High-end community.  High-end home  It is, again, Country French in Chateau Style, the French version of a manor home, a home fit for a lord or wealthy person, the major home in a manor or village.  Americanesque, if you're asking AG - permitted a stylistic relaxation, mixing levels of sophistication in this house design project presented in these two home plans online in elevation.

Manor home design tend to two shapes - L and H.  In all our days, we've not home-designed or even remodeled an L-shape.  In those same days, AG and The Miss have home- designed plenty of H-shapes.  Cunning home design boundaries to the H-shape -

       ---The crossing element may be small or large, short or tall. 

        ---Same goes for the two ends. 

        ---The ends, themselves, may be symmetrical or not

        ---With the French, principally steeper hips with a smattering of similarly steeper gables and lower sheds plus round-tops - majorly segmental and Roman

        ---Can often lend well to sacred geometry

        It's the interiors of H-shapes present a duality of home design opportunity - both to value and to vex. 

Vex:

They're naturally strung out, so that the physical relationship of spaces can challenge convenient functionality: something always gets separated some from that which AG and The Missus would prefer it didn't, almost always relating to the kitchen - Masters spaces and Kitchen, Dining and Kitchen being the two most likely suspects.

        Stairs, if not a perimeter, can become inconvenient, especially to main level traffic

        With size, multiple stairs or the compliment of an elevator become necessary passages

Resolution to these matters comes in parts variously from home design adaptations, recognition of the H-shape's realities, the majorly offsetting satisfaction in values gained all along the home design path

Value:

---Function tends to arrange smartly with structure - central, or crossing element for entry and community spaces - either formal or informal or both, depending more often on depth; flanking elements for masters spaces or family wing and less formal function, including but not limited to office, den, family room, guest beds, laundry, garage (attached or semi-so), recreation, etc.

---Perimeters and massing can flex with home design, articulations can enhance visual interest

---Roofs most often naturally signal important spaces

---Levels can expectedly run up or down or both

---2nd levels over grade can be full or half-story

---Deeper interiors in the crossing element can usually be daylighted in-style

---Several opportunities can arise to let function to outside spaces - courtyard, veranda, or lanai, deck, patio, garden

Let's look over a Front Of House facade of a high-end Country French to see what we can see of this custom home of about 105' frontage, 7800 SF habitable, 11300SF total, in elevation.

Lay of interior: Masters wing on left; Gallery, Living, Dining, Lanai on center; Family, Breakfast, Veranda, Kitchen, Laundry, Butler's Pantry, Porte-cochere, Garage on right.