So which room would have access to outside, the MPR or the dining room. Because now you have to think about the furniture placement in the rooms, because potentially they are thoroughfares to outside.

re the empty space. Maybe turn your kitchen 90 degrees so the island is facing your now alfresco, proposed MPR.

How many people live in this home? Do you really need three living areas downstairs?

Hi! There will be 5 people plus ocassional long term visits from our family overseas. Switching the mpr(dining) and alfresco, both the family and mpr(dining) will have access to the alfresco. I think it’s fantastic to turn the kitchen to face the mpr(dining)!
Downstairs, i will have a theatre (in lieu of guest), study (in lieu of living) and family.

There's a few things I can't understand in the plan .

Why not have a door from the garage into the hall ? Saves taking groceries etc more than quarter of the way around the house .

What is that little area off the kitchen and laundry ? Doesn't look like its a wet room or anything .

Just a thought -- why not put the kitchen where the MPR presently is ( even with a low wall/open plan if you want ) , the dining area in front of that , the lounge right out to the left wall ? You still get easy access to the alfresco , the rest of the layout then flows a lot better ?

I redesigned the kitchen. Which do you think is better?

I don't know about you, but I LOVE a big usable kitchen that can double as a palce to socialise. You could make that island bench much deeper so you have lots of space for prep on one side and the other side for people sit at. You can move it awak from the wall and further into the room and have a cupboard or shelving on the wall next to the WIP where you have a coffee station and set up the toaster and things you always use :)

In all plans the wip is really odd. In the first plan I am not sure why the wasted space for a vestibule between kitchen and pantry making pantry remote. In the 2nd plan the kitchen and pantry really have limited storage and with a one sided pantry I would simply remove the wall and incorporate space in the kitchen making island bigger. In the third plan a mix of same issues above
The theatre seems an odd size, but add dimensions and furniture.

What do you guys think of this?

Thinking of deleting the window to extend the kitchen bench

Where's north? Orientation is critical to comfort & energy efficiency.

https://www.yourhome.gov.au/passive-design/orientation

the lot is south facing. North at the back

I’d change the window between kitchen and laundry to be the external glass door deleting door in laundry for more storage space in there.

Hi Kate! That’s actually a great idea!

The laundry has 2 doors , which means 1/3rd of the shown space isn't useful . Kate has suggested having the external door out from the 'gap' , which makes sense , and I assume a window above the tub or similar for light ? Having the external door opening outwards ( no matter where you position it ) means you get more interior space too , but also a bit easier to seal for wind and rain too .

But if you moved the laundry wall 'right' , and had an outwardly opening door from the laundry to the WIP 'foyer' ( the space outside the WIP can't really be used except for access ) you'd have a smaller laundry footprint , but be able to have more storage , maybe a drop down ironing board etc too .

But also , I wonder if you'd be better to make the WIP effectively 2 parts -- one that gets the natural light from the glass door , and then move the wall further in so the existing one that is darker for light sensitive items ? It may look less tidy , but conversely the existing design is going to mean the pantry will always be quite dark , unless you add a skylight or similar ?

just a thought .

Hi pottsy99, agree with the external door out from the gap, but i cant seem to visualize the part where i move the laundry wall rifght having a wip with 2 parts 😬

Gosh i redesigned it again. What do you guys think?

No sink in the kitchen ?
Only in the pantry...?

Surely you would want a door from the garage directly into the pantry for quick and easy unloading of groceries? When we sold a house recently, the agent was quick to point out to buyers the convenience of the door directly from the garage to the pantry and every single person who looked at the house commented on how they appreciated that convenience. I recently modified the house we live in now to connect the pantry and garage and it is a huge improvement. There's nothing worse than having to carry bags of groceries through the house or outside and then back inside again (trooping dirt in with each trip and potentially getting wet at times!)

Garage into laundry and then pantry is fine if you go with one of the earlier modifications, but you do need a door!

Wow, no door from garage.. Anywhere!?!!

You've gone from having 3 living rooms and a guest suite to FOUR living rooms??? Really?? Why on earth would you need FOUR?

what happened to the guest room for visiting overseas family? please post plans for upstairs and enlarge upstairs and downstairs plans so we can read dimension clearly and clarify how many bedrooms you need and how you will use all the living areas