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The owners’ suite in this Craftsman takes up an entire end of the house. It has a bedroom and a sitting room with a fireplace in each, a round bath with a steam shower, a walk-in closet that’s bigger than the bedroom, and a laundry room of its own.
The rest of the plan gets the same kind of attention, and all 6,438 heated square feet sit on one floor.
I’ll walk you through it the way you’d see it in person, starting at the front porch. The owners’ suite comes about halfway through, and it’s worth the wait.
Specifications:
- 6,438 Heated s.f.
- 6.5 Baths
- 5 Beds
- 3-4 Cars
- 1-2 Stories
The Floor Plans:
The Front Porch and the Two-Story Foyer
The front porch runs behind white columns and railings, and the entry is marked by its own small gable with timber brackets. It’s a classic Craftsman detail, and it tells you right away where the front door is.
Step inside and the ceiling opens up. The foyer is two stories tall, and so is the living room just past it. Every other room on the main floor has a 10-foot ceiling, which is already a foot taller than the nine feet that’s standard in new homes today. The two tall rooms feel even bigger next to them.
The staircase rises right beside the foyer. It leads up to bonus space and down to an optional lower level, and you don’t have to finish either one. Everything you need day to day is on this floor.
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Straight ahead is the living room.
The Living Room
The living room is about 24 by 21 feet, with a vaulted ceiling that climbs two stories. A fireplace sits at one end between built-in cabinets. At the other end, a wall of windows looks out to the covered back porch and the patio.
On a winter night, the firelight reaches all the way up the chimney wall.
This room is the center of the house. The kitchen opens off one side, and a hall lined with built-ins leads off the other side toward the owners’ suite. Everyone passes through here, so the plan keeps the bedrooms well away from it, at the two far ends of the house.
The kitchen is the next room over, and its island is the first thing you’ll notice.
The Kitchen, With an Island That Has Two Sinks
The kitchen is big, about 22 by 24 and a half feet, and the island takes up the middle of it. It isn’t a plain rectangle. Two sides are straight, and the third sweeps around in a long curve that faces the living room.
The island holds a double sink with the dishwasher beside it, a cooktop, and a second, smaller sink at the far corner. That smaller one is a prep sink, a spare basin for rinsing vegetables so the main sink can stay full of dishes. It’s also one of the cheaper upgrades in a kitchen, since Kraus sells a 14-inch stainless prep sink for $219.95.
Two sinks make the most sense when two people cook. One person can rinse and chop at the prep sink while the other cleans up at the big one, and nobody has to reach across anybody. Architectural Designs says the island leaves room for more than one family member to help with the cooking.
If seating matters more to you than a second sink, the farmhouse island that seats eight is worth a look. That kitchen hides a secret room nearby, too.
The wall oven sits on the side wall, out of the way of the island. A row of pantry cabinets lines the wall nearest the dining room. A breakfast nook with angled walls opens off the kitchen next to the patio, and the formal dining room, about 15 and a half by 17 feet, is a few steps the other way.
Behind the kitchen is the door the family will actually use every day.
The Mudroom, Laundry and a Shower by the Garage
Guests use the front door, but everyone who lives here will come in from the garage. The plan has two garages with room for three or four cars, and their doors face the side of the lot, not the street.
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Both garages lead into a mudroom, the spot where shoes, backpacks and dog leashes land. Next to it is the family laundry room, about 12 by 14 feet, and beside that is a full bath with a shower.
That bath is the smartest room in this part of the house. A muddy kid, a dog back from the lake or someone coming in from the garden can get cleaned up before they ever reach the kitchen.
That’s the working side of the house. Now let’s walk back through the living room to the quiet side.
The Music Room, Office and Guest Room
On the other side of the living room, a wide hall with built-ins on both walls leads toward the owners’ suite. The plan calls it an entry, but it works like a gallery, a good place for books and family pictures.
Three rooms sit near the front end of that hall. The music room, which the plan also calls a library, is the largest at about 20 by 14 feet. Across the hall is the office, about 13 by 12, and next to the office is the guest room, with a full bath close by.
The guest room is on the opposite side of the house from the family bedrooms and the game room. That keeps visitors away from the noisiest part of the house.
An office and a music room give most families plenty of quiet space. If you’d want a whole separate place to work or make things, the Craftsman masterpiece with a studio puts one above its garage, and it works like a second small home.
At the end of the gallery is the reason this plan has “spectacular” in its name.
The Owners’ Bedroom and Sitting Room
The owners’ bedroom is about 17 by 22 feet, with windows on two walls facing the patio and the backyard. The ceiling is a tray ceiling, which means the center is raised higher than the edges, like an upside-down serving tray.
Next to the bedroom is a separate sitting room, about 17 by 18 feet, with a tray ceiling of its own. The wall between the two rooms holds two fireplaces, back to back. One faces the bed, and the other faces the sitting room.
The drawing marks both as fireplace inserts. If you like the idea but want to keep it simpler, companies like Napoleon and Heat & Glo sell see-through gas fireplaces that do a similar job with a single firebox.
A sitting room this close to the bed usually becomes the place where the day starts, with a cup of coffee and a quiet hour before anyone else is up. It’s a private living room for two, at the far end of a house that’s 152 feet wide. That’s a little more than half a football field away from the kids’ rooms.
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The bath is through the doorway on the other side of the bedroom.
The Main Level Floor Plan
The bath is built around a round room. A circular center space sits under a round ceiling detail, and a curved vanity with two sinks follows the wall.
Everything else has its own spot around that circle. There’s a freestanding tub in a bay window, a make-up area with its own counter, two linen closets, a steam shower, and two separate toilet rooms, one at each end.
The two toilet rooms are the detail couples appreciate most. When two people are getting ready at the same time, the toilet is the bottleneck, not the sink. Buyers like the idea, too. In the National Association of Home Builders’ 2024 buyer survey, 70% wanted a private toilet room in the primary bath.
If you’d go even further, the plan with two full bathrooms puts two complete baths inside one owners’ suite.
The steam shower is rarer than you might think. Houzz’s 2025 bathroom study found steam showers in just 4% of remodeled bathrooms. It’s a shower that’s closed in to hold the steam, with a small generator hidden nearby. A Mr. Steam generator like the MS225EC1 sells for $2,345, and HomeAdvisor puts most steam shower installations between $2,800 and $7,100. It’s much easier to plan one into a new build than to add it later.
Right next to the bath is the room that surprises almost everyone who sees this plan.
The Walk-In Closet and the Private Laundry
The walk-in closet is bigger than the bedroom.
The closet measures 20 feet 8 inches by 18 feet 9 inches, which works out to about 388 square feet. The bedroom measures 17 feet 2 inches by 22 feet 1 inch, which is about 379. The closet wins by a few square feet. It’s also bigger than a basic one-car garage, which is about 12 by 20 feet.
In the middle of the closet is an island. That’s where laundry gets folded, where a watch gets set down at night, and where suitcases get packed without covering the bed. Custom closet companies build rooms like this one, and California Closets lists its top walk-in design at $10,949, with design and installation included.
Between the closet and the bath is the owners’ own laundry room, about 15 by 6 feet, with a washer and dryer. In a lot of big houses, the only laundry is by the garage, so clothes travel from one end of the house to the other and back. Here, they go from the closet to the washer and back to the closet without leaving the suite. The family laundry by the mudroom stays free for everyone else.
It’s a feature buyers care about. In that same 2024 survey, a laundry room tied for the most wanted feature in a home, at 86%.
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Now let’s cross the house to where the kids sleep.
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The Three Family Bedrooms and the Game Room
The family bedrooms are at the opposite end of the house from the owners’ suite. There are three of them, each about 13 by 15 feet, and each one has its own closet and its own full bath with a tub. Nobody shares a bathroom.
All three bedroom doors open onto a game room, about 18 by 20 feet. It works like a living room for this wing. Movie nights, sleepovers and loud card games stay at this end of the house, so the main living room stays calm and the owners’ suite stays quiet.
This setup works for more than one stage of life. Once the kids move out, three bedrooms with private baths work just as well for a parent who moves in or grandkids who come to stay for a week.
There’s still more space in this house, and you get to it from the staircase by the foyer.
The Bonus Rooms Upstairs
Upstairs is the one part of the house you can leave unfinished on move-in day.
The plan shows two bonus rooms, each about 13 by 15 feet with a door, and two open loft areas close to the same size. A hall runs between them, with the open foyer on one side and the top of the living room’s vaulted ceiling on the other. The ceilings up here are 9 feet.
That’s room for a playroom, a home gym, a craft space or a teenager’s hideout. Even if you don’t finish it right away, ask your builder to run heating ducts and a few electrical circuits up there while the house is being framed. It’s much easier while the walls are still open.
Bonus space isn’t just for big houses, either. A 2,107-square-foot modern farmhouse gives its whole upper floor to one long bonus room, at about a third of this house’s size.
The same staircase goes down, too, and the lower level is where this plan gets really big.
The Second Level Floor Plan
If you build on a basement or walkout foundation, the stairs lead down to a lower level of 3,652 square feet. That alone is bigger than the typical new home. The Census Bureau puts the median new single-family home finished in 2025 at 2,142 square feet.
Down here, the plan has a home theater of about 23 by 18 feet, a craft room, an exercise room, and a sitting area by the stairs. There’s also a powder room, a storage room and a mechanical room.
The biggest space is the great room. It comes in two sections, and the larger one alone is about 26 by 40 feet. On a walkout lot, the other section runs along a wall of glass that opens onto a covered patio.
Finishing all of it is a real project. Block Renovation’s 2026 guide puts a contractor-led basement finish at $30 to $75 a square foot. If you finish it while the house is being built, that cost can go into the construction loan. If you finish it later, it usually comes from savings or a HELOC, which is a home equity line of credit.
If the theater makes the cut, run speaker wire and conduit for a projector before the drywall goes up. Whether it ends up with an Epson projector or a big TV with Sonos speakers, the wiring will already be in place.
Some plans take the lower level even further. The 4,127-square-foot New American adds two more bedrooms and a bar downstairs. This one leaves those choices to you.
Back upstairs, there’s one more part of the house to see, and it’s outside.
The Porches and the Back Patio
This house has 835 square feet of covered porch in all.
The front porch runs behind white columns and railings, then turns the corner and keeps going down the side of the house. That side stretch runs past the office, the music room and the owners’ closet, well away from the street.
Out back, a covered porch runs along the living room. Beyond it, the patio sits in the U between the two wings, with the house wrapped around three sides. It feels like an outdoor room, and you can sit out and listen to the rain on the porch roof without getting wet.
Behind the brick, the outside walls are framed with 2×6 studs instead of 2x4s. Building Science Corporation puts the insulation in a 2×6 wall at R-19 to R-21, compared with R-11 to R-15 for a 2×4 wall. That’s more insulation in every outside wall of the house.
Before you build, there’s one thing I’d plan for, and it has to happen before the basement floor is poured.
The Third Level Floor Plan
If you build the lower level now and plan to finish it later, one decision can’t wait. The drawing shows a powder room downstairs, with a toilet and a sink, but no shower.
Ask your builder to put in the drain lines for a full bath before the basement floor is poured, even if you only finish the powder room for now. This is called a rough-in, where the pipes go in now and the fixtures come later. Adding those drains after the concrete is poured means cutting through the floor and patching it. One plumbing guide puts that at $1,000 to $2,500 on top of the plumbing itself.
Here’s why it’s worth it. The craft room and the exercise room each already have a closet. Add a full bath and an egress window, the escape window every basement bedroom needs, and either room can become a guest bedroom later.
Architectural Designs takes modification requests, so it’s easy to ask for that full bath on the drawings from the start.
Which would you finish first downstairs: the theater, the craft room or the gym? Tell me in the comments.
And if the guest room is the part of this house you’d use most, the transitional European with a garage apartment shows how far that idea can go.