This 2,926-square-foot Modern Farmhouse is designed for homeowners who want a spacious one-level home with plenty of room for everyday family life, entertaining, working from home, and enjoying the outdoors. With three bedrooms, two full bathrooms, one half bathroom, a two-car side-entry garage, dedicated office, flexible room, Jack-and-Jill bathroom, open floor plan, formal dining room, large kitchen island, walk-in pantry, mud room, main-floor laundry, and more than 1,100 square feet of covered porch space, this home offers an unusually complete package.
All 2,926 square feet of heated living space is located on the first floor. That makes the house especially attractive to homeowners who prefer single-level living and want their bedrooms, living spaces, laundry, kitchen, and essential daily functions conveniently arranged without stairs.
The home has a broad footprint measuring approximately 92 feet wide by 70 feet 8 inches deep. Its overall height is about 27 feet 10 inches, while the main roof carries an 8:12 pitch that gives the exterior a strong farmhouse silhouette.
The attached two-car garage provides approximately 683 square feet of unheated space. Even more impressive is the outdoor living area, with approximately 466 square feet of front porch space and 688 square feet of rear porch space, for a combined 1,154 square feet of porch and patio area.
Exterior & First Impressions
The exterior combines traditional farmhouse proportions with a cleaner modern interpretation of the style.
The broad one-story footprint gives the home a substantial presence, while the steep roofline adds height and visual interest.
The two-car garage is positioned along the side of the house, keeping the front elevation focused on the home’s entry, windows, roofline, and generous porch rather than allowing garage doors to dominate the façade.
This side-entry arrangement is particularly effective on a wide home because it helps maintain a balanced and welcoming appearance from the street.
The exterior also benefits from the strong horizontal lines typical of farmhouse architecture. The result is a home that feels comfortable and established rather than overly formal.
466 Sq. Ft. Front Porch
The front porch provides approximately 466 square feet of covered outdoor living space.
That is a serious porch, not a decorative strip of concrete pretending to be one.
There is enough room for multiple seating arrangements, including rocking chairs, benches, porch swings, small tables, planters, and other outdoor furniture.
The porch creates a sheltered transition between the yard and the front entry while giving the house its strongest farmhouse characteristic.
It can become a comfortable place for morning coffee, evening conversations, reading, relaxing, or simply enjoying the view of the property.
The large porch also gives the home a wider visual presence and makes the front elevation feel especially welcoming.
Welcoming Foyer
The foyer provides a clear transition between the front porch and the interior living spaces.
The first floor features 10-foot ceilings, creating a generous sense of volume throughout the home.
Rather than using a large amount of square footage on unnecessary corridors, the entry connects naturally with the central living areas and private rooms.
This allows the home to feel open while still maintaining distinct zones for work, bedrooms, entertaining, and household functions.
Open Floor Plan
The central portion of the home uses an open floor plan that connects the kitchen, dining area, and main living spaces.
This arrangement makes the interior feel larger and more connected while allowing different household activities to happen simultaneously.
Someone can prepare dinner in the kitchen while children work at the island, family members relax in the living area, and guests gather around the dining table.
The open arrangement also makes furniture placement more flexible and creates long sightlines across the main living spaces.
For a nearly 3,000-square-foot house, this is important because the home feels expansive without relying on dozens of separate rooms.
Kitchen with Large Island
The kitchen is positioned at the center of the home’s social environment.
A large island provides additional preparation space and creates a natural gathering point for the family.
The island can accommodate casual seating, making it useful for breakfast, quick lunches, homework, baking, serving food, or chatting while dinner is being prepared.
Because the kitchen remains open to the surrounding living spaces, it becomes more than a place for cooking. It becomes one of the home’s main gathering areas.
The design also leaves room for homeowners to personalize the kitchen with farmhouse-style cabinetry, natural stone or quartz countertops, modern appliances, statement lighting, and contemporary hardware.
Walk-In Pantry
A dedicated walk-in pantry provides substantial storage immediately adjacent to the kitchen.
The pantry can hold bulk groceries, canned foods, small appliances, cookware, beverages, paper products, and household supplies.
This keeps the primary kitchen cabinets and countertops focused on the items used most frequently.
For homeowners who like buying groceries in bulk or keeping a well-stocked kitchen, the pantry can become one of the most appreciated rooms in the house.
It also helps keep the open kitchen visually clean, which matters when the kitchen is constantly on display from the dining and living areas.
Formal Dining Room
The formal dining room gives the home a dedicated space for family dinners, holidays, celebrations, and entertaining.
Its relationship with the kitchen makes serving meals convenient while maintaining enough separation to give the dining area its own identity.
A large dining table can comfortably anchor the room, while a statement chandelier can emphasize the farmhouse’s more refined side.
During larger gatherings, the dining room can work together with the kitchen and rear porch to create a continuous entertaining environment.
Private Owner’s Suite
The owner’s suite is positioned separately from the secondary bedrooms, creating an effective split-bedroom layout.
This gives the homeowners a private retreat while keeping the other bedrooms conveniently connected to the main living areas.
The bedroom provides enough space for a king-size bed, nightstands, dressers, seating, and additional furnishings.
Because the owner’s suite is located on the main floor, it remains convenient for everyday use and supports long-term single-level living.
Owner’s Bathroom
The owner’s suite includes a private full bathroom.
The bathroom provides dedicated facilities for the homeowners and can accommodate a generous vanity, shower, bathtub, toilet area, and storage depending on the final configuration.
The space can be finished with warm farmhouse materials or given a cleaner transitional appearance with contemporary fixtures and finishes.
With another full bathroom and a half bathroom elsewhere in the home, the owner’s bathroom can remain private rather than becoming the family’s default shared bathroom.
Owner’s Walk-In Closet
The owner’s suite includes dedicated walk-in closet storage.
The closet provides room for clothing, shoes, accessories, luggage, and seasonal belongings.
It can be organized into separate sections for two occupants, helping each person maintain a dedicated storage area.
A well-organized walk-in closet also allows the bedroom itself to remain focused on relaxation rather than being crowded with wardrobes and storage furniture.
Two Secondary Bedrooms
The home includes two secondary bedrooms, giving families space for children, teenagers, guests, or extended family members.
The bedrooms are separated from the owner’s suite, reinforcing the home’s split-bedroom organization.
Each room can be furnished with a bed, desk, dresser, storage furniture, and other personal items while maintaining comfortable circulation.
If the household does not require both rooms as permanent bedrooms, one can easily become a guest room, hobby room, nursery, or secondary workspace.
Jack-and-Jill Bathroom
The secondary bedroom area includes a Jack-and-Jill bathroom.
This arrangement allows two bedrooms to share convenient bathroom access while maintaining a greater degree of privacy than a conventional hallway bathroom.
It is an efficient solution for families because the bathroom can serve multiple occupants without requiring a separate full bathroom for each bedroom.
The Jack-and-Jill arrangement is particularly useful for children or teenagers who need convenient bathroom access during busy mornings.
Second Full Bathroom
The second full bathroom serves the home’s other occupants and provides additional capacity beyond the owner’s private bathroom.
With two full bathrooms and a half bathroom, the house is well equipped for a three-bedroom household and overnight guests.
The bathroom can be designed with durable materials, generous vanity storage, and a tub or shower arrangement suited to family use.
Guest Powder Room
A half bathroom provides a convenient facility for visitors.
Guests can use the powder room without entering the private bedroom areas, keeping the household’s personal spaces separate.
The powder room can also be given a more decorative finish because its smaller size makes it an excellent place for statement wallpaper, attractive lighting, distinctive hardware, or other design details.
Dedicated Home Office
The dedicated office is one of the home’s most useful flexible spaces.
It provides a quiet location for remote work, studying, reading, paperwork, or managing household affairs.
A large desk, computer equipment, bookshelves, filing cabinets, and comfortable seating can all fit naturally within the room.
The office can also become a library, craft room, music room, homework space, or private hobby area.
Having a separate office is particularly valuable in an open-concept home because it gives work its own territory rather than forcing the kitchen island to become a permanent workstation.
Flex Room
A dedicated flex room gives the home another layer of adaptability.
The room can be used as a playroom, hobby studio, exercise room, media room, secondary office, craft room, reading room, or informal family lounge.
Its purpose can change as the household changes.
A young family might use it as a playroom today, transform it into a homework area later, and eventually turn it into a hobby or entertainment space.
This is exactly the kind of room that helps a house remain useful for many years rather than being designed around one specific stage of family life.
Mud Room
The mud room creates a practical transition between the garage and the interior.
It provides space for coats, shoes, backpacks, sports equipment, bags, outdoor clothing, and other everyday belongings.
Built-in lockers, cubbies, hooks, shelves, and benches can make the area even more effective.
For a busy family, this room acts as a buffer between the messy outside world and the clean main living areas.
In other words, it is where the shoes go to live before they start organizing themselves throughout the house.
Main-Floor Laundry
The laundry room is located on the main floor, keeping everyday household chores convenient.
Since all three bedrooms are also on the first floor, laundry baskets do not need to travel between levels.
The room can include cabinets, shelving, hanging rods, a folding counter, and storage for detergents and cleaning products.
The main-floor location also makes the home more convenient for long-term living as household needs change.
Two-Car Side-Entry Garage
The attached two-car garage provides approximately 683 square feet of unheated space.
This gives homeowners room for two vehicles while still leaving useful capacity for tools, bicycles, lawn equipment, sports gear, storage cabinets, and seasonal belongings.
The side-entry configuration keeps the garage doors away from the front elevation and preserves the farmhouse character of the home.
The garage can also be organized into dedicated parking and storage zones so that vehicles do not have to compete with every piece of outdoor equipment the household owns.
Garage Storage
The generous garage footprint provides plenty of opportunities for organized storage.
Wall-mounted cabinets can hold tools and household supplies, while shelving can accommodate smaller equipment and seasonal belongings.
Overhead racks can be used for items that are not needed regularly, leaving the floor space available for vehicles and everyday equipment.
A section of the garage could also be arranged as a small workshop for DIY projects, gardening, bicycle maintenance, or household repairs.
688 Sq. Ft. Rear Porch
The rear porch is one of the home’s biggest lifestyle features.
At approximately 688 square feet, it is large enough to function as a genuine outdoor living room.
The space can accommodate several different zones, including lounge seating, outdoor dining, grilling, and entertainment.
Homeowners can create one area for relaxed seating and another for meals, allowing the porch to serve multiple purposes without feeling crowded.
During favorable weather, the rear porch effectively increases the home’s usable living environment without increasing the heated square footage.
Front and Rear Outdoor Living
The home provides approximately 1,154 square feet of combined front and rear porch space.
The front porch is more public and welcoming, while the rear porch can function as a private family retreat.
This creates two distinct outdoor experiences.
The front can be used for morning coffee, chatting with neighbors, and enjoying the street-facing landscape, while the rear can be dedicated to family meals, grilling, relaxing, and entertaining.
The large amount of covered outdoor space also gives homeowners considerable flexibility when selecting furniture and landscaping.
Indoor-Outdoor Entertaining
The open floor plan makes it easy for the interior and exterior spaces to work together.
Food can move from the kitchen to the formal dining room and then outside to the rear porch, while guests can spread between the family room, dining area, and outdoor spaces.
This arrangement is particularly useful for holidays, birthdays, family reunions, cookouts, and weekend gatherings.
The large rear porch gives the house an entertaining capacity that is considerably greater than its heated square footage alone would suggest.
10-Foot Ceilings
The first floor features 10-foot ceilings throughout.
This creates a comfortable sense of openness and gives the interior a more upscale character.
Higher ceilings also allow larger windows, taller doors, decorative beams, statement lighting, and other architectural elements to feel proportionate to the rooms.
Combined with the home’s broad footprint and open floor plan, the ceiling height helps the interior feel spacious without requiring a second floor.
8:12 Farmhouse Roof
The main roof uses an 8:12 pitch, giving the home the steep, recognizable roofline associated with traditional farmhouse architecture.
The roof pitch adds visual height and creates a stronger architectural silhouette from the street.
It also complements the home’s broad 92-foot width, helping the elevation maintain a balanced relationship between horizontal and vertical proportions.
Single-Level Living
All 2,926 square feet of heated living space is located on the first floor.
The three bedrooms, two full bathrooms, half bathroom, kitchen, formal dining room, family spaces, office, flex room, laundry, mud room, and garage access are all arranged on one level.
This makes the home especially attractive to families who want a large house without relying on stairs for everyday activities.
It is also a practical long-term arrangement because the essential functions of the home remain accessible as household needs change.
Foundation Options
The design can be constructed on either a crawlspace or slab foundation.
A crawlspace foundation provides a raised option that can be useful depending on site conditions, drainage, utilities, and local construction practices.
A slab foundation provides a straightforward alternative for suitable level lots.
Having both options allows homeowners to choose the foundation that best matches the property and construction budget.
2×6 Exterior Framing
The standard exterior framing uses 2×6 wood construction.
This provides a deeper wall cavity than conventional 2×4 framing and can support greater insulation depth when properly detailed.
Homeowners who prefer 2×4 exterior walls can choose a conversion option, depending on the final construction requirements.
The choice should ultimately be made with consideration for local building codes, energy requirements, insulation strategy, and contractor recommendations.
Construction Details
- Modern Farmhouse architectural style
- 2,926 square feet of heated living space
- 3 bedrooms
- 2 full bathrooms
- 1 half bathroom
- One-story design
- 683-square-foot attached two-car garage
- Side-entry garage
- Open floor plan
- Formal dining room
- Large kitchen island
- Walk-in pantry
- Jack-and-Jill bathroom
- Split-bedroom layout
- Owner’s suite on main floor
- Owner’s walk-in closet
- Dedicated home office
- Flex room
- Mud room
- Main-floor laundry
- Front porch
- Rear porch
- 466-square-foot front porch
- 688-square-foot rear porch
- 1,154 square feet of total porch and patio area
- 10-foot first-floor ceilings
- 8:12 main roof pitch
- 92-foot overall width
- 70 feet 8 inches overall depth
- 27 feet 10 inches overall height
- 2×6 wood exterior framing
- Optional 2×4 exterior framing conversion
- Crawlspace foundation option
- Slab foundation option
Quick Specs
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Home Style | Modern Farmhouse |
| Heated Living Area | 2,926 Sq. Ft. |
| Bedrooms | 3 |
| Bathrooms | 2 Full, 1 Half |
| Stories | 1 |
| Garage | 2-Car Side Entry |
| Garage Area | 683 Sq. Ft. |
| Front Porch | 466 Sq. Ft. |
| Rear Porch | 688 Sq. Ft. |
