HPG-1637-1: Westwood Park

We were planning to add to our family, and our current 3 bedroom home was already extremely cramped.

We decided on plan HPG-1992-1 because we loved the different pitches in the roof and the open flow the plan offered, as well as the bonus room which makes a great bedroom and full bath for our teenage daughter.

The land was in the process of being cleared when we found out that we were expecting daughter #3. We broke ground on our new home July 28 2010 and with an awesome contractor we were able to move in the week after Thanksgiving.

We had just enough time to settle in to our new home, which we absolutely love, before we welcomed our youngest daughter into the family on February 11, 2011.

I have always heard if a marriage can survive building a house, it can surive anything... well my husband will tell you that we not only survived building a house, but building a house while pregnant; now that is a great accomplishment!

Thank you so much for providing a wonderful plan for our new home.

We had been planning to build our dream home for years, and property on which to build it became available to us in 2010.

Our favorite features of the home are threefold: The colonial style; the large open greatroom/dining/kitchen in the middle; with bedrooms to the 4 corners (3 bedroom plus flex).

We contracted the exterior ourselves, using sub-contractors who we know. Once the "outer shell" of the home was finished, my wife and I took over. My father was a contractor, so I had been exposed to pretty much every area of construction.

We knew it would be slow process, as we would have to learn a lot, and only have an hour or two a day after work and on weekends to put toward it.

So far, I have framed in the upstairs bonus room (we used pre-fab trusses instead of stick built, so work was to be done), and finished the staircase and stairwell.

I have completed wiring the entire house for electricity, telephone, computer hookups, and satellite/cable, using one end of the front secondary bedroom's closet as control center.

We have laid the hearth and installed the woodburning stove and drywalled the living room and both front bedrooms.

That is where we are... 14 months after taking over from the contractors. We hope to be complete and moved in by Christmas 2012. We'll update you then.

We absolutely adore this plan, and did whatever it took to keep true to the artist's conception drawing that came with it.

Thanks House Plan Gallery for the beautiful (and well-detailed) home design. Its truly our dream home!

I grew up in the western part of North Carolina and left home after graduating from high school. My job moved me around for several years and my family and I finally settled down in Charlotte, NC and eventually I started my own business there. I always had a desire to return to my roots and build a home back there for when I retired.

I had been single for a few years and upon returning home for a school reunion in 2008, I met an old friend that I had not seen in over 30 years. She had retired and moved "back home" the end of 2007. We started dating and before long we realized we were meant to be together. That is when I got busy on house plans.

I looked at "many" house plans, but kept going back to this particular one of yours. We both agreed this was the perfect one. It had plenty of open space and was laid out just the way we wanted. We like the master bedroom with the large bath and walk-in closet (which we changed to one big closet instead of his and hers)and the other bedrooms on the other end of the house.

My favorite parts of this house plan are the open space in the living area, and the really functional floorplan layout. It fits our needs perfectly...

We started clearing the land in February, 2009, and we were married in March. We had a very good builder and things just fell right into place. All the lumber in the house came off my land. We made a few minor changes, such as extending the front bedroom out and the porch a few feet wider. The plans were so easily followed, the builder had no problem at all.

We made the 3 1/2 hour trip weekly from Charlotte to help work on the house. On December 23, 2009, we moved in and spent our first Christmas together in our dream house.

The house sits upon a hill that overlooks the Smokey Mountains and we can see as far as Tennessee.

I am retiring soon and we look forward to sitting on our porch and enjoying the view and our new home.

Thanks for allowing us to use your plan and we would highly recommend your company to anyone interested!