1.L-shaped French country plan lets kitchen and living wrap a screened back porch into a breezy nook.

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2.The main suite opens both ways—one door to a private balcony, another sneaking into a study, leaving the bed adrift like an island between two streams.

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3.The layout mimics a stretched H—bedroom suites sit on either side, with kitchen and living room bridging them without walls.

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4.Tudor façade climbs and dips—chimneys and dormers jostle for height—while three arched garage bays give even the cars a little peaked cap.

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5.Rooms curl into a U around a courtyard-sized gap, hugging the open space like a private garden.

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6.A gabled two-storey house hides the garage on the left; living spaces line up in one straight shot, ending in a big back window that drops daylight straight inside.

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7.Stone mansion stretches two long wings like open arms; a two-storey pedimented porch shouts “welcome home” from afar.

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8.Stairs shoot up to a third-floor loft turned all-in-one playroom; a row of skylights keeps time with the night sky.

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