Relationships and convenience of areas:
Every house you find, or at least most, are going to have a kitchen, an eating area, whether formal or not, a living room or family room, and some bedrooms and bathrooms. So, when you evaluate your floor plan you want to make sure that the rooms that should be by each other are. Sounds simple enough, right?

It is simple, but simple things are often overlooked. For example, you don't want all your bedrooms on one side of the house and the bathrooms on the other. Bedrooms and bathrooms go hand in hand, so get them in close proximity to each other. Even though this seems like common sense, and it is something you will probably do without thinking about it, just to be on the safe side, double check your house plans before you actually start construction.

Bedrooms and bathrooms aren't the only relationships to consider: the location of the kitchen is critical, it should not only have direct access to the dining area, but it should also have direct access to the garage or driveway so that it is easy for you to bring in your groceries from the car.

Also, when it comes to room relationships you should consider your lifestyle, for example, for a woman with no children, putting a laundry room next to the kitchen may seem odd in that it might be more convenient near the bedrooms, but for a mom (especially one with lots of kids), having it by the kitchen is great. It means that not only can she be getting things done in the kitchen, but she can also get things done in the laundry or utility room simultaneously. One woman wants convenience of location, the other wants to be able to multi task laundry and dinner making at the same time.

Traffic Patterns:
You are going to want to study the circulation and traffic patterns of each room. A good floor plan is going to have good circulation and direct the flow of traffic from one side of the room or another rather than through the center. Traffic should not interfere with workspaces so, if you notice that your floor plan has some circulation, or traffic problems, try to eliminate them by first simply moving doors to the corners of rooms. If that does not work you will need to consider other options.

Privacy:
Although it is common sense, let's state it anyway...bedroom and bathroom areas should be separated visually and acoustically from the living and work areas of the house. You want to make sure that you can get to the bathroom without walking through any other room in the house, and that there is a bathroom accessible to the work and play areas of the house without entering the bedroom space, so that guests can use the toilet without seeing your bedroom, or the messes that often come with bedrooms.

Evaluating your house plans for room relationship, traffic, and privacy, and adjusting them if any problems are noted is worth every second it takes. When the rooms are only on paper pretty much everything looks great, so take the time to think it through and your house will be more comfy and enjoyable.