Home Design Sunny Place

Sunny Place Home

You enter this house on a corner porch and immediately see across the diagonal of the house to another porch.

Emphasizing the diagonal in the plan tends to minimize the sense of confinement that small houses must avoid. Since the intention was to only cut a small hole in the forest canopy, the architect took this compact footprint, and gave it a strong vertical component and a lot of roof glazing so the house could reach up toward the light, like the spruce trees around it. This assured that what sunlight fell down into this "hole in the forest" would get into the house.

Sunny Place Design

Unlike any other design we've ever seen, this unique home can face in any one of four directions! Because the two diagonal entry points work equally well as a "front" entry the entry porch of the original home (which provides direct access to both the kitchen and the mudroom) could just as easily be the rear entry, and the deck entry (which provides direct access to the living spaces of the home as well as a guest bathroom) could just as easily be the front and, the porch and deck can be accessed from two directions, all four sides of this house could be the front of the house. Quite an advantage when siting it on a specific piece of property!

This house was originally designed to have a basement foundation. However, if you prefer a crawlspace or a slab foundation, these are fairly simple and inexpensive changes that your builder can often make for you. If the basement design is not displayed in the Floor Plans, it's because it is unfinished.