I think that this is a beautiful home. I love the look of the individual dormers, looks more farmhouse. I think a larger shed dormer would make the house look more bungalow, or arts and crafts. It looks very welcoming, and timeless. Have fun!

i like your plan and your ideas for changes sometimes builders will do those kinds of changes and sometimes not good look on that
we had a few changes made by the company the stock plan came from and it was not very expensive at all, but there were really no changes in plumbing, electrical or mechanical which would be where the difficulties came in i suspect

Thanks for your feedback, katie and okok. I think the dormers are growing on me - they do seem to be in many of the farmhouse plans.

Assuming we can do an unfinished basement with at least 1 more guest room, this is the best plan I've seen so far even though the layout of the closets in the second and third bedrooms doesn't seem ideal. Most of the other plans I'm looking at don't have 2 bedrooms on the main floor and we want our DD downstairs with us.

Do you think the interior kitchen would be too dark if it stayed in its current location? I was thinking it might be nice to have a fireplace in the dining room/keeping room, instead of switching the kitchen to that area and putting in all windows instead.

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i really like a lot of natural light in my kitchen, the adjacent rooms have lots of windows and it would be very open to those rooms
the porch ceiling is vaulted so that would provide more light
what direction will the back of the house be facing? that may be the key to whether that room will be light enough or not
also what sort of window coverings will you be using?

we've owned 2 homes where the kitchen was sort of in the middle of the home (no direct windows) and those didn't bother me at all

i do love your plan...

okokok - the front of the house would be facing northeast so the rear keeping room and family room should get southwest exposure. My current kitchen only has one sliding door in the attached eat in area and it seems too dark, but it faces north.

The lot is wooded but I expect we would clear just enough trees from the back of the property to have a yard and perhaps a separate second structure for DH's shop. If privacy isn't an issue, I'm not sure if we would have window coverings in common areas - we don't in our current house.

Did you decide to build this house? We are currently under construction using this house plan.

pulliam - we ended up purchasing another property that has an existing 3000 sf house so we'll be remodeling rather than building new.

Love this plan though and would be really interested to follow your progress. We might try to incorporate some aspects of the plan into our remodel since it will pretty much be a gut and replace everything job!

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Pulliam03 - we are in final design phase with Tallaway plan. Is your build complete? Would love to see pics.

C R -- I'm very interested in this floor plan and would so appreciate you sharing any interior photos if you have them?

I FOUND SOME INTERIOR PICTURES! Haha here's the link: http://pin.it/FndjDQI (though they mentioned that they turned the dining room into a bedroom so they could have all their kids on the main floor). Hope this helps whoever else is wondering what the Tallaway floorplan looks like! :)

KaylaF, thanks for finding the pictures. It appears to me they built a reverse of the floor plan. Everyone, including us, seem to be using the keeping room for dining and repurposing the formal dining room. We're making it a study/library type space. We are also inserting a breezeway between the garage and mud room that gives better access to the back door for family entrance and backyard. No longer have to go through the garage or porch to get to the back yard. The roof remains continuous so that the breezeway is covered. In Florida, so weather not an issue for us.

We are planning on building this plan in the fall. Would love to see photos of your construction.

Here are a few. Let me know what specific areas/rooms you’d like to see and I’ll add those. We absolutely love this floor plan. We made several changes: master bath configuration, took out butlers pantry and split the depth with another niche in hall and built in shelving in MBR, changed roof to a hip roof, moved entry to bedroom #3 and relocated closet for more privacy. This also allowed for a linen closet in BR#2 ‘s bath.

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Do you any pictures of the back of the house? Did you leave the formal dining or use it for something else? Thanks.

Also a picture of the kitchen from the dining area if you would. I love your house.

Here are two of the back of the house, screened porch, breezeway, and the back of the triple garage, the kitchen from DR, and our music/reading room (formal DR on original plans).

Thanks so much for sending these! We are meeting with Mr. Ginn later this month to finalize our plans. It is a great house!

Congratulations! It’s a terrifically livable floor plan. We made just a few changes to Mitch Ginn’s original floor plan. Have been in about 15 mos. and wouldn’t change a thing! Where are you building?

Anyone built this plan lately? We are in the beginning stages of building and would love to see more photos of this plan.

We have just started -- blocks are laid! Can update with photos as we go along.

Wonderful where are you building? Did you make any changes?

We are hopefully building in Middle TN. Just putting our current home on the market.

We are building in Clarksville, Tennessee. We made a few changes -- closed in back porch for sunroom. added a small garage for lawn equipment on opposite side of garages.