by south west facing i assume you mean looking out the front door to the road is south west..if so. that mean you have a north easterly aspect for almost all the rooms which should be ideal for most of the year but who will live in the house and please describe your local climate

Thanks for your thoughts oklouise, yes that's the correct aspect as you stated. it will be located mid north coast of nsw, which has a temperate climate. It's within a km of the beach. It's a house for 1 with family staying over occasionally.

Pretty good layout.
For me a couple of tweaks.
I’d move the laundry to next to bathroom so the bedrooms can both be dual aspect and allowing cross breeze. You may also end up using one facing backyard as a study or second living space.
I would have a window not a door opp front door.
I would move the garage door into hall, Garages can be a little smelly, so I wouldn’t like it straight into kitchen.
Add a door to close off front hall and bedrooms for efficient heating if only you are home.

sounds like an idyllic location but i forgot to ask what is the length and width of the block and do you have a limit to the size of the house? i love the basic floorplan but i'm wondering if the laundry could be between the kitchen and garage so that you could have a drying area outside the kitchen with side door and outdoor shower for washing off beach sand and dumping wet towels etc and i'd rotate the alfresco to be along the current laundry so that you don't exclude so much northern light from indoors and if this is a forever home i'd like the ensuite and wiw to be a little more generous for the mistress of the house

wow blown away by your suggestions. I've spend time considering each and am getting closer to a final plan. I'm very excited to say I'm growing in love with this future space.

forgot to say the dimensions of land are 16m frontage and 30m length with a 6 meter set back.

Orientation plays a huge part in the comfort of a home, & it's energy efficiency.

In simple terms, a northern aspect is good, increasing light, sunshine in winter, shaded in summer (by appropriate length eaves).

A western aspect is bad (especially for bedrooms), as the sun is low in the sky in this direction & difficult to shade, at the hottest time of the day.

You have a SW frontage, & a NE aspect.

A NE is a very good aspect, so you should take advantage of it! Currently only the master bedroom faces this direction. It would be much better if you're living areas faced this way. Instead they mostly face NW (along with a couple of your bedrooms), which will result in a very hot home on summer afternoons.

So unless you have privacy issues with neighbours, views to take advantage of, or other issues, which have lead to this design, I'd be looking at a redesign. Aiming for living areas to face NE, the majority of bedrooms SE, with the garage on the western side to protect the home from the hot afternoon sun.

So, if you like the overall layout of the plan, try to achieve the above without too many major changes. Flip the front part of the house, so the garage is on the west, & the minor bedrooms face SE. Rotate the living areas 90°, & use the width of the block, so that the master doesn't take all the NE sun from the living areas. Flip the master, so that it has NE & SE aspects, & the ensuite bares the brunt of the NW sun. Or switch the master with the living areas, so they have an even better NE aspect. Though you'll need a longer hallway to reach the living areas from the entrance of the home in this case.

Read more about orientation & passive solar design on the brilliant Your Home government website,

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

Cheeky question,
Oklouise can I see this plan reversed.?

kiwimills... happy to modify any plan but do you mean reversed west to east or?

Yes, perfect thank you.

Putting in an offer ( prob be too low) on a block that faces west in Christchurch , nz where west means niddly nowt, but north is everything in winter. ( east to road. Horrendous easterly wind all summer making it cold.. So we need to block it and this plan will)

This way all bedrooms and living get north.

Thank you

If we get it I will start a thread.

If we get it, can I use this plan?

If we get it. Why we moving back down there!?!!

look forward to a new thread but feel free to contact me directly with correct dimensions and accurate compass points of the proposed "section?" and i can fit this plan for you and once published any of my plans are free to anyone to use and why wouldn't you want to live in such a gorgeous country? ..almost as good as Aust..best of luck with your offer

Thank you.
I shall do that, very kind.

We live in NZ anyway, but near the bay of islands...at the top where it's warm!!!