The Globe Carriage House
Friday, November 30th, 2012
The Globe Carriage House is named after the house in the 2012 Homearama in East Beach, Norfolk, Virginia.
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The Stars and Stripes Carriage House
Friday, November 30th, 2012
The Stars and Stripes Carriage House is named after the house in the 2010 Homearama in East Beach, Norfolk, Virginia.
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The Halifax
Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
The Halifax is inspired by a common urban house style seen on the city streets of Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada. This model was created for a narrow lot developed by Habitat for Humanity in Norfolk, VA. It features a first-floor master bedroom and three more bedrooms on the second floor.
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The Marcelle Victorian – A Victorian Painted Lady
Friday, November 16th, 2012
The Marcelle Victorian is a Victorian style home for a narrow lot in an urban neighborhood. It is a popular plan model by virtue of its simple lines and frugal architectural ornamentation. The historic precedent for this type of Victorian design is sometimes called “stick Victorian.”
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The Casa Carriage House
Thursday, November 15th, 2012
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The Edgemere Cottage
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
The Edgemere Cottage is traditional house plan with a first floor master bedroom and two guest rooms on the second floor. This simple plan achieves a measure of romantic modesty not unlike the well known Bed and Breakfast of the same name in Carmel by the Sea, California.
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The Armistead
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
The Armistead design is a modest ‘Greek Revival’ style home for an urban infill lot. It is named ‘Armistead Ave.’ in Norfolk, VA, where narrow properties are the historical norm. In Hampton, VA, Armistead Ave. is a prominent connector thoroughfare named after the famous Confederate brigadier general who died in the Battle of Gettysburg in 1817.
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Ann Street
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
The Ann Street is a popular TND style house plan, originally designed for the historical neighborhood of Parkview in Portsmouth Virginia. An 18′-10″ wide version of this house plan also available for 25 foot lots.
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The Casa Charleston
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
The Casa Charleston is a coastal “single house” plan, perfectly suited to the hot, humid local climate of the South Carolina port city of this name, featuring a two-story veranda (called “piazzas” in Charleston, SC) stretching down the long side of the house.
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The North End
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
The North End is a 3-story coastal house plan, designed to blend into the neighborhood in Virginia Beach along the north end of Atlantic Ave., from the historic Cavalier Hotel extending to the east entrance to Fort Story. The North End is known for tasteful, casual lifestyle beach living.
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The Armstrong
Monday, October 29th, 2012
The Armstrong model is named for traditional hardwood flooring that is designed and manufactured for installation in vintage style homes such as the urban “four poster” that is the architectural style of the house plan displayed here.
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The Carpenter IV
Monday, October 29th, 2012
The Carpenter IV is a rural farmhouse style house plan inspired by the historical dwellings surviving on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia. This design features four bedrooms in an 1,800 SF area.
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The Federal Duplex
Thursday, October 25th, 2012
The Federal-Duplex is a TND style house plan, originally designed for the historical neighborhoods surrounding downtown Norfolk, Virginia.
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The Waterway Cottage
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
The Waterway Cottage is a coastal house plan created for a property on a boating canal in Sandbridge, Virginia Beach. It is built on pilings for stability in high wind velocities and deeply founded into the sand as a protection against flooding erosion.
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12 foot wide house plan – Pencil
Monday, August 6th, 2012
12 FOOT WIDE HOUSE PLAN FOR A NARROW URBAN LOT
This 12 foot wide house plan (The Pencil) features 2 bedrooms and 2 1/2 baths. It is designed for the unusual situation when a severely limited lot condition requires a home to be just 12 feet wide. Such plans can be quite livable as witnessed in the Canton neighborhood of Baltimore, MD, where such narrow homes touch their neighbor’s properties to become urban row houses.
FIRST FLOOR LAYOUT
The side entrance allows for optimal use of the living space. The front family room opens out onto a covered porch while the dining room opens out onto a private deck. The plan includes a first floor laundry room perfect for today’s busy life style. The staircase is located in the center of the structure. This allows for the maximum natural light in the living areas
SECOND FLOOR LAYOUT
The upstairs bedrooms are situated at either end of the structure with access to their own bathroom. The master bathroom being en suite. The guest bathroom being accessible from both the hallway and the guest bedroom.
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The Habitat
Thursday, August 2nd, 2012
The HABITAT was originally designed as a 4-unit townhouse project built by Habitat for Humanity in South Hampton Roads, Virginia. We have created the individual version of the townhouse plan as a single-family unit. It was well received as a popular plan with a variety of homeowners and realtors specializing in urban in-fill sites especially for narrow lots. It is also very “contractor friendly”, as attested to the fact that the Habitat for Humanity project was built by volunteers. The three-bedroom model features a master bedroom on the first floor. It is also designed for handicapped accessibility on the first floor, providing for 3-0 wide interior doorways and exterior means of egress.
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