It's a nice plan with old-school bones /70's sized rooms /designed back when houses were more simple. A few things I'd change -- these are mostly quite minor:

- Ideally, I'd like a fireplace in the living room as well as the family room.

- I'd want a big pantry, but I don't really see a spot to add one ... if you don't plan for a basement, you could have a small pantry under the stairs. And/or lose what I think is a small cabinet in the breakfast room /sub in a pantry. That space would be convenient as you enter the house.

- The breakfast room is small ... I'd change the window to a bay to make it feel larger.

- If I'm seeing this correctly, you step straight from the garage into the family room? A mudroom space for coats, etc. would be useful.

- No laundry room? I assume the machines go into the basement, but with all the bedrooms on the second floor, that means carrying baskets up/down two stairs. Do you need three bedrooms upstairs? If you could do with two, perhaps the smallest could be carved up to allow for an upstairs laundry room and larger closets for the kids. Alternately, the family room is quite large ... you could carve out a mudroom /laundry room from the far right (where the fireplace is now) and enter through that area. The negative is that it'd place the laundry so far from the bedrooms.

- I'd put more windows in the living room and the family room ... bring in light from two sides.

- Is that a step-down in to the family room? That's very 70's, but I wouldn't do it ... just something to trip people, especially the elderly.

- The master bedroom is larger than I'd like, but nothing you can do about that.

- Adding a small covered stoop for the front door would be nice.

- Pay close attention to guest parking ... if they park on the right of the garage, they could be quite some distance from the front door /possibly have no view of the door as they exit their cars, which is uncomfortable.

- Closet space throughout isn't wonderful. I'd like to see a cleaning closet for the vacuum, light bulbs, bulk-purchased paper products, etc.

No recommendations, but this looks just like the house my parents built in Maryland in 1965!

So I should have specified it’s an already editing layout for renovation. Just seeing what could be done. Especially with the massive long and narrow living room. Whether it should be slips into a den or reading room.

If you don't want two large living spaces, you could reconfigure and expand the kitchen and powder room area and then take space from the back of the living room for the part of the reconfiguration and make a smaller den type room about the size of the dining room with the front part of the LR.

No advice on the changes, but I’d frame that paper and hang it somewhere afterwards!!

I must have an issue with my computer since I cannot read that plan as it does not enlarge big enough to read . You do realize that every change you make will cost money BTW That is always an issue with stock plans

@julie praus

That’s a great idea. No real need for two large family rooms. Thinking like you said split off the large 20 foot room. Could make a den from the entrance with a larger foyer. Mud room and bathroom on the other side in the exiting dining room.