Hi Bhawna,

Having 1 document type with multiple templates can sometimes get a little fragile, you might find it easier if you have a 1 to 1 relationship between Document Types and Templates, giving you more structure within your content - which should make it easier to query nodes / separate concerns.

Example:

Doctype: home => Template: home
Doctype: about => Template: about

For your generic pages, you could perhaps then have an article document type too.

Umbraco has a handy feature that allows you to change a document type by right clicking on the node in the content tree. This is super handy, as it means you can adjust and refine the structure as your are working.

In response to your question, I've included some code below, that shows how to make the content queries in a slightly different and hopefully clearer way.

Example:

@{ var home = Model.Content.AncestorOrSelf("home"); }

@* List all children *@
@foreach (var item in home.Children())
{
    <p>@item.Name, @item.DocumentTypeAlias</p>
}

If you had a separate doc type about you could select that node.

@{ 
   var home = Model.Content.AncestorOrSelf("home");
   var about = home.Descendant("about");
 }

You could then work with its children

@foreach (var item in about.Children())
{
    <p>@item.Name, @item.DocumentTypeAlias</p>
}

Or even filter the children again by doctype

@foreach (var item in home.Children("articleWithImage"))
{
    <p>@item.Name, @item.DocumentTypeAlias</p>
}

Hope that gives you some ideas and helps!

Good luck, Laurie