The Foursquare
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
The Foursquare is a very compact urban house plan, reminiscent of Sears House No. 52 published in its catalog in 1908. This design was created at the suggestion of a staff architect at the Norfolk Redevelop-ment and Housing Authority for inclusion in its NRHA plan library. Barely 1,300 SF the second floor of this model has either two bedrooms and a loft or three bedrooms.
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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 Powhaton
Monday, October 29th, 2012
The Powhatan is a model house plan designed for a suburban neighborhood setting in the vicinity of Richmond, Virginia. It is a brick one-story home with a bonus room for children’s recreation activities or for use as a media room over the garage. This plan also provides an optional basement foundation. The name ‘Powhatan’ recalls the Indian tribe that inhabited Virginia when the original Jamestown settlement first landed.
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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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The Roycroft
Friday, September 28th, 2012
The Roycroft is a narrow lot craftsman style house, for TND neighborhoods, named after the Roycroft Arts-And-Crafts community in East Aurora, New York, 1894-1938.
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The Shea Terrace – A Victorian Painted Lady
Monday, August 6th, 2012
The Shea Terrace is a model house plan named after the historical neighborhood in Portsmouth, VA. The design idea behind this home was to create a Victorian style profile with on-site parking for a home that will fit on a super-narrow 25 foot lot.
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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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The Winona
Friday, June 8th, 2012
The Winona is a Victorian style house, for a TND neighborhood, named for an urban street name in a historic section in the City of Norfolk, Virginia.
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The Skipwith
Friday, June 8th, 2012
The Skipwith is a TND house plan designed for a compact, narrow lot in an established urban neighbor-hood. Skipwith is the name of an unincorporated community in the old Bluestone Township in Mecklen-burg County, Virginia. The community was named after the Skipwith family which began arriving from English baronial estates in the 1650s.
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The Shipps Corner
Friday, June 8th, 2012
The Shipps Corner is named for the Shipps Corner Road in Virginia Beach, VA. The design of this model house plan is “Carpenter Victorian”, which is a well documented architecture style that embraces gothic details with steep roofs and windows that sometimes have pointed arches.
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The Sewell’s Point
Friday, June 8th, 2012
The Sewell’s Point is a house plan designed for a narrow lot on an urban infill property. The design style of this home is an “Arts and Crafts” Bungalow. Sewell’s Point is a street in Norfolk, VA, where the house plan was originally created.
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The Selden
Friday, June 8th, 2012
The Selden is a Craftsman style house plan, for a TND neighborhood, named for the arcade in downtown Norfolk, VA. The Selden Arcade has survived from its 1930 origin as an art deco historical landmark. Preservation of this retail corridor structure serves as venue for public events, art displays as well as home to the d’ART Center.
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The Ruskin
Friday, June 8th, 2012
The Ruskin is a bungalow style house plan. It honors John Ruskin, English naturalist, art historian, writer, architect, philosopher and pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement and lifestyle. In 1849 he pub-lished a work entitled The Seven Lamps of Architecture, referring to his principles of building design: sac-rifice, truth, power, beauty, life, memory and obedience.
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