What also hasn't been considered yet, when you come home you enter your house through the garage... through the pantry, the kitchen, the living room up to the entrance area, where you can finally take off your shoes and coat...
To be honest, the floor plan for the ground floor doesn't work like this, you'll be annoyed after two days.
@TE, don't be blinded by all things Viebrock, because you only adopted the Edition 425 in a modified form.
Go to several good general contractors or an architect
Oh, look at that!
We happened to be in the show house... we adopted the kitchen's utility window there... in this design it was omitted because of the garage.
And yes:
we didn't like the upper floor in the parents' area, because it was too convoluted and too spacious in the hallways :rolleyes: