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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Consider how you're going to take rubbish out of the kitchen - through the livingroom and out the front door? Perhaps a side door in the kitchen would be a good idea - it looks like you'd have enough room to put in a door, this also avoid having cupboard going around a corner, which always leads to almost dead space in the hard-to-reach bit of the corner.
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I agree, I would place a door in the kitchen as well. I'd replace that window to the side with a door. The door will have glass as well, which will give you a window too. Maybe move it a bit away from the corner.
But a corner can be a very good place to put the stove.
Do you already have an idea about how the kitchen will look?
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
You don't seem to have any storage cupboards. Where will you store bedding, towels, etc? Perhaps there's some way to make a cupboard on your top floor landing area.
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Storage can always be achieved by closets (which you won't find in a floor plan).
Will you have an attic? I see there's a sloped roof, and an attic can be perfect for storage space, even if it's not high enough to stand comfortably. I'd extend the stairs to the attic, even if you don't plan on using it right now.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Wireless is great but slow. Perhaps running cat6 or even cat6a ethernet cables to each room would be a good investment?
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Yes, I agree wholeheartedly with this suggestion. When you start planning your electrical system (you must do that in advance too!), take ethernet cables in account too. We did that when our walls and floors were completely bare (actually, the floor was only half-way filled then) and I never regretted it (even though we had the blisters on our hands after pulling all those ethernet and coaxial cables...)
(and you get funny images 
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One advice our contractor gave us was to put empty tubes in the walls, so we could make use of them later, even if we didn't have plans right now. Adding tubes in the walls and floors is easy when the walls and floors are empty, but hard once you're living in the house. And you can always pull cables at a later date.