Single-family house for 4 people - Opinions

That the utility room is not optimally accessible you are of course right. But it cannot be improved without loss of space in the utility room and the wardrobe in the hallway.

When the floor plan is redrawn by BU, we will look at this point again. If the utility room is still that big, one could consider it.

I would start at the source:
You’re not seriously going to put the garage on the west side just because of the curb, are you? Man, if you’re building the house, everything will be dug up, new pipes laid, shafts dug, and huge amounts of earth turned over. Your curb is nothing compared to that. As long as the village oak tree right in front of the driveway on the east side doesn’t have to be cut down or a street lamp isn’t in the way, that’s no reason.

Therefore: mirror the site plan. However, without that path between the garage and the house. I would simply eliminate it, since it would be dark, ugly, and above all a prime wind tunnel.

Otherwise, I think the location of the rooms is quite okay now. Whether it can and should stay that way is another question. First, I see your architect / general contractor responsible to offer you something. So why not just have them do it first?

The lowered curb is on a sidewalk. That does not belong to my property. I can’t just change something there, can I?

Especially since everyone at the front of the street has placed their garage on the west side.

If your neighbors all have the garage in the west,...

Regarding the wind tunnel. ... It could be that you are seeing it too narrowly.

What could be done is to leave space between the garage and the shed. The garage could also be moved further north. Alternatively, as you said, completely eliminate the path.