"I love this floorplan."

That is not a floor plan.

Yes, I’m aware; I didn’t upload the floorplan. Here it is:

This doesn't include an attached garage. What width is allowed on your lot after setbacks?

It’s a cute house. I might do something along these lines to the interior:

I’d rather not have my bedroom face the street. And I’d swap the bath and closet, making two reach-ins that you walk between to the bathroom. Even if the closet stays where it is, I’d close off the door to the laundry, for more privacy and more storage in the closet. It’s only around the corner to the laundry anyway. I guess you could put a passthru opening.

The house lacked an ”away space”, so the so-called library and study (not!) moved to the front of the house. A door to it from the master is optional.

Opened up the hall so upstairs traffic and laundry don’t go right through the kitchen. Worried about a tunnel effect? Cased openings, etc, will break it up and define front from back.

I’m toying with moving the openings between living and dining, and maybe kitchen, over to the right. Depends on how you live, makes them more defined, intimate rooms and easier, cozier furniture placement.

Upstairs, I’d make the jack-n-jill bath a hall bath. Bedroom 4 could have no door, or a pocket door to the bath. It would rarely get used, the occupant would lock the hall door anyway.

Just my musings over coffee on a cold and sunny Saturday morning.

Do you have a lot yet? Does this plan fit the lot, in terms of terrain, views, etc?

I'd encourage you to print this and try to lay out furniture to scale. For example, do the beds and side tables fit comfortably so that you can open closet doors? Where will you put a couch, chairs, and TV, and do you have walking space around them? Ditto in the dining room with dining table and chairs.

Then imagine doing tasks like changing sheets or getting cleaning supplies for each room - where are those stored? Doing laundry from the upstairs bedrooms means going downstairs and walking through the kitchen; does that work for you?

I hope you can find some pictures because I'm trying to envision the view when you welcome guests at the front door. It looks like you'd see the stairway, a small glimpse of the LR/DR, and then a long hall with a wall at the end.

I’d also give that shared upstairs bath just one sink, and more storage and counterspace.

I love the exterior of that house. But the master suite is just weird. the library/study is/are way too small. I also hate the closet on the outside corner. Outside corners are valuable real estate--they give light and air to a room, so why waste it on a closet? I'd move the library/study to the corner area and the closet and bathroom closer to the bedroom.

This is a house that was designed for someone else, either real or fictional. The oddities in the layout and features that I would not recommend lead me to believe fictional. Admittedly partial, I recommend you determine what you like about the house's design, what you would want to add to the house's design, and take those written out features with a site survey ans seek out a local competent architect that can design a home with you that will meet your needs and fit your site.

Looking at the floor plans I would guess the other views of the house are not as appealing as the front.

It is really pretty on the outside…but I agree with everyone that the master suite is “off”…that is a really long way to go in the middle of the night when nature calls!

I wonder if there is a way to put the laundry and powder across the back of that side, without walking through one to get to the other, moving the bath and closet where the bath and powder are now, moving walls etc? probably adjusting size of bedroom and den.

I'm feeling so badly that I never thought to put our library at the entrance of the primary suite. And a study between the primary suite and the bathroom. And then walking through the bathroom to get clothes. Also, fascinating how the left first floor exterior doesn't match the interior.

But, then, we hired an architect.

I was thinking the same thing kind of.

"Also, fascinating how the left first floor exterior doesn't match the interior."

I must be missing something, but what specifically are you referring to??

It is hard to tell with only one front-on view of the house.

How do you spell Library? H-a-l-l-w-a-y

How do you spell study? H-a-l-l-w-a-y

what specifically are you referring to??

The exterior rendering bumps out only on one side (right), but not the other.

Picky! Picky! It's the concept that counts!

Still not seeing it.

The ”sun” is shining from the left making the shadow on the right, so you can see that bumpout better. It’s still there on the left.

How do you spell Bedroom? S-u-i-t-e

There are established names for rooms with certain functions, and labeling them something different in an attempt to achieve a more lofty design is pretentious and reflect poorly on the design.

The front porch columns have no shadow.

The shudders on Suite 4 (bottom right) are inappropriate (link), too, as they don't appear to cover the window. (Though, of course, the consensus at Houzz is that's a silly prejudice of architects and old folk.)

bpath has it right--there is a bump-out on the left.

And the "shudder" issue is definitely silly, especially since this is a rendering, and you could possibly use shutters that are a bit wider. I find that most comments about not using shutters come from those who prefer a more modern exterior, and so dislike shutters on any home. They are perfectly appropriate on this home.

It is not that I like a more modern exterior, I like a more honest exterior.

You are one of the few.

I was never in that room, but I was in a similar room at one time.

Perchance?

Trapped for eternity arguing the merits of Jack and Jill, shudders....