{"id":10,"date":"2010-02-11T10:22:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T18:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.houseplanshomeplansfloorplans.com\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2021-03-13T06:20:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T11:20:15","slug":"the-story-behind-craftsman-house-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfdhouseplans.com\/blog\/the-story-behind-craftsman-house-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story Behind Craftsman House Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the <a href=\"\/styles-collections\/\">house plans<\/a> that are on the market today it\u2019s possible to plan the construction of virtually any kind of home you want on your property.\u00a0 Floor plans for craftsman homes are particularly popular in many areas of the country, especially in areas where plots of land tend to be larger.\u00a0 These <b>craftsman house plans<\/b> are designed with inspiration from the arts and crafts movement that swept the nation\u2019s architecture and art communities during the early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century.\u00a0 This design may be a century old, but it is certainly alive and well in the design of many contemporary homes.<\/p>\n<p>There are many things that distinguish the home design of the arts and crafts movement from the designs of other eras.\u00a0 Home plans will often include wrap-around porches, for starters, although this is not a requisite of the style.\u00a0 Craftsman homes also tend to have a great deal of wood trim and decorative elements, and they are always designed to be more informal and inviting than the homes of other eras.\u00a0 The homes also tend to be mid-sized, but you can find house plans that range from smaller sized bungalows to large two-story homes.<\/p>\n<p>The craftsman home design became popular and stayed popular for many reasons.\u00a0 The style came about thanks to the homes built by the working class and middle class during the Industrial Revolution.\u00a0 This was when the wealthy would build very large and expansive estates with mostly mass produced materials, and the common folks that worked in various professions tended to have hand-built homes made from natural materials.\u00a0 The overly decorated homes of the Victorian era inspired the craftsman architectural movement in England and the United States, where people started building their homes with cleaner lines using only the natural materials that came from local artisans.\u00a0 The house plans were also designed around the idea of the mother doing the cooking, cleaning and child-rearing rather than servants, which is why homes started to become more open.<\/p>\n<p>The new home plans that came out of the arts and crafts movement incorporated simplicity and functionality into the design and even in the materials that were used.\u00a0 Natural and hand-crafted materials such as wood, stone and glass became commonplace.\u00a0 Floor plans with low-pitched roof lines, gabled or hipped roofs, deep overhanging eaves, exposed rafters and front porches built under extensions of the main roofs typified these homes.\u00a0 It is easy to see why this style became popular, and why so many people still want these floor plans today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the house plans that are on the market today it\u2019s possible to plan the construction of virtually any kind of home you want on your property.\u00a0 Floor plans for craftsman homes are particularly popular in many areas of the country, especially in areas where plots of land tend to be larger.\u00a0 These craftsman house [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,180],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house-plans","tag-craftsman-house-plans","tag-house-plans"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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