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Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,652 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 3 Stories: 1 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 4-bedroom two-story rustic craftsman. Here’s the floor plan: Board and batten siding, stone accents, multiple gable peaks, and exposed trusses embellish this 4-bedroom rustic craftsman. It features an oversized side-loading garage and a wraparound porch that …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,221 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 2 Garage: 1 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 3-bedroom rustic two-story cabin. Here’s the floor plan: This 3-bedroom cabin shows off a rustic charm with its beautiful wood siding, a stone chimney, decorative timbers, and twin gable dormers sitting above the entry porch. Upon …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,121 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a New American style 3-bedroom single-story ranch. Here’s the floor plan: This New American ranch features an impeccable facade with stone and siding, metal roofs, shuttered windows, and a wraparound entry porch adorned with a large central …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,278 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 2 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 3-bedroom two-story rustic home. Here’s the floor plan: A combination of stone, board and batten siding, wood accents, and a shed dormer brings an exquisite curb appeal to this two-story rustic home. Inside, the great room, …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,758 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 1 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a country style single-story 3-bedroom barndominium. Here’s the floor plan: This single-story barndominium shows off a country appeal with its board and batten siding, stone accents, and a wraparound porch that provides views on three sides of …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,712 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 3-bedroom modern single-story farmhouse. Here’s the floor plan: This single-story modern farmhouse features an impeccable facade boasting a board and batten siding, brick accents, twin gable dormers, and a wraparound entry porch framed with tapered columns. …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,006 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 2 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a two-story rustic 3-bedroom country mountain home. Here’s the floor plan: This 3-bedroom country mountain home exudes a rustic charm with its board and batten siding, stone accents, a large shed dormer, and a wraparound porch bordered …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,006 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 3 Stories: 2 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story 4-bedroom modern cottage. Here’s the floor plan: This two-story modern cottage showcases an exquisite curb appeal with its stone and siding, cedar shake accents, multiple gables, and a large dormer sitting on the covered entry. …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,006 Bedrooms: 3-4 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 2 Garage: 1 Welcome to photos and footprint for a two-story 4-bedroom modern barndominium. Here’s the floor plan: This two-story modern barndominium features an upside-down floor plan with the sleeping quarters on the main level and the common spaces on the upper floor. It includes an …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 3,117 Bedrooms: 2-3 Bathrooms: 3 Stories: 2 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 3-bedroom rustic two-story hill country home. Here’s the floor plan: This hill country home shows off a rustic charm with its stone cladding, wooden siding, and timber accents. Metal roofs and large windows add a modern …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 3,357 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 3.5 Stories: 2 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a modern style 3-bedroom two-story L-shaped farmhouse. Here’s the floor plan: This modern farmhouse features an L-shaped floor plan with a side-loading garage and wraparound porch that lets you enjoy the surrounding views. The garage includes dedicated …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,802 Bedrooms: 2-3 Bathrooms: 2.5-3.5 Stories: 1 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 3-bedroom country style single-story lake house. Here’s the floor plan: This 3-bedroom home is visually aesthetic boasting richly-textured cedar shake siding, stone accents, and large gables crowning the covered entry and garage. It also features a …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 3,184 Bedrooms: 2-5 Bathrooms: 2.5-4.5 Stories: 2 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 5-bedroom mountain style two-story modern home. Here’s the floor plan: This two-story mountain modern home features an eye-catching facade graced with shed and barrel-vaulted roofs, vertical siding, and stone accents that add texture to the exterior. …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 3,293 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 2 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a two-story 4-bedroom barndominium. Here’s the floor plan: Wrapped in a board and batten siding, this two-story barndominium showcases a great curb appeal further enhanced by a large wraparound porch highlighted by wood accents. The home includes …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,241 Bedrooms: 3-4 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 2 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a rustic 4-bedroom two-story country home. Here’s the floor plan: This two-story country home features a rustic charm with its board and batten siding, stone accents, and wooden columns framing the wraparound porch. The house also features …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 3,684 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 3.5-4.5 Stories: 2 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a traditional 3-bedroom two-story farmhouse. Here’s the floor plan: This two-story farmhouse exudes a traditional charm with its vertical and horizontal siding, metal roof accent, timber-framed gables, and a wraparound front porch that creates a warm welcome. …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 3,005 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 3 Stories: 1 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a modern 3-bedroom single-story farmhouse. Here’s the floor plan: Classic horizontal siding, an oversized 3-car garage, and a wraparound front porch topped with three gable dormers bring a great curb appeal to this single-story modern farmhouse. The …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 6,169 Bedrooms: 6 Bathrooms: 4.5+ Stories: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 6-bedroom two-story barndominium. Here’s the floor plan: This 6-bedroom barndominium offers a sprawling floor plan with over 6,100 square feet dispersed across two floors. It features an 8′-deep, covered porch that spans three sides of the home letting …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 4,642 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 3.5 Stories: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 3-bedroom Northwest two-story craftsman home. Here’s the floor plan: This 3-bedroom Northwest home exhibits a craftsman charm with its cedar shake siding, stone columns, and multiple gables adorned with decorative brackets. It features an oversized 4-car garage and …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 3,919 Bedrooms: 4-6 Bathrooms: 4.5-6.5 Stories: 1 Garage: 4-5 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story 6-bedroom mountain craftsman home. Here’s the floor plan: This single-story mountain home is loaded with great curb appeal showcasing its stone and stucco siding, rustic wood trims, and tapered columns framing the wraparound porches. Inside, …
How much do wrap-around porch houses cost per square foot (approximately)?
Almost any style of home can be built with a wrap-around porch. A log cabin with a wrap-around porch might cost as little as $70 per square foot to build, while a Victorian home with a wrap-around porch could cost $270 a square foot, or even a little bit more. The complexity of the roof design and the costs involved in leveling lots, as well as the location of your home (city, suburb, or rural) make a big difference.
Are there wrap-around porch floor plans with a detached garage? Is it possible?
There aren’t lots of plans for homes with wrap-around porches that include a detached garage in the same style. But you can still find plans in over two dozen styles for both a wrap-around porch and a detached garage.
Does a house with a wrap-around porch usually come with a garage?
More often than not, a house with a wrap-around porch does not come in an attached garage. Architects devote more space to porches than to parking. But you can still find hundreds of home plans that include garages, just with a side entrance.
Is wrap-around porch style considered a grand or luxury style of home? Is this style used for mansions or normally regular-sized homes?
You can find homes of millionaires that include wrap-around porches — because if you have a million dollars to spare, you can live in whatever style of house you want. But it is very rare to find mansions or luxury homes with wrap-around porches. They are more likely to refine outdoor space with a deck, a pool, or a veranda.
Is a wrap-around porch ever built as a “small” home? Can it be built economically?
You won’t be able to find floor plans for small or tiny homes with wrap-around porches. The problem is supporting a big roof on a small house. The roof over the porch would be unstable. You can find lots of plans for small homes with front porches and back porches, just not wrap-around porches.
Can wrap-around porch floor plans be open concept?
It’s not hard to find floor plans for houses with wrap-around porches that have a great room, dining area, breakfast area, and kitchen all in the same space. Open concept floor plans are more common for houses with wrap-around porches built in a modern style and in more than 2,000 square feet.
What are popular wrap-around porch exterior colors?
Many houses that have wrap-around porches are painted in darker shades of blue, gray, or green with white trim. Painting posts holding up the roof or awning over a wrap-around porch have more curb appeal when they are painted white. The darker color in the background gives the illusion of depth for even a relatively narrow wrap-around porch,
Can you build a wrap-around porch house on a narrow lot?
You can find plans for houses with wrap-around porches that are as narrow as 25 feet that can be built on a lot that is just 35 feet wide. You will have to park on the street because it is not possible to have both the house and the porch plus a driveway on especially narrow lots.
Can this style be built on a wide lot?
A wrap-around porch on a country-style house is a natural match for a wide lot. The wrap-around porch, if you paint the house a darker color and the trim and porch posts a lighter color, will give the house a look and feel of filling up the lot better, enhancing curb appeal.
Can wrap-around porch homes be built on a sloping lot?
Wrap-around porches are usually not a great choice for houses built on sloping lots, even if you are willing to go through the trouble and expense of excavating the building site to make it level. One side of your house would have a porch with a view of sloping land, and there would almost certainly be serious problems with drainage. The lay of the land conflicts with the extension of the porch, making a wrap-around impossible.
However, you could have a porch on one side of the house at one level and a porch or deck on the other side of the house at another level that also gives you lots of covered, airy space.
How many floors/stories does a house with a wrap-around porch usually have?
Wrap-around porches clash with multiple stories visually. It’s almost impossible to find plans for houses with wrap-around porches that have more than one story.
Do wrap-around porch houses have a basement?
It’s easy to find plans for houses with wrap-around porches that have basements. But basements are not required.
Does houses with a wrap-around porch come with a bonus room?
You can always find plans for houses with wrap-around porches that also have bonus rooms. Just choose plans for a house that has one more bedroom than you expect to need.
Do wrap-around porch floor plans come with energy efficient options?
All modern houses come with energy efficient options, but the difference in energy efficiency comes from double- or triple-pane windows, extra insulation, window treatments, heat pumps, solar panels, and the like.
Is a porch a common design feature with wrap-around porch houses?
Why, yes, it is!
What types of roof does a wrap-around porch house typically have?
Houses with wrap-around porches come in adobe, beach, bungalow, cabin, classical, colonial, contemporary, cottage,country, Craftsman, European, farmhouse, log, Mediterranean, modern, prairie, ranch, Southern, traditional, Tudor, and Victorian architectural styles. The style of roof that works for a house with a wrap-around porch is the style of roof that works for its architectural style.
Does a wrap-around porch work well with a rustic interior decor? Or is it more suited to a contemporary interior?
Rustic interiors work with rustic architecture. Houses with wrap-around porches built in a cabin, farmhouse, log, or possibly Southern style will “work” with a rustic interior, but others will not.