Consider building a house designed for you and not designed for someone else. few people have worked their entire life just to retire to build someone else's house. The best house designs relate to their specific site, and this house has no site it was designed for.

I post this constantly. Anything in bold is what doesn't work with this design.

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 do not have diagonal interior walls making for odd spaces.

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 do not have roofs that are overly large, and dominate the exterior of the house.

The best houses do not have stick on exterior materials only on the front façade.

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. Meaning they don’t have meandering circulation paths.

Two immediate clues you might want to rethink this one:

1. Closet doors and door into the den/bedroom will always crash into each other or only allow for one to be open.
2. Washer and Dryer is on an interior wall with sink on the exterior wall. Would have been much better to put the laundry equipment on the exterior with the sink on the interior.

Not so easy to imagine, but the living room space will be significantly smaller than shown. About 1/3 will be used as a walkway from the front door. Another 3 feet or so will need to used as a walkway to the den. Where would one place a TV? The library space? Not much better.

Why is there a weird window over the sink looking into the library?

Where would you store, well, almost anything? Luggage? vacuum and broom and mop? Bucket? Seasonal items? Anything for hobbies, recreation, sport?

Do you think you’ll have a view or topography or neighboring structures to take advantage of or accommodate?

Is this for one or two people? If it's for a couple, the master bath might be better without the pocket door and the toilet against the bedroom wall. Also think about how bedroom furniture would fit into that space.

On the other hand, it is a nice, efficient little space. An ”away room”, two in fact. A bathroom that serves the guest bedroom and visitors (I might arrange that differently).

Easy to get furniture and paramedics to the primary bedroom. Although, the head of the bed and nightstand with lamp cords and nighttime needs would be in full view from the front door, so I might arrange the windows differently, in fact the whole room to have better closet space and some storage in the bath.

You don’t have to walk throught the working part of the kitchen to get to the laundry or back door. But, you want to be sure the refrigerator can open a lot more than 90 degrees against that door jam.

It is true that the living room ends up being less than 15x18. And the dining room, with the angled wall, will not live as large as an actual 11x11 space.

You’d want to find a lot that the house would fit on, and it will turn out to be easier to design a house to fit your dream lot. But you might find some features of this house that you like, that you could adjust and incorporate into a house for you.

Thanks all for your comments. It's giving me things to consider, which is what I wanted. This house will be just for me and is significantly larger than my 85 8sf 2 story rowhouse that I live in now. Storage?? Currently my mop and bucket reside in the bathtub when not in use and the broom is behind my kitchen trashcan. The 3 closets in my house aren't even hanger deep. Storage wasn't even anything that I was considering. Now I'm scouring plans for closets! I also didn't realize how much an "away" room appeals to me. I like the idea of having a private space (the den) to lounge around that isn't my bedroom. Some things jumped out immediately as things I don't want and eliminated so many plans. No powder room adjacent to kitchen/dining/ living room. And guests shouldn't pass through a bedroom to access a restroom.

I have have several years before I retire. So I have time to keep looking and comparing plans to find something that won't require too many modifications. I do expect to make some tweaks to personalize it and improve flow and efficiency. But the above plan checks off a lot of what I think I want. Being able to age in place is at the top of my priority list as well as a smaller size, even if huge compared to my current house. I'm ready to spread out a bit. And a big porch!! I currently live in SE Pennsylvania and plan on moving to MS when I retire. Any lot I purchase will likely "just" have woods as a view, so siting shouldn't be too difficult. Even if this plan, or whatever selection of plans I hone in on, doesn't work, I'd like to sit down with the designers with a jumping off point.