American style house plans. American style house plans

The skyscrapers of New York and the casinos of Las Vegas are just the outer facade of one of the largest countries in the world. The real America is cozy, a little provincial, "one-story". Projects american houses are spacious and solid cottages "for the whole family": on the ground floor - a common living room, kitchen, access to the garage, utility rooms. On the second - parent, children's and guest bedrooms. Attics in this style are not very common, although they are not completely excluded.

Thus, traditionally, house designs in american style involve the construction of one-story, more often two-story buildings using frame construction technologies. In warm states, there is no need for thick walls, and the low crime rate and friendly relations with neighbors in the private sectors make it possible to do without the usual Russian buyer security systems and precautions. The projects of American-style houses presented in our database are modified and adapted to the climatic features of our country.

Projects of American houses and cottages in Russian

The main thing that we keep is the expressed in architectural features the love of Americans for privacy - personal space. The houses are designed in such a way that no one is crowded there, and everyone has their own secluded corner. Also, such house projects imply a backyard, but fences and high fences are not always provided - US residents prefer to be friends with their neighbors and do not hide their estates from prying eyes.

In order to adapt to Russian realities, we had to slightly change traditional American cottages: the projects in our database mainly provide for an aerated concrete rather than a wooden frame “box”, although they can be made using a new energy-efficient frame technology developed specifically for Russia. Also, a connoisseur of architecture can find stylistic differences and inconsistencies. This is normal - any project must be "tied" to the place, otherwise the building will be of little use. However, we managed to preserve the best and recognizable features of the American style:

• wide porch;
• cozy lofts under the roof;
• bay windows;
• terraces;
• tiled roofs.

The American-style house designs presented in the catalog were developed by professional architects, contain photos, layouts, and detailed descriptions.

Interior layout of American houses August 24th, 2016

With walls, and we figured out the past messages. Now let's look at the layout of American houses.

In American homes, you almost never find a hallway or hallway. Instead, all front doors lead directly to the living room or other living room. The house can be entered not only through the front door. Most often there are at least two or three entrance doors. Front door or front door. Backdoor(usually glass) leads to the backyard. The third door is to the garage. Sometimes the door to the outside can be found in the most unusual place, such as in the toilet. This is explained quite simply - so that you can go to the toilet from the pool without entering the house.

When you ask an American about the size of a house, you will almost always hear three parameters - the number of bedrooms, the number of bathrooms, and the total area. For example, 3/2 1600 sq. ft. means that this is a house with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a size of about 150 square meters. m.

Private rooms

The interior space of American homes is divided into a private area and a public area. The private area primarily includes bedrooms. Bedrooms are divided into "master bedroom" and all other bedrooms. A separate bedroom is for the parent couple, and each adult family member. Children of the same sex, up to a certain age (12 years old), can share one bedroom, and then get their own. For example, a family of 4 will almost always live in a house with 3-4 bedrooms. The bedroom must have a window. If the room does not have a window, then it cannot be a bedroom. Also, almost always in the bedroom there should be a built-in wardrobe or pantry.

The master bedroom is the largest bedroom and usually has a walk-in closet or even two. wardrobe rooms s, and almost always has its own separate bathroom with toilet and bath. In expensive homes, the master bathroom can be very fancy, with a Jacuzzi, multiple sinks, fancy showers, and so on.

The rest of the bedrooms usually have smaller wardrobes. The rest of the bedrooms may not have their own toilet and bathroom, and they can combine one toilet / bathroom for 2 bedrooms.

For children's bathrooms, a fairly typical layout is washbasin>toilet>bathroom. Also, very often in children's bathrooms, lower washbasins, toilets, and bathtubs are installed.

Here is an example of a typical plan for an inexpensive American home.

Sometimes there is a configuration where the toilet has two doors, and access from two different bedrooms is possible (this is called the Jack and Jill Bathroom).

There is almost never a chandelier on the ceiling of the bedroom. Often, instead of a chandelier, there is a fan (with or without a lamp). And the main lighting in the bedrooms, as a rule, is not very bright, and is arranged with the help of spotlights or floor lamps.

public rooms

If the house is two-story, then the private zone is located on the second floor, and on the first there will be a public zone - kitchen, living room, hall, dining room. If the house is one-story, then the public area will be in the center. Also, one room can be reserved for an office or a library. The basement, if any, will be equipped as a library, gym, bar or games room.

The public area is usually not divided into separate rooms, instead the whole space is open and divided only by arches, partitions, shelving. The kitchen is most often separated from the dining room only by a bar counter or not separated at all. For example, on this plan, the family room (family room), dining room (dining room), living room (living room / living room) and kitchen (kitchen) are actually combined into one space. It is worth remembering that in English language, the word room means both a room with 4 walls and just a place / space, so a dining room can be either a dining room or just a place for a table.

In addition, there is often half the bathroom in the public area. What is half a bathroom? This is a toilet with a hand wash basin so that guests do not go to the toilet through the bedrooms.

The patio is not just welcome, but considered a must. There you can arrange a children's playground, a small garden, swimming pools are often found, and there will almost always be a place for a barbecue.

Auxiliary or working premises:
There are ba large number of built-in wardrobes, storage rooms, a basement and an attic equipped for storage, and a spacious garage attached to the house. The washing machine is installed not in the bathroom and not in the kitchen, but in a special laundry room. Sometimes they are put in the garage. Linen can also be dried and ironed here.

Inside American homes, you almost never see wallpaper on the walls. Internal walls almost always painted. Light and plain walls dominate

Worth mentioning separately internal doors. In addition to conventional hinged doors, American homes have a wide variety of other options:
1. Barn door (barn door), moves sideways on the rail.

2. Folding doors, usually used for dressing rooms and other utility rooms.

3. Sliding doors

4. Pocket doors that go into the wall are also common.

A few more different plans

Projects of houses and cottages in the American style are houses characterized by a spacious layout, versatility and convenience. Such projects are mainly designed for, since almost every building is complemented by terraces and asymmetric facades. It is also worth noting the roofs, which, due to their decorative effect, give the house an unusual and original look. Very often you can have a sharp shape, with large angles of inclination.

Modern private frame-panel American Vacation home with pitched roof

frame american house presupposes, first of all, the presence of large areas. This style, which appeared back in the colonial era, first spread in states where people were engaged in farming.

Despite the fact that large areas make it easy to implement many of the most incredible design solutions, Americans still prefer to build houses, during the construction of which convenience and comfort come first.

The layout of the house in America is mostly horizontal, "in breadth." Such buildings have several wings, in which in each subsequent wing the ceiling height is lower than in the previous one. At the same time, each wing has its own, often strongly sloping, roof. The upper floor, in most cases, is an attic, designed for bedrooms.

Often in American homes you can meet, which smoothly pass into the local area. The boundary between the house and the surrounding landscape is even more “blurred” due to a large number doors and windows, which are a mandatory attribute of housing. In cottages where there is little light, windows and doors, Americans usually feel extremely uncomfortable.

Residents of America pay a lot of attention to the design of backyards adjacent to kitchens and terraces. A recreation area is traditionally located here, etc.

The layout of the American-style house is carried out according to certain rules, taking into account some features. Zoning of the interior takes place in such a way that the guest lingers in the hallway, passing by the gaze of the inner chambers of the owners of the house. For this reason, a guest area is often arranged next to it, where you can safely drink tea at the table, sitting on a comfortable sofa or chairs.

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If the layout of the house does not allow making a grand place, then guests are sent to a common room, which includes a kitchen, dining room and recreation area. In parallel with this, the common room acts as a room for family gatherings. Typically, family meals take place either at the dining table or as close to the kitchen as possible. Guests, in turn, are taken at a separate table designed for dinner parties.

When separating zones, they often use different kinds partitions (with the exception of the walls themselves), or pieces of furniture placed in the most suitable way for these purposes. In the kitchen areas there are kitchen islands with built-in washers or stoves. American style is, first of all, simple, but massive furniture of clear forms, with a predominance of one or two light shades.

Recreation area in common room includes home theater and . Ceilings are often equipped with additional light sources. IN one-story houses prefabricated lighting prevails, allowing the rafters to be left open. Americans rarely use stretch ceiling giving more preference natural materials. Homes in the US are illuminated with tabletop and wall lamps that turn on at the same time. Ceiling lamps usually used only in the common room, and even then rarely.

The front part of the house is not complete without the use of floor tiles And parquet board. At the same time, in some parts of the house, these materials are joined with carpet, which allows you to significantly save your money on interior decoration. Under the bedroom, the owners allocate the largest room in the house, which is often equipped with its own bathroom and access to the terrace. Children have smaller rooms, the bathroom of which adjoins immediately to all children's rooms.

In this video you can see the layout of a typical private house, which is located in the US state of Texas.

American colonial style, pronounced in the architecture of residential buildings, in Lately becoming very popular among domestic developers. The reason for this is the combination of convenience, visual appeal and functionality of the building, where the living space is used with maximum efficiency. The American style home is ideal for active families, especially couples with children.

What is a private American home? It is usually spacious two-storey cottage frame type, with a roof of complex shape and a large number of windows. Most often, such houses have a symmetrical shape, many rooms, an open spacious terrace at the entrance. The second floor, as a rule, protrudes above the first, and is propped up by wide, even columns.

This style has other distinctive features:

• low foundation and lack of a basement;
• built-in garage;
• the presence of a spare entrance;
• lack of facade decoration;
• mansard roof;
• window frames have many bindings;
• a low porch, framed on the sides by a railing of a simple form.

The color scheme is rather restrained: pastel colors are most often used in combination with white. But bright contrasting colors in the decoration of facades are very rare. Concerning exterior finish: the most popular material is wood of various species and its imitation. Most often you can see facades sheathed with clapboard overlap, the so-called "American". Well, since natural wood quite expensive material, many use siding that imitates the same American, timber, wood chips. Also used in decoration a natural stone, especially sandstone, decorative brick.

Great importance is attached to the landscape surrounding the house. Usually, adjoining territory very well-groomed, open, the central part is occupied by a lawn. Flowerbeds with low shrubs and flowers can be located close to the house, along the perimeter of the terrace, on both sides of the porch, giving the building a very cozy look. And here climbing plants are not favorites, and see the walls completely entwined decorative vines possible only in a few cases.

American style façade

It doesn't take much effort to make your home look like an American one. Even if the architecture of your home is extremely simple, with the help of exterior decoration you can give it characteristic appearance, which we see so often in American films. The greatest expressiveness will provide a combination of materials and correct selection color range.

The best option is façade zoning using wood paneling and plasters.

How it looks in practice: the outer walls of outbuildings and bay windows are smoothly plastered, the rest of the walls are sheathed with an overlap board. The pediments of the house can also be distinguished by sewing up the siding “under the wood chips”.

Socle siding "under shingles"

If there is a high base, it is tiled with stone tiles or torn bricks. At the end, the skin is painted in beige or grey colour, platbands, corners, railings - in white to give a contrast.

Now let's consider the finishing technology in more detail using the example of a brick house.

Preparatory stage

For a high-quality finish, no less high-quality preparation of the base is needed. They traditionally start with the dismantling of all attachments that may interfere with finishing work.

With a metal brush, you need to process the masonry seams, thoroughly clean the crumbling areas.

If the wall is old, and individual bricks also began to crumble, they need to be knocked out with a chisel and hammer, and the recesses should be carefully cleaned.

Next, pick up whole bricks of the appropriate size, knead a little cement mortar(3 parts of sand and 1 part of cement M300 or M400), repair the masonry. The same solution closes cracks in the walls, through holes, small potholes and empty seams.

When the solution dries, the walls are treated with a primer with antiseptic additives. It is best to prime with a brush, so the composition is easier to distribute over all seams and recesses. If the surface of the bricks is dense and smooth, one coat of primer is enough, but for a porous, highly absorbent surface, 2-3 layers will be needed. After such treatment, the walls under the sheathing will be reliably protected from moisture and fungi.

Plaster surface

First you need to determine the areas that are not planned to be sheathed with clapboard. It can be not only the walls of extensions, but also the areas around the openings, along the terrace, ground floor. It is also possible that the facade is completely sheathed with wood, and the back of the house is plastered. It all depends on the imagination of the homeowner and his financial capabilities, because the cost of plaster is much lower than lining.

To facilitate the task, it is recommended to draw a sketch of the future cladding in several versions and choose the most suitable one. After that, the boundaries of the sections on the wall are marked so that the wood paneling subsequently overlaps the plastered plane by 15-20 cm. Marking is performed using a level. You need to start work with thermal insulation of the wall, and the best insulation under the plaster is foam.

Step 1. They are attached to a clean primed wall, which will act as a support for heat-insulating plates. To do this, determine the lower boundary of the finish, beat off the horizontal level, mark the drilling points for fasteners in increments of 30-40 cm. Drill holes in the wall, insert dowels, fix the base plate with self-tapping screws. At the joints, the plank is overlapped by 20 mm.

Step 2 Prepare glue for insulation: pour the dry adhesive mixture into a container with water, stir with a mixer until smooth, leave for 5 minutes to swell and mix again.

Step 3 They take the first plate of insulation, on the back side apply glue along the perimeter with a continuous strip at a distance of 2-3 cm from the edge. In the center of the plate, the glue is applied in small strokes or blotches. Next, the foam is applied to the wall from the corner, the lower edge is supported on the plinth, the plate is leveled vertically and gently pressed against the surface with hands.

Step 4 The next plate is attached close to the first, trying to prevent the glue from being squeezed into the seam. After laying the first row, proceed to the second, shifting the seams by about half the width of the slab.

To cut the foam, use a sharp mounting knife or a fine-toothed hacksaw.

When the entire area is pasted over with slabs, they are additionally fixed with dish-shaped dowels, drilling holes in the center of the slabs and in the corners.

The method of fixing the foam plastic with the "drowning" of the cap of the dowel-umbrella

Step 5 Further, all corner protrusions must be closed with perforated corners: a solution is applied with a spatula along the entire length of the protrusion, a corner is applied, leveled, pressed into the glue. Excess mass is carefully removed so as not to leave sagging.

Step 6 The solution is applied in a continuous thin layer (2 mm thick) on the foam plastic from top to bottom, a reinforcing mesh is applied, it is smoothed with a spatula to evenly drown it in glue. You need to smooth it very carefully, avoiding the formation of folds and voids under the mesh. Adjacent mesh strips are overlapped by 5 cm. After completing the reinforcement of the section, leave the surface to dry.

Step 7 After about 2 days, plastering work can be continued. Surface sanded sandpaper medium grit, sweep away dust with a brush and primer. After the primer has dried, the plaster mortar is kneaded and distributed in a uniform thin layer over the treated surface. You need to work very carefully so as not to leave stripes from the tool, streaks and other defects. The spatula should be periodically wiped with a damp cloth.

After a day, the surface must be wiped again until it is perfectly smooth. For the best effect, you can make a liquid plaster mortar, apply it very thinly on the wall and smooth it with a polyurethane trowel. The movements are performed counterclockwise, with the same pressure, processing the wall in squares.

On this, while the finishing process is completed, painting will be done later.

Wall cladding

For such sheathing, you can use both a simple edged board and an “American” lining, which is distinguished by a wedge-shaped plank.

They are fastened in different ways, but the crate is placed in the same way in both cases. When choosing edged board you need to make sure that the material good quality and its humidity does not exceed 16%, so stock up on a moisture meter in advance.

Also, you should not buy wood if mold and blue stains are visible on it, there are cracks, a lot of knots. All boards must be even, have the same thickness and color.

The optimal width of the boards is from 130 to 180 mm, and the thickness is about 20 mm. For the frame, you will need a dry, even beam with a section of 50x50 or 60x40 mm.

You can mount a frame from a galvanized profile, but it will cost more, while a wooden beam will perfectly cope with the task assigned to it.

Advice. Before starting work, all lumber must be treated with an antiseptic primer and air-dried.

Step 1. Make markings on the wall under the frame fasteners. Since the sheathing is horizontal, the frame guides must be strictly vertical. If the sheathing will border on the plastered surface on the same plane, the extreme timber should be located close to the plaster. So, they take a plumb or level, determine the vertical, draw a line on the wall with chalk, and so along the entire wall in increments of 50 cm.

Step 2 Further, holes are drilled on each line at a distance of 30-40 cm from each other, dowels are inserted. They take the first beam, put it against the wall, control the vertical level. If the surface is uneven, pieces of wooden slats are placed under the timber until it is leveled. After that, screws are screwed in and the guides are fixed to the wall. The extreme bars are fixed first, then a nylon thread is pulled between them at the top and bottom, and the rest of the guides are leveled according to these landmarks.

Step 3 The next step is warming. It is advisable to use the same insulation for the whole house, because each material has different heat capacity characteristics. Therefore, if we used polystyrene for plastering, then we also choose it for cladding. Styrofoam sheets are tightly inserted between the guides, cut to size if necessary. Next, the material is fixed with fungal dowels, approximately 5 pieces per sheet. If there are gaps between the insulation and the beam somewhere, they need to be blown out with mounting foam.

Step 4 Start plating. To give her desired angle slope, along the lower edge of the crate, a wooden lath with a section of 20x20 mm is stuffed, having previously beaten off the horizontal level. After that, they take the first board, apply it to the crate so that its lower edge completely covers the rail. Nail the board along the top edge to the guides.

Overlap sheathing - block diagram

Step 5 Sheathing boards should overlap each other by 20 mm, and in order not to measure the required distance each time, you can use a trim template wooden lath appropriate thickness. This template is applied to the already fixed board in the upper part, an indent of 20 mm is marked with a pencil, and the same is repeated on the other side. Now it remains only to attach a new board to the marks and nail it to the frame.

Step 6 Before attaching the topmost board, the border of the sheathing is determined, the horizontal is beaten off and a 25x75 mm rail is screwed along this line. They try on the edge board, if necessary, cut it in width and mount it end-to-end with the rail. At the end, the joint line is closed with a board with a section of 150x25 mm. If the roof overhangs are hemmed with spotlights, the edge board is attached close to the spotlights, and the joint is closed with a wooden lath.

Step 7 Two are stuffed vertically in the corners wide boards with a section of 150x20 mm, closing the gaps at the ends of the skin. Window and door openings are also sewn up on the sides with boards of the appropriate width in order to completely cover the end part of the sheathing.

If the factory lining "American" is chosen for finishing, the workflow will be even easier. The design of the panels facilitates quick and convenient fastening sheathing on self-tapping screws or with the help of kleimers.

Finishing the gables

Gables can also be sheathed with clapboard, but it is better if they are slightly different. And one of the finishing options is siding with wood chips imitation. Chips and shingles give the building a special flavor, they are perfectly combined with other materials, but the process of their manufacture and installation is quite laborious. For this reason, natural chips and shingles are almost never used, but their imitation is very popular and in demand.

Woodchip vinyl siding is a lightweight panel 46-48 cm wide and up to 1.23 m long. The thickness of the material varies between 1-4 mm, depending on the type. Plinth panels thicker and stronger, but mainly wall siding is used for sheathing gables.

Step 1. A vertical crate of 40x40 mm timber is mounted on it. The distance between the guides should be equal to half the length of the panel, that is, about 60 cm.

Step 2 The ebb is fixed first: the bar is cut to length, applied to the bottom of the crate, aligned horizontally and screwed to the guides with screws. The starting bar is mounted on top, the J-profile is screwed on the sides close to the roof overhangs. The upper ends of the profile are cut at an angle to fix these strips end-to-end.

Step 3 The panels are cut from the ends at an angle (for convenience, use a template from improvised materials), the first panel is applied to the starting bar and the ends are brought into the J-profile. Align the skin horizontally and screw it with screws to the guides.

Advice. As in the case of conventional siding, fasteners must not be overtightened so as not to cause deformation of the panels. There should be a gap of 1 mm between the screw head and the vinyl.

Step 4 Panels in one row are interconnected by an overlap of several centimeters. They have additional end locks that hide the joints and give the skin a natural look. The final panel is trimmed so that its edges freely fit into the grooves of the J-profiles to compensate for thermal expansion.

If there are openings on the gables, additional jumpers are made in the frame along their perimeter, after which the slope strips are attached along with other additional elements. With this siding, you can sheathe not only the pediment, but also bay windows, balconies, one of the floors or the entire house, the basement - the choice depends only on your preferences and capabilities.

Finishing

Chip siding does not require additional finishing, and therefore work with gables is considered complete. As for the walls, there is still painting to be done to give the house the most attractive look. Plastered walls have a patchy, dirty color and shouldn't be left that way, while wood paneling requires more protection, which a coat of paint will provide.

In principle, wood can be treated with a colorless impregnation or varnish, leaving the natural color of the material. But such a finish is more typical for country music - one of the areas of traditional American style. Therefore, for the walls you need to choose some nice color of a muted shade. You can choose the same color for both wood paneling and plaster walls, or paint them in different shades, it all depends on your imagination. The main thing is that the colors are combined with each other and in harmony with the sheathing of the gables.

For plastered areas, water-soluble paints based on acrylic and silicone are best suited. They are the most durable, resistant to fading, moisture and temperature extremes. It is convenient to apply them with a roller or spray gun. Before painting, the walls must be swept with a brush to remove dust, and primed. The paint itself is applied in at least 2 layers - so the color will turn out deep and uniform.

Wooden sheathing can be painted with alkyd enamel or the same acrylic paint. Oil paints it is better not to use, because they require frequent updating, and with a large staining area, this is very expensive. It is recommended to paint with a brush, carefully rubbing the composition along the fibers. Special attention should be given to the joints and ends of the skin. As a rule, 2-3 coats of paint are required to obtain an even shade, depending on the absorbency of the wood.