The second storey on plan 93236EL is mostly for the street. It covers the front half of the building only — two bedrooms and an unfinished bonus room over the garage — while the kitchen, the living room and the primary suite all sit on the ground floor behind it, under a roof drawn at … Read more
There is a door between the master closet and the laundry room. That single opening is what plan 810002RBT is built around: 2,880 heated square feet with the master suite, the kitchen, a second bedroom and the washer all on the ground floor, and the garage, mudroom, laundry, closet and bath strung up the west … Read more
The front porch on this plan is a little over six feet deep. On a modern farmhouse that is a canopy rather than a room, and it tells you where plan 818128JSS decided to spend its money: not on covered outdoor floor, but on roof. Twelve in twelve across the main gables, fourteen in twelve … Read more
Square footage tells you nothing about where the bed goes. Wall footage does, and almost no plan sheet reports it — you have to pull it off the drawing yourself, segment by segment, while the plan is still changeable. The count takes about ten minutes with a scale ruler, and it catches the two failures … Read more
Most buyers read “two-story great room” as a ceiling height. It is really a subtraction, and the thing being subtracted is the floor above it: on plan 440050PWL, that upper floor ends up carrying five labelled spaces and a rail. Everything a household actually touches on a Tuesday sits on the ground. Master suite, two … Read more
“Bonus room” on a plan listing usually means the leftover: a few hundred kneewalled feet over a garage, reached by a stair nobody wanted to give up floor area for. Plan 744526ABR is not doing that. It draws its bonus as a full unfinished storey over the entire right wing, and that space holds roughly … Read more
The advice on farmhouse plans is always the same: buy the porch, and the deeper the better. This one hands you a front porch 7 feet deep and 21 feet long, which is a canopy rather than a room, then spends 625 square feet of covered floor on the back where the pool is. On … Read more
Four bedrooms, and three of them are at the top of a stair. Plan 32614WP puts the master suite on the ground floor with the kitchen, the laundry and the room everyone ends up in, then stacks the children, a second laundry and an unfinished rec room above the garage. The Southern part of the … Read more
A floor plan is a horizontal slice through the house taken roughly four feet above the finished floor, drawn at a stated scale, and it will answer nearly every question you have about how the building works if you read it in the right order: title block, walls, openings, dimension strings, circulation. Room labels come … Read more
The garage is bigger than the house. Not as a figure of speech: plan 400025FTY draws 2,979 square feet of shop against 2,882 heated, both sitting under one roofline. What that buys is a bay about 50 by 54 feet with nothing standing in the middle of it, three bedrooms split across two floors, and … Read more
