Oof. Floor plans for first floor. The front door opens to the living room, which looks fine until you realize that you need to leave room for the front door to open, open space at the foot of the stairs, and open space to walk through into the kitchen. And suddenly 2/3's of your living room is unusable. If you want to eat at a table, it's going to have to be tucked under the stairs, and you'll sacrifice any kind of pantry / storage space you might've had. I'm also not fond of the idea that guests have to walk through your bedroom to go to the bathroom, nor that the laundry is in the master bathroom either: it can be noisy, and it means anyone else wanting to wash clothes has to pass through the bedroom as well. They've tried to disguise that by labeling it as "owner's suite" instead of "public highway".
The second floor is essentially just a giant open space with a bathroom tacked on the end near the top of the stairs. The location of the stairs means the second floor is essentially split in half. You might think, hey, we can put a couple bedrooms up here!, but you can't. The 'bedroom' at the top of the stairs also becomes a public highway for the person in the front 'bedroom'. You could do like a bedroom in the front and a lounge area at the top of the stairs, but at that point the second floor is more luxurious and more private than the "owner's suite".
The front yard is essentially a driveway with a little space on either side, and I'm fairly sure the backyard is tiny, with maybe enough room for a storage shed, which you'll need because there's minimal storage inside - there aren't even any closets. The backyard is probably too small for a grill to be legal, because they're generally supposed to be a certain distance from the house - I'm basing that off the community amenities, which says
Residents are situated just down the road from Converse City Park where there is plenty of open space, walking and biking paths, a playground, fishing pond, BBQ areas and more.
Edit: just checked and "just down the road from Converse City Park" means 3.2 miles. So yes accessible, but it's not like just down the street and the kids can ride their bikes over.
And for some reason they made the second floor span over only half the length of the house. Had they made it full length they would have increased the available space by 33% without affecting the overall footprint. With that extra space they would have been able to shuffle the rooms around and make them far more usable.
I'm all for smaller practical housing. But these need to be designed with practicality and efficiency in mind. This apparent product of an architect-wannabe businessman achieves neither.
