Designing the new home

What did we want in a house plan? Well we knew from the beginning that we wanted to try out a "ranch" style home and that it had to have 5 bedrooms, 3 baths and a functional kitchen. The layout had several things that we liked to begin with. First, Lisa loved that it had a Jack-n-Jill bathroom for the kids and a half bath on the first floor. For me it was the huge kitchen island (I do all the cooking). However we soon found out that once you move something big (like the pantry) it kind of screws up other parts of the layout. Then you fix those and it messes up something else. Needless to say we met with the designer 4 times and will probably need to meet one more time to get it right. We now feel like it has a very good flow and very usable space but we are always looking for ideas and comments on the floor plan.