My kids love their baths. At 3.5 and 5.5 they spend hours in the bath. Prob will for several years more years yet. Ours is a shower over the bath. I wouldn't want them in my ensuite everyday either. My vote Ius shower over the baths, works fine for kids and teenagers, and fewer grungy corners to clean.

If you can configure your laundry so that you dryer is on top of your washing machine and open a doorway between the laundry and bathroom (in the wall between where your shower and toilet current is) using a sliding door you'd be able to close off the current doorway for the bathroom and then add a bath along where the doorway and shower is, keep your laundry separate for user ease and avoid moving plumbing (which is expensive). That way you can have a shower over the bath and have both a bath and shower option in that bathroom. My best advice is to go and get some grid paper and drawer your bathroom to scale taking into account the size of all the features you require to make sure that they fit (cut samples out to scale and you can play with arranging things. Remember too that standard doors take up more space within the rooms then sliding (either external or pocket) doors and moving plumbing is expensive so if it's a short term deal before major renos take place avoid it.

Are you kidding us all? That looks fantastic!!! That bath and spout are spectacular and both look absolutely amazing. The spout looks excellent where it is, you do not want to hide it, show it off and no it does not obstruct the look of that divine bath. Well done italiangal

Where are you building, as regards climate? The relevance of some of my reply depends on that. Is the patio covered? If it is not covered you have good solar access for the living area, but with 2.5 acres you could make use of that for the bedrooms too. A plain rectangle could give you more energy saving solar access and a simpler cheaper roofline. Walk-in storage is not necessarily good value for the additional floorspace and cost. I'm not saying don't have it if it fits, but don't equate the larger size of a walk-in with more actual storage space. What are you planning to use the property for? Would a mudroom be useful? At the moment you have no back porch or coat cupboard or any sort of practical coming inside zone. Having bedrooms off the front entry is not typically ideal. The west facing windows are the worst in summer. The fourth bedroom has no noise buffer from the master bedroom. It works as a nursery or study but doesn't provide good flexibility for use as a bedroom for an older child.