We just spent the most wonderful vacation with our dear friends in the picture-perfect town of Wilmette, IL (a north shore Chicago suburb). Most of the homes in the area were built in the Arts & Crafts style of the 1920's, and the cobblestone streets are lined with enormous mature trees. I quickly fell in

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This classic Craftsman bungalow cottage is both beautiful and cost efficient. A front porch with a large gable give it great curb appeal. A simple roofline and rectangular foundation shape keeps costs down so you can put the savings into things like energy-efficient appliances and extra insulation. The well-functioning living space means less energy is needed over the life of the home. An open floor plan and flex space that can be used differently by each homeowner are added bonuses. Upstairs, three bedrooms and two baths complete the home. Related Plans: Get alternate versions with house plans 50102PH (2,095 sq. ft.), 50116PH and 50146PH (2,175 sq. ft.), 50147PH (2,268 sq. ft.), 50151PH (2,580 sq. ft.), 50187PH (2,590 sq. ft.) and 50123PH (3,570 sq. ft. with a finished lower level).

Full Specs & Features Dimension Depth : 54' Height : 34' Width : 42' Area First Floor: 1769 sq/ft height 9' Second Floor: 1386 sq/ft height 8' * Total Square Footage typically only includes conditioned space and does not include garages, porches, bonus rooms, or decks. Ceiling Main Ceiling : 9" Upper Ceiling Ft : 8" Roof Primary Pitch : 18:12 Roof Framing : Truss Roof Type : Asphalt Exterior Wall Framing Exterior Wall Finish : Siding Framing : Wood - 2x6 Bedroom Features Fireplace Formal Dining Room Guest Suite Main Floor Master Bedroom Split Bedrooms Walk In Closet Kitchen Features Breakfast Nook Kitchen Island Kitchenette Wet Bar Additional Room Features Den Office Study Computer Family Room Keeping Room Great Room Living Room Loft Main Floor Laundry Mud Room Open Floor Plan Vaulted / Cathedral Ceilings Outdoor Spaces Balcony Courtyard Covered Front Porch More Jack & Jill Bath Rooms Bedroom 2: 223 sq/ft width 17' x depth 13' 2" Bedroom 3: 156 sq/ft width 12' x depth 13' Bedroom 4: 168 sq/ft width 13' 6" x depth 12' 6" Dining Room: 195 sq/ft width 13' x depth 15' Family Room: 310 sq/ft width 20' x depth 15' 6" Kitchen: 175 sq/ft width 11' 8" x depth 15' Master Bedroom: 210 sq/ft width 14' x depth 15' Sitting Area: 266 sq/ft width 17' x depth 15' 8" What's Included In This Plan Set See a sample plan set Please note: If you are building a Visbeen Architects design in the state of Michigan, please give us a call to confirm availability. Construction in the state of Michigan requires special permission from the Architect. All plans are drawn at ¼” scale or larger and include : Foundation Plan: Drawn to 1/4" scale, this page shows all necessary notations and dimensions including support columns, walls and excavated and unexcavated areas. Exterior Elevations: A blueprint picture of all four sides showing exterior materials and measurements. Floor Plan(s): Detailed plans, drawn to 1/4" scale for each level showing room dimensions, wall partitions, windows, etc. Cross Section: A vertical cutaway view of the house from roof to foundation showing details of framing, construction, flooring and roofing. » See important information before purchasing. Questions? Call 1-800-528-8070 Plan Set PDF Set: $1270.75 PDF plan sets are best for fast electronic delivery and inexpensive local printing. Foundation Crawlspace: $0.00 Ideal for semi-sloped or level lot, home can be built off of grade, typically 18” - 48”. Framing Wood 2x6: $0.00 Wood 2x6 Exterior Walls Additional Options Right-Reading Reverse: $165.75 Choose this option to reverse your plans and to have the text and dimensions readable. Audio Video Design: $140.25 Receive an overlay sheet with suggested placement of audio and video components. Comprehensive Material List: $420.75 A complete list of building supplies needed to construct the infrastructure of your new house, plus an overlay of materials shown directly on your PDF (foundation to rooftop with interior and exterior materials), and a detailed, itemized door and window schedule showing all sizes and types. Please allow 5-7 Business Days for completion. Note, the Comprehensive list is only available with a PDF purchase. The Comprehensive list can be ordered no matter what additional plan options you have selected. Construction Guide: $33.15 Educate yourself about basic building ideas with these four detailed diagrams that discuss electrical, plumbing, mechanical, and structural topics. Lighting Design: $140.25 Receive an overlay sheet with suggested placement of lighting fixtures. * Alternate Foundations may take time to prepare. ** Options with a fee may take time to prepare. Please call to confirm.

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Specifications  Total Living Area: 4851 sq ft Main Living Area: 3730 sq ft Upper Living Area: 1121 sq ft Garage Area: 947 sq ft Garage Type: Attached Garage Bays: 3 Foundation Types: Basement Exterior Walls: 2x4 House Width: 106'2 House Depth: 87'4 Number of Stories: 1.5 Bedrooms: 5 Full Baths: 5 Half Baths: 1 Max Ridge Height: 28'6 from Front Door Floor Level Primary Roof Pitch: 0 Roof Framing: Unknown Porch: 629 sq ft Formal Dining Room: Yes FirePlace: Yes 1st Floor Master: Yes Main Ceiling Height: 10' Upper Ceiling Height: 9' * May require additional drawing time. Special Features: Deck or Patio Elevator Entertaining Space Exercise Room Front Porch Mudroom Open Floor Plan Outdoor Fireplace Pantry Safe Room Screened Porch Storage Space Study

This house is in the Boston suburb of Waltham. It's called Stonehurst. My house is half way up the Hudson Valley, remote from any suburb. It's called Daheim. Stonehurst was finished in 1886. Daheim was completed in 1889, not counting additions which continued to be tacked on until the First World War. Stonehurst was the summer place of a Boston Brahmin named Robert Treat Paine (1835-1910). Daheim was the country estate of Charles F. Dieterich (1836-1927), a penniless immigrant who became America's "Gas King." The eastern end of Stonehurst is a heady brew of Arts and Crafts, Shingle Style and the Richardsonian Romanesque. The western end is a stylistically unrelated Second Empire house, dragged to the site in 1884 and attached to the new house under construction. Here's the old house before it was moved. Mrs. Paine's father, George Lyman, gave it to her and her husband as a wedding present. In fact, he gave houses to several of his married children, creating a family compound on his Waltham estate called the Vale. When Lyman died in 1880, his heirs subdivided the estate and Mr. & Mrs. Paines went to work on something grander and more modern. Seeing the nearly completed Stonehurst upon arrival home from an 1885 European tour, Mrs. Paine described it as "grave, but interesting." Whether or not you find it beautiful, Stonehurst is a thoroughbred of its type - in conception, plan, detail and execution. My house also incorporates an older house, in this case a vernacular balloon frame farmhouse as opposed to a Second Empire mini-manse. Stonehurst's architect was the famous Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886), numbero uno in the "recognized trinity..(with Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright)...of American architecture." Daheim's architect was James E. Ware (1846-1918), a busy fellow, but not a brilliant one. Richardson was Beaux Arts trained (the second American after R.M. Hunt to be so), and extremely versatile (the New York State Asylum in Buffalo and Capitol in Albany, mansions across the northeast and midwest, and most famously, Trinity Church in downtown Boston). Richardson had a taste for medieval gravitas and Roman arches. He is one of very few architects with a style named after him, to wit, the "Richardsonian Romanesque." Phillips Brooks, Anglican Bishop of Massachusetts, described his death at age 47 as, "the passing of a great mountain from the landscape." The free spending Richardson died broke, incidentally, leaving a wife and 6 children in grim financial straights. The City of Waltham, owner of Stonehurst since 1974, in concert with the Friends of Stonehurst, are among the most sensitive stewards of historic property that I've ever seen. The house is in brilliant condition, sits on 109 unsullied acres, feels like it's still in the middle of the country, and is in regular use by an appreciative community which, among other things, loves to get married there. Stonehurst's landscape doesn't really figure in this post, but I will note that it was carefully designed by Frederick Law Olmsted himself. His plan, unfortunately, is not readily discernible today. Here's Robert Treat Paine, painted in 1884 at the age of 49 by Hubert von Herkomer. Stonehurst's builder was everything Daheim's was not. Grandson of an eponymous signer of the Declaration of Independence, pillar of Boston society, philanthropist and social reformer, he was also, as chairman of Trinity Church's building committee, the man who catapulted Richardson into the big leagues by hiring him to design Trinity Church. Mrs. Paine, nee Lydia Lyman (1837-1897), was the granddaughter of Theodore Lyman, a rich Boston merchant who, in 1793, began developing the 400-acre Waltham estate he called the Vale. The City of Waltham, located 10 miles from the Boston Common, was a late 19th century industrial center which, curiously, also contained great country estates. That these aristocratic preserves should be located within two miles of Waltham's famous factories was anomalous, to say the least, but no more anomalous than their survival to the present day. Stonehurst, the Vale and Gore Place are all still with us, all still in beautiful condition, each on a remarkably spacious site, and all open to the public. Here is la famille Paine, photographed on the terrace at Stonehurst in 1905. The beautiful ivy of the past has, once again, fallen victim to fanatical modern theories of maintenance. Paterfamilias R.T. Paine, widowered since 1897 and looking older than his 70 years, sits at the center, surrounded by children and grandchildren. Robert Treat Paine Jr., summer occupant of Stonehurst from his father's death in 1910 until his own at the age of 96 in 1961, stands in the back row, second from right. The little boy, fourth from left in the front, is Theodore Lyman Storer, who in 1974 gave Stonehurst and 109 acres to the City of Waltham. In the image below, we've stepped into a small anteroom just inside the front door, which is out of sight to the left. Straight ahead is the living hall, a popular (if misleadingly labeled, since people rarely 'lived' in it) feature of better quality Shingle Style houses of the 1880s. De rigeur in a living hall were floor space as vast as the client could afford, a showy staircase and at least one opulent fireplace. Taken together, these elements formed a sort of homage to the medieval halls of aristocratic barons. Of course, the halls back then constituted the baron's entire house (or virtually so) and his entire household (or almost all of it) ate, slept, and did whatever else you do at home right in that one big room. Living halls in 1880s America, while retaining an aristocratic symbolism, were considerably more sanitary not to mention centrally heated. When Mr. Storer gave Stonehurst to the city, the furiture was all still in it. It's stored today, out of the way of weddings and functions. High class Victorian interiors, especially from the '80s and '90s, illustrate an odd preoccupation with places to sit. One would think these people couldn't manage 6 steps without having to stop and park it. To the the east of the hall, through that door on the left in the image below, is the so-called Summer Parlor. The family used Stonehurst six months of each year; the rest of the time the house was closed and the furniture shrouded. Another place to sit. Stonehurst's interior and exterior detailing set it apart from lesser houses built during the same period. As I say, you may not like its asymmetrical style or generally dark palette, but it is a showcase of quality craftsmanship and original design. On the north side of the summer parlor, through the door below on the right, is Mr. Paine's study, with furniture undisturbed. A door from the study connects to a corridor leading back to the big hall. En route is a guest bath, looking unchanged from 1886. The door in the image below leads into the Second Empire house, where a Richardson-designed corridor has replaced the original staircase. The front door to the old house, now located in the dining room, is visible in the distance. Rooms in the old house were distributed more or less symmetrically on either side of the center hall. The renovated dining room combines a portion of the hall with the former front parlor. Richardson made what was a library or maybe a study on the other side of the hall into a serving pantry for the new dining room. The pantry sink makes a compelling argument for stone or metal countertops. Note the very un-pantry-like fireplace in the imge below. The door beside it, which probably once led to a dining room, now connects to service pantries, back stairs, an aviary (really; they kept birds) and a new kitchen. A one-story service wing, tacked onto the north side of the old house, contained a large kitchen and laundry, a new back door and a servants' hall used today as an office. The kitchen and laundry have become a modern catering facility, and the old kitchen stove survives as a sort of souvenir. Let's return to the family areas. The door on the right in the image below leads to the serving pantry. I'd assume this back stair was inserted into the old dining room during the Richardson alterations. We're back in the dining room corridor, the dining room itself being behind the camera. The living hall and summer parlor are in the distance to the east. We're turning right into the so-called Autumn Parlor. The Autumnn Parlor, originally the rear parlor before the old house was moved, has remained essentially unchanged. This area on the main floor, plus the bedrooms above it, speak with a very different architectural accent than the H.H. Richardson additions. The adjacent Bow Parlor, sandwiched between the Autumn Parlor and the living hall, shows how far domestic taste in house interiors evolved in 20 years. There's more wood, less light, lower ceilings, no symmetry and an obligatory built-in place to sit. Here's another place to sit en route to the main stair. And here's another, just in case you need a rest before you start climbing. The main stair at Stonehurst is a beautiful piece of cabinet grade carpentry, much nicer than my stair at Daheim. My beautiful Daheim is a great big friendly Victorian mansion, whereas Stonehurst is a design classic. I say this not to denegrate my house, which I know is better than most, but to underscore the difference between good upper middle class work and high quality professional design. The second floor landing overlooks a picturesque (albeit useless) mezzanine, into whose fireplace is chiselled a syrupy inscription from "The Chambered Nautilus" by Oliver Wendell Holmes, that reads: "Build Thee More Stately Mansions, O My Soul." The wall on the right used to be the rear exterior wall of the old house. The window in the middle of it still opens into a bedroom. The second floor of Stonehurst is light on bathrooms - there are only 3. This is inconvenient considering the fact that there are 8 family bedrooms. The first bath opens directly onto the second floor landing; there are none en suite. I wonder who did the drawings for this bafflingly complicated bathroom. Next to the bathroom is a linen closet, complete with 1921 warning not to carry back to town the things supposed to stay at Waltham. Running east from the second floor landing, down the spine of the Richardson addition, is a corridor leading to 4 family bedrooms, one master bedroom, and one bathroom. Two of the bedrooms are furnished and open to the public; two are closed and stacked with storage; all are conscientiously, assymetrically, inventively, unexpectedly, a bit heavy-handedly, and elaborately picturesque, very much in the manner of the "American Queen Anne." The master and one other bedroom open onto a loggia with south views down wide lawns to, at least at one time, the rooftops of Waltham. How fab is bath number two? The detachable pipe stuck in the drain is a combination stopper and overflow. Why not combine the medicine cabinet with a fireplace? The owners' bedroom occupies the stone tower at the eastern end of the house. I have a fireplace, benches galore and a built-in wardrobe in my bedroom too, and Dieterich was probably richer than Paine. However, Dieterich's architect was not in the same league as H.H. Richardson. A dressing room with sink and closets (and nothing else) adjoins the master. The corridor in the image below, running west down the middle of the old house, gives access to three guest rooms, a guest bath, and a smaller corridor leading to the 2nd floor servants' quarters. Almost at the corridor's end, a relocated door memorializes four generations of growing children. For all the charm of H.H. Richardson, these older bedrooms have a serenity missing in the rest of the house. Things to note: the window that overlooks the stair; the fireplaces that are all alike; the unspoilt views. From the guest bath in the west to the owner's dressing room in the east is a considerable distance. A narrow corridor to the left outside the door below leads to the back stair, 3 maids' rooms and a maids' bath. More servants' rooms were on 3, but they have been converted into offices and a staff kitchen. The attic hasn't changed a bit, even down to stacks of dusty trunks. Time to head down, then out via the anteroom through which we entered. The floor plans below give a pretty good - if not a very exact - idea of Richardson's plan. Robert Treat Paine was a progressive supporter of trade unionism and affordable housing who labored throughout his life to better the conditions of the working class. All manner of clubs and institutions were invited annually to enjoy his Waltham estate. The view below shows a visit of the Wells Memorial and Peoples' Institute in June of 1890. I loved Stonehurst; the link is www.stonehurstwaltham.org.

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Specifications  Total Living Area: 1825 sq ft Main Living Area: 1072 sq ft Upper Living Area: 753 sq ft Unfinished Basement Area: 417 sq ft Garage Area: 483 sq ft Garage Type: Detached Garage Bays: 2 Foundation Types: Crawlspace Exterior Walls: 2x6 House Width: 57'4 House Depth: 64'0 Number of Stories: 2 Bedrooms: 3 Full Baths: 3 Max Ridge Height: 33'4 from Front Door Floor Level Primary Roof Pitch: 12:12 Roof Framing: Truss and/or Stick Porch: 361 sq ft FirePlace: Yes 1st Floor Master: Yes Main Ceiling Height: 9'0 Upper Ceiling Height: 8'0 Special Features: Breezeway Computer Nook Dropzone Front Porch Pantry Rear Porch Storage Space

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"In My Dreams" Giclee edition print - printed especially for you! The second photo from the top shows the print in the matte. The signature and title will be added per order, so that's not shown in the photo. I have also included a photo of what this might look like framed and hung in a room setting! image size: 8” x 8” matte size / frame size 12” x 12" A stock size frame should be easy to find, and you can just pop this print right in! Each print is signed and titled on the matte, and dated with the year the original painting was done on the reverse. Each print includes foamcore backing, mounted print, matte and is individually bagged in acetate. The mattes I use are all white – white reflects color from surrounding objects, so no matter where you hang this print or want to move it around your home, the matte will pick up reflected color from the room! Plus, it really makes the color in the prints pop. This print will be made specifically for you! Specifics: This print is reproduced from an original painting by me, Jan Schmuckal. It is printed in-house on lovely, Epson Watercolor paper. I experimented with many different papers before I settled on this one: It is archival, water-resistant, fade-resistant, and has a beautiful richness! My prints are made using Epson Pigment Inks, which are tested and guaranteed not to fade for at least 120+ years. COPYRIGHT: I retain all copyrights to my artwork. ALL MATTED PRINTS SHIP VIA USPS PRIORITY MAIL - you are paying actual shipping costs plus materials for shipping. Please be patient with shipping delays caused by circumstances beyond my control with postal processing facilities. EVERY package I ship goes thru the Chicago USPS hub. No refunds due to shipping delays will be issued. I'm working hard to ship weekly to avoid any extra delays beyond my normal processing time. A note: if you live in an apartment building, and you MAY live in a building with good neighbors, or a doorman, or in a splendid neighborhood....but I can't tell that....so I will require a signature on orders shipped to an apartment or suite.