My youngest son is a farmer and he absolutely loves houses with wrap around porches so I named this one after him. It's an inter-generational home designed for country folk who produce a lot of their own food with a wrap around porch to satisfy his heart's desire! Maybe he'll build something like this by the time I need to live with him :)
The spacious 20' x 15' mud room sports a walk-in cooler and freezer, a large closet, and plenty counter space to process either your meat or veggie harvests. There are plenty of sinks. A hand sink, a mop sink and a deep double laundry sink make keeping things sanitary easy.
The mud room opens into an attached garage, the family room, the kitchen and the master bath (which has a large handy walk in shower right inside the door).
The gigantic country kitchen gets plenty of natural light from a row of clerestory windows along the family room wall. If you don't know what those are, (I didn't.) Check out the windows on this garden shed from the Mother Earth News. It is at the heart of the home.
The second bedroom opens into a sitting room that has a private outside entrance. The sitting room could also be an office or a third bedroom depending on your needs. The living room has double doors for ease of moving furniture in and out of the home.
The master bedroom has a large walk-in-closet and a window seat. And the master bath has a large whirlpool tub!
In my book, this home has plenty of room, but if you have a lot of kids like my boy wants to have, you might want to have a little more room. I wouldn't put a full basement under it unless it sat on a hillside or the basement went all the way out to the edges of the porch. I just have this thing about natural light and fresh air.
What I'd be more likely to do is put a root cellar/storm room under the laundry room and then put a second floor over the sections that have the kitchen and bedrooms.
You could put two or three bedrooms and a bathroom up there. This is just one of a few options that might work for you.
Showed this to Jesse and told him I'd be moving into the granny suite someday. He told me I'd be going to live with my daughter. No way! She lives in the city!
What do you think?
What would you change?
God Bless You All!
~Grama Sue
