Thank you, MartinSK. I'm usually not much for the contemporary look, but this seems to work out pretty well.
One thing was bothering me though, in the Great room. I really felt a set of stairs in the front part of it would be needed, but couldn't figure out how. I made a great sacrifice, and took out the fireplace in order to do it.
I apologize that it isn't rendered but a rather a screenshot of the Great room.
So, I just copied the staircase in the back area, moved it forward, added walls, moved the closet from under the back stairs to under the new front stairs, and lastly adjusted the wooden railing on the top floor. Because of adding the stairs to the front area, the sofa layout wasn't working very well, so I switched the placement of the 3-seat sofa with the 2-seat sofa, and changed the angle somewhat of the 3-seat sofa. Also, as you can see, I added some more windows on the top floor. Other than that, there's no further changes.
I also thought of a way to put the sewing room back in... kind of... it's something I like to call a Hobby Shed...
I think that would be for another thread.----------------------------------------
