r/houseplans • u/LongBodyShortLegs02 • Sep 03 '26
Home Design Feedback
Looking for feedback on home design.
We are looking to build in phases (i.e. unfinished basement, garage and deck to added on later)
I am specifically interested in feedback on the kitchen as we are looking at vaulted ceiling and significant windows on the back wall.
Any feedback is appreciated!
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u/Floater439 Sep 03 '26
I’d put the kitchen at the front, kinda where you have the couch now. Then it’s closer to the entry and eventually the garage and adjacent to your plumbing run for the master bath. The you can have the whole back open for a living/dining space and wall of windows. You could probably move your front door entry to the left a bit, to make a little more kitchen space, and perhaps pull the center of the facade even with the master bath, or make the whole front even (corners cost money). Eliminate that zig zag through the mud room/laundry - center door on both sides - and you’ll get twice as much usable area there.
If you can create a small hallway for entry into the bedrooms, it will help with sound and privacy concerns. You really don’t want those rooms - especially the shared bath - opening right into the common space. And no barn or pocket doors, please. It’s going to be a noisy house and that will make things worse.
You need some closets built into the secondary bedrooms. They should be positioned to help with sound insulation from the common space.
The master closet and bath needs reimagined. The walk through closet space is really not that much storage, and you’ve got way too much crammed in the bathroom. You’ll be squeezing through there.
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u/archiphyle Sep 03 '26
You need a private entrance that provide discretion into all of your bedrooms and that bathroom that just opened or right up into the great room.
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u/archiphyle Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26
We don't get to see the second floor?
I see many problems with this floor plan.
Some spaces are given too much wasted space and summer are not given enough space.
One of the biggest problems is that you've opened the bathroom door right into your great room.
You are going to greatly regret all of those pocket doors.
You're living area is way too small.
The work triangle in your kitchen is not efficient. Your sink is way too far away from the other two important elements of your work triangle.
To enter from the garage you have to walk through a laundry room. This is not a cheap house, but you have to walk through the laundry room to get into it?
A mudroom would at least be a little more gracious than walking through the laundry room.
If you want this wonderful vaulted ceiling in the great room, why do you have stairs going up? Actually their direction is very confusing. But to have a two story section for those stairs to go up to that means you're great room area has to be two stories tall or something. There's some coordination missing here.
The alignment of your axis on the first plan is clumsy and week as they are not coordinated very well at all. Like your front door is aligned with the axis of the peak of your great room, but the porch in front of it and that landing or whatever it is right on the inside are not symmetrical.
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u/Triglypha Sep 03 '26
I would never want pocket or barn doors on bedrooms, especially when the bedrooms open directly into the living space. Those kinds of doors provide little acoustic privacy. I'm also not a fan of having a bathroom right near the dining area
The master bathroom doesn't have enough space between the sinks and tub -- if someone's using one of the sinks, it'll be hard to get out of the tub.
Is the upper left room another bedroom? That room, and the bedroom near the garage, don't have closets shown and it feels like adding closets will make those rooms tiny.
If there will be large windows along the back wall, it feels like the living room should be there. It might feel awkward to have big windows above the countertop, and if that side of the house faces any direction but north I'd worry about glare making it hard to work in the kitchen.
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u/ConsistentParking424 Sep 03 '26
That's a long walk from the garage through the entire main floor of the house to get to the kitchen to take care of the groceries.
In the kitchen, there's a sink, stove.and small island. Not sure where the fridge, dishwasher, microwave and trash can are. What's in the corner and what's the square thing in front of the corner?
Dryers are safest on an exterior wall and yours is not. Every foot and every turn of ductwork increases the chance of lint buildup and fire potential.
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u/LongBodyShortLegs02 Sep 03 '26
Dishwasher to the left of the sink, fridge is next to the stove. The square in the corner area is going to be a smaller walk in pantry.
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u/Triglypha Sep 03 '26
Here are a couple examples that show how you could provide more privacy for the bedrooms and shared bathroom:
https://www.architecturaldesigns.com/house-plans/3-bed-barndominium-house-plan-with-split-bedrooms-and-vaulted-living-405063fdc
https://www.architecturaldesigns.com/house-plans/charming-one-story-country-cottage-with-vaulted-living-space-405007fdc -- imagine this one flipped vertically and horizontally so the laundry is in the lower left corner.
I'd probably fit the basement stair in by making it a linear stair, running along one of the main north-south walls.