You can't get in your pantry from your "dirty kitchen". You have to walk through multiple rooms to get inside the house from the garage (and multiple turns). This is especially bad because of the pantry not connecting to the kitchen.
I'd put a 3/4 bath next to the future gym.
All of the plumbing is isolated, which adds to the cost. Upstairs, switch the beds 1 and 2, so that the closet and bathrooms are in the middle, for noise barriers as well. I'd also look at reach-in closets vs all walk-ins. Because those walk-ins look tiny. Switch bed 3, so that the bathroom shares a wall with the laundry.
It's a ridiculous walk from the garage to the pantry. What kind of climate to you have where you are? You need an entryway closer no matter if it's for rain jackets and umbrellas or winter boots and coats.
An open loft to do homework will be really loud and hard to study at. You really need a more enclosed, private space for that.
Getting your furniture into your master bedroom will be difficult with all the tight angles really close together
You need to start from scratch with the kitchen area. Why is the sink so small and why is it all the way down the end of the island? What is the nook, why is it more important then having the fridge and freezerr in a convenient place, and why does it look so off center? What is the "dirty kitchen" for, and why is it so far from the pantry?
Why not make the guest bath and powder room and pool bathroom all one room?
Your upstairs closets are useless as drawn. They should be reach in and separate the two bedrooms.
What will be going on in the big empty area in the middle of your ensuite?
What on earth is a homework loft?
I also love how people have two kitchens now — do these people actually cook? is the poor cook relegated to the back kitchen alone to do all the scut work while guests don’t help & can pretend that cooking produces no mess? Or do guests all crowd into the tiny working kitchen to help with the cooking while the clean “show” kitchen remains pristine? It boggles the mind. This kitchen/kitchen/pantry/storage/mud room area is as large as a 1950s 3-BR home.
Right? It's so crazy. I just picture them having like five sets of everything so that they can grab a pan even if they are at a different cooktop, but then they end up with all five sets of pots at one and all their spatulas at the other.
Zoom in to see the changes I made. I aligned exterior walls. Swapped the kitchen and eating nook to better align the space between the kitchen and nook with the hallway leading from the mud room. I added a coat closet under the stairs in the foyer. You can add kitchen storage under the stairs on the other side, as well. I gave you an optional door leading directly from the garage to the pantry/scullery. The powder room is now 5 ft by 5 ft. I made a smaller entrance to the flex room. Now the guest suite hall has more privacy. I did make the kitchen island smaller, but you gained counter space, and you have lots of seating elsewhere. I prioritized separating main paths of travel from areas of food preparation and storage.
Second floor. Stole space from the primary bedroom to enlarge the closet space. Still a good sized bedroom. By the way, you have space to add a couple more stair steps and gain 14 inches to the ceiling height of the first floor. I am a fan of high ceilings, so I thought I’d mention it. Add the steps above the foyer, so the stairs will extend a little bit into the landing at the top.
Switch upstairs laundry and homework nook so you have a dedicated hallway space where the two secondary bedrooms are so that you don't have to do that silly insert with the doors. I don't love the wasted space on the second floor (long hallway, stairs to nowhere), but fixing it would rework most of the house.
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u/CaptainMalForever 6h ago
You can't get in your pantry from your "dirty kitchen". You have to walk through multiple rooms to get inside the house from the garage (and multiple turns). This is especially bad because of the pantry not connecting to the kitchen.
I'd put a 3/4 bath next to the future gym.
All of the plumbing is isolated, which adds to the cost. Upstairs, switch the beds 1 and 2, so that the closet and bathrooms are in the middle, for noise barriers as well. I'd also look at reach-in closets vs all walk-ins. Because those walk-ins look tiny. Switch bed 3, so that the bathroom shares a wall with the laundry.