Does this village have any colonial features? The house has too much concrete and nothing to warm it up. Use natural wood hand-made railings...not painted. Balance the railings. Upper railings and lower railings are completely different. They should be taller...a meter high upstairs. Do you have to leave the upper columns by the bedrooms exposed? Bring the brick wall between them forward so the columns are inside the house. Divide the casement windows with 4 panes.

Every room in the house is a library/den. I would recommend turning three of those rooms into a kitchen, a bedroom and a bathroom unless you read a lot. ;) Christi, on behalf of Thos. Baker

Modern houses like yours tend to be painted neutral colors. I'd go for white or off white with trim in different colors. I'd probably accentuate the horizontals, painting your porch railings a contrasting color. You can go to a website like SherwinWilliams, up load a better picture of your house and play around with color ideas. https://www.houzz.com/photos/texas-residence-contemporary-exterior-dallas-phvw-vp~1994082-Residence-contemporary-exterior-dallas https://www.houzz.com/photos/san-clemente-california-home-contemporary-exterior-orange-county-phvw-vp~2456325-CLEMENTE-California-Home-contemporary-exterior-orange-county https://www.houzz.com/photos/oakland-hills-residence-contemporary-exterior-san-francisco-phvw-vp~52742-Hills-Residence-contemporary-other-metro

For the living room, the focus should be the balcony area. So flipping the couch to face the wall and not the dining table will help. Kind of like this pic. Even if you already have the sectional that is in the diagram, you should be able to flip it. In fact a sectional would probably work better than the couch in this pic. I also really don't like the style of this pic, but it showed what I meant, For the girls' room: No matter which bedroom you choose, you should maximize floor space so that they have the biggest play space possible in their room (as they get older you can add desks for school work and such). To get this space, I would give them bunk beds. This configuration gives them an open feel and more storage, essential for girls. You posted two different kitchen designs. This makes it hard to give you advice. I agree with other posts that your sink should be away from the wall. This allows you to have stuff to the left of you (drying dishes in my house), while you wash vegetables on the right of the sink. You need the same space on both sides of the stove, also. At least 24 inches on both sides is good. 36 is better, though. The first design has a nice little countertop space that adds a place for your daughters a space to sit a watch/ talk to you while you're in the kitchen. When they added this to the first design, you lost cabinets on the other wall. This is bad, as the space is already storage limited. Try making the rounded countertop bump out into the living space more. If you play with the shape, you could make it work without losing the cabinets on the other side. It doesn't have to be rectangular or a perfect circle. You can see how this one isn't confined to the floor plan of the kitchen. I think this is what you would need to do to make it the most functional.