2-Story House Plan with Basement 1956 ft²: 4 Beds, Home Office, 3.5 Baths, Open Floor Plan, 2-Car Garage

House plan 11277R is a family house plan of 1956 ft², drawn as a year-round home for the country or the suburbs, with a choice of foundation and exterior wall framing. The house is 42'0" wide and 60'0" deep, so it is noticeably deeper than it is wide. That proportion gives the home its long, composed outline.

The foundation is one of the first decisions for a family building this home, and here it stays open. The base plan has no basement, and three foundations are available on request. A slab keeps the house close to the ground, with no level below the main floor. A crawl space leaves a shallow, accessible space under the floors, a familiar place for running plumbing and ductwork. A house plan with walkout basement is the third choice: it adds a lower level with its own door to the outside, for those who want more room for family life, storage or hobbies.

The exterior walls can be adapted as well. Wood 2x4 framing and wood 2x6 framing are both available on request. The 2x4 wall is the classic North American stud wall, while the 2x6 wall is thicker and leaves a deeper cavity for insulation, a quality that is felt on winter evenings. Both are wood framed, so the choice concerns the depth of the wall rather than the outline of the house.

Taken together, these options let one floor plan of 1956 ft² adapt to the way a family wants to build: on a slab or a crawl space for simple, direct construction, or over a walkout basement for an extra level. Your builder can review the choices with you and settle the foundation and the framing before construction starts, so that plan 11277R becomes a home made to be lived in through every season of the year.