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Basements across the Southeast come in every condition and every level of neglect, from waterlogged crawl-outs in West Ashley and Mount Pleasant to walkout lower levels in Asheville and Franklin.
At The Layered Homes, our editorial team reviews Architectural Designs plans from a styling and livability angle rather than from an architect's structural angle.
Holiday rooms come in every tradition and every house type across the Southeast: Christmas mantels in Mount Pleasant historic singles, Ramadan dining halls in Atlanta family homes, Hanukkah reading nooks in Charlotte.
Plan 56521SM is a single-story modern farmhouse from the Architectural Designs marketplace that pairs a 3,127 sq ft split-bedroom main level with a generous bonus room over a side-load three-car garage.
Start with a walled courtyard behind a row of brick terraced houses, left to decay: cracked concrete paving, a sagging chain-link panel along one side, and a rear brick wall shedding old white paint in sheets.
Plan 150019HRP from the Architectural Designs marketplace is the kind of plan large families and multigenerational households go looking for.
This review looks at Plan 51762HZ, a 2,077 sq ft single-story modern farmhouse with Craftsman inflections from the Architectural Designs marketplace.
Birthday parties come in every size: kids' parties, fortieth celebrations, even a hundred-and-first. What most hosts actually want is not Pinterest.
This is a review of Plan 56510SM from the Architectural Designs marketplace: a 2,085 sq ft single-story modern farmhouse with three bedrooms, a dedicated home office behind barn doors, and a wraparound porch that covers.
A neglected 1970s split-level home has more potential than it shows. This study renders the same structure in twelve distinct architectural styles.
Picture an 1,850 sq ft house where the living room holds the whole house's problem in 357 square feet: a 21x17 shoebox with a low flat ceiling, the wrong furniture, the wrong lighting, and a bookshelf overflowing with.
Plan 135253GRA from Architectural Designs raises a question worth answering properly: can a 1,679 square-foot footprint seriously serve as a forever-home on a view lot?
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