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One Story 4 Bedroom House Plans

Four bedrooms without a staircase takes width, so these plans spread rather than stack — usually with the bedrooms grouped down one wing and the living space open at the other end.

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One Story 4 Bedroom House Plans

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Four bedrooms with no stairs is a harder plan to draw than it sounds, and the reason is frontage. Everything has to sit side by side, so four bedrooms, two or three bathrooms, a living space and a garage typically want seventy to eighty-five feet of lot width. That is a wide parcel, and it is the first thing to check before anything else on this page matters.

The designs that solve it do one of two things. They turn the bedroom wing ninety degrees into an L, which buys the width back by going deeper on the lot, or they split the bedrooms into two pairs at opposite ends with the living space between. Both are in this catalogue; the L-shaped plans need a deeper lot and give a natural sheltered spot for a patio in the crook, and the split plans need the width but keep a simpler roof.

Watch the roof on anything this wide. A long single-storey house can end up with a roofline that costs more than the extra bedroom did, and the plans worth having break the span with a cross gable rather than running one ridge the whole way. The four elevations in every set show exactly what the roof does, which is the drawing to compare between designs.

The bathroom count matters more here than at three bedrooms. Four bedrooms sharing two bathrooms works until the children are teenagers; the plans with three, or with a bathroom serving the two far bedrooms directly, are the ones people stay in longer.

Every plan includes dimensioned floor plans, four elevations, a roof plan, an electrical layout and a materials list. Plans run $99 to $199, one time.

Common Questions

FAQ

How wide a lot does a one-storey 4-bedroom need?

Seventy to eighty-five feet for a straight-across layout, and less if you choose an L-shaped plan that runs deeper instead. Every plan here lists its footprint in feet -- check that against your parcel width minus your setbacks before you buy, because it is the one constraint a redraw cannot fix cheaply.

Would a two-storey be cheaper for four bedrooms?

Usually, yes. The same floor area over two levels needs half the roof and half the foundation, so a two-storey four-bed is generally the cheaper build. You choose single-storey for the living, not for the budget -- no stairs, everything reachable, and a house that still works later on.

Can the fourth bedroom work as an office or playroom?

It commonly does, and the plan matters. A fourth bedroom at the end of the bedroom wing is a quiet office; one that opens off the living area is a playroom you can see into. The floor plan shows which you are getting, and on the L-shaped designs it is usually the former.

Can these plans be built on a crawlspace or basement?

Yes -- slab is standard, a crawlspace is $29, a full basement $49, and the basement adds a dimensioned basement floor plan and basement electrical plan to the set. On a footprint this wide a basement is a large amount of extra space for the money, which is worth pricing before you rule it out.