The most successful houses are designed for the site upon which they will set. The complexity of the design makes me think it was meant to impress and not serve.

Interesting plan, What is your building site like? Who all will be living in the house?

I rather like the wet bar as you enter from the garage. I can use a stiff drink after a day among the hordes.

Is a trey ceiling like a tray ceiling, times 3?

Such a dark interior. It has so many fun ideas that are so very poorly executed.

Here I go again. I post this list all the time. Anything in bold is a negative for the house plan.

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 dining areas.

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.

Honestly this is probably one of the poorest floor plans I've seen on here.

Angles while they look interesting on a plan will make the house live poorly. All those angles trying to fit furniture in? Angled corners in closets means unusable space.

And no matter which direction you face the main rooms, this house will be very dark. Cave dark.

Bigger does not mean better. If you haven't already, I highly suggest you read The Not So Big House by Sarah Susanka. Yes you're building a large house, but so much of what she suggests will work in a larger house, as well as a smaller house.

I’m trying to understand the garages. The elevation makes it appear that the house is on a slope, higher at the back for the garages, but then it seems to slope down behind the house to accommodate the walkout basement. Does the driveway approach the house from the front, going through the porte cochere? Or is there an option to drive up from the right, with a fork-off to enter the garage pads from the right, but you can exit through the porte cochere?

Why is one garage attached, and the others separate? Is the attached garage for the trash cans, bikes, hockey, etc? Or do you drive only one car? If you will park cars in more than one bay, it might be inconvenient getting to them in inclement weather. My friend has a porte cochere, and while it isn’t inconvenient to drive through, it is not easy to park or to exit. She also finds that they have to make a special trip to be sure the door is locked. And it has conditioned storage space above where they have to monitor the temperature. They are planning to put a remote lock on the door, and an auto-monitoring system in the overhead space. However, the side door opens to the porte cochere, so it is convenient for groceries, deliveries, taking out the trash, when it rains and keeps the snow off those steps.

Does code where you are not require a step up from the garage into the house? it is required here.

I’m always amused by a Friends Entry label. If that’s where your friends enter, who uses the front door? I don’t object to the side door/service door, it’s the label that makes me roll my eyes. How will guests know which door to knock on? In some cases, like CPArtist’s house, it makes sense due to her site and municipal reqirements, but it also makes sense internally, with a nice view as you enter. It’s actually designed to be practical and attractive. This one, not so much, in fact not at all.

That’s just the garage set-up. The rest of the house needs so many modifications to work, it won’t be the same house.

Double-doors into a suite with a handicap accessible bath do not make sense.

A basement with so many active living areas and access to the eal entertaining soace with access to the outdoors, is accessed via a doored stairway tucked in by the pantry and guest suite. (oh, and since that suite is supposed to be handicapped accessible, I wouldn’t want the door directly opposite a stair.)

The stairs up also have a door. I suppose it’s for infrequent guests, so you can close it off most of the time?

The lower level bathroom arrangement makes no sense whatsoever.

The safe room is odd. By the time you got there, you’d be dead already.

Whew, it’s exhausting just looking at the plan, and those are just little things. I can’t imagine modifying and building and outfitting it without a lot of coffee.

I’m always amused by a Friends Entry label. If that’s where your friends enter, who uses the front door? I don’t object to the side door/service door, it’s the label that makes me roll my eyes. How will guests know which door to knock on? In some cases, like CPArtist’s house, it makes sense due to her site and municipal reqirements, but it also makes sense internally, with a nice view as you enter. It’s actually designed to be practical and attractive. This one, not so much, in fact not at all.

Thank you BP.

Service people and packages are brought to the front entry. Friends park in our driveway and use the friend's entry. Here is a pic of what my friends see when they enter through the friend's entry. This door is opposite the door friends enter from the driveway.

So basically the front door is the service door ;) It just happens to be on what the city considers to be the front of the house. But that is exactly why your friends entry is so nice, because you knew how it would be used. That’s the difference between a truly planned and designed house, and Sun Tiger Creek Cottage (even the name slays me).

(We have two doors on the front of the house, at either end of the porch. Who uses which door is random, and if we are expecting a delivery we have to remember to check at both doors lol. It’s a developer house, the original owners had some modifications made, some of which work.)

Is that the one to the cellar door, where the steps are gone?

If they had windows, the garages and the porte cochere would have the best light and views :)

Depends on what there is to see on that side.

I see others mentioned it, but this house will be dungeon like inside because of all of the covered porches. The kitchen will have no natural light.

I'm trying to imagine exactly how one would park in the single car garage unless one was on a motorcycle or bicycle. Go through the porte cochere and do 180 degree turn?

Why does the makeup area need a door to the hall? Is it expected that large parties of women (or even men) be ducking in for a quick touch-up?

The exterior is overwrought with all of the gables and dormers. The roof is enormous and yet there is very little living space on the second floor. Most of it is over the garages. Do you plan to heat the garages? If not, those spaces will be uncomfortable unless insulated and insulated again. I can't imagine the spaces with no garage below.

Sorry, but I agree this is one of the worst online plans I've seen posted.

I'm wondering if they named it the Sun Tiger because the sun will have to claw its way in to most of the rooms?

I think you're going for the '2022 Year in Quotes' aren't you?

Curious how there could be a “future garage” on the second level?

That’s the lower level, and I wonder, too. What is it now, if not a garage?

Still puzzling over the future garage. How can it be accessed? There doesn’t seem to be space for a drive way.

Sadly, overall, there are so many concerns about this entire plan. It seems to be an issue that just because you can draw out the plans, doesn’t mean that you should. I hope that the OP can put to good use all the constructive criticism that has been posted.

Maybe the lower level garage is for the toys: the motorbikes, snowmobile, jet ski (if on a lake), and winter storage of patio furniture and volleyball net.

et al, I live in a Tiger Creek - TRUST ME, there is PLENTY OF NATURAL LIGHT in this home! Possibly just the fact that we live on a bluff and have nothing but sky out the back of the home, but we have more of a problem of keeping it dark enough to sleep past 6 am.