Louie - pretty well I think. See my latest renditions below. I have been playing around with how to screen off that toilet/shower area from the living room. Not only would it be preferable to keep the toilet out of sight, but it would also be nice if people pop go down and up the stairs to visit the toilet or shower without having to do a short "walk-of-shame" past the potentially occupied living/dining room. I was thinking a of having a partially-drawn pair of curtains or perhaps one of those dangle-y "fly curtain" type things to disrupt the view a bit, but then I thought a set of swinging doors with tinted/diffuse glass in them, because: 1. You can charge in and out of this busy area by just pushing through the set of doors, and letting them swing back in to place behind you (like saloon doors) 2. The glass panes will still allow the person to see if anyone is on the other side, so they don't bowl them over. Will also let natural light in. Also means could do away with the laundry door perhaps, since it will be kind-of redundant (main purpose was to eliminate washing machine noise in the living area) 3. The doors also stop heat from the fireplace drifting up the stairs on cold winter nights when the fire is going. Not a crucial thing at all, but a nice additional benefit Thanks for sharing the floor plans - it's given me a much clearer picture of what you've done with that pole house...looks fantastic! brizcs - great point about the chair by the window, that's really struck a chord with me so I am toying with ways to do this. One idea I had is in the plan below: Rather than put a narrow table hard against the glass, maybe swing the kitchen table 90 degrees, make it longer, and have people sit along the south side looking out the windows most of the time. When it's night time or there are lots of guests or whatever just drag the chairs to the other side and you're back to the conventional set up. If a table where flush against the windows it would mean a lot of direct sunlight on its surface throughout the cooler months, due to the low angle of the sun (glare might become a problem?)

Sorry to continue....the plan by Louise on the 20/01/2017.... But the laundry ( with internal access or through cloak room) and ensuite to the rear of the garage the master behind...... Then a Wir separating the master form the living or a bathroom...... The a fireplace if required against the western wall central in the house.... The entrance and small cloak room for the winter woollies against the garage and the other three beds at the front RHS with bath near.... The lounge/ kitchen/ dining in a similar layout but with minimal a walls blocking the view from the entry to the living/kitchen .... I like at lease a small wall dividing the living and lounge for the teenagers also.... If I get an chance I will sketch something up. Good luck this the paperwork... Plans are the fun part.

Ok so after all the feedback I made some changes. After looking at it, I would like to make entry point from garage on the garage wall, so you still enter into pantry, but you dont have to walk through pantry to gain access to the house. I would also like to flip bathroom and bed 3 so bathroom is centred between rooms. Also not convinced I should have entry to lounge from kitchen, should I have kept it entering from the entry. My only issues now is, do you notice how the bathroom steps in? This is because the ensuite is a bit bigger. Will it look ok once built or do I take that 30cm from my ensuite/main room to level it up? If so do I take 15cm from ensuite and 15cm from main bedroom? Also I really wanted the compartment bathroom that oklouise suggested. But its not big enough. Any ideas? My current bathroom is 3100 x 2600.

The flies you are complaining about are probably not fruit flies at all but vinegar or ferment flies (attracted to vinegar, yeast and acidic rotting fruit etc) – of the genus Drosophila. They do not actually eat fruit although they will hang around a fruit bowl full of ripe to over-ripe fruit (as well as your scrap bucket) attracted by the yeasty, vinegary smell. The first thing I would say is don't keep the scraps on the bench for long enough to allow your biology experiment to run and produce several generations of flies (Drosophila are one of the most commonly studied organisms in labs around the world because of the speed with which they reproduce makes genetic variations from generation to generation really easy to study). If the container has a lid that fits snugly you should be able to leave the scraps for a couple of days but why wait until they are actually rotting – take the bucket outside and add the contents to your compost heap regularly! Genuine fruit flies are also attracted to ripe fruit (they lay their eggs in them and the resulting maggots rot the inside of the piece of fruit) but they are disticntly larger than vinegar flies (rarely do you have a 'cloud' of fruit flies) and you are required by law to keep them controlled as if you start breeding them they will disperse and attack fruit in your and your neighbours' gardens and could even infect orchards etc making the crop of fruit inedible. So – first check and identify your flies (Google photos of both vinegar/ferment flies and Queensland and Mediterranean fruit flies). If they are the small vinegar flies just be more on the ball and take the scrap bucket outside well before the contents start to rot. If they are genuine fruit flies you have a real problem on your hands and need to start educating yourself on garden hygiene and management. Whole different ball game!