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Also referred to as plantation homes, southern
homes are easily identified with some basic design applications.
To accommodate the warm, humid weather of the south, plantation
homes are spacious and airy with tall ceilings, large front porches
with a series of round or square columns. Porches sometimes surround
the home (sometimes called a veranda) to provide shade throughout
the heat of the day. Porches are built of some type of decking material
rather than concrete. Roofs are pitched or gabled of usually a medium
to shallow pitch. Southern homes are single or two stories in height
and sometimes are adorned with dormers. These types of plans became
popular in the 1700's as plantation owners commonly built them.
There are many plantation homes preserved throughout the south,
usually built on large pieces of land.
Southern House Plans
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