Suggest a slight change to improve laundry access, this also gets rid of pesky corner cupboards in pantry. You really don’t want all laundry to be lugged around through kitchen.

Great suggestion, thank you.

what is the length and width of the block, what will the walls and roof be built out of and describe your local climate ...and almost all furniture can be carried through a 82cm doorway (and/or through the garage and down the side path and in through the back doors) so no need for quite such a wide hall and will offer some suggestions when we have dimensions of the block and outside walls

block is 14 x 32. Walls will be brick mainly, and roof is colourbond. Facade will be a mixture of wooden cladding/hebel/brick. I am in Melbourne metro, so temperate climate with low humidity.

I was thinking of either going 1200mm entry door or 1800mm double iron wrought doors, hence changed the dimensions of master bedroom to accomodate.

I know hallways are considered wasted space but I am not sure how to utilise this space efficiently

your plan has not allowed for the thickness of walls and this adds about 20sqm to the overall size ...my suggestions has reduced some internal dimensions to partly compensate for extra size and think about how/why you would use the external laundry door or the door between laundry and pantry but i've enlarged the alfresco to include an outdoor kitchen and make the gable roof and raked ceilings simpler to build and omitted the northern window to master bedroom to maintain privacy from the porch and in an area where there are often long cold days east and west windows can be a bonus to brighten rooms and add extra ventilation, check Solar Skylights to brighten your long hallway without a hole in the roof to compromise roof insulation and, despite making the northern eastern garden wider than original, there is only enough space for a standard door for the back door from the garage (ie allowing for wall thickness) and i don't understand the double doors at entry...how often would you open both doors? all the bedrooms are over 12 sqm plus biws and adding proper scale sized furniture helps explain door and window placement eg long hallway is 1200 wide with space for several bookshelf sized cabinets (eg set down space for hats coats, shoes, school ports, keys, handbags etc, the wiw has extra storage walls and there's more standing/dressing room in wiw and ens and the odd shapes outside are a clothesline and water tank and i've added a little extra space for the front porch and that usually doesn't impact setback

Awesome okl

Thank you for the awesome suggestions and pointing out the wall thicknesses. Your floorplan is certainly more practical especially the pantry/laundry/powder area and wiw. My wife loves the idea of a nook in wiw area for her makeup!

Is there a particular reason why the bedroom doors should be adjacent to one another?I was envisioning placing the bed in bedroom 2, away from the garage wall to reduce noise.

In regards to entry door, I originally wanted a 1200mm wide door because I think it looks more appealing than a standard 820mm door. However, I saw some nice double wrought iron doors and thought I might be able to incorporate it into the plan. However, after taking into account the wall thicknesses as you've mentioned, it's not a feasible option.

Are the setbacks and boundary measurements compliant with your council allowances ?

To the best of my knowledge, there is a maximum of 60% site coverage allowed. Garages can be built to lot boundary, but require additional surveying.

Front facade setback must be 4-6m. Garage setback must be at least 5m and 0.5-1m behind the front facade. Side boundaries must be minimum 1m.

I have a 3m rear easement, so I've allowed for a 4m setback to accomodate concrete perimeter pathing.

I'am interested to know what you used to draw your floorplan, it's not by hand

I would prefer external laundry door to take the washing out the back. I was hoping to reduce the laundry dimensions as I only need space for washing machine, drying machine, trough, broom cupboard, and overhead cupboards.

I think your suggestion of switching living with bed 2 is a great idea along with moving the bathroom next to laundry.

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this variation is 60% of your block with 25cm external walls and there's an external laundry door (although it will be easier to walk through the alfresco) and reducing southern setback allows a better sized north east courtyard garden with space for a wider rear garage door and extra storage along the front hallway but changing any of the setbacks would mean everything would have to be resized but i think this variation flows much better

I love the floorplan, although would there be sufficient space to have a double sink+ dw in the pantry to keep the kitchen mess away from kitchen view. Single sink in main kitchen area to wash fruit and veggies?

once you have the basic floorplan worked out then kitchen, pantry and laundry is a whole separate dilemma ...sinks and dw would be ok in the pantry but not both along the outside wall if you want double sink and the open dw would block the doorway and not allow standing room to load and unload and where will you keep cutlery and crockery?...think about how you will use the spaces...eg the fridge is away from the cooking area but next to a sink and storage for glasses if you want to have a drink or make a cup of tea etc and how would you use a microwave rarely or often? which is the best location to suit you.. don't forget a convenient location for rubbish and food scraps... and be extra careful with door openings.. eg the sliding door to the alfresco opens in the middle otherwise guests and kids (non cooks) would have to walk through the kitchen to go outside and the new sizes makes the barbq fit better on the outside wall away from traffic

Do you want a small show kitchen and a second enclosed working kitchen? Not for me. Sure if entertaining I’d maybe hide some dirty dished in pantry for later, but mainly for family they can help and it’s a long way to drag all dishes from table to pantry

i also prefer to work in the kitchen and use pantry for storage but we all work differently and this is the amended kitchen

Spoke to the wife and she definitely prefers the double sink and dw in the main kitchen, within close proximity to cutlery and dishes.The island with waterfall in staturio maximus stone will be the feature instead.

Thank you all for the ideas!