The usual first test on a plan this size is bedrooms against square footage, and plan 95046RW fails it on paper: 3,623 heated square feet, two bedrooms on the main level. What it spends the difference on is a great room of about 22 by 23 feet vaulted to 16, a kitchen of 20 by … Read more
The street face of this house is the conservative one. Stone to the sills, shingle above, dark shutters, a timber portico over the door: nothing on the front elevation argues with anything. Plan 95023RW spends its ambition out the back, where a vaulted great room, a covered deck on stone piers and a walkout lower … Read more
The front of this house is one storey for nearly 120 feet, and it stays that way the whole distance. Plan 915047CHP puts a fifth bedroom upstairs anyway — it swings the garage 45 degrees into the back corner and sets the room on top of it, where two dormer windows above the overhead doors … Read more
The front of this house is a decoy. Plan 95058RW hands the road a tidy craftsman ranch with a porch and a garage wall, then turns everything with money in it — two storeys of glass, three decks, an entire lower level — to face the back. If the rear of your lot is the … Read more
The usual advice for anyone who wants the two-storey farmhouse elevation is to build two storeys. Plan 51773HZ ignores it. Everything a household actually uses sits on one level, and the upstairs look is assembled from two gables with windows in them: one lighting the bonus room over the garage, and one, by the designer’s … Read more
Ceiling height never shows up in the square footage. That is the trade this plan makes: 1,541 heated square feet, three bedrooms, and one room where the ceiling climbs to fifteen feet while everything around it stays flat at nine. The height is concentrated rather than spread, and so is the elevation — one steep … Read more
The front porch is what sells a farmhouse plan, and it is the dimension buyers check last. Plan 16916WG prints it on the drawing: six feet wide. That is a chair and a walkway. Everything this house actually does outdoors happens at the back, on a covered lanai of about 18 by 14 feet with … Read more
The front porch on this plan runs about 35 feet long and 6 feet deep. The rear porch is about 41 by 10, with a 10-foot ceiling and the great room’s windows and the dining room’s French doors both opening onto it. Plan 51814HZ wears its modern farmhouse face at the street and spends the … Read more
Budget, on a plan listing, usually means something was subtracted from the inside: ceilings dropped to eight feet, the pantry deleted, the third bedroom quietly relabelled a study. Plan 51762HZ economises where nobody stands. Two-by-four walls, a slab, two roof pitches and a garage turned sideways — and then 10-foot ceilings across the main level … Read more
Plan 56440SM spends its outdoor budget at the back. The front porch is about 33 feet long and roughly 6 feet deep, which is a canopy over the front door and a place for two chairs; the covered ground behind the house is about 23 by 14 feet, with a gas-log fireplace in one corner … Read more
