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Mascord House Plan 1176B: The Decorah
The Decorah

Plan 1176B

Mascord House Plan 1176B: The Decorah

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Plan 1176B - The Decorah - Everything You Need in a Comfortable Cottage

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A Walk Through The Decorah

Everyone needs a place to get away from the stresses of day to day life. Whether you choose to make that retreat your permanent home or simply the vacation destination that you visit when the need arises, the Decorah has you covered. Inside this home, the open floor plan lends itself well to a variety of lifestyles. If it is wintertime on the coast, invite your friends to stay awhile. In the evenings, you’ll spend time chatting around the fire in the great room as you watch clouds roll in over the ocean.

Even though the Decorah features a beautifully compact design, you’ll still be able to offer your friends the comfort of their own guest bedroom. Shelving and a built-in guest bed will make them feel right at home. If you don’t plan to host guests, then this space can be turned into anything you desire — a home office, a studio or a library, where you can sit and enjoy your favorite books.

If you enjoy living on a small scale, then you will come to love the Decorah’s kitchen. The galley design ensures that the kitchen is compact and easy to use, but gives you just as much room to work as a kitchen twice its size. The refrigerator, sink and range are all within a few steps of each other, but the counters separating them will give you plenty of room to chop vegetables, knead dough or set out food fresh from the oven to cool.

Your two favorite spots in this home will be the front and rear porches. On the front porch, you can while away the afternoons, enjoying the cool sea breeze and the shade. In the winter, you’ll find yourself decorating the porch pillars with evergreen boughs, ribbons and twinkling lights, while the summer means hanging baskets of flowers. The rear porch gives you privacy, a beautiful view out over the ocean and a great entertaining space. With the addition of a few deck chairs, you and your friends can sit outside and chat long into the night.

As the evening rolls around to bedtime, you’ll be looking forward to your cozy bed and warm blankets. This home’s bedroom is spacious enough to be relaxing, and it is right next to the full bathroom. Take a quick rinse in the tiled shower and then turn in for the night. Doubtless, you’ll be excited to start a brand new day!

Home Details

Heated Space

  • Main Floor

    960 SqFt
  • Total Area

    960 SqFt

Beds and Baths

  • Bedrooms

    2
  • Full Baths

    1
  • Floors

    1

Exterior Dimensions

Garage

  • Garage Bays

    No Garage
  • Garage Location

    None
  • Garage Orientation

    Detached

Structure

  • Roof Framing

    Truss
  • Roof Material

    Shake/Comp Roof
  • Snowload

    25 lb/sf
  • Wall Framing

    2 x 6
  • Main Roof Pitch

    8/12
  • Additional Code Compliance

    City of Portland

Cape Cod

Our Cape Cod collection typically houses plans with steeped pitch gable roofs with dormers, and usually two stories with bedrooms upstairs.

The first Cape Cod–style houses fall into three categories: the half, three-quarter, and full Cape. The half Cape typically bears a door to one side of the house and two windows on one side of the door; the three-quarter Cape has a door with two windows on one side and a single window on the other, while the full Cape consists of a front door in the center of the home, flanked on each side by two windows. Otherwise, the three categories of early Cape Cod houses were nearly identical in layout. Inside the front door, a central staircase led to the small upper level, which consisted of two children’s bedrooms. The lower floor consisted of a hall for daily living (including cooking, dining, and gathering) and the parlor, or master bedroom.

Colonial

This is a colonial style home. Our Colonial home designs typically have an accentuated front door (usually centered), perhaps with a decorative crown and supported by pillasters or extended forward and supported by slender columns to form an entry porch. Doors commonly have overhead fan lights or sidelights. The facade normally shows symmetrically balanced windows. The foot print of the home is typically a simple, rectangular shape.

Cottage

This home is typical of the cottage style. In modern usage, a cottage is usually a modest, often cozy dwelling, typically in a rural or semi-rural location. However there are cottage-style dwellings in cities, and in places such as Canada the term exists with no connotations of size at all (cf. vicarage or hermitage). In the United Kingdom the term cottage also tends to denote rural dwellings of traditional build, although it can also be applied to dwellings of modern construction which are designed to resemble traditional ones ("mock cottages").

Traditional

Traditional homes freely borrow from a number of historic styles and combine them to relay a new expression. Many historic styles are also 'traditional' in nature, and are incorporated into the Mascord Collection. Colonial, Tudor, Craftsman, Cape Cod - in this collection of home plans you'll discover floor plans that reflect modern lifestyles with spacious rooms, flexible spaces and modern conveniences, but mixed with distinct architectural flair, curb appeal and modern aesthetic. Expect elements such as free-flowing kitchens, breakfast nooks, and family room combinations.

Vacation

This plan has been chosen as part of our vacation home collection. Vacation homes generally have central, open living spaces and offer a great connection to the outdoors, perhaps including an outdoor kitchen or BBQ area. Some homes will have just a few bedrooms, creating a cozy private get-away for your family. Other homes will feature many bedrooms, designed fords family get-togethers at the coast or in the mountains - a place you can invite friends and family to join you in outdoor fun.

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