If any of you find pictures I'd love to see them. We're going to add a roof over our deck this year and I love the idea of rain on a metal roof, I'm just not sure how it would look tied into the shingles of the house.

If your plan was to have more bedrooms and baths in basement, I don’t see why that cannot be done on a second floor.. That is very common use for second floors, but of course I have also never seen a basement here (which are very common where I live) designed for “smelly things” as they usually include a family room or den, bedrooms, and a bath as well and are part of the overall living space. If you don’t need 3700 sq feet (that would be too much for me, too) then you definitely don’t need to build over entire second floor. An asymmetrical design can work aesthetically and functionally but you need to work with your architect to get it to look and feel purposeful and not like an “add on”. I do agree you are likely going to need to “start over” though - it does not mean you need to lose all the elements you like about current plan, just need to start over to properly integrate them.

Wow, thank you all for the responses! Let me try to reply back to this as much as I can. The link to the house plan should be working in the post above. Here is the bigger brother of that house plan, https://www.houseplans.com/plan/2679-square-feet-3-bedroom-2-5-bathroom-2-garage-craftsman-farmhouse-traditional-40410 cpartist - "One doesn't pick a house plan, and find a sight to plop it down on afterwards." The land I hope to build on is only sold to family members if that makes sense. I meant $230,000 - $250,000 per house. Which should be around $100 sqft for full finished house and $148 sqft for half finished. I hope that helps! Mrs Pete - Thank you for the information about bank financing, I was hoping to finish out the bedroom and bathroom below the master bedroom and ditch the bathroom by the bunk room to make that a larger bedroom. But I do see what you are saying, I do feel confident I could get away with two bedrooms on a house as I seen a few newer homes being built with only two. I figure it'll be around $140-$150 sq/ft ( If I do go for what I listed) not $240-$250 sq/ft but like you've said that'll be up to me to figure that one out. Sun Orientation As for the house the sun orientation the house would face South West (240 maybe), the land is in the middle of a small field surrounded by large trees, the trees on the west side are larger than the trees on the east. The sun rises above a hill covered in trees but those are far away and doesn't delay sunrise by much. The trees in the west cast a larger shadow and sunset is sooner. Houseplan I do agree with you about the french doors, my uncle built a cabin and the french door always meets their table, not good. So, I agree 100% on the gliding door. "Note, too, that this means you can come home (through the mud room) and zip straight into your master without going around through the dining and living rooms. " I've been thinking about that too and how important that is to me, as I work with chemicals and the sooner I can zip into the shower the better. LOL I agree with you having a door in the powder room connecting to the master bathroom, but i'm not so sure about the whole sharing a toilet. I'm one of those i'm a fan of 3 bathrooms. I like to see it like this, I have my private bathroom, the guest bathroom and the powder room for visitors and what not. But that makes the flow of the house run much more nicer! The larger closest is a must for me and I like the idea of keeping it open to allow light to flow into the room. As for the screen porch on the side of the house, if you look at the bigger verison of this plan ( I placed the link at the top of this post) they've moved the screen porch to the side of the house which is a good idea if one wants to max out the view from inside the house and make it more economical. I believe they rearranged the kitchen too inthe larger plan so it wouldn't be so far apart, so maybe I should start looking at that larger plan. Thank you for the feedback it was very helpful! bry911 Location It'll be located south of Nicholasville,Ky, near US 27. 220k is roughly what I figured it would cost me, and I agree with you about the house market around here. Thank you for the feedback! Mark Bischak, Architect Lmao, oops! I wrote all of this late last night being half asleep, I had it coming. For a 1400sqft home with a basement that can be finished out, how much generally would it cost to get a Architect to create a floorplan? I've never looked into that option because I figured it would cost so much more but I see the point you're making about buying a plan other people have versus a completely unique one but lets say hypothetically getting a house plan around the same craftsmanship level of this plan, how much would it cost to have a plan made? Thank you for the feedback! Anglophilia Well that's just it! The location of these homes are in a neighborhood located at the bottom of the hill it sits on, meaning only view they have is the trees and a slope. The location I hope to build on, features a fairly flat small pasture surround by trees, a barn nearby and a huge hill that creates a wall of trees and cliffs to look at and privacy without being too quiet. Location, location, location! Thank you for the feedback!

You can search "metal porch roof " in exterior photos on Houzz to see how metal roofs coordinate with asphalt. Most of the time it is the same color. There are exceptions - like this green one.