Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 3,171 Bedrooms: 2-5 Bathrooms: 2.5-3.5 Stories: 1 Garages: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story 5-bedroom traditional home. Here’s the floor plan: The single-story traditional home is clad in exciting elements including bricks, stones, shakes, barn shutters, and multiple gables in varied heights. Inside, the foyer is nestled between the …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,848 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 2 Garages: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 3-bedroom two-story traditional home. Here’s the floor plan: The two-story traditional home has a wide-open floor plan that promotes comfort living as it allows plenty of natural light to freely flows in. A welcoming front porch …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 8,375 Bedrooms: 5 Bathrooms: 7.5 Stories: 2 Garages: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a two-story 5-bedroom palatial traditional home. Here’s the floor plan: The traditional home shows off its palatial appeal with a striking stone and stucco siding, decorative wood trims, an arched entry, and white columns framing the front …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 3,459 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 3.5 Stories: 2 Garages: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a two-story 4-bedroom Broham Canyon traditional home. Here’s the floor plan: A mixture of stone and brick clad this two-story traditional home. Gable rooflines and arched transoms create a striking appeal. As you step into the foyer, …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,592 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 3-bedroom traditional two-story The Hinnman home. Here’s the floor plan: The traditional Hinnman home exhibits a classic curb appeal with its multiple gables, shed dormers, striking stones, cedar shakes, and siding. A welcoming front porch brings you to …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,298 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 1 Garages: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story 4-bedroom Greystone traditional style home. Here’s the floor plan: This single-story traditional style home boasts a wide-open floor plan that maximizes the home’s space while providing the homeowners with optimum convenience and comfort. An open …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,995 Bedrooms: 3-4 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 2 Garages: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 4-bedroom two-story traditional home. Here’s the floor plan: Board and batten exterior siding, gable rooflines, stone accents, tapered columns, and symmetrically placed windows adorn this two-story traditional home. Inside, the foyer has a storage bench and …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,553 Bedrooms: 3-4 Bathrooms: 2.5-3.5 Stories: 1-2 Garages: 2-3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a two-story 4-bedroom traditional home. Here’s the floor plan: A traditional home with a modern floor plan that gives you plenty of options including a bonus room and a three-car garage. The wide front porch framed with …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,470 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 2 Garages: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 4-bedroom two-story traditional home. Here’s the floor plan: This two-story traditional house boasts a free-flowing floor plan that allows convenient mobility and increased family bonding. A covered porch in front creates a warm welcome while …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,823 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 2 Garages: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a two-story 3-bedroom Woodland traditional home. Here’s the floor plan: Cedar shake siding, gable rooflines, garage trellis, and a hint of symmetrical architecture adorn this two-story traditional home. As you stepped into the foyer, you are welcomed …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 3,847 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 3.5 Stories: 2 Garages: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 4-bedroom two-story Baton Rouge traditional luxury style home. Here’s the floor plan: This two-story traditional home exhibits a charming elegance with its stucco exterior, hipped rooflines, beautiful arches, and a grand entrance that adds to the …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,879 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story 3-bedroom traditional style The Hampton home. Here’s the floor plan: Shingle shake siding, decorative arches, gable rooflines, and charming dormers grace this single-story traditional style home. Inside, the foyer provides easy access to the living spaces and …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,073 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 1.5 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 3-bedroom traditional two-story The Dayton home. Here’s the floor plan: A two-story traditional home with a narrow floor plan showcasing a front entry garage and custom features such as a plant shelf, kitchen pass-thru, and decorative ceiling treatments …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,799 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 2 Welcome to photos and footprint for a two-story 3-bedroom traditional style The Luxembourg home. Here’s the floor plan: This two-story traditional home exudes a European charm with its stone and stucco exterior, gable rooflines, and a striking portico framed with tapered columns. As you walked …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 1,747 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 3-bedroom single-story The Tanner traditional home. Here’s the floor plan: A single-story traditional home with a well-laid out floor plan boasting lots of outdoor spaces and a front-entry garage that’s perfect for narrow lots. Inside, a foyer with …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,097 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 3 Stories: 1 Welcome to photos and footprint for a single-story traditional 3-bedroom The Satchwell home. Here’s the floor plan: Contrasting elements including the cedar shake siding, stone exterior, decorative arches, and gable rooflines graced with transom windows adorn this single-story traditional home. An inviting front porch ushers …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,273 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 2.5 Stories: 1 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 4-bedroom single-story The Wisteria traditional home. Here’s the floor plan: This 4-bedroom traditional home exhibits a striking facade with a combination of brick and siding, charming dormers, palladian and arched windows, and an inviting wraparound porch. The captivating …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 2,095 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Stories: 1 Garages: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 3-bedroom single-story brick-clad traditional home. Here’s the floor plan: Brick with stone accents embellishes this 3-bedroom traditional home creating a rich texture to its exterior. The double garage stretches in front while a third bay is …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 4,416 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 3.5 Stories: 2 Garages: 4 Welcome to photos and footprint for a two-story 4-bedroom traditional home. Here’s the floor plan: This traditional home boasts lots of curb appeal including a stone and brick exterior, steep hip roofing, multiple gables, palladian windows, Juliet balcony, and decorative arches. The elegance …
Specifications: Sq. Ft.: 3,701 Bedrooms: 3-4 Bathrooms: 3.5 Stories: 2 Garages: 3 Welcome to photos and footprint for a 4-bedroom two-story traditional country home. Here’s the floor plan: Brick exterior, large dormers, and exposed rafter tails grace the two-story traditional country home. A porte-cochere on the left side ushers you to a parking courtyard flanked …
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.