I'm no expert so just an observation. Consider taller windows on the main house like your inspiration photo and do batton siding. I'm not a fan of the half brick look but if those are stone block and it ties with the post bases, will look very nice. I like the combination of metal roof and shingles maybe consider that too. It will be lovely!

No my heart does not skip a beat. We love the interior plan of the first floor the secon floor will be modified according to the roof plan. The 2 windows on the left are the laundry room then the garage. Yes! the left end does look too long, I can see that now.

This is the top floor plan.

The black circled part is an outside laundry line, wich we could also remove alltogether, but I do always line dry our laundry.originally our designer put a long high window there.

The roof pitches are off. And there are two different roof heights which make things look of balance (along with what was mentioned below). I would absolutely get rid of the drying area. Why would you need that wall? Seems like it would just get dirt in there and be a pain to clean. You can still dry laundry outside without having it be walled in.

What do you love about the interior? This could be a cultural difference, we've no clue. But it is quite closed off from the kitchen, a natural gathering spot...........for most

The master bath seems inadequate as compared with the closet. You seem not to have a dedicated powder room.......

Can't read the dimensions on your plan, or even see it well.....to comment beyond that. Would not be a love affair for me: )

ALL of this is a conversation you need to have with your architect. Nobody here can resolve.

Also, your kids will need to practically stand in the toilet to wash their hands.

Looks like a nice spacious plan. A couple things that you might consider. If there's a truck that needs garage space make sure that length is considered. The main floor bath looks small and has toilet in direct view when door is open. Not sure if you can shrink the room in front of it to get more space. Consider a pocket door for bathroom, same for the one upstairs because you may tire of the door in the way by the vanity. I would consider removing the door to family room that is in the entryway hall, otherwise there will be two doors taking up that corner of the room, unless you're okay with that. Space leading into kitchen looks tight, not sure of the width there. It's a wonderful plan, so jealous of the kitchen pantry!!

How did you choose this architect? It appears from your inspiration photo that you want fairly traditional detailing but at least based on the rendering the architect has no grasp of that. Are they/ you in the States?

Thank you all so much on the feed back.
Jan Mayor definitely a cultural difference😁. We seem to be kind of on a different page with our architect, thats why we wanted some input from the side. I schould mention we live in South America. The kitchen does not have a wall on the right. Just a breakfast “bar?” . Also will need to look at the dimensions in kid’s bathroom again 🧐.

As I said : ) Back to the drawing board . With this arch..or someone else. "No grasp" as Hallett said above. A better way to put it? Not looking or listening" Or perhaps doesn't LIKE.......Your dream.

It's a marriage of all I said before. It's also a marriage in terms of the dialogue between you and that arch. It's never perfect the first time. ....it takes quite a few revisions, usually. It takes compromises....all ways. Capitalize that C. in compromise. No matter the resources.

HALLETT yes our architect lives here too. But he leans more to modern styles with a flat roof and lots of glass. We live in the country on 4 acred of land. With lots of trees around.

He does NOT LIKE your dream. HE LIKES WHAT HE USUALLY DOES.

It's the same reason one gets a residential architect, NOT a commercial architect, when planning a home. A RESIDENCE.

Few love both disciplines equally and few are equally skilled at both. One requires a lot more hand holding than the other, in most cases. : )

PS BE READY TO HEAR THE NO WORD. LINE DRYING?

Seriously try to picture that and where...ON the exterior of the dream.

It is quite possible you have the guy totally confused.

The inspiration which in no way looks like what you are planning so start there I also have no idea why you love the main floor plan so maybe explain that. Was this a stock plan that you are now reworking? As to style an acreage does not lend itself to a specific style . For gods sake you do not have a clothesline in front of a house for sure. IMO get an architect that has more experience or something .

You need a new architect, you are wasting time with this one. Move on. Maybe find one educated in the states so this aesthetic will at least be familiar to them.

We love the floor plan the dimensions are all just about right. We have measured back and forth. The toilet in the kids bathroom is way too big in the plan, so in real live it will work out.

Remove exterior door to laundry room otherwise guests will go there rather than front door. Put an exit door in garage leading to backyard, which is where any clothes hanging should be......

Then you have answered your own question. You can't SEPARATE inside from out. They are entwined like Siamese twins.

Nobody in the USA worth a dime, will give you a line dry at the front of the house. That's a DIY in the middle of the country, and ten miles from view. , of all but the cows, or sheep. Sorry. : )

If the guy doesn't "get you"...........well........what can we say? : )

That's a hard one for anyone to process. You have to understand your own dream.........maybe you don't.

If you want a farmhouse, get one. Not the "dream"

The living has big glass sliding doors so it can be opened up or closed for more privacy, the dinning area has big glass sliding doors to outside, we want an outdoor kitchen on the back patio. We have 4 kids 2 boys and 2 girls. I want a big laundry room with room for my sewing maschine. We do not have television. It’s hot almost year round. I don’t use/need a powder room😄. Some random info. Here also a picture of how I imagine my kitchen. On the plan the kitchen cabinets need to be changed

We hate the roof thats all,he can also modify the inside if needs be, to make the roof different. The top floor can be arranged any way, just the stairs stay in place. This is the roof from top. The lundry line space can totally be removed.

Looking at the 2nd floor roof, the slope is a low pitch. I estimate from the one side view rendering that the ceiling height will be sloped in much of the bedrooms, and maybe bathroom. In LIGHT BLUE is where the ceiling transitions from sloped to flat, in DARK BLUE is the slope down to help visualize. This is an estimation from little info, but your architect should do a section through the building.

Section through the building.

Get with the architect.....................if you only hate the roof? That's your topic.

Your question was a bit "inaccurate" : )

Sorry. He has redisigned the roof like 5 times allready, so we are not sure he will get it. It doesn’t have to be 100% like the reference picture but at least in that line somewhere!. 🤷‍♀️

And by the way the line dry space was not my idea, just shacking that off of me 😄

It seems to me the issue is that there are some "modern" cues (e.g. long wall and punched windows that lend to his style), the floor plan (e.g. long horizontality), and maybe some local or personal cues (e.g. long overhangs) that do not fit this American Vernacular style. Although there is a mishmash of parts on the inspiration picture, you can still pull out the essence of the elevation - regardless of the "cues" you use to represent what is a good aesthetic to you, it has to start with proportion and balance, which involves a massaging in plan, section, and elevation at the same time.

@susyr Don't settle for this very poor design. Here's just one of the issues - the asado is in full-swing when the wind & rain hits - where's the door to enable guests to move into the garage??? South America is rife with talented residential Architects - find one.

It looks odd because the architect has tacked some gables onto the modern house. The proportions are inconsistent.

What is the room on the lower right?

I doubt if the architect has ever hung laundry on a line. That is an inappropriate location in the front of the house and a poor design for wind flow. It may even make the laundry smell like garage.

I would dump this architect and start over with a new one.

Basically these state some best practices for building a house. Anything in bold could use some help.

The best houses orient the public rooms towards the south for the best passive solar heating and cooling

The best houses are L, U, T, H, or I shaped.

The best houses are only one to two rooms deep. And covered lanai, porches, garages, etc count as rooms in this case.

The best houses make sure kitchens have natural light, meaning windows so one doesn't have to have lighting 24/7 to use the kitchen. (And no, dining areas with windows 10' or more from the kitchen will not allow for natural light.)

The best houses make sure all public rooms and bedrooms have windows on at least two walls.

The best houses do not if possible put mechanical rooms, pantries or closets on outside walls

The best houses keep public and private spaces separate.

The best houses do not have you walk through the work zone of the kitchen to bring laundry to the laundry room.

The best houses do not have the mudroom go through any of the work zones of the kitchen.

The best houses do not use the kitchen as a hallway to any other rooms.

The best houses do not put toilets or toilet rooms up against bedroom walls or public rooms.

The best houses do not have walk in closets too small to stand inside.

The best houses have an organizing “spine” so it’s easy to determine how to get from room to room in the house and what makes sense.

Also well designed houses are not designed one floor at a time and then an exterior is stuck on after the fact. They are designed all at the same time in 2D and 3D and the design as architectrunnerguy says doesn't end at the house but at the property line.

The garage looks very odd jutting out from the side of the house. Am I intepreting that correctly?

Maybe continue the house rendition to end of laundry room, then stone and batton on only garage.

I don't think your architect understands your dream. Maybe you should show them some of your inspiration pix.

I did but….😏

Your architect is a one trick pony. with no real talent for interrelated spatial relationships. Given the really awkward floor plan, he probably isnt good at a modern style either. But he is horrible at transitional-traditional.

Wow thank you so much for taking the time to do this. It looks great. I felt like we could not explain to our architect how to change it so that it would be right. This is sooo much better. Thank you! Definitely will use this idea to get what we want.

And also we have asked another architect to see what he can do. So hopefully we will get that heart beat skip yet ☺️

As for the floor plan. Let me describe kinda how we live. I am a stay at home mom, we make just about everything from scratch. So I want my laundry room/Sewing room close to the kitchen so I can bake and do laundry/sew at the same time. I babysit often, my nieces and nephews. We want the living to be able to close of since things get dirty really fast here in South America, also because when we have guests over we can have some privacy. The kids play at the kitchen table often and use the whole house as their playground. We do not have tv. Our kids play outside a LOT. Air conditioners are on almost 24/7. To many windows in the bedrooms allow to much sunshine/ heat to enter.

If you live in an area with high wind storms the roof as drawn will act as a big sail. Uplift will be tremendous. In such areas it is best to isolate the house roof from porch/ patio roofs.

The first picture is basically a symmetrical house made unsymmetrical by the odd roofing, with an attached shed. You'd have a much nicer house if the main part had a symmetrical roof. The asymmetry in the roof can be changed without changing the floor plan.

The attached shed just looks bad. The roofing on the main house partly disguises this. If you make the roof of the main house symmetrical, the square shed attachment is going to look odd.

In your dream house, there's a wing to the left of the symmetrical main house with another gable. Adding a gable to the shed thing at the left of your plans might help. But, fundamentally, the massing of the shed thing (is it a garage?) doesn't match the massing of the main house.

Frankly, I don't think this is modern style as much as it is trying to disguise the awkward marriage of the two structures.

Yes the left is a laundy room( two windows) then the garage attached to that. But if we take the wall that hid the laundry line( removing that idea all together) then the garage would be further back and there would be windows and a roof overhang.

Do you really need an architect to design this style of home from scratch for you? There are a lot of websites to buy plans off of that have better floorplans than this. I agree with others that the master bath is tiny. It's a big house, but the layout is not great right now.

South America is a very large place with many dfferent climates and cultures. Could you be more specific?

It would also help to know more about the neighborhood, where you have lived in the past and why you chose a popular American vernacular revival style house from the internet.

Update

Better

We are still working on the layout, some things have changed and the exterior will still change too.

Where I live, the small space between the upper roof overhang and the porch roof is an invitation for squirrels and other small animals to make the attic their home. I would lower the upper roof eave so the roof is steeper and eliminate the little horizontal blank strip of wall. Alternatively, the porch roof could be steeper.

The dormer roof rakes should not appear to rest on the uper corners of the windows. It looks like a hat pulled down over someone's ears and makes the dormers look fake.

To me, everything about the design seems poorly proportioned as if it had been designed by phone, zoom or text.

It may be partially the fault of an amateur level 3D drawing program but its asking a lot of the builder to fix it while building it.

During the design process it is best to keep interior and exterior flexible, like what it sounds like you are doing.

FIRST OFF IM BUILD IN NC & YOUR TWO PHOTOS ARE 2 DIFFERENT HOMES ROOF DESIGN Totally DEPENDS ON INTERIOR DESIGN YOUR DESIGN LOOKS FINE U CAN LIGHTEN COLOR TO GET LOOK OF DREAM HOME SUCH AS SHINGLES COLOR & LIGHTEN COLOR OF PORCH TRIM COLORS ETC

It has yet to be stated by anyone.

I love the "Mediterranean" style, but it just doesn't fit well with my climate and regional vernacular. I could pull concepts and ideas from it to create something entirely unique for me, but if I were to apply some of my climate and region's recognized features to the Mediterranean style, it would just bastardize it to something strange and unpure, which would be very evident.

Maybe, just maybe, the American vernacular style you want should not be done verbatim where you live.