Hi, can you clarify, do you enter the bedroom by walking through the laundry room, closet, and bathroom?

A far better architect is the answer, if this is your plan. Show the whole house plan.

Who designed what you have?

here is the entire plan. I'm wondering if we should make a hallway to the kitchen as well or make a island where you do not have to walk to far. i may just be overanalyzing it. but as far as the master bath/closet/bathroom area i feel that something could be different.

we told someone what we wanted and they drew this up, but the footing starts next week!

Someone really didn't have much design ability.

well HELP! please?

Has your current architect been terminated or is he still in your employ?

no

he is not employed

Ok, good. But a lot more info is needed to do this professionally. Design should stop at the property lines, not at the exterior walls. Context is everything.

Edit: Agree with Jan. Building is usually forever. Hold off and regroup.

Yes, there are so many strange things going on here. It would probably be more convincing if some of them were pointed out to the OP so she understands why you all are saying to hold off. If she is a week away from building this, she probably can't tell.

Here a few of my questions and observations.

What is the dotted line between the master and the study? A door? That shower looks really small for such a large bathroom. Why are the sinks so close together? Is that a huge L shaped vanity with the 2 sinks close together? It does seem like a weird use of space.

If you place the bed on the windowless wall in the master, one of the sleepers will be by the bathroom door, will that bother you having your head so close to the bathroom?

Why is there a full bath off the foyer? Bedroom one has to walk through the family room and foyer to bathe. Having sinks open into bedrooms is super weird (I know you have another thread on this). You'd be way better off with a hall bath for the 3 bedrooms and a powder room than what you have here.

You have hardly no windows in the family room/kitchen area. Unless you have skylights, it is going to be dark and cave like with them in the center of the house. You gave all the corners and good lighting to the bedrooms (it should be the reverse). Also, why is there no back door from the living spaces? Unless you never plan to use your backyard, you should have a big door somewhere that leads onto a patio/deck.

Have you thought about furniture/TV placement in your family room? That room looks massive.... large enough for 2 spaces. I love open concept, but like when the spaces have some definition.

Finally, do you not need a coat closet?

Odds are you are spending a lot of money building this, don't skimp on the design.

Stop the project and find a local architect to design a home that meets you needs and fits your site. You will not enjoy living in a poorly designed house and either will anybody want one when you go to sell. Your current design has more room for improvement than it should have.

the reason for no natural lighting is we had to flip the garage to the opposite end of the house due to the slope of the land. so it really messed up my natural lighting in the bathroom. my contractor suggested the natural lighting tubes in those rooms. do you have experience with these? i think we have decided to do the 2 baths in bedrooms 2 and 3, do shower in hall. we are doing a hallway to the bedroom in the front, and adding patio doors in kitchen.

what about doing away with the back hall and making that the laundry room, then reconfigure pantry, bathroom bedroom?

how large does a pantry really need to be?

does the master bathroom look like wasted space?

i really appreciate al of your feedback! i can't thank you enough!

You will thank yourself if you find someone to come up with a better design (it won't be hard).

my contractor has a program and we can sit down with him and change things. i was just hoping for a few pointers on the master bed bath side.

OP...your last post with those questions shows that you are nowhere ready to build. Those are questions that should be posed before ANYTHING is even put on paper. This will be a disaster if you continue...in all ways. Building/designing is fraught with major anxiety and unexpected $$$ outlays even for those much more exp'd. And then add to it you end up with a home you possibly hate...such as one with minimal natural light in the kit/LR areas? (Those Solatubes do NOT make up for it....it's a concentrated and somewhat strange light and one I don't care for.) There is so much wrong with this house; I know it's hard for you to envision perhaps which I assume is why you're asking exp'd people here. Your contractor is NOT an architect and a computer program does not make him one. Please take some advice from a very, very exp'd major remodeler and give it a bit of time to get it right.

The only thing "a program" makes your "contractor" is "dangerous".

well i just wish someone could give me their ideas to make it better, rather than telling me its a terrible plan. i understand there are problems, but this is what we thought we wanted. would you flup the kitchen to the back wall? im asking for suggestions

"well i just wish someone could give me their ideas to make it better"

That really has to be a professional whom you hire. In my (inexpert) opinion the entire thing is a do-over.

I'm sorry I know that must be really gut wrenching to hear.

thank you all for your advice, I will just have to figure it out.

All of the advice is meant to help you think about the house as a whole, as solving one problem might create another. To answer your specific questions, I would make that an island in the kitchen and look at maybe flipping the master closet and mud room to put mud room closer to garage. Get in as many windows as you can. Can you do skylights? Agree with making the jack and Jill more of a standard hall bath with sinks separate from tub and toilet. How many bedrooms will be occupied every night? I wouldn’t want to try to sleep in bedroom #1 every night.

Stephanie....Robin Morris asked some exc questions which I think we'd all love to hear your answers to. I'm particularly curious as to how does one enter the MB?? It would seem to be through the study or utility room which really should be totally unacceptable. I know you're frustrated because people don't seem to be responding as you'd like but it's really beause there's so many things that need changing that it wouldn't be the same house which begs the question.....why are you settled on this house plan? There as hundreds of thousands of house plans online, not to mention many talented architects. Another question...why is this "architect" no longer employed...what happened?

And regarding that MB bath, there's a lot of empty floor space and then a VERY small shower. I'd probably just redesign the whole bath which means also re-designing the utility room and closet. See how this gets complicated?? And yes...that one side of the bed is really close to the bath. King or queen bed plus nightstands puts one side of the bed give or take 2' away from the bath....too close. I'd probably take some room from the laundry room which appears oversized and give some additional room to the MB. I could go on and on....lol.

I guess my question is why you seem reluctant to consider a different and better house plan? What is it about this plan that you love?

One more thing question regarding light. Where do you live and what direction is the house front facing? These are major factors that can really impact the interior. BTW I cannot imagine having a master bath with no windows or really any room with only one.

Sorry Stephanie, but like others have said there is too much wrong to give small suggestions.

And changing small things is a can of worms... for example, if you add a hallway to your master, what is the study now? You now have a strange area off a hallway in the front of your house that seems like a mistake (because it is!).

Also, we don't know anything about your site, location, life style etc... Maybe you only have 2 small windows in your living space because the back of your house faces west in a hot climate and you don't want the glare of afternoon sun or maybe you really prefer dark cozy spaces.

A good architect would need to spend days/weeks changing your house to give you a proper 4 bedroom house with logical interior hallways and lots windows (and likely 2 living spaces, because most houses that have 4 bedrooms and 3k sq. feet should have two living spaces. The reason you don't is because you have a lot of wasted space in the bathroom, hallway, study, etc).

As far as solar tubes go, they are nice for bathrooms and laundry rooms. They let in a bit of light but not much. Skylights are better. If you leave your kitchen and living room how they are with so few windows, you would need large skylights to get natural light.

Also, if you can do snow angels on your bathroom floor, it isn't using space efficiently. And giving that long hallway prime space in the back of your house while having no windows in your kitchen or master bath makes no sense.

Please hire someone to do this right for you. You don't want to spend a lot of money on an awkward house. These kind of mistakes are ones that will bother you for decades. Better to delay 6 months now than have regrets for the next 20-30 years.

Could you not have found a plan on line that worked better?