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 Oakwood
Friday, June 8th, 2012
The Oakwood model house is Craftsman style single-story plan. It is laid out to provide an open living lifestyle with 3 bedrooms positioned in the rear half of a narrow profile. Attaching a garage to this home plan is a simple addition although it is designed for a narrow lot that would have a detached garage behind the house itself.
Oakwood was a name chosen for this house, as reminiscent of Arts and Crafts or Craftsman style homes, introduced in the early 20th Century as an American tradition, although the artistic concept originated in England. Oak is a wood species of choice for interior finishing in such a house, due to its durability and prominent graining patterns. Oakwood also turns out to be a name of the largest residential contractor in Denver, Colorado, Oakwood Homes; no doubt inspired by the same connotations as our own name choice.
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The McCormick
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Mccormick Place is a popular model house plan that was derived from urban pattern book plans published at the turn of the century. It is named after the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority (NRHA) architect, Nat McCormick, who inspired its inclusion to the NRHA plan library.
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The Marcia – A Victorian Painted Lady
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Marcia is a narrow lot house plan that is in a Victorian style and designed for a 25-foot lot in Norfolk, Virginia. It has been a popular choice with builders, fitting well into the historical neighborhoods where the narrow lots were platted more than a century ago. This plan is named after the architectural designer who created it.
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The Manchester
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Manchester is a Colonial Revival style house plan designed for a TND neighborhood, and is named after an urban street in a historic section in the City of Norfolk, Virginia. It has been a popular choice for builders. On a fifty-foot lot, this plan allows for plenty of driveway access to a detached garage.
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Jennifer
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Jennifer is a model house plan for a traditional urban neighborhood. It features a master bedroom on the first floor in spite of its compact size and affordable architectural detailing. Jennifer is a popular name for a number of prominent entertainment personalities as well as the name of the wife of the designer of this home.
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The Dorian
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Dorian is named after the Greek column order that was featured on the Parthenon in Athens. The architectural style of this compact home is known as ‘Greek Revival’. It is a simple version of an urban house intended for an infill lot in a traditional neighborhood.
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The Colonial Smithfield
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Colonial Smithfield is a competition-winning design for affordable, sustainable, workforce housing in the town of Smithfield, Virginia in 2008.
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The Cedarwood
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Cedarwood is a Bungalow style house, fashioned after the historical Arts and Crafts style homes popularized by Gustav Stickley in the early 1900’s.
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The Carpenter III
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
We chose the name Carpenter for this plan because builders find this plan very easy to build. This 3BR model plan is popular with home buyers providing an exceptionally efficient layout, minimizing hallways. The living space on the first floor is very adaptable; moving the wall between the dining area and front family room forward or backward can customize the size of the front or rear living space to the lifestyle preference of a particular household. Also, the laundry is very large, the second floor master bedroom has two separate walk-in closets, and the master bath is luxurious with a separate tub and shower and chambered toilet. This plan is available with a two-car garage or a one car version.
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The Carney Park
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Carney Park is a craftsman bungalow style house, for a TND neighborhood, originally designed for the Carney Park section in the City of Norfolk, Virginia.
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The Canton Row Duplex
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Canton is inspired by the very narrow properties in the Canton neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. Each unit is a three story, three-bedroom townhouse.
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Aurora
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Aurora is designed for a very narrow 25’ lot, an Arts and Crafts style plan for a TND neighborhood, named for the craftsman community in East Aurora, NY, founded by Elbert Hubbard in 1895.
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The Ashbee
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Ashbee plan is named after C.R. Ashbee, an English designer and entrepreneur (c 1890’s), who was a prime mover of the Arts and Crafts movement in the that took its craft ethic from the works of John Ruskin and lead to the Arts and Crafts architectural style in North America.
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The Warwick
Tuesday, June 5th, 2012
The Warwick model plan is one of our popular colonial style residences with an end-loaded two-car garage, although the plan is easily modified to have the garage directly facing the street. It is named after an early town in Chesterfield Country, Virginia. In colonial times Warwick was as far upriver on the James as many ships could safely navigate.
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The Suburban Craftsman
Monday, June 4th, 2012
The Suburban Craftsman plan features arts-and-crafts detailing and materials, this enlarged Bungalow variation has been designed to suit an upscale suburban building site, with front facing garage.
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