About The Courtyard Works

The Courtyard Works wraps a cream farmhouse and a charcoal shop around a gravel courtyard behind a cedar gate. Every living space opens to the courtyard, the shop's glass doors face it too, and covered walkways tie it all together, giving you privacy, shelter from the wind and a beautiful arrival.

Highlights

Enclosed front courtyard
Shop wing with 12-ft door
Covered walkways
Glass doors to the courtyard
Home office

Best for: Windy open land and lovers of private outdoor space.

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 Courtyard Works

Who it suits

The Courtyard Works suits windy open land and people who want private outdoor space. The house, a bedroom wing and the shop form a U around an 18 ft courtyard.

Room by room

Great room: 35 ft 6 in by 27 ft, with 2 double doors on the front, each 6 ft wide, that open toward the courtyard. The mudroom, a powder room and a walk-in pantry open off it.
Shop: through the mudroom, with a 3 ft door and a 6 ft glass door on its left wall facing the courtyard, plus a 12 x 12 ft overhead door on the front.
Bedrooms: from the gallery off the great room you reach the laundry, Bath 2, Bedroom 2 and Bedroom 3.
Primary wing: the gallery continues through a link hall to the wing hall, which serves the primary suite and an office with its own 3 ft door.

Build notes

The main house is 6:12, with eaves at 10 ft and a ridge at 17 ft. The bedroom wing ridge is 16 ft and the shop wing ridge 21 ft 6 in, both running front to back.
The shop walls are 14 ft to the eave, against 10 ft for the house. Your building department decides how the wall and door between mudroom and shop must be built.
The front porch is 18 x 6 ft on 3 posts, and the porch on the bedroom wing is 22 x 6 ft on 4.
The U runs 72 ft wide and 68 ft deep overall, so test it against your setbacks early.

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

Overall footprint: 72 ft wide by 68 ft deep, the buildings' footprint without porches and decks
Stories: 1 story
Roof (main house): 6:12 pitch, 12 in overhangs
Eave 10'-0", ridge 17'-0"
Ridge runs left-to-right, parallel to the front wall
Chimney above the Great room / kitchen / dining (3 ft wide), centered 25 ft 6 in from the left end of the house (as you face the front), through the rear roof slope, 2 ft from the ridge; its top is 19 ft 5 in above the floor, 2 ft 5 in above the ridge
Masses: House: 72' x 28', living space, eave 10'-0", ridge 17'-0"
Bedroom wing: 24' x 28', living space, eave 10'-0", ridge 16'-0"
Shop: 30' x 40', eave 14'-0", ridge 21'-6"
Porches: Front porch: 18' x 6', 3:12 shed roof attached at 10 ft, beam 8 ft 6 in high at the posts, 3 posts
Right porch (on the bedroom wing): 22' x 6', 3:12 shed roof attached at 10 ft, beam 8 ft 6 in high at the posts, 4 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: 12 windows, 7 exterior doors, 1 overhead door, 7 porch posts

Rooms

Room	Size	Area
Laundry	8'-6" x 8'-0"	68 sq ft
Link hall	3'-6" x 8'-0"	28 sq ft
Bath 2	10'-6" x 8'-0"	84 sq ft
Gallery	23'-6" x 3'-6"	82 sq ft
Bedroom 2	9'-6" x 14'-6"	138 sq ft
Bedroom 3 closet	2'-0" x 6'-6"	13 sq ft
Bedroom 2 closet	2'-0" x 7'-6"	15 sq ft
Bedroom 3	11'-0" x 14'-6"	160 sq ft
Great room / kitchen / dining	35'-6" x 27'-0"	958 sq ft
Mudroom	11'-0" x 9'-0"	99 sq ft
Powder room	5'-6" x 5'-6"	30 sq ft
Mechanical	5'-0" x 5'-6"	28 sq ft
Walk-in pantry	11'-0" x 11'-6"	126 sq ft
Primary bedroom	17'-6" x 12'-6"	219 sq ft
Primary closet	5'-0" x 12'-6"	62 sq ft
Primary bath	8'-6" x 14'-0"	119 sq ft
Wing hall	3'-6" x 14'-0"	49 sq ft
Office	10'-0" x 14'-0"	140 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
W03	Window	4'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Rear
W04	Window	3'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Rear
W05	Window	4'-0" x 4'-6"	3'-6"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Rear
W06	Window	4'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Bedroom 2	Rear
W07	Window	4'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Bedroom 2	Left side
W08	Window	4'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Bedroom 3	Rear
W09	Window	3'-0" x 4'-6"	3'-6"	Laundry	Left side
W10	Window	6'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Primary bedroom	Front
W11	Window	4'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Primary bedroom	Right side
W12	Window	3'-0" x 3'-0"	5'-0"	Primary bath	Left side
W13	Window	4'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Office	Right side
W15	Window	3'-0" x 4'-0"	4'-0"	Shop	Left side
D01	Double entry door	6'-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
D03	Door	3'-0" x 8'-0"	no sill	Shop	Left side
D07	Double entry door	6'-0" x 8'-0"	no sill	Great room / kitchen / dining	Front
D08	Door	3'-0" x 8'-0"	no sill	Mudroom	Right side
D09	Door	3'-0" x 8'-0"	no sill	Office	Right side
D10	Glass slider or French door	6'-0" x 8'-0"	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.