As most people realize, not all house plans are created equal. At their most basic level, houses provide shelter and security. Beyond that, they provide everything from being part of a community to being a sanctuary for the privacy of their residents. To a greater or lesser degree, all houses meet these requirements, but how well they meet them is often a function of “how much do you want to spend?”
The houses in Mosaic Oaks address these needs as well as if not better than houses that cost considerably more.
Like most houses, those in Mosaic Oaks have all the usual spaces – living room, kitchen, dining area, bedrooms, and bathrooms. Although these spaces are typical, their placement within the house and orientation within the community as a whole is not. Designed with a logical progression from public to private areas, Mosaic Oaks’ house plans are integrated into the community’s overall theme of being a people-friendly “Front Porch” neighborhood.
With large front porches on each house that overlook the community’s sidewalks, people can relax outside their front doors within a short distance of where their neighbors may stroll, thus encouraging community interaction.
The communal feel of the front porch recedes as you enter the front door and step into the home’s living room. The living room is a transitional space between “public” and “private” in which guests may be entertained, but also in which greater privacy can be found beyond the community access of the front porch.
Proceeding further into the home brings you to the “family area” – the kitchen and dining room. As with the living room, the kitchen and dining areas are open to entertain guests, but are intimately placed further in the house for family privacy. From a purely functional perspective, the kitchen is accessible from the houses’ garage by a large pantry that provides additional storage for a part of the house in which storage is usually a premium.
The view from the windows in the dining room and kitchen reveal a back yard that is landscaped as an “outdoor room” - a virtual sanctuary featuring the only grassed area around the house and bounded by a thick planting of trees and shrubs. The back yard is accessed from a small mud room off of the dining room. The mud room features a convenient closet for storage in which everything from coats and hats to tools and decorations can be kept.
Access to and from the most private spaces within a house, the bedrooms, is via a stair case just off of the family dining area. The bedrooms are spacious and feature large closet spaces, a rare commodity in houses in this price point.
The bathrooms, perhaps the most “private” space in a home, are equally spacious. In addition to large counter spaces, the bathrooms feature private water closets (i.e. toilet spaces), a very unique feature of these plans.
Last, but not least, these floor plans feature a separate laundry room upstairs next to the bedrooms. Although it would seem obvious that placing a laundry room downstairs in a house in which the bedrooms are upstairs is terribly inconvenient, but remarkably, most two story houses are designed that way. Not those at Mosaic Oaks.
Visit the model homes at Mosaic Oaks and experience their floor plans first hand. And, if you’re looking for a house of your own, perhaps this is where you’ll end up living…
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