About The Breezeway

The Breezeway keeps the noise and sawdust where they belong. A cream farmhouse and a charcoal shop sit side by side, linked by an open timber-framed breezeway, so the shop is close but never inside the house. It's a beautiful silhouette from the road and a smart way to live.

Highlights

Covered timber breezeway
Separate charcoal shop with 12-ft door
Steel-framed fireplace
Rear dining porch
Guest bedroom

Best for: Families who want a shop without the noise.

This plan is in: 3 bedroom barndominium floor plans · Barndominium plans with a shop · Farmhouse 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 Breezeway

Who it suits

The Breezeway suits households that want a shop close by but not inside the house. The shop is its own building, joined to the house only by an open, covered breezeway.

Room by room

Front door: the 5 ft double entry door leads into the great room, 21 ft 6 in by 37 ft, with a powder room and a pantry off it.
Bedrooms: the primary suite and Bedroom 2 open off the great room. The hall and drop zone leads to the guest bedroom, Bath 2 and the laundry.
Breezeway door: that hall has a 3 ft door onto the covered breezeway, which is 20 x 20 ft and open to the air.
Shop: across the breezeway, about 29 x 39 ft inside, with its own front door, a pair of 6 x 3 ft windows on the right wall and a 12 x 12 ft overhead door.

Build notes

Three roofs sit in a row. The house ridge is 20 ft 6 in and the breezeway ridge 16 ft, and the shop has a 14 ft eave and a 21 ft 6 in ridge.
The breezeway sits 10 ft back from the house front, and the shop front stands 10 ft forward of it, in line with the house front.
Because only an open breezeway links the two, your builder and building department decide what your code requires between house and shop.
The front porch is 60 ft long on 7 posts, and the rear dining porch is 20 x 10 ft on 3.

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

Overall footprint: 110 ft wide by 40 ft deep, the buildings' footprint without porches and decks
Stories: 1 story
Roof (main house): 6:12 pitch, 18 in overhangs
Eave 11'-0", ridge 20'-6"
Ridge runs left-to-right, parallel to the front wall
Chimney above the Great room / kitchen / dining (3 ft wide), centered 21 ft 6 in from the left end of the house (as you face the front), through the front roof slope, 1 ft from the ridge; its top is 23 ft 5 in above the floor, 2 ft 11 in above the ridge
Masses: House: 60' x 38', living space, eave 11'-0", ridge 20'-6"
Covered breezeway: 20' x 20', open-air, eave 11'-0", ridge 16'-0"
Shop: 30' x 40', eave 14'-0", ridge 21'-6"
Porches: Front porch: 60' x 8', 3:12 shed roof attached at 11 ft, beam 9 ft high at the posts, 7 posts
Rear dining porch: 20' x 10', 3:12 shed roof attached at 11 ft, beam 8 ft 6 in high at the posts, 3 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. 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: 11 windows, 5 exterior doors, 1 overhead door, 10 porch posts

Rooms

Room	Size	Area
Primary bedroom	19'-0" x 20'-6"	390 sq ft
Primary bath	8'-6" x 16'-0"	136 sq ft
Walk-in closet	4'-6" x 16'-0"	72 sq ft
Powder room	5'-0" x 6'-0"	30 sq ft
Pantry	5'-0" x 9'-6"	48 sq ft
Great room / kitchen / dining	21'-6" x 37'-0"	796 sq ft
Bedroom 2	17'-6" x 11'-0"	192 sq ft
Guest bedroom	17'-6" x 10'-6"	184 sq ft
Hall / drop zone	17'-6" x 4'-0"	70 sq ft
Bath 2	9'-6" x 10'-0"	95 sq ft
Laundry	7'-6" x 10'-0"	75 sq ft
Shop	29'-0" x 39'-0"	1,131 sq ft

Doors and windows

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

ID	Type	Size	Sill	Room	Wall
W01	Window	3'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Front
W02	Window	3'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Front
W03	Window	4'-0" x 4'-6"	3'-6"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Rear
W04	Casement window	3'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Primary bedroom	Front
W05	Casement window	4'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Primary bedroom	Left side
W06	Casement window	3'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Bedroom 2	Front
W07	Window	2'-0" x 2'-0"	5'-0"	Bath 2	Rear
W08	Window	2'-0" x 2'-0"	5'-0"	Primary bath	Rear
W09	Casement window	4'-6" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Guest bedroom	Right side
W10	Window	6'-0" x 3'-0"	8'-0"	Shop	Right side
W11	Window	6'-0" x 3'-0"	8'-0"	Shop	Right side
D01	Double entry door	5'-0" x 8'-0"	no sill	Great room / kitchen / dining	Front
D02	Glass slider or French door	6'-0" x 8'-0"	no sill	Great room / kitchen / dining	Rear
D20	Door	3'-0" x 6'-8"	no sill	Shop	Front
D21	Door to the Covered breezeway	3'-0" x 6'-8"	no sill	Hall / drop zone	Right side
D22	Door to the Covered breezeway	3'-0" x 6'-8"	no sill	Shop	Left side
G01	Overhead door	12'-0" x 12'-0"	no sill	Shop	Front

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.