8,339 square feet. Seven bedrooms. Six and a half baths. Two stories with a 5-car garage, a 2-story grand foyer framed by formal living and dining rooms, and a main-floor master suite that contains its own exercise room, sitting nook, fireplace, and dual-bathroom setup.
A 22-foot great room with tray ceilings, French doors to a covered rear porch, and a direct sight line from the front door through the house to the back. A chef’s kitchen with breakfast nook on one side, formal dining on the other. Four additional bedroom suites upstairs. Two more on the main level tucked near the garage.
And a dual-bath-and-closet master configuration connected through a single oversized shower. The feature most buyers don’t recognize as the defining design move of this plan.
I’ve walked through thousands of 8,000+ sq ft New American floor plans and this one threads an unusual needle: formal entertaining, a chef’s kitchen, a split-bedroom wing upstairs, and a master that functions like a private apartment with its own gym. Most plans at this scale pick two of those and compromise on the rest.
Let me walk you through all of it.
Specifications:
- 8,339 Heated s.f.
- 7 Beds
- 6.5+ Baths
- 2 Stories
- 5 Cars
The Floor Plans:
The Majestic Front Porch That Sets the Approach
The front porch is the first thing the plan gets right. Deep enough for two rockers and a small side table, covered by a gable that ties into the main roofline rather than bolting on as an afterthought.
At eight feet deep, it reads as an actual outdoor room rather than a pass-through. A summer rainstorm won’t reach the rockers, which is the practical test standard-depth porches fail.
The column spacing is the architectural tell. The porch columns line up with the bays of the second-story facade above, which keeps the elevation from feeling bottom-heavy.
On plans this size, front porches that miss this alignment look stapled on.
It’s a small proportion detail. But it’s the kind of detail that separates a plan that photographs well from a plan that actually lives well.
The 2-Story Grand Foyer Between the Formal Rooms
Through the front door, the foyer opens to the full height of the house. Two stories of vertical volume anchored by a staircase that doesn’t dominate the space.
The foyer is flanked on one side by a formal living room, on the other by a formal dining room. That flanking arrangement is a New American convention that works here because the foyer width is generous enough to frame both openings without creating a bottleneck.
On tighter plans, this same arrangement makes the entry feel like a hallway with rooms attached.
The 2-story volume carries a trade-off most buyers discover during their first winter in the house. That kind of vertical open space adds roughly 15 to 20 percent to HVAC load compared to a flat-ceiling foyer.
Worth budgeting a zoned system with a dedicated foyer register when you’re finalizing the mechanical plan.
The sight line from the front door aims straight through the great room and out the French doors to the covered back porch. That’s the single strongest visual move in the entire plan, and everything downstream serves it.
The Great Room Beyond the Foyer With the Tray Ceiling
Past the staircase, the foyer empties into the great room. Twenty-two feet wide, open to the kitchen on one side, framed by French doors to the rear porch on the back wall.
The ceiling treatment is where this space earns its name. Not a full two-story vault, which would pull too much air from the main volume. Instead, a tray detail set above the crown line, lifting the visual ceiling by about 18 inches without adding the acoustic problem a fully vaulted great room creates at this width.
At roughly 440 square feet, the great room is large enough to hold a full 8-seat sectional and still leave clear paths on both sides. The French doors frame the yard like a picture window when they’re closed and extend the room onto the covered porch when they’re open.
Running 22 feet of French doors and flanking windows along this back wall brings in roughly double the natural light of a standard great room. The light quality changes through the day. Cool and indirect in the morning, warm across the floor in the late afternoon when the sun drops below the roof overhang on the porch.
Take a guess what this great room would cost to build as an addition to an existing home.
Most people guess $150,000.
The actual number at 2026 rates is closer to $225,000 to $275,000 once you factor in the ceiling treatment, the bank of French doors, and the structural header that supports the tray. Not the worst place on the plan to spend it, but the reason a plan like this is worth designing from scratch rather than renovating toward.
The Chef’s Kitchen With the Breakfast Nook
Off the great room, the kitchen runs the full span of the back wall with no hard separation. A peninsula and island define the cooking zone without boxing it in.
The breakfast nook sits in a bumped-out bay to one side of the kitchen, capturing natural light from three sides. This is the room most owners use more than they expect. Casual meals, homework hours, the laptop corner that the formal dining room will never become.
The cabinetry spec on a kitchen at this tier runs $65,000 to $180,000 depending on finish level, with the ceiling set by full-custom inset shaker or flat-panel in rift-sawn white oak. Appliance packages in the Sub-Zero and Wolf range carry their own premium on top of the cabinetry, though the brands themselves function as much for resale as for daily cooking.
One insider detail most walkthroughs miss: the butler’s pantry that connects the kitchen to the formal dining room is what actually makes the formal dining room usable. Without that buffer, every holiday dinner turns into a foot-traffic problem between the oven and the table.
With it, the dining room functions the way it’s supposed to.
The smell of a working kitchen at this scale carries differently than a standard layout. Open to the great room, the coffee and morning-bacon side of cooking fills the whole downstairs. The butler’s pantry quietly contains the burnt-onion side of cooking when the dining room is full of guests.
The Formal Dining Room Across the Foyer
Back across the foyer from the living room, the formal dining room holds a 10-seat table comfortably. Wainscoting and a coffered or tray ceiling are the typical finish conventions for a room at this size and position in the plan.
Modern plans at the 3,000 to 5,000 sq ft tier have largely dropped formal dining in favor of an expanded great room and breakfast nook. At 8,339 square feet, that compromise stops making sense.
A house this size needs a room that can host Thanksgiving dinner without turning the main living space upside-down for three days.
The dining room’s position between the foyer and the butler’s pantry is the functional key. Guests enter through one door. Food arrives through the other. The table never becomes a traffic island.
Here’s the feature that reframes this plan, and it’s the reason the rest of the floor plan can afford to be this generous.
Deluxe Master Suite With the Dual-Bath Configuration
The master suite sits on the opposite end of the main floor from the kids’ wing and the garage. A sitting nook inside the bedroom itself, large enough for two reading chairs and a side table. A gas fireplace on the interior wall, positioned across from the bed so it’s visible without dominating the room. Running on a cold evening, the fireplace turns the sitting nook into the warmest corner of the house, and the radiant heat carries far enough to take the edge off the bathroom tile on the coldest mornings.
The dual-bathroom-and-closet configuration is the defining architectural move of the entire plan.
Two separate bathrooms, two separate walk-in closets, connected through a single oversized shower that serves both.
A 6-foot by 6-foot shower enclosure with two shower heads and a bench, accessed from either bath through its own glass door. One of the better-scaled dual-bath setups you can specify on a plan at this size.
The payoff shows up in year three, not year one. Two people getting ready for work at the same time without any of the elbow-bumping that a shared dual-vanity bath creates. Two separate closets means no negotiating closet rod space when one partner’s wardrobe expands. Two toilets in separate rooms means no morning coordination conversations.
Custom built-ins for both closets run $12,000 to $25,000 depending on the spec.
The 5,985 square foot luxury plan with the best dual-bathroom setup in its size class does the bath-to-closet transition in a way most plans at this scale waste 40 square feet on. It’s worth looking at before you commit to the exact geometry here.
The hard build math on a plan this size lands between $3 million and $5 million depending on region and finish tier.
At current 2026 rates, 30-year jumbo financing through lenders like Rocket Mortgage sits around 6.5 percent, with 15-year jumbo closer to 5.5. Construction loans typically require 10 to 20 percent down with conversion to permanent financing after framing.
The dual master is a decision you lock in at the plan stage, not during finishes. Retrofitting it later means tearing out two walls and moving drain lines, which puts the cost somewhere around triple the build-in pricing.
Exercise Room and the Protein-Shake Bar
Off the master suite, behind one of the two bathrooms, sits the exercise room.
Roughly 180 to 220 square feet of dedicated fitness space, with its own protein-shake bar built into one wall.
This is the feature most buyers either love or modify out. The case for keeping it: eliminates the “I’ll drive to the gym later” conversation permanently. Having equipment 15 steps from the bed is the single biggest predictor of whether someone actually uses a home gym past year two.
The protein-shake bar is the bonus layer. A small prep counter with a fridge drawer and a sink, built for the 45 seconds between workout and shower.
The case for modifying it: if you don’t lift weights or run a structured fitness routine, 200 square feet at this location could become a second office, a dedicated meditation room, or a walk-in laundry connected to the master closet. A plan that puts the gym inside the master bath itself does something with the plumbing layout that makes the feature practical rather than decorative, and the logic is worth studying before you commit to the version in this plan.
One acoustic note: the exercise room shares a wall with one of the bathrooms. Specify a staggered-stud assembly with rockwool batt insulation on that wall during framing. It’s a minor framing upcharge that prevents the weight-rack-and-flushing-toilet problem home gyms discover after move-in.
Family Bedrooms Near the 5-Car Garage
On the main level, two family bedrooms sit in their own wing close to the service areas and the 5-car garage. These are the flex rooms. A main-floor guest suite, a home office, a second primary if aging-in-place is on the horizon.
Their position next to the garage is not a downgrade. It’s the smartest use of that corner of the plan. The garage, mudroom, and laundry cluster already needs plumbing and electrical runs. Tying two additional bedrooms into that service core keeps the mechanical runs short and gives those rooms independent access to the side yard.
The 5-car garage configuration itself is worth pausing on. Three bays deep, two bays wide, with enough height for a lift in the end bay if the future owner drifts into classic-car territory.
The luxury European plan with the 5-car garage does something with the motor-court approach that most 5-car layouts never figure out. The orientation of the garage doors relative to the front elevation is the entire design problem.
On the practical side, annual homeowners insurance on a build like this runs at the high end for residential coverage, with regional risk factors and the specific building materials driving most of the variance. The 5-car garage shows up as a separate line item because of the additional square footage under roof.
Worth pricing with the insurer before finalizing.
The Four Upstairs Bedroom Suites
The staircase from the foyer leads to the upstairs landing. Four additional bedroom suites branch off from there. Each with its own ensuite bath and walk-in closet. Each sized between 180 and 240 square feet.
The key architectural move upstairs is that no two bedroom doors face each other directly. The doors are offset along the hallway, which means kids walking out of their rooms in the middle of the night don’t have to see (or be seen by) siblings in adjacent rooms.
It’s a small privacy detail that only reveals itself after you’ve lived with it.
The bathroom counts upstairs are generous even by luxury-plan standards. Four full baths for four bedrooms, meaning every kid or guest gets private plumbing.
The trade-off is plumbing cost. Four upstairs baths add real dollars to the build budget over what a shared Jack-and-Jill arrangement would cost. The families who specify four separate baths never seem to regret it. The ones who try to reclaim the cost by consolidating to two baths regret it within 18 months, usually around the first sleepover.
One small change at framing does more for this plan than any finish decision downstream.
Covered Back Porch and Exterior Elevation
Out the French doors from the great room, the covered rear porch runs the width of the house. Deep enough for an outdoor sofa grouping plus a dining table with room to walk around. Ceiling boarded with painted or stained wood, depending on the regional architectural vernacular.
The porch is the reason the great room’s French-door wall exists. Without the covered porch, those French doors open onto sun glare in summer and rain in spring. With the porch, they open onto a second living room that happens to be outdoors.
The roof connection is what makes both rooms work year-round.
The exterior elevation pulls from a handful of New American conventions: board-and-batten mixed with stone or brick water-table details, standing-seam metal on certain roof sections to break up the shingled main roof, and covered entry forms that echo the front porch’s proportions. Pella or Marvin double-hung window packages are the standard spec at this build tier, with count and glazing options driving most of the package variance.
The covered rear porch has to be built into the original framing package to pencil out. Adding it after construction runs roughly double the cost, because the roof structure has to tie back into work that’s already finished.
The One Modification Every Builder Recommends for Plans at This Scale
If I had exactly one change to request on this plan at framing, it wouldn’t be the kitchen and it wouldn’t be the dual master. It would be running a 4-inch conduit from the basement mechanical room up to the attic space above the exercise room.
That single empty pipe, installed for about $300 at rough-in, is what makes every future upgrade affordable. Solar monitoring runs, EV charger upgrades to the garage, future HVAC zone additions for the upstairs wing, whole-home audio, hardwired security cameras across the exterior. Every one of those systems needs a vertical chase from the mechanical room to the attic. Retrofitting that chase after drywall goes up costs thousands more and requires opening multiple walls and floors.
Builders who work on plans this size quietly install the conduit whether the plan calls for it or not. Ask yours if he does. If he doesn’t, specify it on the framing package yourself.
What would you prioritize on a plan like this? The dual-master crowd wants separate HVAC zoning for each bathroom so the shower steam doesn’t migrate. The 5-car-garage crowd wants the end bay pre-wired for a vehicle lift. The exercise-room crowd wants the protein-shake bar converted to a wet bar with a beverage fridge instead. Tell me in the comments which upgrade you’d commit to at build.
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And if the multi-generational math on this house makes you wonder whether a full attached apartment would earn its cost back, the 5,822 sq ft transitional European plan with a 2-bed apartment above the garage handles that question in a way most large plans still can’t match.