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Cottage House Plan 917-4 399 sq ft, 1 bed, 1 bath, 1 floor, 0 garage

Name: Cottage Style House Plan - 1 Beds 1 Baths 399 Sq/Ft Plan #917-4
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SKU: 917-4
Price: 729.00 USD
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Key Specs

399
sq ft

1
Beds

1
Baths

1
Floors

0
Garages

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Cottage House Plan 917-4 399 sq ft, 1 bed, 1 bath, 1 floor, 0 garage

Key Specs

399
sq ft

1
Beds

1
Baths

1
Floors

0
Garages

Plan Description

The Santa Cruz is one of six gorgeous little 400-square-foot houses in the California Collection created by The Homestead Partners. Each house has a full kitchen and bathroom, private bedroom with space for at least a queen-size bed, living/dining/kitchen that opens to an outdoor dining patio or terrace, and plenty of storage. Big enough to have a friend over. Just make sure you're in love with them first. Dress a Spanish provincial governor in Jay Gatsby’s suit and you’ve got a very different protagonist. Same with the California ranch house, a first cousin of Spanish Colonial developed by architect William Wurster in the 1920s from ranch houses clothed in vertical wood siding instead of adobe. Ours is smaller but still true to the spirit of Wurster’s “living porches” designs that so successfully blur the distinction between inside and out. Interior Features 399 square feet Open living/dining room and full kitchen, with sliding doors opening to raised side patio, and entry door opening to raised front porch Cathedral ceilings with exposed rafters throughout Full bathroom Space for compact washer/dryer Walk-in closet Bedroom sized for a queen bed, with built-in storage, and sliding door opening to side porch Exterior Features 445 square feet Raised open-air porch at entry Covered raised side porch, with built-in grill Total Footprint 844 square feet

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Full Specs & Features

Basic Features

Bedrooms : 1

Baths : 1

Stories: 1

Garages: 0

Dimension

Depth : 23' 6"

Height : 15'

Width : 42' 2"

Area

Total : 399 sq/ft

Main Floor : 399 sq/ft

Porch : 445 sq/ft

* Total Square Footage typically only includes conditioned space and does not include garages, porches, bonus rooms, or decks.

Ceiling

Ceiling Details : Cathedral ceilings with exposed rafters throughout

Main Ceiling : 9'

Roof

Primary Pitch : 6:12

Roof Framing : Stick

Exterior Wall Framing

Exterior Wall Finish : Horizontal Siding

Framing : 2x4

Bedroom Features

Walk In Closet

Additional Room Features

Great Room Living Room

Lot Characteristics

Suited For Narrow Lot

Suited For View Lot

Outdoor Spaces

Covered Rear Porch

Suited For Vacation Home

What's included in this plan set

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A1- Cover Sheet:

General Notes
Full-color exterior rendering of the Garage/Apartment

A2 - Foundation and Floor Plan

Drawn to a scale of 1/4"=1'-0" (1/4 inch equals 1 foot; 1 inch equals 4 feet)
Position and dimensions of doors, windows, interior walls, etc. are indicated

A3 - Roof Plans

Drawn to 1/4-inch scale
Dimensioned Roof Plan and Roof Framing Plan

A4 - Exterior Elevations:

Drawn to 1/4-inch scale
Detailed drawings of the front and right side of the building
Suggested window sizes and types
Suggested exterior materials, and critical vertical dimensions

A5- Exterior Elevations:

Drawn to 1/4-inch scale
Detailed drawings of the rear and left side of the building
Suggested window sizes and types
Suggested exterior materials, and critical vertical dimensions

A6- Building Section and Details:

Building Section drawn to 3/8-inch scale
Wall and roof section
Indicates dimensions of wall plate heights from slab-on-grade
Indicates eave overhang dimension from exterior wall studs
Generic exterior wall details, not to scale

E1- Schematic, Generic Electrical Layouts:

Drawn to 1/4-inch scale
Suggested locations for electrical components: lighting fixtures, switches, and outlets

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Additional Options

Audio Video Design

$100.00

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Construction Guide

$39.00

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Lighting Design

$100.00

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Unlimited Use License

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Meet the Designer

The Homestead Partners

House plans for small, big, colonial, modern, and everything in between. You may insist on having more than one. We're Ron Sakal and Sallie Hood (sakal-hood.com), a husband-and-wife team of architects who've spent decades creating workable townscapes, rescuing city centers from random development, designing beautiful houses, and teaching bright young architecture students how to do the same. Along the way, we've become experts on the styles of American houses, ideas, designs, and materials that transform small and affordable spaces into wonderful places to live. Now we're offering those great American styles to everyone who yearns for something more interesting and more connected to the American culture. Look around our collection of houses and see what moves you. After that, our firm is just like that home of yours: small and affordable. Ron Sakal, formerly Executive Director and co-founder of the Center for Building Communities and Professor of the practice, University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. Sallie Hood, formerly director of designs and co-founder of the Center for Building Communities and Professor of the practice, University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. Introducing the "The California Collection" - Less than half the size of a doublewide. Six gorgeous little 400-square-foot houses, each with full kitchens and bathroom, private bedroom with space for at least a queen-size bed, living/dining/kitchen that opens to an outdoor dining patio or terrace, and plenty of storage. Big enough to have a friend over. Just make sure you're in love with them first. Santa Barbara (Plan # 917-3) Santa Cruz (Plan # 917-4) Rancho Mirage (Plan # 917-1) San Rafael (Plan # 917-2) Sonoma (Plan # 917-6) Silverlake (Plan # 917-5) Introducing the "Lake Cottage Collection" - Charming and cozy, but not too sweet. Inspired by the 1920s cottages on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, here's a compound for your extended family. Or one house for you. There are five: two big, two medium, and one small, with two garages to mix and match. Union Pier (Plan # 917-13) Lakeside (Plan # 917-12) 2 Car Garage w/Studio (Plan # 917-10) 1 Car Garage w/Studio (Plan # 917-8) Studio (Plan # 917-11) 2 Car Garage (Plan # 917-9) 1 Car Garage (Plan # 917-7) Click the plan images below to explore these two great collections.