1.5-Story House Plan 3215 ft²: 4 Beds, Home Office, 3.5 Baths, Open Floor Plan, 3-Car Garage
Cover Sheet (Includes Front Perspective & Project Data)
General Construction Notes (Specifications & Standards)
Index of Drawings (Sheet List)
Floor Plans
Exterior Elevations
Overhead Roof Plan
Cross Sections
Stair Details
Miscellaneous Details
Foundation/Basement Plan
Electrical Plans
Cover Sheet (Includes Front Perspective & Project Data)
General Construction Notes (Specifications & Standards)
Index of Drawings (Sheet List)
Floor Plans
Foundation/Basement Plan
Electrical Plans
This house plan can be modified to fit your family’s lifestyle and your lot’s specifics.
Plan 28129R is a 4-bedroom 2-story house plan that gathers Acadian, Cape Cod and Low Country character into one gracious Southern home. Spread over 3215 ft², this single-family design combines a gable roof with hip and valley sections and wraps its exterior walls in brick and siding. The footprint measures 80'0" wide and 63'0" deep, and inside you will find 4 bedrooms, 3 full bathrooms and a half bath. Colonial and Louisiana influences give the facade its balanced, welcoming look, finished by a covered front porch.
The heart of the house is an open floor plan built around a large family room, where vaulted ceilings rise above a fireplace that becomes the natural gathering point on cool evenings. The front kitchen is generous in size and made for everyday cooking and entertaining alike: a central island, a breakfast bar for quick meals, a walk-in pantry for bulk storage and a breakfast nook for slower weekend mornings. A sunroom adds a bright, relaxed space to read or take coffee, while a media room offers a separate place for movie nights and a home office gives work its own quiet corner.
This house plan with a main floor master keeps the owners' suite on the ground level, complete with a walk-in closet, and the split bedrooms layout gives it privacy from the rest of the household. Two of the secondary bedrooms share a Jack & Jill bath, and an in-law suite welcomes visiting parents or older children with a measure of independence. A loft and a bonus room above the garage provide flexible space for play, hobbies or a guest retreat. Practical needs are handled well too: laundry on the main floor sits in a dedicated utility room, close to daily routines.
Outside, covered front and rear porches extend the living space in both directions, one for greeting neighbors, the other for quiet evenings overlooking the backyard. The attached 3-car garage offers side and rear entry, keeping the front of the home clean and elegant. The foundation is built as shown on the plans, and the design is also available with a crawl space, slab, monolithic slab, stem wall or basement foundation, as well as with 2×6 exterior walls on request.
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