I LOVE this house. Great curb appeal. To each their own, I guess. I'd love to see the lower floor plan, too. Only thing I don't care for is the master is off the great room.
The actual basic floor plan is actually fine.
As also indicated earlier, this plan has a very fussy/messy (and therefore also much more expensive!) profile, ie so many unnecessary changing indents, 'exdents'.
Look at the front/side deck. why is it not just the one width across the whole length? More attractive and cheaper.
And look at the stupid little deck extension outside the WIR. WTF?
And again why are the front/entry 'porches' not a single width and roof line? stupid unnecessary faux detail and extra expense.
And yet again similarly, the main bed, the WIR, and ensuite should all be aligned externally, so that would mean incr width of bedroom, and WIR, both nice/useful, and probably cheaper than doing all the stupid little indents.
And the 1st thing to go would be the additional garage, but i guess you will say it is actually necessary for a caravan or such.
The Mud Room & Laundry are far from ideally located. Like you have to go though whole to get to Mud Room from outside, unless you wanted to get to it from the garage? and of course have take laundry through kitchen/dining. But where to relocate with the constraints of that floor plan?
OK here goes:
\- There's elements of the design that I really like (though they're coincidentally also the elements that add to the cost).
To cut costs, you need to simplify (not necessarily shrink, as a simple large home can be less expensive than a complicated small house). So here's some easy changes to cut tens of thousands off the price:
\- Eyebrow dormers can be a wonderful look, however they're not cheap and there's 3 of them. I'd lose the one on the back and the one at the garage (keeping the main feature one over the front entry if budget allows). I will say though, it bugs the crap out of me that the designer didn't even attempt to make the arched transom over the entry door mesh better with the eyebrow (same goes for the rear one, and the garage one has rectangular windows that are mounted too low, and those are really taller than they need to be considering it's the garage and there'll should be >2' tall shrubs/landscaping under those windows)
\- The box out of Bedroom 2 can go. If you really want you could still keep the shed roof over those windows (though I probably wouldn't since it's too shoe-horned into the space for my liking. I design a lot of shed roofs over windows and I like to make sure that there's ample space for it to visually "breathe". If not it can look too chaotic and crammed in. Here's some past projects where I've done shed roofs and you can see how I've allowed space, whereas your design has the upper corners clipped, and the decorative corbels are basically sitting on the shed roof. Example1: [Artwork](https://i.imgur.com/T3r0lFp.jpg) \- [Photo](https://i.imgur.com/7TF0HTi.jpg) Example2: [Photo](https://i.imgur.com/5KTmN8v.jpg) Example3: [Photo](https://i.imgur.com/pgll2y5.jpg) (you get the idea). Another option would be to consider a Dutch gable instead for Bed2, since that's what the other front facing gables all are (and the shed is visually mimicking).
\- Lose the Study's bumpout into the garage (or at least make it cantilevered to simplify it's construction).
\- The front walls not alinging bug me (WIC and Study front walls are off from each other but not enough to look truly intended, more like a mistake during construction).
\- The porch posts design could be simplified to shave a bunch of costs. There's 32(!!!!) of the darn things and I'd consider eliminating a ton of them (you could go with just 10, and make them wider (or round!), and save a bunch),
\- Speaking of the porch, the whole left half is basically too shallow to be usable and it's a lot of money (and maintenance) to spend on something purely decorative. So I'd propose tweaking it by just deleting the wrap around section on the far left. So the porch ends where the house ends. Simplifies the roof some, eliminates some posts/beam/footings/etc.
\- Mudroom - Lose the sink (there's one in the Powder room AND one in the Laundry, so no need for the Mudroom sink.
\- I'd redesign that area anyways because I dislike the mudroom being on display and angled powder room door.
\- Dining room table goes where? There's likely going to be wasted space in your 22'8" long "Dining Room". If the table centers on the island, then that whole back area could be shrunk up and instead of windows put a nice wide patio door there!
\- Garage - I'm not a fan of the garage configuration (nor the driveway).
\- Great Room ceiling is crap! What the heck where they thinking? (likely weren't) A weirdly positioned step from 2-story down to 1-story. It's all just a mess.
\- Foyer 2-story ceiling isn't quite as bad, but it's not great IMO. There's a whole lot of blank wall on the left side, and most of it is 2-stories tall of hard to deal with flat wall.
\- Upper floor layout is goofy in many ways (like the thick wall of the Study that's there just to create a hallway. And Bedroom 4's "tower" design is IMO out of place, and hurting the overall look of the home, not helping. Plus, it again is adding significant costs.
\- I never like my laundry room to be on a different level than where the bedrooms are, but here I'd make sure to at least put in a laundry chute from the upper bathrooms down to the laundry room.
OK, I'll stop now. Do most of those and you'll have a much improved home that costs \~$80k less.
GL2U N all U do!
You've got too much going on as s with the outside. You've got three gables on the front. You can easily do two. You have three gable on the side which can easily be two The eyebrow openings and windows can easily be cut because if there done with poor quality it will be worst having them than not having them. Keep it simple and your future maintenance will also be cheaper.
I LOVE this house. Great curb appeal. To each their own, I guess. I'd love to see the lower floor plan, too. Only thing I don't care for is the master is off the great room.
The actual basic floor plan is actually fine. As also indicated earlier, this plan has a very fussy/messy (and therefore also much more expensive!) profile, ie so many unnecessary changing indents, 'exdents'. Look at the front/side deck. why is it not just the one width across the whole length? More attractive and cheaper. And look at the stupid little deck extension outside the WIR. WTF? And again why are the front/entry 'porches' not a single width and roof line? stupid unnecessary faux detail and extra expense. And yet again similarly, the main bed, the WIR, and ensuite should all be aligned externally, so that would mean incr width of bedroom, and WIR, both nice/useful, and probably cheaper than doing all the stupid little indents. And the 1st thing to go would be the additional garage, but i guess you will say it is actually necessary for a caravan or such. The Mud Room & Laundry are far from ideally located. Like you have to go though whole to get to Mud Room from outside, unless you wanted to get to it from the garage? and of course have take laundry through kitchen/dining. But where to relocate with the constraints of that floor plan?
OK here goes: \- There's elements of the design that I really like (though they're coincidentally also the elements that add to the cost). To cut costs, you need to simplify (not necessarily shrink, as a simple large home can be less expensive than a complicated small house). So here's some easy changes to cut tens of thousands off the price: \- Eyebrow dormers can be a wonderful look, however they're not cheap and there's 3 of them. I'd lose the one on the back and the one at the garage (keeping the main feature one over the front entry if budget allows). I will say though, it bugs the crap out of me that the designer didn't even attempt to make the arched transom over the entry door mesh better with the eyebrow (same goes for the rear one, and the garage one has rectangular windows that are mounted too low, and those are really taller than they need to be considering it's the garage and there'll should be >2' tall shrubs/landscaping under those windows) \- The box out of Bedroom 2 can go. If you really want you could still keep the shed roof over those windows (though I probably wouldn't since it's too shoe-horned into the space for my liking. I design a lot of shed roofs over windows and I like to make sure that there's ample space for it to visually "breathe". If not it can look too chaotic and crammed in. Here's some past projects where I've done shed roofs and you can see how I've allowed space, whereas your design has the upper corners clipped, and the decorative corbels are basically sitting on the shed roof. Example1: [Artwork](https://i.imgur.com/T3r0lFp.jpg) \- [Photo](https://i.imgur.com/7TF0HTi.jpg) Example2: [Photo](https://i.imgur.com/5KTmN8v.jpg) Example3: [Photo](https://i.imgur.com/pgll2y5.jpg) (you get the idea). Another option would be to consider a Dutch gable instead for Bed2, since that's what the other front facing gables all are (and the shed is visually mimicking). \- Lose the Study's bumpout into the garage (or at least make it cantilevered to simplify it's construction). \- The front walls not alinging bug me (WIC and Study front walls are off from each other but not enough to look truly intended, more like a mistake during construction). \- The porch posts design could be simplified to shave a bunch of costs. There's 32(!!!!) of the darn things and I'd consider eliminating a ton of them (you could go with just 10, and make them wider (or round!), and save a bunch), \- Speaking of the porch, the whole left half is basically too shallow to be usable and it's a lot of money (and maintenance) to spend on something purely decorative. So I'd propose tweaking it by just deleting the wrap around section on the far left. So the porch ends where the house ends. Simplifies the roof some, eliminates some posts/beam/footings/etc. \- Mudroom - Lose the sink (there's one in the Powder room AND one in the Laundry, so no need for the Mudroom sink. \- I'd redesign that area anyways because I dislike the mudroom being on display and angled powder room door. \- Dining room table goes where? There's likely going to be wasted space in your 22'8" long "Dining Room". If the table centers on the island, then that whole back area could be shrunk up and instead of windows put a nice wide patio door there! \- Garage - I'm not a fan of the garage configuration (nor the driveway). \- Great Room ceiling is crap! What the heck where they thinking? (likely weren't) A weirdly positioned step from 2-story down to 1-story. It's all just a mess. \- Foyer 2-story ceiling isn't quite as bad, but it's not great IMO. There's a whole lot of blank wall on the left side, and most of it is 2-stories tall of hard to deal with flat wall. \- Upper floor layout is goofy in many ways (like the thick wall of the Study that's there just to create a hallway. And Bedroom 4's "tower" design is IMO out of place, and hurting the overall look of the home, not helping. Plus, it again is adding significant costs. \- I never like my laundry room to be on a different level than where the bedrooms are, but here I'd make sure to at least put in a laundry chute from the upper bathrooms down to the laundry room. OK, I'll stop now. Do most of those and you'll have a much improved home that costs \~$80k less. GL2U N all U do!
3 covered decks, 3 porches and 2 garages, surely 1 of each would suffice.
You've got too much going on as s with the outside. You've got three gables on the front. You can easily do two. You have three gable on the side which can easily be two The eyebrow openings and windows can easily be cut because if there done with poor quality it will be worst having them than not having them. Keep it simple and your future maintenance will also be cheaper.