My 'words of wisdom' would be.........hire a designer!! Probaby the best landscape investment you can make and in the grand scheme of things, a pretty darn inexpensive one :-)

Oh, dear! Then I would say you need to hire a better designer. That is not a very professional looking presentation. Is it even to scale?

Tall and wide. And the viburnum, juniper and podocarpus can also get very big.

Since no scale is evident, it's difficult to say just how reasonable the spacing is for all of these plants but I have my doubts :-) It looks like there could be some access issues or conflicts on the right side. And since no windows are designated on the plan, it's also hard to know how much they might be blocked once these plants establish and fill in.

OK, now I have some context :-) Scrap the plan and the designer and start over. What you have is not gonna work well at all! Unless you want to spend all your free time pruning........

@wysmama - the right landscape designer will get you pumped up again! Start with a google search, and you may also try apld.org

If one drives through some 12-15-year old neighborhoods, it's not difficult to find homes with the original builder's plan that are literally, physically smothered with with plants and engulfed by them, if the owners had a hard time keeping up with the maintenance (which is not that uncommon.) This looks like a plan that could lead to such an outcome. Many large plants are jammed up tightly to the foundation, as if the goal is hiding features of the home.

Haha ..."Best practices" must be cram as many plants into the smallest possible space.

The one "editing to make work" would need to think every edit through, which is the same as creating the plan in the first place. If you could just get sod, have beds established & mulched, plant the street trees and get a credit for plants to be installed later, that would be better.

Do you like the beds as shown on the plan?

If the walk from the drive to house is as shown on plan, it is too narrow and underwhelming for such a home. I would fix it before landscaping.

some ideas: plants shown are Chansonette Camellia, Pleached Ligustrum japonica, David Viburnum, Var English Holly or Osmanthus, Canyon Creek Abelia, Maple, The Blues Little Bluestem

I sense you are feeling overwhelmed and pressured at this point. Why not move in without any landscaping, catch up with life and settle In. You can look out the windows, think about what you’ll be looking at. You can study the ways you walk around outside and develop paths or landscaping based on your habits. Deal with the landscaping when you are not feeling pushed into committing to something at this time. What would be the harm in that?