Don’t like stairs? We don’t blame you. While single-story houses have a bigger footprint, you don’t have to hustle up and downstairs. Stroll through comfortably to every room of the house. Here are many terrific single-story floor plans.
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 3,287 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 4.5 Stories: 1 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story contemporary 4-bedroom ranch. Here’s the floor plan: Mixed and contrasting sidings make this contemporary ranch stand out from the rest. It offers a U-shaped footprint that allows a seamless transition between indoor and outdoor living. …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,380 Bedrooms: 2-4 Bathrooms: 2.5-4.5 Stories: 1 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a contemporary 4-bedroom single-story Tuscan-inspired home. Here’s the floor plan: Distinctive clay-tiled roofs, stone and stucco siding, and decorative arches framing the windows and entrance bring an exquisite appeal to this contemporary Tuscan home. The charm continues …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,906 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 2 Garage: 5 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story 3-bedroom modern farmhouse. Here’s the floor plan: This modern farmhouse offers a sprawling floor plan with a 5-bay garage perfect for car enthusiasts. One of the bays has a 12′ ceiling and an oversized door. …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,987 Bedrooms: 1-4 Bathrooms: 1.5-2.5 Stories: 1 Garage: 4 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story 4-bedroom mountain craftsman home. Here’s the floor plan: This mountain craftsman home boasts an exquisite curb appeal with its board and batten siding, stone accents, timber-framed gables, metal roofs, and a welcoming covered porch topped …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,881 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 1 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 3-bedroom modern style single-story home. Here’s the floor plan: This 3-bedroom modern home offers a functional open floor plan that promotes comfortable living and easy entertaining. Its attractive facade adorned with a stone exterior, wood accents, and shed …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,708 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a craftsman style 3-bedroom single-story ranch. Here’s the floor plan: This 3-bedroom ranch shows off a craftsman charm with its vertical and horizontal siding, stone accents, gable brackets, and a welcoming front porch lined with a sole …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,783 Bedrooms: 3-6 Bathrooms: 2.5-3.5 Stories: 1 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 6-bedroom single-story modern farmhouse. Here’s the floor plan: This rambler, modern farmhouse offers a sprawling floor plan with a 115′ 6″ width designed for wide lots. It features a wraparound front porch adorned with shed dormers …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,515 Bedrooms: 2-4 Bathrooms: 2.5-4.5 Stories: 1 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a rustic single-story 4-bedroom mountain ranch. Here’s the floor plan: This single-story mountain ranch shows off a rustic charm with its stucco and wood siding, stone accents, a charming gable dormer, and timber posts framing the covered …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,615 Bedrooms: 2-4 Bathrooms: 2.5-4.5 Stories: 1 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a contemporary 4-bedroom single-story mountain home. Here’s the floor plan: A blend of wood, stone, and stucco siding brings a striking character to this contemporary mountain home. It is further enhanced with multiple gables, metal roof accents, …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,340 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 3 Stories: 1 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 4-bedroom mid-century modern single-story dogtrot house. Here’s the floor plan: This sprawling dogtrot house features a mid-century modern design with attractive wood siding, steel accents, a stone base, and a flat roof. It includes a side-loading …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,545 Bedrooms: 2-5 Bathrooms: 2-3 Stories: 1 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a stone-clad 5-bedroom single-story bungalow. Here’s the floor plan: A blend of stone and stucco brings a great curb appeal to this single-story bungalow home. It includes a covered entry porch, a double garage with a flexible …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,984 Bedrooms: 3-5 Bathrooms: 2-3 Stories: 1 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story transitional style 5-bedroom home. Here’s the floor plan: This single-story transitional home features an attractive facade graced with stone and stucco exterior, varying gable peaks, a charming dormer, and an archway framing the covered entry. …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,911 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 3-bedroom traditional style single-story home. Here’s the floor plan: This 3-bedroom home exudes a traditional charm with its multiple gables, shuttered windows, wooden doors, and a painted white exterior. It comes with a front-loading garage and …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,826 Bedrooms: 3-4 Bathrooms: 2.5-3.5 Stories: 1 Garage: 1-3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story 4-bedroom transitional home. Here’s the floor plan: This single-story transitional home offers a sweeping floor plan with an angled garage and expansive porches perfect for wide lots. The garage comes with a porte-cochere and a …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,697 Bedrooms: 3-6 Bathrooms: 2-4 Stories: 1 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a modern prairie style 6-bedroom single-story home. Here’s the floor plan: This modern prairie style home flaunts a great curb appeal with its stately stone exterior, low-hipped roofs, and a tower surrounded by clerestories. A covered porch …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,881 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 1 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story 3-bedroom modern home. Here’s the floor plan: Slanting rooflines, a painted brick exterior, and wood accents highlighting the sleek entry add a striking character to this 3-bedroom modern home. It features a detached garage that …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,265 Bedrooms: 2-3 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Welcome to photos and footprint for a country style 3-bedroom single-story cottage. Here’s the floor plan: This country style cottage home offers an open and flexible floor plan with two bedrooms plus a flex room that can also be used as another bedroom or a …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 3,432 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 3 Stories: 1 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 3-bedroom craftsman style single-story ranch. Here’s the floor plan: This 3-bedroom ranch radiates a craftsman charm with its stone and brick cladding, cedar shake accents, decorative gable brackets, rustic timbers, and beautiful arches framing the windows …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,250 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story cottage style 3-bedroom home. Here’s the floor plan: This 3-bedroom cottage radiates an enchanting charm with its stone and siding, shuttered windows, and a covered front porch lined with round columns. Inside, the great room, dining area, …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,531 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 1 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a mountain 3-bedroom single-story modern ranch. Here’s the floor plan: A mix of stone and wood siding along with slanting rooflines and large windows bring a modern charm to this 3-bedroom mountain ranch. A covered porch …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,522 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story 3-bedroom hill country home. Here’s the floor plan: This 3-bedroom hill country home features a sprawling floor plan with an angled garage and expansive porches that promote outdoor living. A vaulted entry welcomes you into …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,156 Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 1 Welcome to photos and footprint for a rustic 2-bedroom single-story cabin. Here’s the floor plan: This 2-bedroom cabin is loaded with rustic charm showcasing its beautiful wood siding, stone accents, decorative brackets, and stone base columns framing the grand porte cochere. A welcoming covered porch …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 3,235 Bedrooms: 2-5 Bathrooms: 2.5-4.5 Stories: 1 Garage: 4 Welcome to photos and footprint for a New American style 5-bedroom single-story home. Here’s the floor plan: A blend of board and batten siding, cedar shakes, and stone accents add striking character to this New American home. It offers a sweeping floor plan …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,863 Bedrooms: 3-4 Bathrooms: 3 Stories: 1 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story 4-bedroom craftsman home. Here’s the floor plan: Classic horizontal siding, stone accents, varying gable peaks, and a cozy entry porch framed with double columns bring a traditional appeal to this single-story craftsman home. Inside, the …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,785 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story craftsman style 3-bedroom The Janet home. Here’s the floor plan: This 3-bedroom home exudes a craftsman charm with its clapboard and board and batten siding, rustic timbers, metal roof accents, and a large shed dormer sitting above …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,971 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 3 Stories: 1 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story 3-bedroom The Longleaf ranch. Here’s the floor plan: A beautiful blend of horizontal siding, stone, and cedar shakes brings an impeccable curb appeal to this 3-bedroom ranch. It is further enhanced with classic shuttered windows, arched transoms, …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,474 Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 3 Stories: 1 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story modern style 2-bedroom cottage. Here’s the floor plan: This 2-bedroom modern cottage offers a compact floor plan that’s efficient and easy to maintain. Its exterior is graced with board and batten siding, stone accents, and rustic timbers …
This house by famed residential architect Donald A. Gardner looks a heck of a lot bigger than 2,078. Don Gardner is good at that and that’s important because the cost to build a house is in-part based on the square footage. When you check out the floor plan below, you’ll notice nothing is given up …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 4,164 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 4.5 Stories: 1 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a modern 4-bedroom single-story cabin. Here’s the floor plan: This 4-bedroom cabin offers an expansive floor plan perfect for wide lots. It is embellished with a modern design showcasing a mix of siding and a multitude of …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,889 Bedrooms: 4-7 Bathrooms: 3-5 Stories: 1 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 7-bedroom New American style single-story ranch. Here’s the floor plan: A combination of clapboard, board and batten siding, stone accents, and wood columns bordering the front and back porches bring an exquisite appeal to this single-story …
Another smaller house that’s wicked popular by Donald A. Gardner. This particular house plan is well under 2,000 sq. ft. yet offers 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a bonus room. The curb appeal is what makes this house so great with a front porch, great proportion with the two story garage side and main house …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,314 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 3 Stories: 1 Welcome to photos and footprint for a traditional 4-bedroom single-story The Trinity home. Here’s the floor plan: This single-story home radiates a traditional charm with its classic brick and stone siding, cedar shake accents, gable rooflines, arched windows, and an inviting front porch framed with …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 3,060 Bedrooms: 2-4 Bathrooms: 2.5-4.5 Stories: 1 Garage: 4 Welcome to photos and footprint for a New American style single-story 4-bedroom farmhouse. Here’s the floor plan: A mixture of board and batten siding, classic red bricks, and rustic wood accents bring an immense curb appeal to this New American style farmhouse. It …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,798 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 3.5 Stories: 1 Welcome to photos and footprint for a contemporary single-story 4-bedroom The Ridley ranch home. Here’s the floor plan: A combination of horizontal siding, stone accents, and board and batten siding embellish this contemporary ranch home. It is further enhanced with multiple gables and a unique …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,300 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Welcome to photos and footprint for a modern 3-bedroom cabin style single-story home. Here’s the floor plan: This single-story home features a well-designed modern floor plan that focuses on sustainability and is energy-efficient with its expansive glazing and additional exterior wall insulation. The house plan …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,162 Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Welcome to photos and footprint for a compact single-story 2-bedroom modern home. Here’s the floor plan: This 2-bedroom modern home offers a compact floor plan designed for an ADU or a guest house. Its open layout creates seamless traffic flow as it adds visual space …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,838 Bedrooms: 2-4 Bathrooms: 2.5-3.5 Stories: 1 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story traditional 4-bedroom ranch. Here’s the floor plan: This traditional ranch showcases a charming facade graced with a stucco exterior, brick accents, arched windows and garage doors, and an inviting entry porch. As you stepped inside, …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,211 Bedrooms: 3-4 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 1 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story modern style 4-bedroom home. Here’s the floor plan: Horizontal lap siding, brick skirting, shuttered windows, decorative gable brackets, and a welcoming front porch topped with a shed dormer adorn this single-story modern farmhouse. Inside, the …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 650 Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 1 Stories: 1 Welcome to photos and footprint for a cottage style 2-bedroom single-story tiny home. Here’s the floor plan: This 2-bedroom cottage offers a compact footprint perfect for an ADU, a guest house, or a pool house. It is embellished with board and batten siding, wood accents, …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,178 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story modern style 3-bedroom barndominium. Here’s the floor plan: This modern barndominium offers a well-thoughtful floor plan that includes an optional second level perfect for future expansion. The second level comes with an additional bedroom suite, …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,055 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: Clean lines, slanted rooflines, and an abundance of windows bring a modern appeal to this single-story farmhouse. A covered entry porch lined with timber posts creates a warm …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,071 Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 1.5 Stories: 1 Welcome to photos and footprint for a rustic single-story 2-bedroom cottage. Here’s the floor plan: An attractive wood exterior accentuated with stone skirting and cedar shakes gives this 2-bedroom cottage a rustic charm. It features a screened entry porch that lets you enjoy the outdoors …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,946 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 3-bedroom single-story Silverton modern farmhouse. Here’s the floor plan: This 3-bedroom Silverton home features a modern farmhouse vibe with its board and batten siding, multiple gables, a multitude of windows, and a welcoming front porch framed …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,628 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story 3-bedroom modern home. Here’s the floor plan: A beautiful blend of wood and stone siding brings an impeccable curb appeal to this single-story modern home. Sloping rooflines, sleek windows, and exposed rafter tails add to …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,541 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story Southern 3-bedroom cottage. Here’s the floor plan: This 3-bedroom cottage flaunts a Southern charm with its stone exterior, brick-clad base, shuttered windows, and decorative columns bordering the L-shaped front porch. The wraparound porch welcomes you into a …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,354 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 1 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story modern style 3-bedroom home. Here’s the floor plan: Stately stone and stucco exterior, sloping rooflines, timber accents, and massive windows enhance the modern appeal of this 3-bedroom home. It includes a front-loading garage with an …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 3,137 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a cottage style 3-bedroom single-story Amicalola home. Here’s the floor plan: The Amicalola Cottage flaunts an attractive facade adorned with vertical siding, stone skirting, a charming dormer, decorative gable trims, and timber posts framing the covered porches …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,922 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 3-bedroom ranch style single-story Silverton farmhouse. Here’s the floor plan: This single-story ranch style farmhouse features a charming facade graced with board and batten siding, multiple gables, exposed rafter tails, and a welcoming front porch framed with white …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,170 Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a contemporary style single-story 2-bedroom home. Here’s the floor plan: Contrasting wood siding, sloped rooflines, exposed rafter tails, and huge windows give this 2-bedroom home a contemporary appeal. It features a wraparound porch with multiple entries providing …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 3,263 Bedrooms: 2-6 Bathrooms: 2.5+ – 4.5+ Stories: 1 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a modern 4-bedroom two-story farmhouse. Here’s the floor plan: Contrasting siding, stone accents, and charming shed dormers give this transitional farmhouse an immense curb appeal. A welcoming covered patio ushers you into the entry where …
Building a single-story home costs less than building a multi-story one, but it still varies depending on your building location, the foundation type used, and whether you include a basement. You will pay about $100 to $200 per square foot using a slab foundation, according to HomeAdvisor. Although you might consider a stilt home a two-story, only the living area counts as a story, so you can build this popular coastal home that uses piers, pilings, or posts, to erect a flood smart home. This foundation adds about $20,000 to $60,000 to the building costs. Construction in areas with a high cost of living, such as a lake or coastal community, and large cities, costs about $400 per square foot. Four items influence building costs – the price of the plat or lot, home design, the materials, and labor costs.
You can build a single-story home with a detached garage, carport, drive under parking, as well as no parking option. At ArchitecturalDesigns.com, you have about 13,000 one-story home plans from which to choose. Of those, about 1,000 have no parking cover and an equal number uses an alternative to an attached garage. About 500 come with detached garages.
Most home designs – about 11,000 – come with an attached garage, a design feature that became popular in the 1950s. These typically come with a two- or three-car garage, but styles range in size. Available designs feature garages that accommodate one to more than five vehicles. Some designs provide indoor parking for an RV.
The single-story home provides a versatile option. It can be built as a tiny house, starter home, mid-sized home, or a mansion. You can obtain ready to build plans in sizes ranging from 108 to 12,445 square feet. In some cases, the plan counts a lofted area over a garage as a single-story design, so there are stairs. Other designs feature no steps whatsoever and no garage.
You can build a tiny house in many designs available at ArchitecturalDesigns.com. Examples include a Swiss ski chalet measuring just 300 square feet, a modern home with flat roof and patio measuring 312 square feet, or a studio home with a covered vaulted ceiling porch that also measures 312 square feet. Enjoy 207 plan choices of 999 heated square feet or less.
Many one-story homes use an open design for the kitchen/dining/living room area. Most tiny houses use an open floor plan throughout. Only the bathroom gets separated from the rest of the home by walls.
You can paint a single-story home any color you desire. Homage the John Mellencamp song, “Pink Houses,” or homes on Rainbow Row in Charleston, SC. Whether bright or pastel, subdued or faddish, you can choose colors to suit your personality.
A single-story home is the perfect type to build on a narrow lot. You can find more than 800 plans for a single-story house on a narrow lot. These designs vary in size from 108 heated square feet to a little more than 4,000 square feet. Most include an attached garage.
Wide and standard lots prove most common and so does locating a single-story home on one. You have more than 13,000 possibilities at Architectural Design.
Although building on a sloping lot can provide a challenge, you can build a single-story house on one. Choose from more than 1,600 designs ranging between the 576 to 12,445 square feet.
Many single-story homes feature either a crawlspace or basement. Some sloped lot designs embed the basement into the slope. Although you might count the basement as another story, architecture does not. The floors in a home refer to heated living space.
About one-sixth of the designs at ArchitecturalDesign.com offers a bonus room, a multi-use room that you can designate as a theater room, playroom, office, guest bedroom, or anyone of another uses. The design options available come to nearly 2,400 choices.
Choose from 178 energy-efficient home designs with only one-story. Also called net-zero ready designs, these save you 50 percent on your monthly utility costs. Sizes range between tiny houses of 242 heated square feet to mid-sized homes of 4,388 heated square feet.
Porches of many designs are a common feature of one-story homes. They may have an open-air or enclosed porch, a lanai, veranda, or a patio. Some designs include an outdoor kitchen with the patio or lanai design.
You can build a one-story home with the roof style of your choice. The options include a flat roof, low-pitch, pitched truss roof. You can even find barn style designs with tin roofs. The flat and low-pitch designs typically use a pitch of 3:12 or less, while the pitched truss roof designs use a 6:12 or 7:12 pitch.
Since one-story designs come in a variety of exterior designs and interior layouts, you can find a design to suit any interior design personality. You can use a rustic, contemporary, nautical, American country home, austere, Shaker, craftsman style, or any other interior decorating theme you like.