Once you add a dining table, how much space will ups have left in your great room?

Since there is no powder room, it's an awfully long walk to the bathroom.

Speaking of bathrooms, potty equality is lacking. 3 kids share one bath, that is also the guest bath. And one kid gets a private bath. I'd consider giving the twins a private bath, and having bedroom 3&4 share a bath.

The closet is really tiny in bedroom 2 for the twins. And as for closet equality - bedroom 4 has a walk in closet, but the others have reach in.

There seems to be a lot of wasted space in the foyer with the u shaped hallway and the closet in the center.

When you have guests that need to go to the bathroom, they will go into the foyer, past the front door, past your young daughter's bedroom, through the media room - where your teens may be hanging out with friends?
Seems awkward to me.

Another awkward area is the twisty entrance to the master bedroom.

The media room - with the usual surround sound - will be very noisy adjacent to the bedrooms..

And I agree with the bathroom/closet inequity!

I'm not in the camp of "all children must have exactly the same things", but I do think you have too much inequity here: 3 children sharing one bathroom, while the youngest has her own. AND the 3-kid bath is also the guest bath (I'm guessing because it's the only one that doesn't require going through a bedroom)? If your daughter's going to get her own bath, I'd at least make hers the hall bath as well. UNLESS the thought process is that the two 17-year olds are going away to college soon, and they'll only be home on a part-time basis . . . which would leave the two younger children each with their own. Still, the college kids will be home for summers and breaks. I'd set it up 2-kids to a bathroom.

Neither kids' bathroom has a comfortable-sized sink, and your daughter's bath has no storage /not even space for a hamper and a trash can.

The walk-in closet is really fairly equal to the other closets . . . but I think the twins are going to have trouble sharing that one closet. I personally believe in smaller bedrooms and larger closets -- keeps kids' rooms cleaner. And when they come home from college -- WOW, the amount of stuff. We actually ended up renting a storage building in our daughter's college town, and she didn't bring it all home.

The two kids' bedrooms on the corners have lovely windows . . . but your son's middle bedroom has only one piddly little window. I'd make it a double window.

Like another poster, I'm not loving the space-hog that is the U-shaped hallway. I'd investigate bumping the closet back to the front wall (which would make it larger) and let the media room serve as entrance to ALL the kids' bedrooms.

I see two problems with the media room: 1) It's going to be dark. 2) Consider furniture placement. I'm thinking you'd have a sofa against the wall shared with the great room . . . and a TV against your son's bedroom wall. But that's really all the furniture you can place here -- the rest of the room is full of doors.

What if you bumped the media room straight back . . . so it could have some natural light . . . and added a few more feet to the depth of the house so you could have the two kids' bathrooms back-to-back? It would also be a money-saver to consolidate the plumbing closer together.

Where's your eating area? I can't read the dimensions, but if it's in the great room, I wonder if you have enough space.

You could decrease your plumbing bill by moving the sink in the utility room over to the other wall. As it's drawn now, you're going to have to run plumbing into that wall JUST for the sink, but if you put it on the opposite side, you already have plumbing just a foot or so down the wall for the toilet.

I like your master bath /closet /utility room layout. Large enough to be comfortable, but not overblown. Good flow. One thing I would change: Is that a pocket door between your bedroom and the bathroom? Pockets are great for doors that are rarely closed -- that doesn't describe your everyday bathroom.

I agree that getting furniture into the master bedroom will be well nigh impossible. You might consider going with a slider on the back wall instead of windows -- that would make furniture moving super easy.

I'd also add two windows to flank the bed in the master. Windows on two sides always improve a room.

Finally, if you have any options at all, I'd move the garage somewhere less prominant.

Whoever has bedroom three is going to be very disturbed by the noise in the media room. I know, because I have bedrooms upstairs on either side of the kids' game/tv/computer room. The older kids had to dampen their noise when the younger kids went to bed. Needless to say, I would never build or buy a plan similar to this again, and I shudder at the thought of guests having to walk through that mess to get to their bathroom! (Powder room downstairs.)

Thanks for the comments.

I had been on the fence about a powder room but have decided to add one.

I am not worried about three boys sharing a bathroom or closet space. In our current house we have 3 bedrooms (twins share and son/daughter share a room) and 2 bathrooms in 1853 SF. So currently 4 kids share a bath. Yes doesn't seem fair but hey nothing in life is. Also my twins are juniors and will be only home part time soon. Also bigger closets mean storing more stuff and after just cleaning out our house to sell I realized we need less stuff not more! Boys already share a closet of the size we are putting in and the younger 2 share the same amount of space. All closets are going to be 18-21 SF and with some good organization I don't think it will be a problem. That's why I wanted a good coat closet too, for stuff that rarely gets used.

I am planning on adding a window to the middle room #2 I thought it needed another but DH said he didn't think so. I am also adding another window in the master, didn't have one before because DH didn't think necessary.

I planned on not really having a true media room, (no surround sound system) more like a kid zone/hang out area. TV for Wii game system to keep out of my great room. We plan to make sure bedrooms have some extra soundproofing. Our current house lacks that, all bedrooms are together and we hear everything from adjacent rooms and hate it.

I didn't realize measurement didn't show well, but our foyer and front hall area with closet only takes up 120 SF of the entire 2633 SF of house, so I am not sure how that counts as a wasted space ... but DH and I like the kids wing being separate so when all the kids are gone, we can clean it up for guests and forget about it. We plan on this being out last home unless something drastically changes.

I think we will have plenty of space for dining table, I planned on a long table not overly wide. I allowed 10 feet from the island for it. That leaves 14 feet for living area and the entire great room and kitchen area is 21 feet deep.

I am going to check on what I can do for entry in to master bedroom, I didn't want people from great room to see in, so I put against that wall. I think furniture won't be a problem as the door is 36" and the hall space into room is over 5 feet and walkway from kitchen is 5 feet as well. We have tighter halls in our house now and managed to get all our furniture in without a problem.

Thanks for the help, you all definitely gave me some things to consider.

Another thought on the bathrooms: If you decide that you want the boys' bathroom to serve as the guest bathroom, you could consider bumping your daughter's bedroom allll the way to the back. This would place the guest-accessible bath closer to the kids' area entrance.

I think you're way off base on the need for closets. You even said in your opening post that storage was a priority for you.

Even without the media room being a true "media room", I think you're right to be concerned about noise. I'd suggest insulation or gyp-board between the two rooms.

I don't think your foyer is oversized, but I do think the U-shaped hallway into the kids' area is a space hog.

A new idea: Since you're interested in being able to close off that area once the kids are gone, I'd add a door -- maybe a pocket door, since it won't be closed often NOW -- to allow you to close off that whole area.

10' for the dining room and 14' for the living room is not going to be comfortable. Those spaces are adequate for the living areas -- but you've not allotted for walking space between them. I strongly suggest you try to see a house with a simialr style and measure it, or at least tape off spaces in your own house. Don't just imagine empty furniture -- imagine people sitting at the table with the chairs pulled back.

What size furniture are you going to move into the master? If you're talking about double dressers or a queen-sized bed, you're going to have to maneuver around the kitchen island, then you'll have to make the turn around that 90-degree corner. It's going to be tough.