Twenty-one plans between 2,000 and just under 3,000 square feet, three to five bedrooms. This is the size at which a house gets a primary suite that is genuinely separate, secondary bedrooms that can share a bath without crossing the living room, and usually a flex room on top of that. Both elevated and on grade foundations are here, rather more elevated than not.
Several of these put the kitchen, living and dining upstairs and the bedrooms below. On a lot with a view, or a deep lot where the upper floor clears the roofline in front of you, that is the whole reason to build there. On a flat inland lot it is a staircase for nothing. Haddie's Hideaway appears here in three versions, two of them reverse living and one with every bedroom en suite, so you can see what the choice costs in square footage. Angela has written about how she decides.
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