Who is this plan for?
This is the classic suburban family home: detached on all four sides, two storeys, a garden all the way round. It works if you want to draw your existing house without starting from a blank page, or if you're planning a new build and want to test how a house sits on a plot of around 1,500 m².
The street is to the north, the house is set back 9 m, and the garden runs south. That's the most common layout for a bright living room: if your plot faces another way, rotate the plan or move the rooms around.
What's in the plan
On the ground floor (82 m²): a 25 m² living room with a 2.60 m sliding door onto the deck, a 16 m² kitchen open to the living room, a study at the front, a hall with the stairs, a WC and a utility room. Upstairs (82 m²): three bedrooms of 16 to 21 m², a 12 m² bathroom and a landing.
Outside, everything is already there: a gravel path to the front door, a block-paved driveway and a 4 × 6 m carport, a 24 m² timber deck to the south, a flower bed at the front, a hedge all the way round and five trees. Underground: the water and sewer connections from the street and a 10,000-litre rainwater tank.
What works well
- Simple circulation: the central hall leads to every room, and no bedroom is a corridor.
- Living to the south, services to the north: living room and kitchen get the garden, WC and utility room stay at the front.
- Realistic dimensions: 30 cm external walls, 10 cm partitions, doors from 70 to 100 cm. The areas shown are net floor areas, measured inside the walls.
Ideas to adapt it
Start by replacing the external dimensions with your own house's, then move the partitions. A few easy variations:
- turn the study into a fourth, ground-floor bedroom;
- open the kitchen fully onto the living room by removing the partition, or close it off;
- swap the carport for a garage, or the timber deck for paving slabs;
- planning to extend? The Extension project example takes this plan and adds a bigger kitchen.
Then drop the aerial photo of your address under the plan to line up the house and the plot boundaries in the right place.
Going further
The guide Draw a floor plan of your house explains how to measure and check each room. For the boundaries, read Title plans, aerial photos and measuring, and for the deck, Patio size and design.