Hi Deb, There are a couple of things I have noticed that could be resolved. 1. The separate toilet/powder room is quite a distance from the living room for guest to visit. I'd be inclined to shuffle the laundry, mud room and toilet around to bring it closer to the gallery but still have the door from the hallway, for privacy. 2. You have a lot of hallway in the main wing which is costly for no benefit. Also you enter the master bedroom through your robe, which I don't think is ideal. I'd look at one of two options for room arrangements and lose the hallway around the current meals room. Option A - Put the study where the butlers pantry is with a window to the view. Put the meals room where the study is with the corner opening up to the living room. Put the butlers pantry on the south east wall beside the meals room with the kitchen in front of it to the living room. Create a small lobby to the master bedroom off the side of the kitchen. The lobby will give it privacy and if you need to save some space, use cavity sliders to avoid too many swinging doors clashing. Option B - Leave the kitchen and butlers pantry as it is but add a small window into the pantry from outside. Any light is good. Switch the meals room and study and delete the hallway between. This will give more space. Use this to again create a small lobby, this time accessing both the master bedroom and the study from the living room. The extra space can also be added to make a full dressing room rather than just a wardrobe. In both of these options there is a less direct connection with the living and meals room but as you have a full wall between them currently, if you detail the doors to the meals room well, you can still open it up the the living room nicely. These suggestions will free up 10-15 sq. m which you can either put to better use or reduce the size and therefore cost of the house. Good luck. Christine.

Plaster shrinks as it dries , but it's more complex than that -- plaster is a mix of cement and lime and other materials , often fine sand etc , so it soaks up water when its mixed , but even the mix ( the recipe ) will alter , and a good plasterer can make different mixes to suit . Even the thickness affects it -- the thicker you trowel on the plaster , the more prone to shrinkage it is . I agree with dreamer -- get the tradie back , but I suspect the plasterer is the problem , so it depends if that is the same person as the drywall fixer ( it often isn't ) . Just don't put up with getting a run around .

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