3-Story House Plan 1700 ft²: 3 Beds, 2.5 Baths, Open Floor Plan, without 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 46831R is a 3-bedroom 4-story house plan of 1700 ft²: a slim single-family home with a flat roof and siding on the exterior walls. Its character draws on Charleston and New Orleans architecture, with Victorian touches reworked in a contemporary, modern language. The house is 16'0" wide and 30'0" deep, so the living space rises floor by floor instead of spreading out, and the narrow form gives every level a clear, compact layout. Inside are 3 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms and one half bathroom.
The main living area follows an open floor plan, with the kitchen placed at the rear of the house. A breakfast bar joins the cooking space to the rest of the room, and a breakfast nook offers a second, more casual place to eat, just right for slow weekend mornings. A bay window brings extra light and depth to the interior. The sunroom adds a bright room for reading, plants or a quiet cup of coffee, open to daylight in every season.
The master suite sits on the second floor and has a walk-in closet, while the split bedrooms layout keeps it apart from the other two bedrooms, giving parents and children their own privacy. A sitting area offers the family a place to gather away from the main living space. The laundry room is on the second floor as well, close to the bedrooms, so clothes and linens never have to travel up and down the stairs. Two full bathrooms serve the bedrooms, and the half bath is convenient for guests.
Outside, a balcony and a rooftop deck on the flat roof turn the upper levels into outdoor rooms, with space for a table, chairs and long summer evenings under the open sky. The house has no garage and no basement; the foundation is built as shown on the drawings, and the plan is also available with a crawl space, a slab, a monolithic slab, a stem wall or a basement. The exterior walls are framed as shown, with 2×6 exterior walls available on request. For a family looking for a modern house plan with a rooftop deck and Southern charm, this narrow house plan arranges 1700 ft² of well-organized space over four stories.
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