Provide Feedback on a House Floorplan!

[TX_Diver]

I'm looking at building a house in a few months and would appreciate feedback on a floorplan I sketched up. If anyone is an architect I'd be interested in chatting about a few things and could pay for the consultation if needed too.

The house isn't very exciting, but I'm stretching the budget to build this so I focused on simplicity in order to try and keep the cost down. The lot has views to the West, North, and East (Left, Up, and Right respectively on the plan).

Any feedback on layout, room sizes, ways to make a rectangular house look aesthetically pleasing, etc. are all welcomed. We've made a lot of compromises from what would make this a "dream house" but a "dream house" is not financially in the cards currently so the thought is to build this, move to the area, and figure it out from there (recognizing there's a good chance we spend a long time living in this house). Window sizes, room dimensions, etc. are all approximate and will be adjusted to more reasonable fractions.

All in the context of remaining cost effective, we'd like a decent amount of counterspace in the kitchen, bedrooms slightly segregated from the living room, 2 windows in as many rooms as possible for natural light, and the master bedroom on the NE side of the house as shown.

Any feedback is welcomed. Happy to provide more info also but figured I'd cast a wide net first before getting too detailed on some of our reasoning so far.

Thanks!




Basement

 

[wapitibob]

1st impression, stove/fridge layout is inefficient and master bed needs turned 90. I'd drop the master closet door. I got rid of my other bedroom bifold closet doors and hung bypass doors.

One suggestion, add a large 30" wide 1-1/4+ thick, slide out cutting board. Use good bearing drawer rails to hold the weight. Makes baking, rolling dough much nicer.

 

[TX_Diver]

1st impression, stove/fridge layout is inefficient and master bed needs turned 90. I'd drop the master closet door. I got rid of my bifold closet doors and hung bypass doors.

One suggestion, add a large 30" wide 1-1/4+ thick, slide out cutting board. Use good bearing drawer rails to hold the weight. Makes baking, rolling dough much nicer.

How would you setup the stove/fridge? I can see it being inefficient but struggle to get very creative with solutions there.

I like the slide out cutting board idea. Will look into that. Thanks!

I forgot to mention doors aren't finalized. We were messing with different options in the software but never finalized anything. I don't think any will end up as bifold if I had to guess.