There seems to be a shortage of closets. There is no closet by the garage entrance and no closet by the front door.

If bedroom 5 is going to be used as a home office/den/living room I would have to entrance be off the foyer. The you could eliminate the hallway which wastes a LOT of square footage. The bathroom there could be moved closet to the greatroom, and the extra space could be used to add a sizable front closet and add to bedroom 5.

The hallways from the kitchen to the dining room seems a little tight.

What is the entry through the laundry room going to be used for? We use our side entry for everything, I wouldn't want people coming through my laundry room. That would be the perfect spot for a mudroom, but then you would need to find a new spot for the laundry room.

I'm not crazy about having to walk through the bathroom to get to the master closet. But I don't see how else you can do it since the room is railroad style. Pu the shower head on the closet side so if the valve ever goes you won't have to tear about your tile or siding to get at it.

The way the pantry juts into the eating area creates an awkward space in the corner. I would use it for a built-in.

Sue,

I like most of your ideas and will play around with "drawing" them out later.

I also considered the possibility of making the laundry room just a mud room with the outside entry and moving the laundry elsewhere when I first came across this plan. The best idea I came up with was to move the Laundry Room to where the powder room section of the guest bath is and have it occupy the entire space of the powder room and the hall beside it. Then have a regular full bath where the tub area is now also taking advantage of what is now the hall. So the full bath and laundry would be back to back with the laundry doorway opposite the master bedroom doorway. I kind of liked this idea because the laundry would now be more centrally located to the master and the stairs to the second floor but I wasn't sure if I would like a laundry without a window (for ventilation as well as natural light).
The study would then open off the foyer but unfortunately the bath would need to also, which I don't like, unless I take part of the pantry and have a half bath across from the mudroom, then the bath could open just to the study/bedroom".

The small hall between the dining room and kitchen is probably just a problem with the way I drew it in "paint". You can see the way the floor plan originally was by clicking the link in the above post. This will also show you why I have the pantry jutting into the kitchen, because I deleted what I felt was an unnecessary desk there.

Our plan is to have the first floor of the home built by a builder and then GC the second floor ourselves, doing as much as the work up there as we can to save money. Because for the first few months we would all be using the main floor, that second bath would be a necessity. Otherwise I would delete the tub altogether.

Thank you for taking the time to respond.

I made the changes discussed in the previous post. Does anyone like this better?

The only major issue I see is that there is no "public" bathroom on the first floor. Guests would have to either go through the master bedroom or bedroom 5. What will BR5 be used for?

I would also get rid of that little jog in in the dining room. Extend the dining room wall down further to take a little more of the garage.

I prefer the mudroom setup in your redraw...If that's where the family will enter. The new laundry location is better for access to and from the stairs for laundry coming from and going to the upstairs bedrooms. If you don't want/need a desk, you could put more storage there.

The dining room is a LONG way from the working part of the kitchen, and I agree that it's kind of tight and windy to get through. I'm picturing several trips with dishes and hot food, then the reverse for after. If you actually put a hutch or something in the 'furniture niche' it seems it would partially block a clear path through the doorway from the kitchen. I just looked at the linked floorplan and the niche looks more usable there, so maybe it's just because of the joining.

Do you really want everyone going through the office to access the only 'public' toilet on the main floor, remembering that guests will use it, as well as the family during most of the day and evening? If you have kids who play outside, it's a long way from any door...with possibly muddy shoes or the inability to hurry fast enough. But I don't know if you have kids or how old they might be.

It's approximately 30 ft from where your bed would be to your closet...I, too, prefer not to go through a bathroom (sometimes occupied, sometimes steamy) to get to the closet. I always wonder if a setup like that introduces more moisture into the closets and encourages mildew or mustiness.

How many of you are there? I'm just thinking that it might be a big expense and use of space to have the tub if you'll only need it for a few months. I don't mean to sound like I'm judging, because I'm only suggesting, but you can't share the master bath shower and tub for that long? You have to understand that I'm coming from the experience of having our large family in a single wide mobile while we've been building...for the last 20 months (so far). So to me, sharing the bath you show, plus another nice half bath, would be luxurious! ;-)

There are five of us. I would be getting ready for work at the same time two teenagers are getting ready for school, so I would like to have the second full bath, although, yes we could live without it. I am hoping that it takes no longer than a couple of months to finish the upstairs. Our last two homes had a 2nd bedroom with full bath attached and it seemed to be a great selling feature, which was another reason I wanted to have the full bath. After the second floor is complete though we would be using the room as a study instead of a bedroom. I could easily solve the problem by just moving the tub to the opposite wall and having the bath open into the foyer but I just don't particularly care for that set-up. So I'll see what I can come up with.

Did either of you like the master bedroom/study area in the original plans for the Ashton that I linked? I just thought having a full bath and a half bath right next to each other was a complete waste, along with the fact that the master bath seemed inconvenient to the master bedroom. Here it is...(Can I post it here?)

Again the above plan is as drawn by the architect with no changes by me.

Then I played around with the above version a little and came up with this...

The bath is still opening off the foyer which is not my preference, however I really like the laundry in this location. Of course, it would make more sense to open to the hall in front of the coat closet, but I kind of like the door in the master bath. This seems to have become my new past time. Playing around with floor plans.

It doesn't solve how far the dining room is to the kitchen, but there's not a lot I can come up with there. And our last four houses had the closet inside the master bath so I am use to this and don't mind it. As a matter of fact I think it allows more wall space for furniture in the bedroom if you don't have that extra door!

I guess I will just keep playing around until I come up with something that hits all my "needs".

If anyone has come across a floor plan similar to this one, meaning all the rooms in the same location with three bedrooms, three baths and a computer nook on the second floor, I would love to take a look at it.

Would you happen to have pictures of the house? We are a family of 5 and we are looking at Ashton Place. Are there other things you would change about the plan now that you have lived there?

I highly doubt the person is here ten years later.

I wonder what happened?