Iterations

We are back and trying to get the first floor plan nailed.  Martha  Bedell, our architect. has produced a series of sketches, and it's a bit like a Chinese menu.  A bit from here and a bit from there.
First came A or B:

 

Martha's first sketches create a front hall with a closet.  We want a gas fireplace, so the first sketch places it on the outside wall, the second uses it as a divider between the living room and the dining room.  I had also told her that I wanted my office in the kitchen.  She took me literally and divided the space.   What I really meant was that I wanted a desk in the kitchen.  I  told her I wanted an island as well as a peninsula in the kitchen. Also, she forgot the half bath.  So, back to the drawing board.

 

C and D arrived the day we got back from France. I had told Martha that I wanted the fireplace on the outside wall.    In D, Martha had reversed the layout of the the dining room and the kitchen because she thought the light in the kitchen would be better.  I didn't like it, so C won.

HOWEVER, Martha had a variation to show us.

  In C revised, she moved the half bath to the front hall.  She said we would need a back hall closet, and it takes the place of the 1/2 bath. We have a big front hall space with little utility.  And, this way people would not have to troop through the kitchen to use the bathroom.  It will have a noisy fan. 

But, looking at all these sketches, I realized that it would be nice to have a fireplace in the dining room as well as the living room.  (See B above) So C revised as modified by B gives you a plot plan for the first floor.  Simple math. Right?