Small homes can be the most challenging to design. Working within strict parameters doesn’t allow you to add an extra 2′ here or there to make it work! The Newcomb is an attractive cottage or small home, affordable, user friendly, easy to heat, and remarkably comfortable.

The Newcomb is a hybrid timber frame design. It has a timber frame roof structure and interior posts, but the external walls are of 2×6″ studs. This building method gives you the benefits of a timber frame home with less expense.

The Newcomb makes a great retirement home – all one one level, a heated floor, and quick to clean. It also makes a nice starter home, vacation cottage or timeshare unit.

The floor plan has been carefully worked out for usability through direct experience, by living in it!

Features:

• It’s bigger on the inside than it looks like from the outside – we hear this comment a lot!
• There are lots of windows – especially the wrap-around windows in the kitchen/dining area.
• You’ll see beautiful vaulted ceilings everywhere on the main level except the bathroom and office which are under the loft.
• The 14th-century-style timber roof is not merely decorative. That’s the roof. Timber posts, beams, and curved knee braces lend an timeless ambience, and also define “rooms” within the open concept.
• Pull-down stairs in front of the bathroom provide access to a 250 sq. ft. loft/storage area. There’s room there for an extra bed, and plenty of space for visiting kids to “camp out”.

The living-dining-kitchen area is open-concept with a beautiful vaulted ceiling which shows off the beams and provides a sense of spaciousness. The Master Bedroom is off in one wing for privacy, and also has a vaulted ceiling, as does the second bedroom. Over the den and adjacent bathroom is a loft storage area – or a place for visiting grandchildren to sleep, accessible by a space-saving pull-down stair.

In this cutaway, you can see the timber frame arches in the main living area, framing the door from the side entrance way, and another between kitchen and living areas framing the passage to the second bedroom and the front patio doors. Note the laundry room to the left of the side entrance.

Here’s another cutaway view, from a different angle.

Now, let’s add the heavy timber beams to the picture. The loft floor has also been added, so you can visualize the loft space.

This is called a hybrid timber frame, because the external walls are framed with conventional 2×6″ lumber, and the timber frame roof structure rests on those walls, remaining visible from the inside.

Here’s another cutaway view, with the living area in front.

So how does it look inside?

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This design has lots of possibilities.

• It could be a regular garage with a guest apartment upstairs, or provide extra income as a rental. For a rental it could have an outside stair with a deck.
• Use it as a starter home. Later, one of the garages could be converted into a level-entry in-law suite or a rec room for a growing family.
• Make it the first building on your cottage lot. It would provide lots of storage for SUVs, 4-wheelers, boat, kayaks, etc.

The upstairs apartment has a fully timbered roof with open timber valleys, tie beams, and rafters. There is a loft area over the bedrooms which is accessed by a pull-down stair in one of the bedrooms.

The elegant recessed entry between the garage doors allows you to stand at the door out of the weather.

Your Package Contains:

• Working Prints
  Floor plans, foundation plan, roof plan, sections, elevations, window & door schedules and construction details.
• Timber Frame Plans
  Roof plan (plan view of roof framing), 2nd floor framing, timber elevations, timber bent drawings (sections) and timber sizings.

Blueprints are provided as digital files which you can print yourself at Staples or another print shop on easy-to-handle 11″ x 17″ (A3) paper.

Download is not instant; you will receive an email with the digital files within 2 business days.

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Dining area seen from front door

You will love welcoming visitors into this hybrid timber frame home. The front door opens into a vaulted area with the living room on the right. Strong wood posts lead the eye upward to the loft area upstairs and the exposed timbers holding up the roof. The dining area lies straight ahead.

The entrance and loft are well lit by a grand window in the front dormer. The open loft area could accommodate a studio for art or crafts, an office, a reading nook, a play area for kids, a model train layout, an occasional bedroom or whatever your lifestyle craves. It’s a most pleasurable space to spend time in, and feels a lot like being in a tree. Put some large houseplants on the ledge beside the stairs to promote beauty and air quality.

Top of stairs, loft on left, front dormer.

The attached garage is connected to the centre of the house. As well as a car, it has room for a workbench and storage, and a utility room for your hot water heater, pressure tank, and … well, solar panel controls, perhaps. Maybe you’d rather build a boat in the garage and leave the car outdoors. As well as a car door, the garage has a people-sized door which functions as the back door of the house, which means that you’ve got a great mudroom – a real bonus if you have kids or do much gardening.

The kitchen, which juts off the dining room, is organized for efficiency, with lots of counter space and everything conveniently located within a few steps.

The master bedroom on the main floor with ensuite bath accommodates those who need or prefer one-level living.

A downstairs powder room with laundry is adjacent to the master bedroom with ensuite. Placing bathrooms adjacent to each other is economical when you’re building a house.

Rear exterior, showing room over the garage

Over the garage is a bedroom or studio or “Bonus Room”, with windows on three sides. It could function as an extra-large bedroom, a play area, a music studio, art studio, yoga studio or large office. A large windowed dormer adds headroom on one side, while the other side has a sloped ceiling.

With choices of how to use the loft space and the Bonus Room, the Granville can adapt to your lifestyle as it evolves and changes. It provides enough different spaces for a growing family to live and play.

An upstairs bedroom has a romantic sloped wall/ceiling and a good-sized closet.

We’ve added a basement floor plan, which adds another 908 sq. ft. of living space, room for a rec room and another bedroom. Alternatively, you could build the house on a slab, without a basement.

Closets really help make a house livable, and they’re something to look for when you’re researching house plans. The Granville has lots of closets: one at each entrance, a linen closet upstairs and another downstairs, and one in each bedroom including the loft and the Bonus Room.

Classic Maritime styling fits beautifully into the neighbourhood, or graces a rural property as if it had been there forever.

With at least 2½ baths and 2 or 3 or 4 bedrooms, depending on your choices, this practical but beautifully designed house is designed for real life.

Click here to see a real live Granville under construction in New Brunswick.

Your Package Contains:

• Working Prints
  Floor plans, foundation plan, roof plan, sections, elevations, window & door schedules and construction details.
• Timber Frame Plans
  Roof plan (plan view of roof framing), 2nd floor framing, timber elevations, timber bent drawings (sections) and timber sizings.

Blueprints are provided as digital files which you can print yourself at Staples or another print shop on easy-to-handle 11″ x 17″ (A3) paper.

Download is not instant; you will receive an email with the digital files within 2 business days.

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