Backyard Space Collection
Backyard Space floor plans reimagine outdoor living with thoughtfully designed layouts that maximize natural light and seamless indoor-outdoor flow. These contemporary home designs feature expansive glass doors, covered patios, and strategic window placement that frame garden views while maintaining privacy. Most plans include spacious rear decks or terraces that serve as natural extensions of the main living areas.
Inside, open-concept living spaces connect directly to outdoor entertaining zones through multi-panel sliding doors or folding glass walls. Kitchen layouts often incorporate island seating oriented toward the yard, while dining areas typically include breakfast nooks bathed in natural light. Primary suites commonly feature private garden access and spa-like bathrooms that blur the boundaries between indoor comfort and outdoor tranquility.
Modern Backyard Space plans adapt to today's needs with flexible spaces like home offices with garden views, outdoor kitchens with built-in grills, and covered lounge areas with lighting and heating elements for year-round use. Many designs incorporate sustainable features like deep roof overhangs for passive solar control, permeable paving, and native landscaping zones that reduce water usage while creating natural privacy screens.
These homes particularly appeal to gardeners, entertainers, and families seeking a stronger connection to nature without sacrificing modern amenities. The emphasis on outdoor living extends usable square footage beyond traditional interior spaces, creating opportunities for urban farming, meditation gardens, or children's play areas. Popular upgrades include pergolas, water features, built-in seating, and outdoor audio systems that enhance the backyard living experience.
With lot sizes ranging from compact urban parcels to expansive suburban properties, Backyard Space plans can be customized to maximize outdoor space at any scale. The collection includes both single-level and two-story options, with most designs featuring 3-4 bedrooms and 2-3 bathrooms arranged to preserve prime yard access for main living areas.
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All of our floor plans are designed in-house and come with various options to make your dream home custom to you.
House Plan Modifications
Since we design all of our plans, modifying a plan to fit your need could not be easier. Click on the plan, then under the image, you'll find a button to get a 100% free quote on all plan alteration requests. Our plans are all available with a variety of stock customization options.
Exterior Wall Construction Choices
Most of our stock plans come as 2x4 exterior wall construction by default. We do provide options to change the exterior wall type. Those options include 2x6 exterior walls, Post Frame Construction, CMU Block Construction, etc.
Foundation Types
When de signing our house plans, a default foundation is set for a given plan. If possible, we include options to change the foundation type to better match your construction needs. For instance, if the default foundation is an unfinished basement, you'll have the option to change the foundation type to a walkout foundation, crawlspace, or slab foundation.
Please note: Some of our plans are designed with special foundation needs, such as post and pier for waterfront properties. These plans may not allow an option to choose another foundation type. If you find yourself in need of an alternate foundation and aren't given the choice, please fill out the alteration request on the plan page.
Right Reading Reverse
One of our more popular options is reversing the plan. Ordering the reverse option will not only flip the plan on the sets for you, it will also correct the text to make the plan read correctly while reversed.
CAD Files
All of our plans are offered as digital PDF downloads. If you want to make changes to the plan yourself, there is an add-on option that will give you the CAD files. Our CAD files are exported in AutoCAD format. You must have software capable of opening CAD files to use them. This option is great if you are in the business of home building and need to make slight changes to the plans per lot.
Cost to Build Report
All of our house plans come with a 100% free cost-to-build report. Just find the orange section on the plan page, type in your zip code, and choose your finish quality level. Note that this tool is for estimation purposes only and should not be used in any other way.
Garage Choices
We have multiple options for any desired garage location or type. We offer plans with detached garages, courtyard garages, side-load garages, front load, and rear load garages.
License Types
We offer 2 types of licenses for your house plan. A single-use license means that the plan can be built only once by the person who purchases the plan. An unlimited-build license is meant for pro builders that are planning to build the plan multiple times.
Best Price Guarantee
You may find our plans on other vendors’ websites. Since we design all of our plans we can offer a true price match guarantee. If you find another site selling our plans for cheaper than we are, we will match it.