Posts tagged one-story house plans
House Plans: One-Story Floor Plans
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The Silverwood House Plan features an expansive vaulted great room, octagonal nook and open gourmet island kitchen that are perfect for today’s informal gatherings. View over 2,000 best-selling one-story house plans from The House Designers.
Today’s one-story house plans go well beyond the traditional ranch home. Architects and designers are taking the single story house plans to a whole new level by incorporating a variety of innovative and unique shapes and sizes to meet the needs, budget and lifestyle of future new home builders.
Consumers and builders can expect to find energy-efficient floor plans featuring flexible rooms, open kitchen, living and dining areas, extended outdoor living spaces, tons of amenities and simple, yet elegant exterior features to reflect various architectural styles.
Many single story house plans offer the ability to have a finished basement to extend the home’s living space. Basements offer the ideal place to create a game room, entertainment or media space to kick back and have some fun.
You can easily expand your one-story living to the outdoors with a large deck, sunroom or patio. Many are designed with complete outdoor living spaces, including an outdoor kitchen, fireplace and a pool/spa area.
Because they are one-story and do not have staircases, they are a great design for first-time homeowners who have small children, people with mobility issues and anyone who wants to save money on maintenance and utilities.
And if you need make changes down the road, having an open, flexible floor plan will make that an easy and affordable remodel.
View an extensive collection of one-story house plans at TheHouseDesigners.com, featuring a wide variety of size, styles and gorgeous interior photography to inspire the designer in all of us.
Wonderful Ranch for One-Story Living
0Don’t be fooled by the single-story nature of a ranch house plans. Our ranch house plans are available in a wide range of square footage options, floor plans, features, architectural styles and benefits. Their efficient use of space gives you as much flexible space and as many bedrooms as a two-story house plan, but a price point that makes it more affordable to construct.
One of our featured ranch house plans in this week’s issue of Dream Designs is the Shenandoah House Plan. The one-story home features a French country design with a covered entranceway that leads into an open living area with graceful columns outlining the living and dining room. The private master suite occupies the left wing of the home and features a bay window, vaulted ceiling and two walk-in closets. There are two additional suites on the right wing that share a large bath. The kitchen area is open and features a breakfast room overlooking the back deck. And for plenty of extra storage space there’s an attached three-car garage. Enjoy browsing our extensive collection of ranch house plans.
This French country house plans offers wonderful one-story living.
Get Creative With Kitchen Cabinetry
1Today, homes are being designed with open floor plans rather than small individual rooms. You’ll find that cabinetry design is embracing this new trend to create large open living areas by creating cabinetry that has the look of furniture. With more space to be creative, cabinets don’t have to be pushed to the room’s perimeter but can become part of furniture groupings that are a key component to the overall design, functionality and décor of the living space.
This week’s issue of Home Ideas is all about cabinetry – “Cabinets Key Ingredient In Kitchen Design,” “Options For Kitchen Cabinetry” and “Consumers Crave Functionality.” Get inspired our collection of Fabulous Kitchen Floor Plans, which include everything from small beach cottages to sprawling one-story house plans featuring a professional kitchen design.
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Homes Designed for Baby Boomers
0While many baby boomers are looking to down-size and prepare for retirement, most are just interested in finding the right-sized home so they can enjoy easy and economical living without sacrificing their needs and changing their lifestyle. For some, that may mean a small house plan with a large outdoor living space and open floor plan so they can still entertain and have room for the grandkids. For most, it means a home with lots of flexible spaces to accommodate overnight guests, a home office, entertainment/media room, and craft and hobby room.
One thing most home plans have in common for boomers are they are one-story or ranch house plans, have a large master suite, flexible living spaces and bonus rooms. You can enjoy browsing through our collection of small house plans, open floor plans, empty nester, one-story house plans and bonus room house plans.
Enjoy reading our latest issue of Home Ideas featuring three articles about aging in place – Homes Designed for All Ages, Designed With Baby Boomers In Mindand
Top Tips for a Healthier Home.
Retired Couple Finds Perfect Floor Plan
6A couple headed towards retirement contacted me a few weeks ago. They were looking to downsize from their current home of 3,000 sq. ft. and wanted a one-story floor plan. It was important that they still have enough living space for their children and grandchildren to stay and visit. After searching through several of our house plans, I came up with the Jasper. Just shy of 1,500 sq. ft. this three bedroom, split-floor plan seemed ideal! With its decorative and vaulted ceilings, it gives the illusion of much more space.
My customers loved the open floor plan and thought the breakfast room would be perfect to serve up a big brunch when the grandchildren came to visit. The split floor plan also allows them to enjoy their own space and privacy. I sold them the plan, and asked them to please send pictures when the construction of their new home was completed!
