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New Home Designs for Sale

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These few home designs are available to new clients. If you are seriously interested in one of them for your new home, we will be happy to further describe the house plans to you. Then, if you wish to proceed toward purchase of the home design, we will meet with you to discuss the details of the design plan and how it might be personalized for you. This is done under a preliminary contract with you. Once we have a full working contract to proceed, we can complete the design and produce the construction plans for your new home. We are also available for construction supervision duties.

The New California Heritage Style

This home design presents an original new style created by Leigh Douglas Johnson especially for home sites in the lower foothills of California. The style draws directly upon historical Japanese and Chinese architecture ( especially that of the higher classes) and also on the historical Spanish Colonial style found in this country's South West and California during that colonial era, and revived in the early 20th century in California. The Spanish and the Chinese had a huge impact in early California, and this new style seeks to pay homage to this heritage. The barrel tile roofing is found in both the Spanish and the Oriental sources as is the stucco wall finish. The windows shown here are a modified Craftsman style readily available from many window manufacturers. The special treatments where the roof edges and the exterior walls flare outward is taken from the Oriental sources.

This is only one particular design employing this new style and it may readily be used for our future client's custom home designs. The style is adaptable to homes of virtually any size. The wide eave projections are suited for warmer climates, to help to shade the windows from direct sunlight. The interiors are open and spacious, with larger windows to keep the interiors full of indirect natural light.

The particular design shown here includes a master suite, guest suite, large entertaining great room, dining room, butler's pantry with wine cellar, large kitchen/family room, laundry, theater, library, a loggia, semi detached garage complex, 3 other bedrooms, and 6 bathrooms. In all it contains 7,600 sq' of interior living space.

New Tuscan Villa Home Design

This newest design is a Tuscan Villa style architecture, somewhat in the form of the famous Andrea Palladio's 16th Century villas of the Vineto region of Tuscany. This unique home design includes a large master suite with a library, spacious living and dining areas, kitchen and family great room, a walk-in pantry, two bedrooms with walk in closets and individual baths, a dynamic guest entry foyer, powder room, pool bath, and even a pet bathroom, all on one floor, plus a guest suite and/or media room on the second floor opening onto a patio deck above the entry loggia. An expansive veranda spans the rear of the house, with outdoor kitchen and living areas overlooking your pool and gardens. The garage has room for two large vehicles, lots of storage, and a transition (mud) room before entering the kitchen/family room area. There is also a storage garage for bikes, mower, and such. In this form it is comprised of 5,000 sq ft of livable interior space. This home design plan is flexible to be built with anywhere from 4,000 to 6,000 sq ft. livable, above grade, with options for additional subterranean areas such as wine cellars, theater, gym, etc.

A Contemporary Tuscan Styled Home

A New Tahoe Style Mountain Home

This 5,600sq' Tahoe mountain home is designed to provide a generous and impressive environment in which to entertain and house guests. With four guest suites plus the master suite, a spacious and lofty great room with game room and large gourmet kitchen open to it, and a dining room with spectacular lofty ceiling and tri part view window, it will provide owners with all they could ask for in a Tahoe style home. Rustic stone work, exposed timber truss work evident throughout and large featured round top windows bring the Tahoe environment into this mountain home design. The rear side of the house spreads wide from the central, octagonal, 2 1/2 story great room which takes advantage of panoramic mountain and Lake Tahoe views, while the angled plan of the house creates a welcoming courtyard as one approaches the main entry.

A smaller version of this home design

A new version of the "Tahoe Style Mountain Home" design with 4,200sq'., it still has 5 bedroom suites and the lofty Great Room spaces of the original.

Unique Campestrian Arms Home Design

Shown here are computer renderings of a large Mediterranean home design with a hint of Moorish architecture. This unique home design is complete and ready for purchase. Personalization and design modifications are certainly possible.

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Rear view

This is a family home design, with ample space for the family, as well as lots of great entertaining spaces for larger gatherings. Three large children's rooms with private baths, a large family room with areas for creative activities, a gourmet kitchen, pantry large enough for catered affairs, dining for 12-14 adults, a large great room with sit down wet bar, and doors that slide into the walls to create a 16' wide opening to the sweeping veranda, which has a full outdoor kitchen. Also, there is a large powder room, office, a separate den with concealed large screen video, and a huge master suite with sitting room. An open circular stair rises up from the great room, to another large circular room with a domed ceiling. This room is designed for use as a large children's play room and evening use as a ballroom for adult play. From the den/game room, an elevator takes you down to wine cellar, theater and gym areas. This custom home design, as described, contains up to 11,000 square feet of interior space, plus the huge veranda and an oversized 3 car garage. Guest house(s) can be styled to match.

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Mediterranean / French Country Contemporary Style Home

Pictured here is a scale model of an original new home design done on speculation and offered here for sale; perhaps this house architecture would be right for you. It is most specifically designed for a couple whose children are grown and who love to entertain. This home design style is influenced by Mediterranean architecture, with up to date American flair. The exterior of this beautiful home may also be partially finished in a stone facing of your choice.

The main house is a one bedroom home with his and hers bathroom and large closets in the master suite wing. The main floor also includes a large great room, dining room, kitchen designed for entertaining, a large working pantry (with direct access from the three car garage area below via a lift), a large powder room, a men's room and the main floor tower room. In the tower, a sweeping circular stair takes one up to the library and roof deck, while another takes one down to the lounge, theater, wine tasting room, wine cellar, storage areas and a large gym or play room. The upper levels of this unique home design total 4,200 sq ft, and the lower level adds 3,000 ft for a total of 7,200 sq feet of spacious indoor living. The sweeping veranda at the rear of the house adds 1,200 sq ft of outdoor living space and guest house(s) can be styled to match.

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