What's the best floorplan?

As if being a property virgin is not difficult enough, choices and questions further complicate the situation.

So when I first started house hunting, one of the most time consuming decisions was choosing a floorplan. Its a very simple question" What kind of floorplan would you like? " arriving at the answer, however, is a learning process. The first thing I did, was ofcourse to ask Google -- ideal floorplan? It gave me toooooo many hits but nothing really stood out. So I decided to chalk out what was important to me. This is what the list looked like:

• open kitchen
• 2 story home
• big master suite (bedroom and attached bath)
• 2 bedrooms on the main floor (master and another or parents when they visit)
• formal living and dining
• 4:3.5 was the bed to bath ratio

The more I thought about it, the more the list grew (the typical buyer - champagne taste for beer money!). In all the houses we toured, there was one thing or the other that was missing. But finally, though we didn't have the second bed on the main floor, we decided on one house - tipping factor? awesome kitchen, wood floors, recent renovations, ready to move in.