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Hundreds of excellent house floor plans are available to create your perfect kit home.

You'll find dozens of well drawn house floor plans inside every kit home site on the web, as well as dedicated houseplan sites, ready for you to download. You should already have an idea what you're looking for, so scroll to the size and shape which initially appeals to you, click on the house shape and description you want and take a good look.

Check my pages on kit inclusions and operational plans to get some background and specifications for kit home building. Remember, you are building this home yourself, so look to the simple house plans first. Three bedroom and en-suite is a great family favorite so start there and carefully check the dimensions. Go to my page on Small House Plans if you want to start reducing your footprint.

Questions to ask...Will your furniture fit? The tip here is to measure the rooms you live in now, and ask yourself, is this big enough? A normal living area needs to be 5x5 metres (16x16 ft) at least, for a family to exist without sitting on top of each other. You might want to look at my Cabins page or perhaps my Yurt page will spark your imagination.

This was one of my first home floor plans from Valley Kit Homes.

three bedroom ensuite house floor plans

The first thing to look at are the overall dimensions. Single story house floor plans around 14m x 7m or about 100 square metres (46 x 23 ft or 1000sq ft)are about average for a kit home.

All bedrooms are clearly marked and importantly for me, the master bedroom was at the opposite end of the house from the kids rooms. It also shows a walk through wardrobe and an en-suite that measures 2m x 2m.


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Flexibility?
Many kit home plan designs like this one have no interior load-bearing walls. So there is almost infinite flexibility to alter the interior layout and move the rooms around from the original plan. The self supporting design comes from full span trusses which sit on the outside frames so you can arrange large areas of floor space to create open plan ideas.

three bedroom kit home

Freshly built kit home ready to paint

I found this to be one of many simple house plans available on the net and they are free for you to download and study. The beauty of these free home plans is that you can copy and paste them onto a document and create a your own library to study and compare. Here is a House Plan Bible resource to easily compare features, sizes and dimensions, and analyse every detail. If you buy your plan from a plan site, you will get full architect spec plans ready to submit to your building authority. If you choose a kit home design, full plans come with the kit price.


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And now the fun part of kit home building.

Have a go at drawing your own plan. Most kit home sites have a downloadable grid page (drawing graph) for you to try your hand: create floor plans, create your dream.

House floor plans drafting guide

To create your own free house plans, start with a general plan from a site, or start with nothing. You can add a metre here or take a metre from there to create unique home plans that a kit home draftsman can easily reproduce and cost. Each square grid represents a metre and in a lot of cases, 3.6 metre (12 ft)squares are the norm. That is, draw everything in 3.6 metre square multiples if you want a reasonable price, as this is the size of the kit home module.

Below are selections of 3 bedroom floor plans from eplans.com. Click on the graphic to go to the site for full info on the plan.

3 bedroom house plan

Questions, answers or experiences....

How did you choose your kit home plan? Were the kit home suppliers helpful, or did you source yours from a plan book? Share your experience here.

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Just wanted to comment on what you are saying regarding looking at all the house plan sites and taking one of their plans to a kit builder to build. This ...

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Thanks for the good advice. I felt overwhelmed by the sheer volume of house plans available when my partner and I were looking for our first home. I had ...

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To start with I was looking to build a grand home for my family and to eventually have room for my parents as they aged. I had been encouraged to build ...


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If you want to start small, then go to our Small House Plans page. There you will find tips on building 1-2 bedroom kits. Or maybe you want to go even more basic? Go to our Cabin Page for more ideas and info.

Or what about a building a yurt? Try our Yurt Page . There are many more books such as Bestselling House Plans on the net so keep comparing and your dream home will emerge. You can also go from House Floor Plans back to the Kit Home Basics homepage .

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