About The Dogtrot

The Dogtrot revives a Southern classic: two light cottage wings under one continuous roof, with an open breezeway between them that becomes an outdoor living room with a swing and a ceiling fan. It's cool in summer, charming year-round and unlike anything else on your road.

Highlights

Open-air center breezeway
One continuous metal roof
Two 24-ft front porches, one on each wing
Clawfoot tub
Beadboard interiors

Best for: Southern lots and lovers of something different.

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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 Dogtrot

Who it suits

The Dogtrot suits people who want something different from the usual ranch. Two 24 x 40 ft wings stand under one continuous roof with a 16 ft open breezeway between them. The great room and kitchen are in one wing and the bedrooms in the other.

Room by room

Front door: the 3 ft door on the front wall enters the great room, 23 x 32 ft, with a pantry and the laundry and mudroom off it.
Breezeway: on the right wall of the great room, a 6 ft glass door opens into the breezeway.
Sleeping wing: a 3 ft door from the breezeway enters a hall that serves the primary suite, Bedroom 2, Bath 2 and Bedroom 3.
Primary suite: it also has its own 3 ft door onto the right-hand porch, plus a bath and a closet.

Build notes

One continuous 7:12 roof covers wing, breezeway and wing: eave at 11 ft, ridge at 22 ft 8 in, running left to right.
The breezeway is 16 x 40 ft and open to the air, so the walk between the great room and the bedrooms is covered but outdoors.
Each wing has a front porch 24 ft long and 8 ft deep, with 4 posts and a 3:12 shed roof attached at 11 ft.
The members carrying the roof over the open breezeway are for your engineer to size.

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 Dogtrot: 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 40 ft deep, the buildings' footprint without porches and decks
Stories: 1 story
Roof (main house): 7:12 pitch, 18 in overhangs
Eave 11'-0", ridge 22'-8"
Ridge runs left-to-right, parallel to the front wall
Masses: House: 24' x 40', living space, eave 11'-0", ridge 22'-8"
Open breezeway: 16' x 40', open-air, eave 11'-0", ridge 22'-8"
Sleeping wing: 24' x 40', living space, eave 11'-0", ridge 22'-8"
Porches: Front porch (left): 24' x 8', 3:12 shed roof attached at 11 ft, beam 9 ft high at the posts, 4 posts
Front porch (right) (on the sleeping wing): 24' x 8', 3:12 shed roof attached at 11 ft, beam 9 ft 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.
Counts: 11 windows, 5 exterior doors, 8 porch posts

Rooms

Room	Size	Area
Great room / kitchen / dining	23'-0" x 32'-0"	736 sq ft
Pantry	8'-0" x 6'-6"	52 sq ft
Laundry / mudroom	9'-6" x 6'-6"	62 sq ft
Mechanical	4'-6" x 6'-6"	29 sq ft
Hall	23'-0" x 3'-6"	80 sq ft
Primary bedroom	15'-0" x 17'-6"	262 sq ft
Primary closet	7'-6" x 7'-0"	52 sq ft
Primary bath	7'-6" x 10'-0"	75 sq ft
Bedroom 2	8'-6" x 17'-0"	144 sq ft
Bath 2	5'-0" x 8'-0"	40 sq ft
Bedroom 2 closet	2'-6" x 8'-6"	21 sq ft
Bedroom 3 closet	2'-0" x 8'-6"	17 sq ft
Bedroom 3	8'-6" x 17'-0"	144 sq ft

Doors and windows

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

ID	Type	Size	Sill	Room	Wall
W01	Window	4'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Front
W02	Window	4'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Front
W03	Window	4'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Left side
W04	Window	4'-0" x 4'-6"	3'-6"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Left side
W05	Window	4'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Primary bedroom	Front
W06	Window	3'-0" x 3'-0"	5'-0"	Primary bath	Right side
W07	Window	4'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Bedroom 2	Rear
W08	Window	4'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Bedroom 3	Rear
W09	Window	3'-0" x 5'-0"	3'-0"	Hall	Right side
W10	Window	4'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Right side
W11	Window	3'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Primary bedroom	Front
D01	Glass door to the Open breezeway	6'-0" x 8'-0"	no sill	Great room / kitchen / dining	Right side
D02	Door to the Open breezeway	3'-0" x 8'-0"	no sill	Hall	Left side
D03	Entry door	3'-0" x 8'-0"	no sill	Great room / kitchen / dining	Front
D04	Door	3'-0" x 8'-0"	no sill	Laundry / mudroom	Rear
D05	Door	3'-0" x 8'-0"	no sill	Primary bedroom	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.