Country House Plans With Large Porch

As the farming lifestyle fades homeowners wish to hold onto a piece of that history.

Country house plans with large porch.

Typically if there is a second floor available it is usually much smaller than the main floor of the home and offers additional bedrooms and a bath. Beautifully detailed this porch stretches 65 feet across the front with three 14 by 14 square foot porches set at each end totaling 1 695 square feet of outdoor living dining and entertaining space. Country house plans overlap with cottage plans and farmhouse style floor plans though country home plans tend to be larger than cottages and make more expressive use of wood for porch posts siding and trim. Country home plans are pure americana evoking a pastoral vision of a quaint house with a wide front porch surrounded by pastures and shaded by large trees.

The other major common element is covered porches some plans have them on the front or back but others include full wraparound porches that surround the entire first story. What they have in common is a relaxed feeling and welcoming curb appeal. Spacious porches extend your living space making country house plans seem larger than they are and creating a seamless transition between indoors and out. One story country house plans can be sprawling and often incorporates large well laid out rooms which are well suited to a casual way of life into the home s interior.

Carolina island house plan 481 broad deep and square porches are the hallmark of this design.