Log and Timber Home Living

THE SECRETS TO A fool-proof floor plan

Square Footage:2,558 (plus unfinished basement with garage)

Bedrooms: 4

Baths: 3

Sometimes, a child’s fairy tale can hold an important lesson for grown-ups, too. Take the story of Goldilocks. In the course of invading the Bear-family homestead, she searched for a comfortable place to sit, a hearty meal and the perfect spot on which to lay her weary head.

But in this quest, she encounters a number of obstacles — a bed that’s too big, porridge that’s too cold and a chair that fell to pieces beneath her tiny frame. After some trial and error, she finally found solutions that suited her needs to a T … until the bears came home.

Drafting your home’s floor plan — or even reviewing existing stock plans — can make

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