Drummond House Plans, a house design firm specializing in residential architecture since 1973, recently created a collection of multigenerational house plans, for multi-generational, bi generational or extended families.

Are you thinking of inviting the grand-parents (baby-boomers!) to share a new house with your family, and want to make sure they have their own private areas?  Do you have young adult children moving back home to save money and want to offer them (and you!), private spaces?  Are you a blended family with many children in need of extra bedrooms and more than one kitchen and /or family rooms?

The Multigenerational Drummond house designs and floor plans are designed as one home containing two separate units.  The main unit is generally larger, offering three and even four bedrooms to accomodate a young family with children, while the other unit offers all the comforts of a full apartment with one bedroom, a kitchen, dining and living rooms, as well as a full bathroom and laundry facilities.  For security purposes, both units are usually accessible to one another from inside the home, but both have their own individual / independant access to and from the outside. 

I’d like to share with you three of my favorite multigenerational homes (or bi generational, what is your favorite word fo it?)  Each one caters to the various styles and sizes required by you.  These three beautiful homes all offer large units for the family including very well organized apartments for the grand-parents!  All within the same house!  Which ones are your favorites?  Have a look at all of Drummond’s multigenerational house plan collection and send me your feedbacks! 

Drummond Multigenerational Floor Plans no. 2821: Beautiful 2-storey Spanish / Florida Style, offering a one-bedroom apartment on one side (on the first level), and a large  3-bedroom home on the other side (for the family) with two private balconies on the second level!

www.DrummondHousePlans.com Multigenerational House Plan #2821

Drummond Multigenerational Affordable House Plans 2278:  Charming and Affordable Bungalow Style House Plan, offering on the same level (on the same floor!) a one-bedroom apartment, and a well designed 3-bedroom house. 

www.DrummondHousePlans.com Multigenerational House Design no. 2278

Drummond House Plans - Multigenerational Floor Plan no. 2278 (Main Level)

Multigenerational Designs Plan 3039: Spectacular (and yet affordable) Traditional House Plan Style, on two-levels, offering the grand-parents suite on the first level, and the large 4-bedroom unit on two-levels.

Drummond House Plans Multigenerational House Plan #3039

These multigenerational house designs are offered in many styles and sizes and can be order easily online or by phone: 1-800-567-5267.  All house plans in the Drummond House Plans collection, including any design from the multigenerational house plan collection,  can easily be modified to suit your needs by using the Drummond online house plan modification /customization service, to make sure they answer all your needs. 

I’d also like to recommend a great site I found, that has an article on “How to function in a multigenerational household“.  It is one thing to build a house and another to learn to all live together!

Drummond House Plans’ design team is planning on creating more multigenerational and multi-family house plans, so any comments or suggestions are welcome!

4 Responses to “Multigenerational house designs & floor plans”

1. Haley  Says:
   March 4th, 2009 at 11:16 pm

   Wow! Thank you! I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog?

2. jlanglois  Says:
   March 5th, 2009 at 8:03 am

   Hello Haley,

   Glad to see you seem to enjoy our blogue. Anytime you wish to use any of the information on our blog, you are intitled to do so if, and only if you highlight the parts you use and reference it back to our article. If you look at our blogue you will clearly see how this in done and will probably grasp the concept quite rapidly.

   Feel free to let us know how things work out for you!
   Regards,
   Jessica

3. Elizabeth Chaput  Says:
   July 27th, 2009 at 2:15 pm

   We are looking for a plan for a muligenerational House
   The plan 3039 has much curb appeal.

   We are wondering if you have a similar plan that would accommodate the following changes.

   1. the porch on the left can that be extended and glassed in as a four season sunroom.
   We are the parents and we wish to scale down to a reasonable sized 1 bedroom but would still like to operate a home based business which we could from the 4 season sun room
   2. my son-in-law loves the look and size but wants only one level.
   3. we would like a shared laundry room
   4. were you go outside from the rear of the house for the in law area we would like to go our where the windows are on the left of the kitchen and have a deck there that will run around to the back that meets there, so we have a private area when entertaining our guests.

   Do you have a plan that work we are looking between 2800 – 3200 sq ft for the two units

4. jlanglois  Says:
   August 4th, 2009 at 6:32 am

   Good day Mrs Chaput,

   Thank your for taking the time to write to us. It’s always a pleasure to lend a helping hand to our customers.
   I did some research for you and I must say that with the specifics you are looking for, your best bet would be to have us modify an existing house plan for you. Plan 3039 seeming to be the closest to what your ideal house plan, you could start with that.
   I’m not sure if you know this but we have a team of professionals who specialize in house plan modifications. They would be pleased to assist you with your changes.
   You may use our online modification service
   to get a free estime, or you can contact one of our agencies should one be found close to you.

   Fell free to contact me directly should you have any further questions or concerns. Here is my direct email: jlanglois@drummondhouseplans.com

   It would be a treat to hear back from you soon!
   Jessica

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