These house designs, as the heading might suggest, aren't part of any "series". Yes, it's hard to say you have a pattern with only one observation. I would expect that in the future I will do more Victorian and/or other 19th century styles, so in all probability the nice Victorian design in this section won't be alone forever.
Update 28 May, 2006: I have moved the 3 Country Home designs (#1, #2, and #3) off this page and onto their own Country Home Series page. The addition of a fourth "country home" (like the other designs in this series, a "grown up" tract house) has prompted me to reorganize them into something a little more organized.
This Midwestern Victorian style has many of the more common features you might see, especially in later (1890's - 1900's) Victorian homes built in smaller towns. This rendition is not completely authentic, being a house that someone today might want to live in (the number of bathrooms, especially the master bath, being some of the more modern updates), but I really wanted to achieve a specific look.
For a long while I purposefully avoided trying my hand at a so-called "Florida-style" house design. They are, for the most part, horribly formulaic and predictable. Truly, it's hard to believe that there's that much money being spent on "luxury homes" that, except for some notable exceptions, are all very much alike. I've heard the term "McMansion" used to describe large houses of indiscriminate style. And perhaps, this design is no real exception, either. But I do like it. Oddly, it turned out so much better than I originally anticipated, I figured I really should include it here. So I did.
There aren't very many interior images, yet. That's not to say I don't have them, I just don't think they add very much. I may still change my mind later.
Here we have a case of a design that I've been kicking around for some time, and never being able to find that "spark" necessary to bring it around to completion. I think this house would make a good vacation house for the beach, or in the country, as it's pictured here.
This design is reminiscent of houses often associated with the rural (poor) South. Obviously it's been updated, and this house is anything but "poor".
I really like this design, though it has been a rather long time in being completed. Take a look.
This design was one of my "original" designs, done during the spring of 2004. I liked it so much I decided to update it using more "advanced" techniques. If you're interested in seeing what the design looked like before, check it out here.
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