About The Brazos Estate

The Brazos Estate goes big: ivory siding over stone, a two-level front porch with a balcony, five bedrooms and a 40 x 40 ft shop with two 12-foot doors. Inside, a two-story great room with timber trusses, two kitchen islands and an upstairs bonus room make room for everyone.

Highlights

Two-level front porch with balcony
40 x 40 ft attached shop
Two-story great room
Two kitchen islands
Upstairs bonus room

Best for: Large families on big acreage.

This plan is in: 4 bedroom barndominium floor plans · Barndominium plans with a shop · 2 story and loft barndominium plans · Large luxury 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 Brazos Estate

Who it suits

The Brazos Estate suits large households on big acreage. A shop 40 x 40 ft with a pair of 12 x 12 ft doors is attached at the right end, and the 2-level front porch carries a balcony off the upstairs bonus room.

Room by room

Front door: a 5 ft double door opens into the great room, 30 ft 6 in by 35 ft, with timber trusses and 2 kitchen islands.
Main floor: the great room opens to the primary suite and to Bedroom 2, which has a private bath. An opening leads to the mudroom and powder room.
Shop: reached through the mudroom, about 39 x 39 ft inside, plus a 3 ft side door.
Upstairs: the west gallery hall serves Bedroom 3, Bath 3 and Bedroom 4. A 30 ft 6 in bridge reaches Bedroom 5 and the bonus room, with a 5 ft glass door to the balcony.

Build notes

The house roof is 8:12 with 24 in overhangs; its eave is 19 ft and its ridge 31 ft. The shop roof has a 14 ft eave and a 27 ft 4 in ridge.
The balcony deck is the porch roof, a flat surface 10 ft 1 in above the main floor, with a 24 ft wide cross gable standing over it. Your engineer sizes the balcony framing.
The 3 ft wide chimney sits outside the rear wall.
At the mudroom door into the shop, fire separation is for your builder to confirm against your local code. The drawings mark a single interior bearing line.

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

The Brazos Estate: upper floor plan with room dimensions and door and window sizes — Upper floor plan. Tap to open full size.

Overall footprint: 104 ft wide by 40 ft deep, the buildings' footprint without porches and decks
Stories: 2 stories
Roof (main house): 8:12 pitch, 24 in overhangs
Eave 19'-0", ridge 31'-0"
Ridge runs left-to-right, parallel to the front wall
Cross gable on the front: a 8:12 gable 24 ft wide, starting 22 ft from the left corner of the front wall, over the two-level porch
Exterior chimney above the Great room / kitchen / dining (3 ft wide), centered 28 ft from the left end of the house (as you face the front), outside the rear wall, from the ground past the eave; its top is 27 ft 8 in above the floor, below the ridge
Upper balcony 48 ft long x 10 ft deep on the front at the upper floor level (10 ft 1 in above the main floor), with a guard rail, reached by balcony door D05 5 ft wide x 6 ft 8 in tall in the upper front wall starting 54 ft from the left corner
Masses: House: 64' x 36', living space, eave 19'-0", ridge 31'-0"
Shop: 40' x 40', eave 14'-0", ridge 27'-4"
Porches: Front porch: 48' x 10', the balcony deck above is its roof (a flat walking surface at the upper floor level, 10 ft 1 in above the main floor), beam 8 ft 6 in high at the posts, 7 posts
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. One interior bearing line is shown on the plan. 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; shop and garage slabs are usually heavier than living-area slabs.
Counts: 18 windows, 5 exterior doors, 2 overhead doors, 7 porch posts

Rooms

Room	Floor	Size	Area
Primary bedroom	1	18'-0" x 16'-6"	297 sq ft
Primary closet	1	7'-6" x 18'-0"	135 sq ft
Primary bath	1	10'-0" x 18'-0"	180 sq ft
Great room / kitchen / dining	1	30'-6" x 35'-0"	1,068 sq ft
Bedroom 2	1	10'-0" x 11'-6"	115 sq ft
Bedroom 2 closet	1	3'-0" x 11'-6"	34 sq ft
Bedroom 2 bath	1	7'-6" x 6'-6"	49 sq ft
East hall	1	7'-6" x 3'-6"	26 sq ft
Powder room	1	7'-6" x 5'-0"	38 sq ft
Pantry	1	7'-6" x 6'-6"	49 sq ft
Mudroom / laundry	1	5'-6" x 23'-0"	126 sq ft
Shop	1	39'-0" x 39'-0"	1,521 sq ft
Bedroom 3	2	14'-0" x 11'-6"	161 sq ft
Bedroom 3 closet	2	14'-0" x 2'-0"	28 sq ft
Bath 3	2	14'-0" x 7'-0"	98 sq ft
Bedroom 4 closet	2	14'-0" x 2'-0"	28 sq ft
Bedroom 4	2	14'-0" x 10'-6"	147 sq ft
West gallery hall	2	3'-6" x 35'-0"	122 sq ft
Bridge	2	30'-6" x 3'-6"	107 sq ft
Bonus room	2	13'-6" x 17'-6"	236 sq ft
East upper hall	2	3'-6" x 17'-0"	60 sq ft
Bedroom 5 closet	2	9'-6" x 3'-0"	28 sq ft
Bedroom 5	2	9'-6" x 13'-6"	128 sq ft

Doors and windows

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

ID	Type	Size	Sill	Room	Wall	Floor
W01	Window	4'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Primary bedroom	Front	1
W02	Window	4'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Primary bedroom	Left side	1
W03	Window	6'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Front	1
W04	Window	6'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Front	1
W05	Window	4'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Rear	1
W06	Window	4'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Rear	1
W07	Window	4'-0" x 4'-6"	3'-6"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Rear	1
W08	Window	4'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Bedroom 2	Front	1
W09	Window	4'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Primary bedroom	Front	1
W10	Window	3'-0" x 3'-0"	5'-0"	Primary bath	Rear	1
W20	Window	4'-0" x 5'-0"	2'-6"	Bedroom 3	Front	2
W21	Window	4'-0" x 5'-0"	2'-6"	Bedroom 3	Left side	2
W22	Window	3'-0" x 2'-6"	5'-0"	Bath 3	Left side	2
W23	Window	4'-0" x 5'-0"	2'-6"	Bedroom 4	Left side	2
W24	Window	4'-0" x 5'-0"	2'-6"	Bedroom 4	Rear	2
W25	Window	4'-0" x 5'-0"	2'-6"	Bridge	Rear	2
W26	Window	6'-0" x 5'-0"	2'-6"	Bridge	Rear	2
W27	Window	4'-0" x 5'-0"	2'-6"	Bedroom 5	Rear	2
D01	Double entry door	5'-0" x 8'-0"	no sill	Great room / kitchen / dining	Front	1
D02	Glass slider or French door	5'-0" x 8'-0"	no sill	Great room / kitchen / dining	Rear	1
D03	Door	3'-0" x 8'-0"	no sill	Mudroom / laundry	Rear	1
D04	Door	3'-0" x 7'-0"	no sill	Shop	Right side	1
D05	Glass slider or French door	5'-0" x 6'-8"	no sill	Bonus room	Front	2
G01	Overhead door	12'-0" x 12'-0"	no sill	Shop	Front	1
G02	Overhead door	12'-0" x 12'-0"	no sill	Shop	Front	1

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.