Does this floor plan actually work?

Trace a normal day on the plan: groceries from garage to kitchen, laundry, kids to bedrooms, guests to a bath. Good plans keep those paths short and private. Bad ones route you through the wrong rooms.

Models use smaller-than-standard furniture to make rooms feel large. Check the dimensions on the plan, then picture your own bed, sofa, and table in them. A 10-foot secondary bedroom fits a queen and little else.

New plans often trade closets and pantry for a dramatic entry. Look for a real pantry, linen storage, a coat closet, and a garage deep enough for cars plus shelving. Storage is expensive to add later.

Which way does the main living space face? West and southwest glass means heat and glare every Florida afternoon. Check the window placement on your actual homesite, not the model's.

Where do the bedrooms sit relative to the great room, laundry and garage? A guest suite off the gathering room or an office with no door reads fine in a model and fails on a workday.

Some plans are simply harder to sell later: one upstairs bath for three bedrooms, a room you can only reach through another room, no true first-floor guest space. Ask which plans resell and which sit.

Plan name: ______________. Elevation: ______. Square feet: ______. Work from the dimensioned plan sheet for your elevation, not the brochure page.

Trace it with a pen: garage to kitchen, primary to laundry, front door to somewhere to set things down. Score 1 to 5: ____. Steps that annoy you on paper will annoy you daily. Notes: ______________

Write the dimensions off the plan: great room ____ x ____, primary ____ x ____, secondary bed ____ x ____, garage ____ x ____. Then measure the rooms you live in now and compare.

List the pieces you are keeping and their sizes: ______________________. Mark where each one lands on the plan, then check the doors and walkways around it. Fit score 1 to 5: ____.

Count them on the plan: pantry, coat, linen, primary closet, garage wall. Then decide where shoes, backpacks, luggage and the vacuum actually go. Score 1 to 5: ____. Notes: ______________

Which way does the rear of the house face on your homesite? ________. Which rooms take the afternoon west sun? ______________. Score 1 to 5: ____. The model's orientation is not yours.

List the structural changes you would want and get a written price for each before you sign: ______________ $______; ______________ $______. Most cannot be added after the build starts.

Circle one: PLAN WORKS / WORKS WITH CHANGES / RIGHT COMMUNITY, WRONG PLAN / WRONG FIT. Then write the three questions you still need answered before you commit: ______________