Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,394 Bedrooms: 3-6 Bathrooms: 2.5-3.5 Stories: 1 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a traditional style single-story 6-bedroom-home. Here’s the floor plan: This single-story home has a traditional appeal with its board and batten siding, brick accents, gable rooflines, and rustic timbers that highlight the entry porch. Inside, the great …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,202 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 2 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a two-story contemporary 4-bedroom traditional home. Here’s the floor plan: This two-bedroom traditional home features contemporary touches showcasing contrasting siding, stone and wood accents, gable rooflines, and an inviting front porch framed with tapered columns. Inside, the …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,778 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a Southern style 3-bedroom single-story traditional home. Here’s the floor plan: This Southern traditional home offers a 28′-wide floor plan designed for narrow lots. It features a cheery yellow siding, brick base, and an 8′-deep front porch …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,555 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a traditional two-story 3-bedroom country home. Here’s the floor plan: This traditional country home features a simple facade with horizontal lap siding, small windows, a large gable, and a shed roof that provide shade on the entry porch. Inside, …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,433 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a Southern 3-bedroom two-story traditional home. Here’s the floor plan: This two-story Southern traditional home boasts a classic charm with its clapboard siding, a cupola, exposed rafter tails, decorative balcony, and an elongated front porch bordered with white railings …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,487 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 1 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a Southern single-story 3-bedroom traditional home. Here’s the floor plan: This 3-bedroom traditional home exudes a Southern charm with its hipped rooflines, shuttered windows, and a massive front porch topped by three gable dormers. A 2-car garage …
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.: 3,152 Bedrooms: 4-5 Bathrooms: 3.5 Stories: 1 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a transitional single-story 5-bedroom home. Here’s the floor plan: This transitional home offers an open concept floor plan that includes five bedrooms, three full baths, a powder room, and a home office conveniently placed on one level. …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 819 Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 1 Stories: 2 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 2-bedroom two-story carriage home. Here’s the floor plan: Graced with a traditional exterior, this two-story carriage home is perfect for an outbuilding, a rental space, and a starter home. It features a comfortable double garage enclosed …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,232 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story 3-bedroom traditional home. Here’s the floor plan: This 3-bedroom traditional home that’s wrapped in stone and siding offers a simple yet efficient floor plan perfect for starting family. It includes a covered entry porch and …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,239 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 1.5 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 3-bedroom two-story traditional country home. Here’s the floor plan: This 3-bedroom country home with traditional touches flaunts a striking curb appeal with its brick exterior, board and batten siding, cedar shakes, and timber accents. Inside, the …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 3,858 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 5 Stories: 2 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a two-story 4-bedroom traditional home. Here’s the floor plan: This 4-bedroom home is flowing with an immense curb appeal embellished with a striking stone exterior, ridge turret, a multitude of windows, and a wonderful courtyard that greets …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 5,072 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 8 Stories: 2 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 4-bedroom traditional two-story home. Here’s the floor plan: This two-story home radiates a traditional charm with its stucco siding, varied rooflines, bay, and arched windows, and a dramatic entry lined with towering columns. As you stepped …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 3,020 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 4 Stories: 2 Garage: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a traditional two-story 3-bedroom luxury home. Here’s the floor plan: A beautiful blend of stone and brick embellishes this two-story traditional home. It offers a 40′ width floor plan making it perfect for narrow lots. Inside, the …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 4,365 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 5 Stories: 2 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a two-story 3-bedroom traditional home. Here’s the floor plan: This 3-bedroom traditional home radiates an old-world charm with its beautiful stone and brick siding, hipped rooflines, a turret, and decorative arches framing the windows and the covered …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 3,163 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 3.5 Stories: 2-3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a three-story Southern 4-bedroom traditional home. Here’s the floor plan: This 4-bedroom Southern home exhibits a traditional appeal with its clapboard siding, a center dormer, and a deep front porch lined with decorative columns. As you stepped inside, you …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,947 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 1.5 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a traditional 3-bedroom two-story craftsman home. Here’s the floor plan: Board and batten siding, stone accents, cedar shakes, and gable rooflines graced with wooden brackets enhance the craftsman appeal of this two-story home. A covered entry porch …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 4,400 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 5 Stories: 2 Garage: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 4-bedroom two-story traditional home. Here’s the floor plan: This 4-bedroom home exhibits a traditional charm with its brick cladding, varying gable peaks, and decorative arches framing the windows and the home entry. The elegance is carried …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,837 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Welcome to photos and footprint for a traditional 3-bedroom single-story The Meadowlark ranch. Here’s the floor plan: Home Plan The Meadowlark Plan# W-1052 1837Total Sq. Ft. 3Bedrooms 2Bathrooms 1Stories View Plan Home Plan The Meadowlark Plan# W-1052 1837Total Sq. Ft. 3Bedrooms 2Bathrooms 1Stories View Plan …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 3,138 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 3.5 Stories: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a two-story 4-bedroom The Holden traditional home. Here’s the floor plan: Buy this plan Buy this plan A mixture of stone and siding brings an immense curb appeal to this two-story traditional home. Varying gables peaks and metal roof …
The Traditional style is the natural evolution of upscale European styles. It does not require the complicated architecture of, say, a Victorian house, but it includes embellishments from the Chippendale, Queen Anne, and Sheraton styles like piping, tufting, and wingbacks. Traditional style calls for millwork and fine craftsmanship, and these architectural additions cost money. Traditional style homes seldom cost less than $275 per square foot to build, exclusive of real estate, permits, and utilities, and can cost as much as $500 per square foot when they are built on sloping lots.
It’s easy to find plans for a detached garage in Traditional style matching the house. This is a common feature in plans for Traditional style houses.
In the 2020s, almost every style of house comes with a garage. More than other styles, Traditional houses come with perfectly paired detached garages rather than attached garages, but the garage is built in the same style as the house.
The Traditional style permits intense craftsmanship. It’s possible to find stunning millwork in new Traditional style homes. It’s possible to build a Traditional style house that will find its way into architecture magazines. But the Traditional style is not really the basis for a grand, sprawling mansion that is grand and sprawling for their own sake. At its heart, the Traditional style is comfortable and practical.
It is possible to find building plans for Traditional style tiny homes. That doesn’t mean that they will have curb appeal. Including the curves and piping and awnings and gables that make a home look Traditional takes so much space that a small home in this style looks like all embellishment and no house. But building plans for Traditional tiny homes are commercially available. Who is to say your Traditional tiny house could not be an architectural gem with substantial modifications to the plans?
For a Traditional home to be, well, Traditional, a closed concept is favored. Most Traditional homes have walls separating living and dining areas and the kitchen. More and more contemporary Traditional homes, however, are being planned with open-concept kitchens that provide a line of sight for watchful parents and hosts.
It’s hard to do interior decorating for an open-concept Traditional home. One of the basic principles in a Traditional home is that everything matches, so open areas have to be decorated in a single style. In a closed-concept Traditional home, everything has to match in a room, not necessarily over a large living space.
Traditional style colors are “subdued” inside and out. You would never find a neon-purple Traditional house with pink flamingos on the lawn. Darker trim offsets light-colored exteriors to draw attention to the gracious curves of windows or the welcoming front door. The front door ordinarily would be natural wood with rich, dark tones, with windows on either side.
With a little looking, you can find dozens of building plans for Traditional houses taking up narrow lots. Building plans for a Traditional house on a narrow lot might put the attached or detached garage behind the house, if the lot is deep enough.
It is easy to find building plans for Traditional style houses on wide lots. The key to the perfect look is making sure that you not only have symmetry in your architectural plans, you have symmetry in the landscaping on either side of your house as it fills that wide lot.
Never say never, but Traditional style is not conducive with the split levels that would be necessary to take advantage of a sloping lot without a lot of excavation and building retaining walls. The construction of a Traditional home on a sloping lot would require the involvement of engineers and a lengthy permit process.
How many floors/stories does Traditional style usually have?
Traditional style houses have one or two stories, but the style doesn’t really work with three or more floors (unless you count attic space).
Do Traditional style houses have a basement?
Any Traditional style house can have a basement, if soil and site conditions permit. There is nothing about a basement that clashes with Traditional style, although building plans do not usually include basements.
Traditional style does not come with “extras.” You would not find plans for a Traditional style house that has a bonus room built in. But you can always find plans for more bedrooms or office space that you could use as a bonus room as your plans for the house grow and change.
Traditional style homes are inherently energy-efficient, with windows illuminating living spaces and possibilities for using less heating and cooling in rooms that are not used as often.
It’s possible to find floor plans for Traditional style houses with a deck behind it, but the style does not work with a front porch or a wrap-around porch. There are plans for Traditional styles houses that have a glassed-in sunroom.
Wood shingles (and faux wood shingles) “work” with Traditional style. Metal and tar do not.
Does Traditional style work well with a rustic interior decor? Or is it more suited to a contemporary interior?
Rustic interiors don’t work with Traditional style. Traditional style calls for crown molding, cornices, coffered ceilings, columns, wood paneling, and built-in cabinets. Traditional house interiors beg for upholstery with complex patterns, such as chinoiserie prints, damasks, florals, paisleys, muted stripes, and toile. They need rich wood tones and metals. And every Traditional house needs window treatments.