What do you mean by "bring this to life" ?

Like you could tell me where to pur the couches and stuff

Is this home already built?

i am sorry i have no idea how i am a pro i just joined and was hoping for some ideas for myself, i was hopinh for some ideas so the lay out, the family room i dont want a tv, thank u fpr helping if you can

And no its not built yet

Dining rooms adjacent a kitchen works well, unless your servants do not mind the long walk.

It’s nice to hear this house is not yet built.

From what little we can see, the layout seems really awkward and small. For instance, the dining room placement seems poor if you intend to actually use it for dining on a regular basis. A corner fireplace is tough to live with, the pathway to the kitchen/family room/powder room/closet/staircase is teeny tiny, and if you want to park two vehicles in the garage, I hope you have two mini-Coopers. Oh, and I don’t think a 4’ deep porch is very useable for seating unless you can step off the porch to get around any chairs.

How many people and what activities does the family room need to accommodate?

Do you have any options for modifying the floorplan?

Random thoughts:

- It's a very small space -- apartment sized at best. If this is for two adults with a fairly minimal lifestyle, you'll be okay.

- A 4' porch is just for show. It's not really wide enough for a sitting space.

- The dining room is too far from the kitchen for realistic use. Too many steps to bring everything to the table, then return it again.

- Add a window on the office's side wall + double the window in the dining room.

- How do you anticipate using these two front rooms? This space might be better combined into one good-sized room. Maybe move the fireplace to this larger room.

- Deleting that fireplace will make it easier to arrange furniture in the family room.

- Swap the one small window by the breakfast table for a bay window -- it'll open up the space.

- The dryer needs to be on an exterior wall -- easier to vent, more fire-safe and cheaper to build. Move the laundry to the small pantry closet /coat closet (you have a coat closet by the front door anyway). Use the current laundry space as pantry; it'll be more sensible because you can use all that space; whereas, as shown, the space in front of the washer /dryer isn't useful.

- You're going to have a hard time parking two cars in a 19 1/2' garage -- remember that's your OUTSIDE measurement. In reality, you'll be able to park one car in that space + have some good storage on the side.

I imagine the laundry is positioned to share plumbing with the kitchen and powder, and I’ll bet there is a bathroom or two directly above them. But flipping it does make for better venting of the dryer, and faster hot water to the washer.

In fact, if the entrance from the garage moved to the foyer, there would be more storage space by the laundry and pantry. There is no basement so there is a serious lack of storage as is.

I imagine the dining and living/office will be used differently than the draftsman labeled them.

Anyway, if you empty that space between kitchen and garage there are options: use the whole space for laundry, storage, powder, pantry, or use one side of it and the rest for passageway. It was 6’ or 7’ feet, I think. In the latter,mnarrow powder with toilet and sink facing one another would fit, laundry closet, reach-in pantry. Bonus, it adds one of my favorite things, circulation, more than one way to get around the house.

But of course if you can do that, you could make other changes.

In fact, if the entrance from the garage moved to the foyer, there would be more storage space by the laundry and pantry.

Great idea!

So you walk into your house from the garage and come face to face with the dining room? That's a terrible idea.

The whole house needs to be reworked. Get a more talented design professional or just buy a canned plan.

unfortunate i cant change anything but these would be amazing ideas

This is the house

I'm confused--you said the house is not built yet???

You walk into the hall toward the kitchen from the garage

Its not finished but this is what it will look like

So, this is what there is to work with, about 15’x14.5’:

So, what activities does the family room need to accommodate, if not tv-watching, and for how many people?

hoping 5

Five what? Babies? Children? Teens? Adults? Existing, or future?

Can you build a different house?

Small change but hopefully easy: swap the toilet and the sink in the powder room, or switch the door location to be across from the sink. That way you're not looking right at the toilet when the door is open. (I know it doesn't bother some people, but it's not my favorite view.)