Yet more tweaks, changes, and excrutiating detail

It seems like its been a week since we got the last revision of the plans, yet its been less than 48 hours. We've been pouring over these things, making final measurements of things like exercise equipment and tables saws, and trying our best to make sure things fit where we want them too. Here's some sketches and the bullet-point feedback we sent to the designer:

Feedback:

Downstairs

• Remove “Toy Storage” closets, give that room back to the Game Room.
• Shrink the width of both the Exercise room and the Guest room by 1’6”. Give that width to the two offices instead.
• “Flip Flop” the Her Office and Guest Room closets. Instead of closets being equal size, give more space to the office closet (about 4 feet wide for Guest is enough). Can we pocket door the guest closet? Might make more sense since its behind the entry door.
• Extend the Exercise Room and His Office two feet into the Mechanical Room (I’m assuming a 10’ wide mechanical room is enough room)
• Want to add a closet to “His” Office. Best idea I can come up with is on the south wall…but don’t cramp the door too much. I think about 7 feet wide would be good. I’m open to other ideas.
• On north end of Rec Room (by card table) extend out foundation enough to create a 2 foot interior depth closet in the “nook” created by upstairs bathtub)
• Question: what to do about rec room window. Right now its centered on the exterior wall, but not centered on the interior “exposed” wall.
• Removed arched soffit from plans.

Upstairs

• Put prep sink in middle of kitchen island. Move dishwasher to left of sink. Right of sink will have pull out cabinet with garbage/recycling bins.
• In kids bathroom: leave size of room and vanity the same, go down to 1 sink with room for small built in line/storage cabinet in corner.
• Bedroom 2: add small window on the south wall (same as in the Hers Office below).
• Master bath: put a window facing east in the wall (not in the corner above the tub…in the blank wall). Same size as the master bedroom windows.
• Pocket door entrance to mud room if possible (don’t move anything around to accommodate this)
• Give 6 inches of space from the pantry to the mud room.

Garage

• Put 10 foot garage door on workshop. Place the door closer to the dividing wall (want parking spot to be far enough left (east) in order to be able to have room for workbench/table saw/etc on right (west) wall. (will this look silly from front view?)
• Did the stairs to the storage area change direction for a reason? If not let’s put them back so the door is by the house entrance.
• Plan for a utility sink in the garage. If the stairs up change back to the original design, I think the sink would go to the left (east) of the garage back door

New Downstairs Sketch:

Upstairs changes:

Downstairs changes: