I needed to cut square footage to get cost down, this plan is less than 2400 square feet. I moved the stairs to the right and the entry is now open to the living room, the space is defined by a large arch. Please disregard the location of the appliances in the kitchen, they are not placed correctly because I used a kitchen template, I will correct that later. What do ya'll think about this first floor layout? Below is my family and location info......

We are a family of 5 (Two boys ages 6 and 8 and one girl age 2). There is currently a house with garage on the property ( house around 1450 sq ft and garage around 2300 sq ft) The residence has 3 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms�.we will live in the house while we are building and once our new house is finished, it will be used as a man cave and guest quarters. There will not be a need to ever finish our basement as we will use the current house in the same way we would have utilized a finished basement. We are located in central Kentucky and our land is roughly 1000' (road frontage) and 4000' deep with a large pond in front. The new house will be built on a walk-out basement foundation and we plan on having a storm shelter in the basement.

This post was edited by Kinsley7 on Wed, Mar 26, 14 at 9:32