This home plans online section of our website is about house design projects - our design and home building specifications and home drawing of unique house plan designs for which we have been commissioned. This house design project is to be a newly built - private, single owner-occupied, detached, story-and-a-half home with a full set of Country French Cottage Home Plans.  Now some of you may not reckon these plans are aptly identified as Country French Cottage Home Plans; however, "cottage" is the term to which our beloved client referred several times when describing this style . . . this is some bigtime cottage.

The Country French Cottage Home Plans are currently 34 sheets and, as presented in Sheets 1-9, is in draft form just at the end of preparation for letting to bids by 4 custom home builders of considerable reputation. We are 15 months into this project...

Two aspects of this house design project in re these unique house plan designs are noteworthy:

1. Our clients have actively participated throughout our house design project work together with good-humor, keen intellect, attention to both major and minor items, and patience born of maturity and wisdom;
2. We've never met them, don't have a clue what they look like, never once spoke with them on the telephone or even communicated with them through an intermediary. We've interacted by email and, lesser, by surface mail.

The architectural style is Country French ...Cottage Style if you ask our wonderful clients, Chateau Style if you ask AG. It - Country French - is a house style definition that ranges in appearance from just more a boxy farmhouse to just less than an ambassador's haute château. Our unique house plan designs settle about midway in that range. There are among the characteristic house style, exterior elements: rooflines of different pitches, some low and some quite steep; roof forms mixed, e.g., hips and gables and round tops (including dormer roofs); at least one prodigious chimney; dormers (owing to its most often story-and-a half structure); windows of different sizes and heights on a wall line (similar to Craftsman style); masonry clad with decorative highlights of quoins, pediments, etc.; decorative ironwork, a turret somewhere. In all that, we only lacked the turret.  Aesthetically, Country French Cottage house plans define a house that is warm and welcoming, understated, elegant, and relaxed.

To follow are 9 of the 34 house design project sheets in our current portfolio presented as is with only the clients' names and address removed. Each sheet hyperlinked within its individual text - a text explaining key elements of each sheet and some house design commentary and home building pointers. For the sake of both cybersanity and viewer convenience, the sheets are divided into groups, three of them:

Group #1, Sheet 1-9, Introduction and Elevations (on this website);

Group #2 Sheets 10-22, Floor Plans (NOT on this website);

Group #3, Sheets 23-34, Electrical, Foundation, and Roof Plans (not on this website).

The hierarchy of access is as follows: 1) you can move in numerical sequence back and forth between each of the 9 text webpages and individually embedded plan set sheets by left-clicking on the Last and Next icons on each sheet; 2) you can go directly to the first in Group #1 of texts and sheets; 3) you can jump immediately to a given text and its sheet via the index page below, which is otherwise known as "Up" in each separate text page's navigation bar.

Group #1: Sheets 1-9 . . . . . . . . .