As others have said, your most efficient and productive use of time may be to discuss with your spouse/significant other, and reach agreement on the following: --A list of your essential "needs"; --A list of your desirable "wants", which is very different from the first list; --A list of your essential furnishings and equipment to be moved into the new house, including critical dimensions; --A list of your storage needs such as closet storage, equipment and gear storage, etc., in lineal feet Present this list to your architect and discuss with her/him your budget and other thoughts. Let your architect sort out all of this in a series of conceptual studies for your review and comment. This is what architects are educated, trained, licensed and experienced to do. Presenting a stock plan (or worse, an owner developed plan) is like presenting an Internet diagnosis to a physician and asking for a prescription to treat the Internet diagnosis. It's a waste of time and money for everyone. Spending time doing one's own plan only builds an owner's preconceived ideas and takes more time and money for the architect to demonstrate why, where and how the owner or stock plan simply doesn't work well. Save yourself time, money and frustration--find an experienced architect with a successful record with houses of your particular type and go there for the proper services. Good luck with your project!

I find nothing odd about coming into a FR from alook sliding door might be a better idea. foyer , I do however never like a PR next to a DR and definately not with an entry from the DR. You will need to work on that. I would turn the pantry into pullout pantries you will get 2 x the storage . You could see if you can fit a PR into the space off the new FR where you seem to have some extra space where the closet and that other space behind it is and I see plumbing there too. The main sink and DW are a long way from the new DR and if you post the pics of the kitchen plan with all measurements marked maybe someone here can change the layout a bit. The new DR space seems not huge and inswing doors might not be a good idea there . French style sliding doors might be better. IMO the sunroom looks too small for a FR but without measurements really hard to say.

Just came across this thread...I love the idea of an open concept and I understand what you're saying as well @Mark Bischak. I can see the home being cozy between the kitchen and hearth room right across but you mention that because the length from the hearth room down to the living room is long, it won't feel as cozy? From what I also understand, OP is showing separation with a drop ceiling design in the dining room which will give the feeling that the kitchen and hearth are separate rooms as well as the living and dining. Also a different thought, I do believe adding a wall to create a foyer type entrance would be a good idea and low effort to accomplish.

Switching the fridge and double ovens is a really bad idea that will make people go through your kitchen work zone - right by the range - to get something out of the fridge. Doing one thing like that is not going to make your kitchen better. It needs a complete overhaul, and that likely means changing walls, changing the mud room, changing the pantry, and possibly changing the layout of the whole house. Trying to get your current layout within the walls you currently have to work well will be a challenge. If you want a cleanup sink on a window, that's fine, but that works best in a L shaped or U shaped kitchen with the sink on the short side (this is also what Mrs. Pete was suggesting). Here is an example of a layout that works really well: Cleanup sink is accessible to the dining room without going through the kitchen work zone. DW is easily accessible to dining room, meaning dishes can just be placed directly into the DW (no pile of dirty dishes). Refrigerator is accessible to the dining room without going through the kitchen work zone. Prep sink makes the kitchen work zone compact and efficient. Door to the deck makes grilling easily accessible from the kitchen. No one needs to get into the work zone of the kitchen for anything at all. Island is not a drop zone for random crap & mail. The kitchen I posted above could be made even better with a beverage/coffee center or some shallow pantry cabinets...maybe making the whole thing a bit bigger for more accessible dish drawers etc. I'm not posting this to show you what you should do with yours, but to get you thinking about the things that make a kitchen layout work really well. Forcing a window sink in your current layout is making the entire kitchen suffer. If you keep things as they are, the sink would be best off on the wall with the 1/2 bath, the range on the front wall with flanking windows, and the fridge on the pantry wall, with a prep sink in the island. FWIW, I now have a kitchen with an island main sink. I REALLY didn't want one, but we built a builder plan so we didn't have many options. We made the island in our house 2' longer to maximize prep space (it's 10'), and now that I've had it awhile I've adjusted. We made some changes to how we approach clean up and (when we do it) it works really well. I also cook nearly every day from scratch, lots of different cuisines, so the kitchen was very important to me as well. Regarding the angle. The house we designed & didn't build (the snippet I posted above) had to have an angled garage due to our lot. Our house went from offset to offset so we were squeezed. I'm almost certain it cost us 10s of thousands of dollars in our bid. Consider carefully why you want that as your lot doesn't require it, and ask yourself whether you're willing to pay a premium for it.