Country House Plans With Large Porch

As the farming lifestyle fades homeowners wish to hold onto a piece of that history.

Country house plans with large porch.

Spacious porches extend your living space making country house plans seem larger than they are and creating a seamless transition between indoors and out. What they have in common is a relaxed feeling and welcoming curb appeal. Beautifully detailed this porch stretches 65 feet across the front with three 14 by 14 square foot porches set at each end totaling 1 695 square feet of outdoor living dining and entertaining space. You can look forward to barbeques out back lazy afternoons on a porch swing and large family gatherings when you make one of our country house plans your own.

Typically if there is a second floor available it is usually much smaller than the main floor of the home and offers additional bedrooms and a bath. Country houses come in both traditional and open floor plans typically with large kitchens suitable for feeding groups on the regular. One story country house plans can be sprawling and often incorporates large well laid out rooms which are well suited to a casual way of life into the home s interior. Country house plans trace their origins to the picturesque cottages described by andrew jackson downing in his books cottage residences of 1842 and the architecture of country houses of 1850.

Country home plans are pure americana evoking a pastoral vision of a quaint house with a wide front porch surrounded by pastures and shaded by large trees.