I love this floorplan! i love ”the Tavern.” I love the hangout room on the bedroom floor.

I don't love walking through the bathroom to get to the closet in the master, but since there is a door on the water closet, not a deal breaker.

The laundry is off the kitchen. I have had basement laundry, second floor laundry, garage laundry. My favorite place for the laundry is off the kitchen. Its where I am so I can get to it easily and I never forget that I have a load going. Suggest opening a door from the pantry to the laundry room so it is actually off the kitchen.

Keep pestering the local architects, at least one will free up some time out of their busy schedule to talk to you. In my opinion a house designed for you and your site is better than someone else's plan fixed and plopped on your site.

I love the room names!

I don’t love eight count ’em eight exit doors.

I love the look, that Pennsylvania/Virginia blend, be still my heart.

It does look like it calls for a pretty specific site. Long, good flat portion, with views to the top and right. room for a driveway on the left. And you’d want to check for sun orientation, and other weather specific to your location.

I don’t care for a core issue, that being that the kitchen is the core. the hub. All traffic goes through the kitchen, and much of it through the working part of the kitchen, to get to family room, powder room, laundry room, garage.

I don’t care for the convoluted path from garage through the mudroom, turn at the pantry hall, then again either into the family room or around the kitchen island. I think I’d want to have the mudroom closer to the kitchen, and the laundry etc on the back side. At least the mudroom could lead directly to the family room and kitchen more easily, and might keep some traffic and lugging of stuff out of the kitchen.

In the upstairs bedrooms, are the end windows the quarter-circle type? Those bedrooms are very similar to my best friend’s bedroom in high school. So charming! Only, her dormer window wasn’t as deep as these, but rather more like the windows shown on the center porton of the house. It allowed more light than a deeper dormer.

The primary suite can use some modification to the bathroom and closet.

Does the ”tavern” have a lower ceiling than the rest of the house? The steps down to the bedroom above would indicate that. How high are the other ceilings?

It has some nice features for sure.
I agree tgat is done exam as floorplan shows, you need specific orientation on the site. Without that, a lot of areas will be dark or fighting with sun. Plus depends on if site has existing mature trees and where.

Some random things- which may be limited by my ability to read plan and dimensions:

Do you have a large family and need lots of separate rooms? Or planning kids hangout upstairs?

Agree, MANY doors to outside, breaching security.

3 fireplaces? Maybe if you love them.
The one in master BR eats wall space.

The kitchen- I’m worried about it. Pinch point of sink opposite stove. For such a large space, that puts the 2 main work zones difficult for 2 people to use at once.

Dining space— in the kitchen/ dining looks tight because 2 doors to porch on one side, and island seating boxing in other side. For such a large house, I don’t see a good large gathering dining space.

“ Dining porch”— I don’t completely disagree, but might te-name it “ coffee porch”. It’s very narrow, probably too narrow, for a table with chairs around, as not enough room by wall and then you’ll fall down the stairs. I could however see a couple nice porch chairs by wall, looking out.

Where will you watch TV? The family room does not appear to have a good wall space for TV. Hopefully not above fireplace.
The “Tavern” might be a media room, but again, if so, beware fireplace location.

The kitchen- may not get much natural light if house is poorly sited for where windows & obstructions are. Or at any rate, again, the orientation is key to which of your rooms get good daylight.

What do YOU like about the plan, based on needs & wants, people in house, lifestyle?

There are a couple of threads about Fox Hill. Enter it in the search bar for others’ experiences. (I see that I commented in another thread about the fun room names!)

Cute room names. Lots else I wouldn't love like the very long hike from the garage to kitchen or how the kitchen is more of a hall to other rooms. Or how you have to always have the door closed to the master bedroom or else everyone will see you going to the bathroom. Or how the family room has no place to hang a tv. or how the bedrooms upstairs will have lower ceilings near the walls. Or how there seems to be a lot of wasted space.

Have you considered getting in touch with Architectrunnerguy who is on this forum and works remotely?

Yes no one is dining on a porch that's only 7 1/2'.

Do you have a large budget…? This house will take a very large budget. Oh, and do you plan on a live-in, full full-time house keeper…?

Just glancing at the upstairs bathrooms, the hall bath doesn’t need a toilet room, I’m pretty sure there will never be more than one person in that bathroom at a time. In the ensuite, i’d almost prefer it to also be a hall bath. But anyway, the tub first, then toilet, and vanity at the end, with a window over the sink, and a stretch of vanity behind the toilet rendering it hard to use. i just don’t care for at all. We briefly lived in a house with the upstairs bathroom having a window over the sink. It’s just, well, not done. Maybe in a powder room (with a mirror somewhere nearby, maybe off to the side), but not a family bathroom.

Three of the four front windows are to intensely private spaces. Depending on how close the house is to the road, and how often visitors or deliveries come to the front door, and how/where the driveway is laid, it could be uncomfortable. Regardless, the shades would probably be drawn all the time, which would detract from the charm of the front elevation. Oh Oh, add to that the two bathroom windows upstairs. You definitely want to be aware of where the neighbors across the street are.

As stock plans go, it's not bad, though there are some things that really stick out. For example, the 2-story "family hall" seems a huge waste of space, where another bedroom would make a lot more sense. The lovely windowed "bunk room" now becomes a delightful library.

The garage is small for such a large home - I would not build less than 24x24, perhaps bigger, depending on the size of your vehicles and/or toys. As a separate building, I don't think the incremental cost would be that great, but the function would be worth it.

I’m really liking the tavern room. With a lower ceiling, the deep entries from the foyer, the fireplace, it is a perfect ”away” space for reading, chatting, working, watching a movie. And you can still keep an eye on who is coming home from an evening activity.

It looks cute on the surface. I can’t imagine navigating going up/ down/ outside/ inside/ hallways just to bring in groceries. Same goes for laundry room. I guess you’d get your 10,000 steps in though.

Because of the complexity of this plan, it will be $$$$ to build. Southern Living has some of the best plans on the market, but there are plenty that are easier to build.

Were you planning to spend $1.5M without the lot?

http://www.stephenfuller.com/houseplans.html

I always like Stephen Fullers house plans.

The second floor ceiling is low at the front and rear except where broken by wall dormers and the rear wing as shown on the plan below. That should be acknowledged in the design unless the front wall is unusually thick.

It's properly dealt with in the bedroom wings.

One of the most important elements of the documentation of a building design is a wall section which is conspiculously absent in online designs.

Looks terrifically expensive as shown, but perhaps that’s not a concern for you.

It also looks unwieldy, tough to navigate on a daily basis, and wasteful of resources and space. Not my cup of tea.

Good poing, res. Those are definitely headbonkers in the two bathrooms!