You want to include the entire dining room wall as part of the closet. Nothing looks weirder than a funky bump out. With two standard 48" bifold doors--something you can do because you don't actually need to attach a bifold door to a vertical stud on the right side (when looking at the closet), so you can place the opening flush against the exterior wall--you will have an impressive and VERY functional eight feet of clear laundry room space with the doors open! You will need to make the right side of the wall narrower than the standard 2x4 because otherwise you only have 95.5". The 2x2 (with one strategic 2x4 turned flat) gets you a happy 97.2", giving you a whopping inch and a half to spare. (Standard doors are much cheaper than special order. Plus big closets are good.) Needless to say, you can't put a door casing on this closet. It will need to be finished sheet rock. That is a normal finishing technique for bifold doors, though. But wait! You say. What about the air return? Never thought you would ask, my friend! The air return gets removed from where it is and a little bit of extra duct is added to redirect it to the side wall of the new closet. Which is a thousand time better of a place for it! The duct gets boxed in and painted. Be a princess and make them use 1/2" plywood, which they can mud over and paint. It will look just like if they drywalled it, but it will mean that you will only lose 2.5" of the lower left corner of the closet (if the return is a standard 4" in depth, which is should be sine you can make it as wide across the side wall as you need to) instead of 4" This is because the front corner of the closet is the 2x4 turned sideways. Then the 2" of the depth of the 2x4 plus the inner drywall plus 2" more of your actual closet space is taken up by the duct. Then there is the half inch of plywood. Only one inch will even stick out into the clear area of the eight foot door. If all that is confusing...it'll look good. Lol. Anyway, you will want to put the dryer on the right, on the exterior wall, and vent it straight out. You can't put it all the way against the wall with no because the bifold door would block it slightly. You will have to leave about two and a half inches to get it in (and out for service). The washer should go to the immediate left of the dryer. Then you will have a hair more than thirty inches to the right of the washing machine.

@janine Hoffman I have RevWoos Premier in Cattail Pecan in my Kitchen, great room and office. I HATE THIS FLOOR there is something wrong with the finish or top layer it is impossible to clean and i have followed manufacturers care instructions to the letter. Brand new custom build and i was so looking forward to easy to maintain floors. I am devastated

I like them a lot. I wanted a more modern look with less variation and I think they deliver. They can have a tendency to look “stripey,” which I’m sure you noticed in the Provenza website pics. I had it run to minimize that effect, looking down the boards instead of across them, if that makes sense. (You can see in my pics how some of the planks go from light to dark in one plank.)

Absolutely don't do replacement windows after the fact. They aren't just plug and play. Manifold is superior to twig and and brach for pex but in my area, no one does manifold. The connections are very reliable. Similar tech was a problem in the past and so understandably, people are worried about that. But Pex has been around for a long time and failures are not common. Manifold can help with hot water wait times. I would not really want a plumbing team to do manifold when they aren't used to it. And neither would they want to do it. I think Wacky Tacky wants to spend a lot of your money. Many of those upgrades are not done on custom $2M homes. Are they better? Sure. Does putting $200k into a house that no one will pay more for on resale a good financial decision? Your house is tract - just a bit better than some. A lot of tract allows customization but they are still tract. I built a house just like what you describe and it was tract. Nothing wrong with that. They called it "semi-custom" and I made floorplan mods. I think most people would say there is no such thing as semi-custom. Custom is custom. Tract really means that a builder bought a tract of land, subdivided it, and builds houses on that land. Technically, this can be full custom. But if you pick from a list of plans - then that is generally considered tract regardless of whether mods are allowed. In my area (milder temp, less freeze thaw), asphalt is never done in a tract house - it is always concrete - may even be required by law. Done in rural areas sometimes because of long driveways. Similarly vinyl siding is never done (hardie or brick/stone). So be careful with advice from a national forum. The idea of manifold pex in the setting of asphalt/vinyl would be so foreign in my neck of the woods.