Hello Ayushik Can you request the builder to move the main door to the other side of living (where the sofa is placed currently) and then reverse the sofa and TV placement. The guest seating is way too close to the only kitchen sink. We will recommend to get a visual separation near the kitchen sink. You may also increase the wardrobe of the second room. Thanks, Nitin CORNERSTONE DESIGNS Bangalore.

Hi! I'm so glad I came across your floor plan, got pretty excited and ideas started flooding. Firstly, I'm uploading a draft of a floor plan I made as a rough copy (with a pencil and a paper), so kindly excuse the imperfections. (please refer to the picture I've posted along with this.) Secondly, as you mentioned, you would want to include the balcony in your seating area, I recommend you to break the wall and instead use French windows to allow the light within and it'll also feel very open. Then, about the kitchen, as you said you wouldn't want a large dining area, you could take that space for an open kitchen, where the counter also serves as the dining space from the outside. And since, the kitchen would be made towards the direction of the arrow pointed (refer to the pic) we get ample space to make a Pooja room. And to give an enclosed feel to the living room I chose and L shaped couch for it. I would suggest you to go for a mounted TV on a rotatable stand on the wall so that its accessible from anywhere across the room. Having done that, we are still left with some space (marked with a circle in the pic ) which could be used to put some more seats for the living room OR... (THIS IS MY FAV PART IN A HOUSE!) you could also use that space to mount a swing from the top. There were few more probabilities to do this house, but I genuinely found this one to be the best, coz I'm a huge fan of open spaces, and it's a good layout a lot of things could be done with it. All the best.

Hi...NE is preferred as 1st option for pooja room. Construction shud be such that, keep god idols/photos facing EAST. Your sitting position shud face WEST. Door shud open towards EAST (right hand side). Once u enter, U turn left towards WEST and sit. This is best and gives better results.

I reckon you dont give much importance to vastu as cook needs to face east, entrance door could be north etc; Anyway apart from that if I were you, would just have one bedroom in the g floor and use the first floor front garden for a bedroom instead, create ensuite in place of the first floor lobby or a skylight, any bedroom door should not open from a kitchen (north east ground). The ground floor living dining also needs much more natural light.