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The Menalto II
Plan ID: B401
The Basics: 2188 Square feet | 4 Bedrooms | 3 Bath | 1 Garage stalls |2 Levels
Plan cost: Please contact me if you are interested in purchasing this plan.
Project Description
This home is casually evocative. Its relaxed, open layout, blending interior spaces with outdoor living, belies a strong geometry that is unequivocally contemporary. With uniquely individual spaces, precise detailing, and interior views ever refreshed and redefined by the shifting angles and colors of natural light, this home designed for a standard suburban lot is anything but standard suburban. Though modern in detailing, no cold philosophy undermines the emphasis on a human-scaled, warmly organic home. This is contemporary design with a whimsical yet precise touch.
This home may be either built new, or as an addition to plan A401. In municipalities that regulate height limits and daylight planes, this home is ideally suited, due to its stepped back second floor and low-angled roof line.
Features:
- Dramatic contemporary design within modest footprint
- Warm, organic minimalism: Wood & other natural materials used within cutting-edge aesthetic
- Relaxed indoor/outdoor flow, upstairs and down, daylighted throughout
- Corner bay windows: Unique corner cantilever for window seats, with skylight above
- Clerestory corner windows above kitchen, and small windows b/w upper and lower kitchen cabinets
- Skylit stair tower
- Two master suites
- Master suite wraparound balcony, with stair access to backyard
- Ideal for suburban lots with height and daylight plane restrictions
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Floor plan and Illustrations
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 Front elevation
Smooth-finish plaster, clear cedar siding, copper fascia, cable rail, clerestory corner windows, glass-panel garage door: These materials, accented with a touch of color whimsy, are brought to life by the dynamic, intersecting lines of this structure. The result is a static kinesis, a frozen moment before flight.
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 Space and Light: View of kitchen & dining area
Reflective or transparent materials-- a glass countertop, glass mosaic tiles, a satin-finished metal flue--all enhance the effect of this room's light and porous quality, where windows puncture the wall at every opportunity, above, below, and beside cabinetry. Peninsula cabinets, glass doors on two sides, show off glass and chinawear. Mosaic tiles highlight, like a blue fire attenuating to yellow and gold flames. The organic tones of a tongue in groove ceiling, maple cabinets, and cherry wood flooring bring this light and fire into balance, for a space both modern and warm, spacious-feeling but human-scaled.
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 Space and Light: View of kitchen & dining area
Reflective or transparent materials-- a glass countertop, glass mosaic tiles, a satin-finished metal flue--all enhance the effect of this room's light and porous quality, where windows puncture the wall at every opportunity, above, below, and beside cabinetry. Peninsula cabinets, glass doors on two sides, show off glass and chinawear. Mosaic tiles highlight, like a blue fire attenuating to yellow and gold flames. The organic tones of a tongue in groove ceiling, maple cabinets, and cherry wood flooring bring this light and fire into balance, for a space both modern and warm, spacious-feeling but human-scaled.
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 Floor Plan, Level 1
A dramatically cantilevered front porch welcomes and shelters; a single metal post and wood beam supports, visually centering and anchoring the exterior composition. The stained tongue-in-groove wood ceiling of the porch gives way to an even more dramatic vaulted ceiling of wood and exposed beams as you step inside. To the left is the family room. A large skylight fills the space with light, framed by crossing beams. A corner bay with window seating provides both a sense of intimacy and extended space.
To the right is the dining area, anchored by a central chandelier and four central windows. Adjacent is the kitchen, where high ceilings open to the exterior by way of clerestory windows. Glass mosaic tiles and backsplash windows spanning the counter length contribute a porous, airy quality to this room.
Past the open staircase ahead, the spacious family room blends almost seamlessly into the back patio, separated only by a wall of bifold doors; when open, this space would become an indoor/outdoor area for barefoot living and evening entertainment. To the right are two bedrooms. The back bedroom is a second master suite for guests, replete with a windowed bath and backyard access with covered patio.
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 Floor Plan, Level 2
As you ascend the stairs, you'll notice you've entered a skylit tower. A two-story column of narrow windows is before you; directly above, the ceiling opens to a large skylight. As you reach the top of the stairs, a window seat is to your right, and through the double doors before you is your perfect "corner office" (or fourth bedroom), with light from the high corner windows filling the space.
To the left of the stairs is entry to the master suite. Stepping into the room, you find a skylit windowed nook to your left, and to your right a door leading out to a wraparound balcony. Along the length of this bed wall, windows at ceiling height show the interior tongue-in-groove ceiling running continuous, without visual interruption, from the bedroom to the balcony's deep eave overhang. Around the corner to the right you find the master bath. A freestanding bathtub is ensconced in a windowed corner, with tile continuous to the large walk-in (doorless) shower.
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Building Site Considerations
Solar orientation: Almost every room has at least two exterior walls with windows, so this home's sun orientation is quite flexible. That said, an east- or west-facing master suite balcony would be an asset, as well as a east- or west-facing master bath.
Views orientation: Best enjoyed from the family room corner bay, the master suite balcony, and the master suite bathtub.
Total living area: 2188 sq ft.
- First Floor: 1446 sq. ft.
- Second Floor: 742 sq. ft.
Unconditioned area:
- Garage stalls: 1 (366 sq. ft.)
- Covered front porch: 75 sq. ft.
- Back patio: : 307 sq. ft
Number of Rooms:
- Bedrooms: 4
- Full Baths: 3
- Half Baths: 0
Number of Stories: 2
Dimensions:
- Width: 44’-0”
- Depth: 63’-9”
- Height: 25’-6”
Ceiling heights: Various: 9' flat ceilings and vaulted
Roof:
- Pitch (main): 1.5:12 & 2:12
- Framing: Stick
- Type: Double lock standing seam roof with a 2'' vertical seam height
Exterior Wall Construction: 2x6
Exterior Materials:
- Smooth-finish 3-coat stucco w/ smooth or sand float finish
- Tongue-in-groove clear cedar siding, stained prior to installation
- Cable rail
- Copper fascia at eaves
- Metal windows
All plans are drawn at 1/4" scale and are annotated and dimensioned. These plans include:
- Floor plan for each level
- Four exterior elevations
- Two building sections
- Reflected ceiling plan
- Lighting / electrical plan
- Foundation plan
- Construction details
- Interior elevations
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