Looking Ahead

I think this might be the third possible "big" house plan I've posted but this is the one we keep coming back to lately. The garage opens in the back - which would make it easy to put the house in front of the garage/shop/cottage thing like Matt wants. The colors here are ugly, the siding would be green painted Hardie Plank with a brown roof.

The Barrett from www.eplans.com

Front View

First Floor

Second Floor

I suppose that whichever plan we could always open the garage to the back - or at least with the colonial style plan we liked. But this makes it easier and the footprint is smaller. I like it! The Master would overlook the yard and I like the galley kitchen. We would probably switch it around so that the breakfast area was in the front and the dining room in the back to take advantage of the morning sun.

I promise I'm not really this lazy!

Big changes have been going on in McCullouch land. 1. We moved. To my mom's house, with my brother. 2. Houston, we have a driveway! It took 10 loads of stone, but we've got it. Woot.

Matt and the stone guy figuring out where it should dump.

Load 2 coming down!

Load 3 or 4?

3. We finally got a dose of reality and realized that we wouldn't be able to pay cash out of pocket for this whole project - so we applied for a mortgage to build the garage/apartment. Our inspiration for the project is this garage on Rt. 342. We're thinking dark green with a brown shingle roof.

And the plans for the "real" house have changed, hopefully for the last time. Matt's liked this house for a while, but I wasn't sure. It's growing on me though - I'm sick of looking at plans, so I want this to be it!
Front of the house. Again in green with a brown shingle. Perhaps a reddish brown stone instead of the grey.
First floor plan
Second Floor plan - notice the two story living room

Our idea so far for the house...

Here's what we hope our land will someday hold...

What the front of the house will look like.

First floor plan

Second floor plan.

I think that the house will face away from the road. The driveway will come through the woods and make a half circle into the garage. This way we'll have a big front yard with no view of the baseball field. Eventually we'll do a deck off the back (where the french doors are). With the house situated so that it faces away from the road, we'll have shade there in the evenings so we won't roast while having dinner outside!

This is a few years in the future. We're doing a large garage that will be our apartment until the house is built this fall.