HPG-2100C-1: The Ranch

Our daughter and son-in-law wanted our 2800 sq. ft. existing home and we wanted to down size. So we sold them our existing home and built our new home on an adjacent property. I did not want to go through the trouble of designing the new house so I went online and found your House Plan Gallery.com website.

We spent a couple of days looking at your different house plans and found the one we bought. It fit our needs to a tee with only a few modifications. The house is maintenance free with white vinyl siding and an aluminum face and vinyl soffits and vinyl double hung therma pane windows, and we love it!

The team worked well getting us the plans and material sheets needed to begin our project. We are a high school that builds one house every year from the ground up. The students worked well with the plans and we look forward to using them again in the future. Hope this helps! God Bless and happy building for all.

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!

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!