About The Blackwood

The Blackwood is the barndominium in its most modern form: charcoal-black metal, a steep roof with almost no overhang, warm cedar soffits and floor-to-ceiling black windows. Inside it's bright and calm, with white walls, pale oak and a black steel fireplace, and every room looks out to the trees.

Highlights

Floor-to-ceiling windows
Recessed cedar-lined entry
Steep 8:12 roof with crisp edges
Black steel fireplace
Third bedroom doubles as an office with a view

Best for: Modern-design lovers and wooded lots.

This plan is in: 3 bedroom barndominium floor plans · Modern barndominium floor plans

In the $149 plan set

Builder-ready drawing set, dimensioned to the inch
Floor plan with every room, door and window located
Four exterior elevations
Building sections and roof plan
Door and window schedules
Electrical, smoke and CO placement diagram
Foundation outline
Editable CAD file (DXF) of the floor plan for your builder or drafter
Every concept rendering of the home, full-size
License to build one home

Completed by your local team

Structural design and member sizing (beams, footings, framing)
Engineering stamps or seals
Site-specific engineering, energy or code review
Permits or permit approval

Your local builder and, where your project needs one, a licensed engineer or architect complete these for your site and local codes.

Living in The Blackwood

Who it suits

The Blackwood suits people who want a modern black barn set among trees. Of its 9 windows, 7 are 8 ft tall, and the widest is 12 ft, so the views are large. Bedroom 3 is labeled an office.

Room by room

Front door: a 4 ft entry door sits in a recessed, cedar-lined entry 8 ft wide and 3 ft deep and opens into the great room.
Great room: a fixed window 10 ft wide and 8 ft tall is set in the front wall, and an 8 ft glass door opens out the back.
Primary suite: a 9 ft wide window faces the front and a 12 ft wide window faces the left end, with a bath and a walk-in closet.
Bedrooms: a hall reaches Bedroom 2, Bath 2 and Bedroom 3 / office, and each bedroom has an 8 x 8 ft window.
Storage and utility: the powder room, laundry, coat closet and pantry open off the great room.

Build notes

The roof is a steep 8:12, 10 ft to the eave and 22 ft to the ridge, with overhangs of only 4 in. Ask your builder how the roof edge and gutters will be detailed.
There are no porch posts. The entry is a recess cut into the wall under the main roof.
Your engineer sizes the headers over the 7 windows that stand 8 ft tall.
The chimney, 3 ft wide, exits through the front roof slope 1 ft 6 in from the ridge.

The exterior and interior images are concept renderings of this design, not photographs of a built home. Finishes and fixtures are illustrative; the plan governs. The floor plan is drawn from the plan set. Areas are approximate and measured to the outside face of exterior walls; porches, garages and shops are listed separately.

Floor plan and specifications

Every room is dimensioned and every door and window carries its size, straight from the plan set.

The Blackwood: main floor plan with room dimensions and door and window sizes — Main floor plan. Tap to open full size.

Overall footprint: 64 ft wide by 36 ft deep, the buildings' footprint without porches and decks
Stories: 1 story
Roof (main house): 8:12 pitch, 4 in overhangs
Eave 10'-0", ridge 22'-0"
Ridge runs left-to-right, parallel to the front wall
Chimney above the Great room / kitchen / dining (3 ft wide), centered 22 ft 6 in from the left end of the house (as you face the front), through the front roof slope, 1 ft 6 in from the ridge; its top is 24 ft 6-1/2 in above the floor, 2 ft 6-1/2 in above the ridge
Masses: House: 64' x 36', living space, eave 10'-0", ridge 22'-0"
Porches: Recessed cedar-lined entry: 8' x 3', recessed into the wall under the main roof
Structure: Drawn for conventional wood (stick) framing; trusses, posts, beams and footings are sized by the builder's engineer. A steel-frame or post-frame version is an adaptation your builder or engineer makes. Member sizes, connections and loads are by your builder's engineer for your site.
Foundation: Typical starting point: monolithic slab-on-grade with a thickened edge (a stem wall where frost depth requires), footings below the local frost line, a footing under every interior bearing line and girder point, and porch-post footings with uplift ties. Slab thickness, footing sizes, reinforcing and anchorage are sized by your engineer for your soil, frost depth and loads.
Counts: 9 windows, 2 exterior doors

Rooms

Room	Size	Area
Primary bedroom	20'-0" x 19'-6"	390 sq ft
Primary bath	9'-0" x 15'-0"	135 sq ft
Walk-in closet	4'-6" x 15'-0"	68 sq ft
Powder room	5'-6" x 6'-0"	33 sq ft
Laundry	5'-6" x 8'-6"	47 sq ft
Great room / kitchen / dining	23'-0" x 35'-0"	805 sq ft
Coat closet	4'-0" x 6'-0"	24 sq ft
Hall	4'-0" x 22'-0"	88 sq ft
Pantry	4'-0" x 6'-0"	24 sq ft
Bedroom 2	14'-6" x 14'-0"	203 sq ft
Bath 2	7'-0" x 6'-6"	46 sq ft
Bedroom 2 closet	7'-0" x 6'-6"	46 sq ft
Bedroom 3 / office	14'-6" x 13'-6"	196 sq ft

Doors and windows

Swipe the table sideways to see sill, room and wall.

ID	Type	Size	Sill	Room	Wall
W01	Fixed window	10'-0" x 8'-0"	1'-0"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Front
W03	Window	4'-0" x 4'-6"	3'-6"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Rear
W04	Casement window	9'-0" x 8'-0"	1'-0"	Primary bedroom	Front
W05	Casement window	12'-0" x 8'-0"	1'-0"	Primary bedroom	Left side
W06	Casement window	8'-0" x 8'-0"	1'-0"	Bedroom 2	Front
W07	Casement window	8'-0" x 8'-0"	1'-0"	Bedroom 3 / office	Rear
W08	Window	2'-0" x 2'-0"	5'-0"	Primary bath	Rear
W10	Fixed window	5'-6" x 8'-0"	1'-0"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Rear
W21	Casement window	8'-0" x 8'-0"	1'-0"	Bedroom 2	Right side
D01	Entry door	4'-0" x 8'-0"	no sill	Great room / kitchen / dining	Front
D02	Glass slider or French door	8'-0" x 8'-0"	no sill	Great room / kitchen / dining	Rear

Sizes are clear inside dimensions for rooms and rough openings for doors and windows, from the plan set. Roof heights are above the finished floor. The structure and foundation lines are typical starting points: the drawings are not stamped, and your builder's engineer sizes members, footings and anchorage for your site, soil, snow, wind and frost depth.