It has at least ten features on my list of things I avoid in house design.

Good gawd! Do you have any idea what it will cost to someday put a new roof on this house? Every gable and valley costs more.

Ummm...do you think it may have a few too many, unnecessary gables?

What about this house do you like? Because it seems to have an awful lot of wasted space, and an awful lot of "design-y" gimmicks that don't add to livability but are flashy.

Not to be mean but.....there sure is a lot going on there!

I’m not piling on; just a general question about the plan: why on earth are they calling this a Craftsman? It’s like the complete antithesis of Craftsman, which (originally) emphasized strong horizontal lines, visually weighted/ anchored to the ground, clean functional design (no foo-foo), windows on two walls whenever possible for natural light and cross-ventilation, and a certain humility and lack of pretension. (Well, OK, not the high style Greene and Greene lol - I’m talking about the ones built for working-class families.)

I’m on my second 1923 Craftsman in a heavily Craftsman neighborhood, and this sort of thing chafes me!

LOL, following for the comments.

As a lover of craftsman homes, I'm with you 100% DN!

As for the house itself, I've seen worse.

Well, yeah, there’s always worse! :-D

The last time you asked about a specific house plan, people suggested an architect could give you something much better without much higher cost, by the time the stock plan was modified to fit your needs. Have you explored that route yet?

I lived in a custom build (I didn't build it) that was really close to this floor plan. The bonus room still haunts my wife 10 years later and as such our builds never have slanted ceilings anywwhere.

The pic doesn't appear to match the dormers in the floor plan.

There are fairly big design problems with this house - the most significant is the 3 materials on the elevation along with an excess of gables. This gives it a chaotic overly complicated look that is always discouraged here (and any similar forum I am sure).

When people are first dreaming of building a house, they are usually drawn to complexity - thinking that more is better. Time and experience gets most people to change this way of thinking - although not always.

Imagine this forum as "Devil Wears Prada" - Meryl Streep. This floorplan is Anne Hathaway's original outfit.

^^^ hahaha David Cary - one of the best lines ever.

I can't even bring myself to look at the floor plan. The only thing that keeps coming to my mind is 'When in doubt, add another gable'