I made a couple more changes and updated SF. Total SF is a little under 3600. bpathome, I moved the sink to the front of the pantry. My wife uses the Keurig every morning so it probably makes more sense to have that at the front of the pantry adjacent to the sink. Does the pantry look good now? I also decreased the offset between the kitchen and the foyer by a foot (adding a foot to the south for the kitchen), which added a foot to the pantry and allowed me to move the island a little bit farther south so it doesn't block the walkway from the garage to the great room/master suite. I added a foot to the north for the great room and dining area, which decreased the depth of the covered patio to 11 feet. Is this deep enough? We want to have a sitting area on the covered patio, but also don't want it so deep that it severely limits natural light in the back of the house. I could add a foot to the north for the laundry room and sitting area if the patio needs to be at least 12'. Jackson, We appreciate the suggestion, but I don't think I want the laundry room directly behind the great room (in case the laundry is running while watching TV, etc) and would prefer the W/D to also be a little farther from our bed. We're not concerned about having to walk through the master suite to get to the laundry. Other than kids bringing dirty clothes in there, my wife and I should be the only ones using that room. We would love to have more suggestions for our floor plans. We have incorporated most of the suggestions from our first thread into the updated plans, but would love to hear more ideas! Thanks again! Updated floor plans:

I guess I don't understand tone and shade like I thought I did. It confuses me to think I can take a color and make it lighter but it'll still be the same color. Anyways, I'm headed to the paint store at lunch to pick up a couple sample pots of paint for the laundry room and the guest room. I've got a coupon that expires this weekend so I'd like to get the paint chosen. I'll be back with pictures tonight of the sample colors. steph, thanks for the ides of the satin clear coat. That might be a possibility. I'd rather do that than glaze it. Those are fun handles. I'll keep them in mind if I decide to change mine later on. For now, they aren't a big concern. The paint is driving me nuts!

I would leave the cabinet the color it is - it will be a nice balance to all the white and light colors in the space. If you are going to do beadboard, then I would go with the white. My thought is that if this is a powder room, will the texture of the beadboard and all the lines both vertical and horizontal, feel like too much in the small space? Not having seen the space, there is no way to judge that from the description. The other question is whether the beadboard look fits your home.

Marti- I vote for the half wall, messy kitchen or not! If you leave the solid wall, you still can't see the fireplace and you're walking over to the doorway, to talk to anyone in that room. Yes, you will be open to the dining area...but you already have a long, narrow space there (no peninsula, right?) so the half wall would open up the kitchen to the fireplace room, making that space feel wider and larger. What's opposite the open area, on the other side of the kitchen? That's all you'd see, as you walk in. Maybe you could change a few of the uppers, on that wall. All you have to do is get new doors, or even cut out areas, in the existing doors and add glass, chicken wire, fabric, a combination of both, etc. It might be nice and it would give you a little color or sparkle, in the kitchen area. Just a thought :)