This wood shingled home, with its wood shutters and small paned windows, has a quaint exterior that can fit in almost any neighborhood. It has a covered porch in front and a covered veranda in the rear for enjoying the outdoors, and the upstairs boasts a game room and a bonus room if desired. This house can be easily modified to include a full in–law unit on the main floor. If this is of interest to you, please read the section near the end of this Description titled In–Law Unit.

After coming off of the covered porch, you enter a foyer space with an open formal dining room to the left, and a study to the right. After passing a stairwell on your right, two boxed columns frame the opening to the great room straight ahead. The great room has an exposed box beam ceiling, and a central fireplace flanked by built–ins on either side. A glazed door with full height windows next to it opens onto a covered veranda at the rear, for additional outdoor living space. The great room is open to the kitchen, which features a large center island. This island accommodates a double sink, allowing for more counter space at the walls. A sunlit breakfast nook with walls of windows on three sides is at the rear, and has a door to the covered veranda.

From the kitchen, an opening leads to a mudroom which provides access to a 3–car garage, a powder room, a pantry, a coat closet, a laundry room, and a side porch. To the right of the great room is the master bedroom suite. The master bedroom has a door that accesses the rear veranda, and windows that look out to the rear and to the side. The master bath has two vanity sinks, a private toilet room, a whirlpool tub, a separate shower, and accesses an open walk–in closet.

Upstairs there are three bedroom suites, each with its own full bathroom. The bath in Bedroom 3 has a secondary door for public use. Bedroom 3 also has an additional nook with windows for sitting or for a desk. A central game room is located right off of the balcony. It has a vaulted ceiling, and windows that look out to the rear of the house. There is also a bonus room, if you choose to build it, over the garage.

Foundation Info
This house was originally designed to have a crawlspace foundation. However, if you prefer a basement or slab foundation, these are fairly simple and inexpensive changes that your builder can often make for you.

In–Law Unit
Convert the Master bedroom, bath, and closet area to an in–law unit (including the Study, if you need more space), and then turn the game room upstairs into a dramatic master bedroom, and suite 3 and its bath area into the master bath and closet.

Please Note
This house was originally designed for a couple in Charlotte, North Carolina, who (understandably) do not want another house just like theirs built nearby. If you're planning to build within a 50–mile radius of downtown Charlotte, the designer needs to approve the location before he'll grant a copyright release allowing you to legally build the house. Just give us the address or location of your property, via email or phone –– and we'll get back to you right away.

Electronic Format
These plans were drawn using a well–known and highly respected architectural design software program called SoftPlan (version 13). This software can export the same files in .dwg format, so they can also be modified by anyone who uses AutoCAD, which is nearly universal. The CD for this plan includes the files in both SoftPlan and AutoCAD–ready .dwg, as well as in .pdf for easy viewing on your home or office computer.