Showing posts with label 3 bedroom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 3 bedroom. Show all posts

Saturday, May 11, 2013

The Farmer/Gentleman II


A while back, I posted a floor plan called “The Farmer/Gentleman”. I decided to revisit that plan and came up with a slightly smaller home that I really like better. The living room and the study in that plan were pretty big, which is OK if you want a big house, but with this one I decided to carve a nice front porch out of those two rooms.



The master bedroom is still nice and big with doors connecting it to the bathroom, mudroom and the study.

The study can be used as a nursery or a private sitting room for you and your spouse when your kids are teens or if Grandma and Grandpa need cared for in their later years.

The mud room has a large walk-in closet and a locker style walk-in shower. It connects to the master bedroom, the study and the kitchen to help you keep the dirt out of the living room!

The kitchen, which is open to the living room has plenty of counter space a pantry and a cozy dining area that opens into a large inviting sun room.

On the other side of the house from the master bedroom are two more bedrooms, with generous closets and a second bath.

This is nice smaller home with lots of room for your family throughout your years.


God Bless You All!

~Grama Sue


Sunday, February 24, 2013

Garage Wrap

This is one of my favorite floor plans. I don't know about you, but one of the things I really appreciate about a home design is a quiet bedroom. Grampa Tom is an early morning person and I am a night owl. For years and years our bedroom shared a wall with the main family area of the house. In our current house, the TV room is a bedroom at one side of the house and my bedroom is on the other side. I am a much happier camper as a result!

How do you get 3 quiet bedrooms in a 1903 square foot home? You wrap it around a garage! 

Remember, if you want to see a bigger version of the plan, all you have to do is hold down your Ctrl button and push the + button!


The master suite of this home is tucked away on the west side of a generous two car garage.The master bath has a large garden size tub, a double sink and the toilet is tucked back in the corner so that the walk-in master bedroom closet muffles those midnight flushes  :) 

Just off the master bedroom is a large mud room with a walk-in closet, large walk-in shower and a private toilet nook. It opens out to the sun room which is heated by a rocket stove mass heater with a hot tub providing the mass. It also has easy access to the garage and family room. 

The garage is 28' x 28', leave it as is or if you want a basement, put the stairs in there. I put the door the door to the basement in the garage, but you could easily put it in the family room too. 

The family room is separated from the large country kitchen by a half wall. 

The kitchen features a professional range, built in refrigerator and freezer units, a wall oven  and a large pantry that could be re-enforced to make a storm room if you didn't want a basement. It also has double doors out to the sun room (which also has double doors) making moving furniture in and out easier. 36 inch doors though out the home and a wide hallway also facilitate this. This home is also very handicap friendly.

The east wing of this home has 2 bedrooms that are buffered from the hustle and bustle of family life by the space of a living room and generous closets. A 3/4 bath with a shower serves both the bedrooms and guests.  The living room is open to the kitchen, making for awesome parties where the cook is never exiled!
Hope you've had fun dreaming with me!

What do you like about this plan?

What would you change?


God Bless You All!


~Grama Sue




Sunday, February 17, 2013

The Farmer/Gentleman

Grampa Tom has absolutely no aspirations to be a gentleman, but there's a lot of classy college educated farmer's out there. This home is for them. This guy can come in from the fields covered with mud on one side of the house and emerge in a smoking jacket for an evening of intellectual pursuit in the study on the other side of this 2000ish square foot home.

Remember, if you want to see a bigger version of the plan, all you have to do is hold down your Ctrl button and push the + button!



The spacious mud room connects with the master bath, master bedroom, the kitchen and the study. It also has a large walk in-shower and a walk-in closet.

The master bedroom has a huge closet and  connects to the mudroom, the study and the master bath. The master bath has a jaccuzi style tub and a double sink for the gentleman and his lady. The study could also be used as a sitting room for the gentleman and his lady or as a nursery for a growing family.

The study has double pocket doors on the living room wall making it a versatile space that can be private or used as an extended living room space when entertaining. 

This arrangement also makes this home quite suitable for inter-generational living that can give both the homeowners a sense of privacy with a buffer "public" space between them and the two bedrooms on the other side of the house that could easily serve as a Granny house. 

If no basement is desired the area for the stairwell could be enclosed and made into three big walk-in closets, one for the living room, one for the bedroom and one which could be used as a bigger pantry than the small pantry that is just off the dining room. One or more of these could also be fortified to become storm rooms. 

The compact kitchen has lots of cabinets and counter space and is open to the living room and dining room.

The dining room has double doors which open into the sun room, which also has double doors to the outside, making it easy to move furniture in and out of this home. Face this side of the home towards the south and the sun room also becomes an important source of passive solar heat. It could be extended along the entire side of the home to maximize this potential. 

This home is designed so that it can be manufactured at a modular home factory and transported in two 16 foot sections. It also has 36 inch doors through out the home for ease of moving furniture and wheel chair access. 

Hope you are having fun in my play land and getting lots of good ideas! 

What do you like about this plan? 

What would you change?


God Bless You All!

~Grama Sue






Sunday, February 3, 2013

Smaller Gambrel Barn Home With Silo

One of the first plans that I posted was a gambrel roofed styled barn with a silo. Recently, I received a message about it, saying they loved it, but would like to see something smaller. I've been working on it. I've now got several floor plans of varying sizes. Hopefully, I'll post all of them soon.

This is the second smallest plan with 1596 square feet of living space on the first floor. Please excuse my square silo. My rinky-dink floor plan program doesn't do round walls. I'm really not sure if the 8 ft. diameter is big enough. I'd need the pro-version to figure that one out. It's just a guess. 

Remember, if you want to see a bigger version of the plan, all you have to do is hold down your Ctrl button and push the + button!


The main entry of this plan opens into a spacious great room consisting of a living room space, a nice size kitchen and an over-sized pantry. This pantry could easily double as a storm room if it were reinforced. There is also an office that could be used as a bedroom if needed and a full bath on the opposite side of the hall. 

The mud room has a huge closet, lots of cabinet space, a double laundry sink and even access to the master bathroom walk-in locker style shower. That's Grampa Tom's idea. It's in a lot of my plans. He want's to come into the house, put his dirty clothes right into the washer and step into the shower. Then he can just go into the bedroom and put something clean on.

In addition to a walk-in locker style shower, the master bath has a Jacuzzi style tub and sinks on different walls that can be at different heights for him and her. It also has a large master bedroom with a huge closet that can be organized to eliminate the need for dressers.

I have several ideas for the second floor. Decided to limit it to 4 different versions for this post. There's at least 3 or 4 more I could come up with, but you might get bored!



The first is a simple loft over part of the first floor. With this option, the gambrel style roof would end at the master bedroom. A loafing shed style roof would cover the rest of the first floor. The first floor is open over the kitchen and living room with a blank of windows on the second floor level to flood the place with light. If situated with the main entry facing south, this could serve as a solarium providing passive solar heat during the cold months. 


This second floor option is also only over part of the first floor. It has 2 bedrooms, a full bath a large storage room and a loft area that is open to the kitchen and living room.



The third has a gambrel style roof over the entire second floor with a private porch area at the back of the house. 

The fourth option has 3 large bedrooms, a full bath in which the sink area is walled off from the toilet-bath area so lots of people can use it at the same time and a loft area on the second floor. If you have a really large family, you could go ahead and put a floor over the portion of the second floor that is open to the first floor and add  at least 2 or 3 more bedrooms. 

Like I said, lots of possibilities with this one :)

What do you like about this plan?

What would you change?

While I was posting this, I started thinking about an idea to create a barn style house that's even smaller. Maybe I'll even try to come up with a tiny house!

God Bless You All!

~Grama Sue