Does anyone have photos of their Elegant Simplicity house to share? Also, I'm concerned about the size of the kitchen & bathrooms. Has anyone modified this house plan?

Thanks

Those bathrooms do look fairly small. The shower in the master bath could easily be almost doubled in size. Notice there appears to be no bathtub.
The kitchen is 10x11. Ten by twelve is considered average in the kitchen design textbooks. So it's small but not tiny. Think about what kind of cooking you do and how much storage and counter space you really need. If you never lay out baking stuff or do elaborate cooking, it should be adequate, but it is pretty much what we call a "one-butt" kitchen -- if there are two of you who cook together, it will be pretty tight (but not impossible, like mine: it's twice the size of my kitchen!)

I haven't built it, and I am no expert, but here is my opinion anyway

I don't like the kitchen placement. When any of our friends or family congregate, it is in the kitchen most of the time. From the kitchen, you can't see into the living room. I was just looking at this plan again, and thought it might be a good plan if the kitchen were placed in the the dining space and vice versa. If so, I'd add more windows to the new dining location.

I have to agree with Kim about the small, non-luxurious master bath. Again looking closer, I see a utility room just behind the fireplace. If you're going to build this over a basement, put that stuff down there, slide the guest bath and closets to the right and enlarge the master bath.

Remember that my opinion is probably worth what it cost! *LOL*

Kitchen: Could you eliminate the wall between the dining room and the kitchen? In lieu of a wall, build a two tier cabinet base with the top of the "divider" cabinet being bar height. Keep the cook in touch with the world and allow company to congregate in the kitchen bar area without jamming up the cook. The bar can hide a "cooked" kitchen if you are not a neat cook. Also, this design should give the kitchen another view out of the dining room windows.

Bathrooms: Play around with the three interior boxes that make up two main bathrooms and the interior closet. If you do not need the master bedroom as a bedroom, it might make a great sun room with casement windows along its length. In fact, the designed back of the house might make a nice front of the house, hide the garage and present a great porch to the world. Depending upon where you plan to build, would it make sense to screen the front to keep out bugs, bats, bees etc?

I've added some additional to my kitchens, but never tries replacing the whole thing.
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Any of the kitchen ideas mentioned above could work as well as pushing the kitchen toward the dining room several feet. I played around with the other end of the house quite a bit & redesigned the layout of the master bedroom & bath, and the other downstairs bedroom & laundry area. Ultimately I ended up with a larger master bath (no tub though - not important to me), a water closet, a larger walk-in closet for the master bedroom and more of a mudroom-laundry area at the back door, all within the existing footprint.