Bonus rooms are where good intentions go to become storage units. The Elladine gives it back to you as actual living space, which is exactly what happens when three kids outgrow a house and you finally build the one you should have built years ago. Third homework station running at nine p.m., dinner conversations that stretch past dessert, Saturday morning cartoons one floor up while coffee finishes downstairs: the Elladine is set up for exactly that, with a main-floor primary, a proper bonus room, Southern wraparound presence, and a layout that stops feeling small by Tuesday.
Specifications
- Sq. Ft.: 2,287
- Bedrooms: 3
- Bathrooms: 2.5
Floor Plan
Main floor shows primary bedroom suite, open kitchen-dining-family area, mud room, and attached garage.
Floor Plan
Second floor hosts two bedrooms with walk-in closets, a shared bath, open loft, and attic access via staircase.
Style Math: Walk-in closets on the same floor as the bedrooms they serve sounds obvious until you’ve lived in a house where that isn’t the case. The loft landing between both rooms gives kids a shared hangout that doesn’t require coming downstairs every time they want to be in the same space. Attic access from this level is a small thing that makes storage feel like a decision rather than an afterthought.
Floor Plan
The optional basement level shows a large unfinished area ready for future buildout, with a finished hall at the base of the staircase giving it a proper entry point rather than a raw concrete landing. That small finished zone does more than you’d think — it signals that the basement is a real part of the house, not a place you’re apologizing for every time guests wander down. A separate framed room sits off the left side, ready to become whatever the next five years require.
White Shiplap and Black Windows on a Street Where the Oak Trees Win Every Time
Spanish moss doesn’t care about your curb appeal goals, but somehow it makes this house look better.
Board-and-batten siding in crisp white gives the facade a clean vertical rhythm, and the black window frames pull everything into focus without working too hard at it. The front porch sits low enough to feel welcoming rather than ceremonial. Brick steps and white hydrangeas at the base keep it grounded, and the neighbors on either side make the contrast obvious whether they mean to or not.
Blue Chairs Against Gray Walls and a Fireplace That’s Actually On
Two blue accent chairs face a linear gas fireplace with a tile surround, and the combination works because neither element is trying to be the only thing in the room. Light hardwood floors and a cream area rug absorb enough of the gray-wall weight to keep things from feeling closed-in.
History Corner: Linear gas fireplaces became a fixture in residential construction during the early 2000s, gradually pushing out the raised-hearth brick styles that had defined American living rooms for decades before them. The horizontal format solved a real problem: hanging a television above a deep, tall firebox was always an awkward compromise, and the low-profile linear format made it practical in a way that older designs simply couldn’t.
Open-Plan Kitchen Where the Island Does Half the Work Before Dinner Starts
Crisp white cabinetry pairs with a stainless wall-mount range hood, and the dark walnut dining table anchors the eating area without competing with the lighter kitchen finishes. It’s a pairing that could easily go wrong — too much contrast reads as unresolved — but the warm wood tone bridges the two zones rather than splitting them.
Designer’s Secret: Pendant fixtures over a dining table should hang roughly 30 to 36 inches above the tabletop. Go higher and you lose the intimacy; go lower and you’re blocking sightlines across the table for anyone over five feet tall. The bronze linear fixture shown here looks proportioned correctly for the ceiling height, which is the kind of thing you only notice when it’s wrong.
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Blue-gray board-and-batten exterior with a covered front porch sits above a first-floor plan showing a main-level primary bedroom, open kitchen with prep island, family room with fireplace, den, mudroom, and an attached two-car garage.
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