Fire Pole! Actually, your kids are on to something. I sometimes drive by a house that has a tube slide going from a deck off the second floor...into the pool! (I wonder if their insurance company knows about that...) Your tube slide could run outside the house and back in through the basement window well. Yeah, I guess I did just go back to the earlier version. It was good to start with, except for the powder room... Upstairs...oooh, that one bathroom is really tight. Do you have 4+ kids? I guess they wouldn't want to share one bathroom...or even two half-baths joined by a shower or tub room? (I had a friend whose family lived in a house with this...six kids) Anyway, can you shrink the first bedroom's desk and slide the bathrooms down so the furthest one can be a bit bigger? In our last house the kids' bathroom was really small; when we remodeled it we put in a pocket door and the bathroom seemed twice as big. We respect privacy and would never,. even the little ones, open a closed door without knocking, especially in a bathroom. I rarely see the sink between toilet and tub, isn't it usually tub-toilet-sink? In the first bathroom, just go with one sink. It's so small, they will never be in there at the same time, and they will need the storage and counter space. Why not put the water controls for the tub and shower on the outside wall with the sinks and toilets? You are going to put storage under that bench, right? Is the laundry room in the basement? Is there a place for a laundry chute? At least it can get down there quickly...Hey, the slide! Your girls are so smart.

A couple of things for sure IMO a walk in pantry is a huge waste of space and when it is not in the work area even worse. I am not really getting a feel for the spaces I usually do not like kitchens open to LRS but to DRs yes. The 2 levels will be an issue and before planning to make these all one level think it through a lot. Every window doorway plumbing all will need to be redone . You seem to have a lot of sq footage but not used very well. The kitchen is tiny and IMO you could have a LR and DR in that large LR space that would allow for a much bigger kitchen. That large window is fabulous but it needs to be a new one where the bottom is 42” from the floor then you can install cabinets all along that wall eliminate the walk in pantry and make the space on the right your DR a wall of fridge and pullout pantries on the right kitchen wall have the island longer and positioned to face that great window. You really need a good interior designer to use this space to the best advantage . Make sure you also get an independant kitchen designer .

So, no sink on island, due to plumbing difficulties. MW turned toward fridge could be 24" wide (Sharp 24" MW is ap 21.5" wide, with front the whole width of the base cabinet--think full overlay-type door), or if you have enough space, make the island 6" deeper for a 30" MW. Adding a 6" half wall behind the other cabinets would make it easy to run wiring for an outlet on the other end of the island. You need at least 24" elbow space for each seat, for comfort at counter height, so island needs to be at least few inches wider (72"). I'd make it as wide as space and budget allow. Is the existing sink centered under the window? Does your cabinet line offer a 33" drawer base? If possible, I'd center the sink on the window, put a 33" drawer base to the left and put a 15" trash pull-out to the right of the DW. Trash would normally be under the prep zone, but that's going to the island, so having the trash on the end of the sink run will make it more convenient for all zones. Anyone making a fridge-to-MW foray won't need to enter the cooking aisle to throw away packaging. Even if the sink line-up doesn't change, I'd make the 18" cab a trash pull-out to preserve the wider drawers to the left of the sink. A wide drawer can be divided into storage sections, without losing space that two cabinets would waste--and a 12" drawer base won't have a lot of interior space. Of course, you need to assess your storage needs and cooking style to make a final decision. Info on drawer MW comparisons

IMO mirrors need to reflect something worth seeing twice or they're useful tools in a foyer to check yourself before leaving the house. Carolyn Oliver, Your foyer has walls that clearly delineate it from other rooms, so having something different would be fine! Just make sure it still ties in with the overall decor theme. I'd suggest wallpaper in a fun pattern but keep it in a color scheme that compliments the surrounding rooms. So maybe like gold/silver, grey or beige.