About The Sage Cottage

The Sage Cottage is a little home with a big personality: soft sage siding, a steep green roof and a deep cedar porch made for rocking chairs. Inside, a stone fireplace and a sage kitchen with butcher-block counters create a home that feels finished from day one. Two bedrooms, two baths, zero wasted space.

Highlights

Deep 10-ft full-width porch
Steep 8:12 green metal roof
Stone fireplace
Two full baths
Flagstone fire-pit patio

Best for: Couples, retirees and weekend getaways.

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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 Sage Cottage

Who it suits

The Sage Cottage fits couples, retirees and anyone who wants a small weekend place. The whole house is one rectangle, with a porch 10 ft deep across its full width. There is no hall: the bedrooms, a bath and the laundry all open off the great room.

Room by room

Front door: a 3 ft entry door leads into the great room, with a pair of 3 x 5 ft windows on the front wall and the stone fireplace.
Back door: the great room’s rear wall has a 6 ft glass door.
Primary suite: a bath, a walk-in closet and a 4 x 5 ft window on the left wall.
Bedroom 2: 12 x 17 ft, with a 4 x 5 ft window on the right wall. Bath 2 and the laundry and mechanical room open off the great room too.

Build notes

A steep 8:12 roof, with 11 ft eaves and a 21 ft ridge, has gable ends at the left and right.
The chimney straddles the ridge 14 ft from the left end and tops out 3 ft above it.
The porch is 44 ft long, with 6 posts and a 3:12 shed roof. Footings under the posts are your engineer’s call.
Wood framing is what the set shows. Steel or post-frame is a different build, which your builder or engineer adapts.

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

Overall footprint: 44 ft wide by 30 ft deep, the buildings' footprint without porches and decks
Stories: 1 story
Roof (main house): 8:12 pitch, 18 in overhangs
Eave 11'-0", ridge 21'-0"
Ridge runs left-to-right, parallel to the front wall
Chimney above the Great room / kitchen / dining (3 ft wide), centered 14 ft from the left end of the house (as you face the front), straddling the ridge; its top is 24 ft above the floor, 3 ft above the ridge
Masses: House: 44' x 30', living space, eave 11'-0", ridge 21'-0"
Porches: Front porch: 44' x 10', 3:12 shed roof attached at 11 ft, beam 8 ft 6 in high at the posts, 6 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: 8 windows, 2 exterior doors, 6 porch posts

Rooms

Room	Size	Area
Primary bedroom	12'-0" x 16'-0"	192 sq ft
Primary bath	7'-0" x 12'-6"	88 sq ft
Walk-in closet	4'-6" x 12'-6"	56 sq ft
Great room / kitchen / dining	18'-0" x 29'-0"	522 sq ft
Bedroom 2	12'-0" x 17'-0"	204 sq ft
Bath 2	12'-0" x 6'-0"	72 sq ft
Laundry / mechanical	12'-0" x 5'-0"	60 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 5'-0"	3'-0"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Front
W02	Window	3'-0" x 5'-0"	3'-0"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Front
W03	Window	4'-0" x 3'-6"	3'-6"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Rear
W05	Window	4'-0" x 5'-0"	2'-0"	Primary bedroom	Left side
W07	Window	2'-0" x 2'-0"	5'-0"	Primary bath	Rear
W08	Window	2'-0" x 2'-0"	5'-0"	Laundry / mechanical	Rear
W09	Window	2'-0" x 2'-0"	5'-0"	Bath 2	Right side
W10	Window	4'-0" x 5'-0"	2'-0"	Bedroom 2	Right side
D01	Entry door	3'-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

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.