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Start with a 20-by-30-foot corner of trampled mud behind a brick suburban house: a weathered sage-green fence leaning under ivy, a cracked concrete pad, a tangled hose and a rusted watering can, and drainage that leaves.
Plan 52285WM is one of those country farmhouse designs that reads simple on the elevation and then surprises you when you walk the plan.
Take a 1920s Charleston single-house with a neglected basement room that has been used as cluttered storage for two decades, a problem with a dozen familiar versions.
We review a lot of small-footprint farmhouse plans suited to the Carolina coast, and Plan 56553SM sits in a sweet spot we would recommend to downsizers and young families in Summerville, James Island, and the Awendaw.
Quiet luxury is the phrase many Mount Pleasant and Daniel Island homeowners use now when they describe what they actually want in a kitchen.
Plan 51351MM is one of the sharper sub-2,000-square-foot farmhouse-ranch hybrids we have reviewed this year, and it solves a problem that comes up constantly: young couples and downsizers who want single-story living.
We don't review duplex plans often (most of the plans we cover are single-family), but investors and multigenerational families keep landing on them, and this plan (Plan 51368MM from Architectural Designs) is the one.
Same footprint, same roofline, same front door placement, and eleven completely different homes.
Plan 16947WG is a 2,669 sq ft two-story contemporary with a main-floor primary suite, a two-story family room, and an upstairs hall that looks down into the room below.
Scandi is a design language that is easy to misread as “white walls, IKEA sofa, done.” It isn't.
Plan 42733DB is one of those quiet, well-behaved 1,504 sq ft cottage ranches that suit buyers who insist they want to “downsize but not give anything up.” Two bedrooms, two full baths, a dedicated pocket office, a.
Plenty of homeowners land on some variation of the same sentence: “our backyard is a disaster and we don't know where to start.” Cracked concrete, a sagging fence, a second-hand BBQ still wearing last summer's drip pan,.
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