Alternate Front Elevations

With or without tapered columns and bases?


With or without railings?

New Plan, New Site Layout

New Elevations too!

Basically the same ideas as before with a farmhouse/cottage look. These still need a good bit of work, but they convey the general idea.

One month later

Worked on the plan some more and took a lot of really good ideas from people and thought things through a bit more and came up with a new plan, based largly on the concepts of the previous plan. The big change was to move the playroom downstairs and the master bedroom upstairs.

Is it already June?

Here I go again with yet another plan. I think this is the one...maybe, good possibility, we'll see. My problem is that it is too easy for me to draw whatever I want and make changes at will. I have too much information and too many ideas and I just keep working at it again and again.

The last plan just didn't have the style I wanted and didn't take advantage of the site. Just too plain and boring. The plan is way more complicated and interesting (and of course more costly to build. I am thinking of a farmhouse style. I haven't worked out all of the details, but want to mill this layout over for a while before I really get to drawing everything in detail. It all pretty much works, I just need to tweak it a bit.

Elevations are getting closer

Here are the elevations. I am going for a craftsman sort of look. I am likely going to have lap siding with asphalt shingles. I would like to have stone veneer below the water table line. Natural wood look on the timber frame entrance.

Where did three months go?

It doesn't seem like it has been that long, but I guess with Holidays and such, more happens than you realize. Well, I scratched the tower idea (fear of cost and taking up too much space). The attached images are the latest sketches. Obviously I have gone a lot further than my last post and am starting to get into the specifics of the plan. I am starting to worry that this house may be too big; it is over 3000 sf of living space. I was aiming for more like 2500. I better start thinking of ways to downsize and areas to cut.