How to plan an open house?

How should the rooms in a house organize suppose I am making a plan for a house?

• So i designed a house out of autocad, after that, i never really thought about how where rooms should be placed, its pretty big, any links to articles or advice as to where would these "living room" "Bedroom" "dining room" be more appropriate, i would appreciate if links to articles concerning this matter be given. Would Architectural books help?

• Answer:

  What you can do is consider the type of family you are building a house for - that would be a help in creating a design. Purpose would define the layout. For example, a young family with a pregnant wife and one two year old child would want a single-level house with the master bedroom with all the bedrooms close together. No stairs, open kitchen with easy access, plenty of room to get around, and a room where the husband could do work and the child could have a playroom. The mother would need access to the child so the playroom needs to be near the kitchen. And the laundry would need to be next to the kitchen so all the chores could be done and still keep an eye on the child. Arrangement could be considered like a letter of the alphabet to understand - A, X for this family - everything merges to the central kitchen A middle-aged couple with teenaged children. Master suite on one end of the house, kids rooms on the other with perhaps a bonus room over the garage that the oldest could move into when they hit 18 - kind of separate but still with family. Big kitchen and sit down eating area. Three-car garage. Office space for parent(s) and a tv/entertainment room that would be far apart from each other so noise isn't disturbing. Three bathrooms. Big spaces. Consider the shape the letter L, or T or F - separation and distance And then you'd have the modern couple, middle-aged, both professionals. Huge master-suite, each with their own bathroom suite with huge closets and separate dressing area. Spa-like. This is the power couple. Big professional kitchen for entertaining with a bedroom suite for the live-in housekeeper on the far end of the house. Formal dining room open to living room, that flows easily to allow guests to mingle and merge to the outdoors where there's a beautiful patio, pool and entertainment area. This is a four bedroom house, with two separate guest suites away from the master suite and far enough away from the kitchen and housekeeping, so in this house bedroom run the circumference of the house, or almost like a Y, V or K Look at houseplans for floorplan layouts to get a feel for them, but keep purpose in mind - http://www.houseplans.com