Hi, guys - you mean like this?

Floorplan:


From outside, pool deck view...

Before:


After:




problem in the details: the second floor of the wings is 9" wider than the ground floor, like this:



Which, when you move the wall forward, leads to weird cutouts :



Which I kinda fixed, but not really:


Another way would be to double-up the wall below it, build the ground floor 9" wider... but then the sliding doors on the ground floor would be off-center:


As a side-issue, I finally understand why why my vestibule/landing measurements kept giving me grief. And I'll need to revise the floorplan I posted earlier. I'm not sure which storey is off by 9", but one of them is. Either your room is 13 1/2 square feet bigger, or the diningroom/kitchen is 31 square feet smaller, than my drawings.


Back on-topic:

- I assume this ties in with no stairs up to the roof, since it eliminates the little stairs... I still think we should keep 'em, the new stairs would/will be easy to cordon off (and where would we go to watch the sunset in spring & fall?)

- I think bringing those walls forward would make the central courtyard area claustrophobic, right now the 2nd floor set-back opens it up.

- It'd make the front even more of a winter wind catcher than it already is. Issues for the big livingroom, but also for your room. This is the most wind-beaten wall of the house, you can see it in the size of the drifts and depth of the cuts it makes in the snow...





... and I won't put a window on that wall: not in the diningroom, not upstairs. If I did, you'd have me closing it up with solid wall within a year. It'd be worse than the livingroom wall-o-glass.

- If this about where to put the stairs, there are other ways... one would be to add a bit along the back (I was playing with this, for the stairs, last week):







From the garden, it dissapears - like that bit of the livingroom I worried about before, when we were talking about symmetry from the garden side.

It does only gets you 45 sq ft, as opposed to the 88 sq ft your suggestion adds. But with almost 600 square feet already...

For perspective, your current room is about 450, and wastes a lot of that on bad layout. I haven't drawn out the back jacuzzi/steamroom area, but I think your proposed master suite (not counting its decks) is roughly the same size as the current master suite, deck (but not steam room) included.


Final note: Off-topic again, kind of - In the last picture, you can see how off-center the front door is (the two windows), and I need to revise that, as well. Rows 1 and 3 are moveable! We don't need to center on the current hallway, we can make everything perfectly centered: door, windows, the posts... all of it. I'll post updated sketches as soon as I work out the details (and figure out which storey is off so I can fix that, too).