and would allow you to close off the upstairs (avoiding heating /cooling) once the kids are all gone. I adamantly don't want to spend my retirement cleaning bathrooms, so I'd ask, why not one bathroom between the two bedrooms? We need an office/study. How much office /study do you need? Is a pocket office enough? What would you store in the office? Will it double for hobby or craft space? Will you see clients in this space? We need a gym space. This space does not need a closet or a bath. Again, this might be something that could go upstairs. By the time you can't manage the stairs anymore, you won't be working out either. General thoughts about the floorplan, which I don't love a whole lot: - Other people have pointed out that the general shape of the house /depth of the house will push the roofline to large proportions, and the rooms you'll use most will be dark. - The garage location is good ... it's convenient to the master bedroom and the kitchen /ease of bringing home groceries. - The master suite could use work. Note that you have to walk across the suite to the far end to access the bathroom. Note, too, that you could open a door between the laundry room and the closet and save many steps. You could easily add a door directly to the patio for the above-mentioned fire safety. Consider the pathway for each partner to leave the bed /go to the toilet. - How will the dryer vent to the outside? Direct venting is both cheaper and more fire-safe. - I don't like kitchens with big empty spaces in the middle ... everything's so far apart that you'll dribble things as you move between the sink and the stovetop. - How often do you anticipate large family meals? Your table space isn't all that big. Note that you have a bathroom right next to your dining area. - Guests will have to walk past (through?) the gym to reach the games room ... this doesn't sound appealing. - Will you use that outdoor fireplace? It's a very expensive feature, and most people don't use them much. - This is a really big house for retirees. Do consider seriously whether you want to spend your retirement years (and dollars) cleaning /maintaining /heating this much space. - Consider a closet for your cleaning supplies ... the vacuum, bulk-purchased paper products, etc. Include outlets for a stick vac (or similar). - Consider that oversized garage. You're nearing retirement ... how many cars will you keep? Will you continue to do your own yard work? A 3-4 car garage is huge and overshadows even a large house ... consider a 2-car attached + a second 2-car attached set at a 90 degree angle.

The front porch does help unify the exterior. is the third floor dormer functional? i might skip it if it is not a real window your stair tower is at right angles to both the inspiration photos. The inspirations have windows from near ground all the way up because the stairs run alongside the window. Your stairs run up to the window so it’s in back or front of you. Mentioning this in case that specific design element is very important to you. I notice you drew another window below your stair window. I dont know much but the inspiration sideways stair orientation feels more modern to me while the window-on-landing seems a bit more traditional

Are you still thinking of this as an A-frame? If so, you need to remember that your second floor is considerably smaller than your first floor. Even if your ground floor has vertical walls, and your A-frame construction begins on the second floor, you will lose functional space quickly where the roof closes in. You can’t have a bed or a tub against an outside wall. I’ve lived in an A-frame for decades. I love it, but it’s a very different process looking at floor plans for an A-frame. Even when I’ve worked with professionals they often have difficulty factoring in the loss of vertical space on a floor plan. If you are building an A-frame, I suggest drawing a line for yourself on your floor plan where you will start to be able to stand comfortably - where will you will have at least 6 feet in height from the floor to ceiling. Build yourself a scale model if you can. (Note: the scale model that my father made for the A-frame that is now mine became my beloved doll house. It even had our furniture to match when I was growing up. If I look closely, I can see where he had to change the model when things didn’t work.)