2.5-Story House Plan 4418 ft²: 4 Beds, Home Office, 3.5 Baths, Open Floor Plan, without Garage
Front Perspective
Detailed Floor Plans
Roof Plans
House And Detail Cross-Sections
Exterior Elevations
Foundation and Basement
Standard Construction Details
Electrical Plan
Front Perspective
Detailed Floor Plans
Roof Plans
House And Detail Cross-Sections
Exterior Elevations
Foundation and Basement
Standard Construction Details
Electrical Plan
This house plan can be modified to fit your family’s lifestyle and your lot’s specifics.
Plan 74529R is a large family house plan of 4418 ft², conceived as a spacious country or suburban home for living in all year round. Its outer dimensions are 57'0" wide and 44'0" deep, a substantial footprint that gives the house real presence from the road. This is a home of generous scale, and the choices it offers for what lies beneath it and how its walls are built let the project follow the needs of the family who will live in it.
The foundation is selected to suit the build, and this house plan is available on request with a slab, a crawl space or a walkout basement. A slab places the ground floor close to the level of the yard, so stepping outside on a summer morning feels easy and direct. A crawl space leaves accessible room under the floors for pipes and ducts, which makes later maintenance simpler. A house plan with a walkout basement adds a lower level with its own door leading straight outside, a useful option for a household that wants extra space to grow into.
The exterior walls offer a second choice. They are available on request with Wood 2x6 framing or Wood 2x4 framing. The 2x6 wall is the deeper of the two and leaves more room for insulation, a quiet advantage on long winter evenings, while the 2x4 wall is the classic, slimmer option familiar to builders across the US and Canada.
Together, these options make 74529R a flexible large house plan: 4418 ft² of home on a clearly defined footprint, with three foundation types and two wall framing options to discuss before construction begins. For a family planning a lasting residence, that flexibility means the important structural decisions can be made early and with confidence.
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