Choosing floor plans may be one of the most important steps to building a custom home. We spent several months creating the perfect one for us. This is a few different plans meshed together for our perfect custom plan. With a little over 2200 sqft we were able to fit in everything we needed. On wish list we wanted the master closet to connect to the laundry room, an office space, an open concept and large great room. Some of my favorite features in additions would be our walk-in butlers style pantry, the jack and jill secondary bathroom and the powder bath for guests.   

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Natural light was one of the most important things to me that is why I added windows to every room. In our great room, we raised the ceiling to 12ft and will have three floor to ceiling style picture windows. One thing our architect suggested was to have a gable back porch that will be as high as the 12ft ceiling and will let the natural light come in. See picture above of exterior back elevation. 

The front exterior we kept simple. In the original sketch, the roof line had no gables and there was a front porch, but we opted to eliminate the front porch. Like I mentioned above, we want as much natural light as possible and we felt the front porch would shade the light from coming through the windows. Eliminating the front porch also lowered the cost some and we plan to make the back yard our oasis, so we opted to expand our back porch and do the gable roof. We added the gable on the front to create a front entrance and landing pad.