Carriage House Plans
Recently, Jordan asked me about plans for the carriage house.
While I have published the plans to the first-floor, I have never posted plans of the second-floor.
So, for Jordan:
The first-floor plans as of 2014. Note the huge bathroom protruding into the dining room. Oh, the horror. The north kitchen window was actually covered over (north is top). The bedroom in the bottom left corner is only entered via the dining room. The huge front porch is from the circa-1921 conversion.
My renovation plan, 2015. The horror bathroom has been removed, and the expansive dining room is once again expansive. The new powder room is now (2021) a full bath. The door from the bottom-left-room into the dining room has been removed, and the original entry from the foyer has been restored. I call the room the Secret Bedroom as its entry is tucked under the stairs. The front porch I built a few years ago will be taken down. A new porch will be built in the NW corner, as there was a porch there originally.
The 2014 second-floor, obviously not measured. From what I can tell, only the turret room dates to 1894. All the rest was likely a hayloft. The full bath, center, caused enormous problems over the years as it sat above the expansive living room without adequate support. Only two closets are full height. All the rest are tucked under the roofline.
The 2021 plan. The full bath has been removed. This will be a large walk-in closet. The turret room will be a full bathroom, off a new foyer. The whole north side of the house will be a master suite. The old half-bath (bottom, center) will have a claw-foot tub added to create a full bath.
What is not evident in the plans is the extreme charm of the second floor. The turret room is wonderfully shaped. All the windows are diamond-paned. The two bedrooms have angled side walls due to the roofline. The sunporch has windows on three sides and is all beadboard (recently discovered).
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Love it. Sell your country place why prices are high and get in the cross house!
This is going to be an amazing house when you finish. Between the Cross House and the carriage house, you have two precious gems.
This is so so exciting!!
The Carriage House is going to be so nice!!
Such thoughtful redesign of the space. Thank you for the layouts.
Seeing the floor plans and knowing which direction is north is so helpful in visualizing what changes are going on and how everything relates to everything else.
I have a similar layout going in my house with a front bedroom off the living room and the rest of the bedrooms in the back off a hallway that has the only bathroom. The front bedroom is only a bedroom because it has a closet. The original owner used it as his office; it has mahogany wainscoting. I use it as a library because I think it is stupid to go out your bedroom and have to walk through the living room and dining room in order to go into the hallway where the bathroom is. Making the secret bedroom into an office makes perfect sense and is a much better use of the space.
Is there no door from the garage to the deck? I see one door from the garage that is on the other side of the garage from the kitchen. That is a long way to carry groceries. This is the first thing I thought of because I have a detached garage with a door that is on the opposite side of the steps to the kitchen so it is a long way to carry groceries. [Ross: I installed the door to the garage, facing the Cross House, as I will be using the garage, not anybody in the carriage house.]
That is a lot of closets on the second floor, whether they are full height or not. And they say older homes don’t have enough closets/storage. Pfft!
Any way you can put a door in and make that second bathroom an ensuite to the second bedroom? With the master having it’s own bathroom and only one other bedroom on the floor, the bathroom doesn’t have to be a community one opening to the hallway unless there are structural issues. [Ross: The entire north side of the carriage house IS a master suite. The ‘foyer’ is the entry to the suite. From there one can enter the bath, the walk-in closet, or the bedroom.]
Love the clawfoot tubs. Always wanted a big huge one I could practically swim in. I’ll never have one. But at least the one I have is an adult-sized tub and not a kiddie tub like in my parent’s house.
The old bathroom becoming a walk in closet? More closets! I see there is a second smaller closet too. Just for shoes?
What is the square footage of the Carriage House? Have you ever said? With first and second floor I’m guessing something like 1300 sq ft?
Looks good. Is there room to add a door from the 2nd floor bedroom to the full bathroom? And why such a large foyer for the master bedroom, is there a way to cut that down in size and the walk in closet to add more space to the master? Also adding a door from the master into the walk in closet? Just wondering.
Dan, the entire north side of the carriage house IS a master suite. The ‘foyer’ is the entry to the suite. From there one can enter the bath, the walk-in closet, or the bedroom.
And none of the rooms are to scale. The foyer is really only about 4-feet x 4-feet.
GLORIOUS !!!
Hi, Ross!
Because you have given all the elevations of the Cross house and most of the elevations (and now the floorplans) of the Carriage House over the years, I definitely want to recreate this in a 3D fashion.
I build a lot of older victorian houses as 3D replicas in Minecraft. It’s a hobby of mine (because nobody ever taught me autocad, lol). If you want me to send pictures of these houses both when I finish them, let me know!
Thank you so much for sharing floorplans. The Carriage house is so interesting and I am looking forward to recreating it!
That sounds so cool. Can you rotate them around and then go “into” the rooms and look around? Like a virtual house? Can you furnish it too? I didn’t think you could so stuff like this with games. Minecraft is an online game, right?
The answers are “yes” to pretty much everything you said. There are definitely limitations as to what you can do, but you can build facsimiles of furniture, appliances, and the like inside. It is basically like a virtual house, as long as I scale everything correctly you’ll be able to go inside of the house and walk around as if you were really in each room. When I build them, I ususally use Google maps and estimate what the inside looks like based on my knowledge of Victorian architecture and window placement but as you can imagine- the Cross house would be easy thanks to the abundance of interior images and floorplans.
That’s really helpful. Thank you. Great mind!
Wow thank you Ross. A post just for me! Well, I’m claiming it anyhow! Thank you, I do love a floor plan.