Fairytale House Plans

Fairytale house plans are a concept that everyone on the planet understands, but it is something that is very difficult to define. We all understand fairytales, the stories of our childhood, but are fairytale house plans anything to do with Little Red Riding Hood. Yet if we think about it all those fairytales had a house and we can remember them all.

Little red riding hood had a cottage in the woods as did Hansel and Gretel and who can remember that cottage made of candies and sweets and confectionery.   The tale of Rapunzel letting down her hair is personally reminiscent of houses with turrets or towers at the front. Other people’s idea of a fairytale house plan would be a perfect dwelling to bring children up in with a swing in the garden and a tree house.

English Country Cottage house plans became popular across America between 1890 and 1940; they had a picturesque storybook style frontage. This was a revamped Tudor house plan based on medieval country cottages made out of stone in England. Whimsical deep roofed building were also popular in the Dutch style of architecture and this gave the house a large loft area for kids to play in and the style was accompanied by many nooks and crannies nestling in the house, not only a fairy tale house plan but also an idyllic place to bring up children. These houses may not be the stuff of fairy tales but they are straight out of a storybook, all they are missing is a pony and Ann of Green Gables.

Most people associate fairytale house plans with plenty of recreational areas, not necessarily inside but outside a tennis court or a croquet lawn from the Lewis Carroll stories. Indoors the European style cottage with plenty of windows can be converted into play areas and later recreational rooms. This is again associated with the Tudor house plan. The Tudor house plans originate with the Tudors but the root of the house plan goes back to the middle ages. The massive imposing tall chimney’s fashioned from patterned stone, necessary to let the heat from the wood burning fires escape. The casement windows with diamond shaped panes of glass that distort the light as it comes through and makes it appear to be dappled. All of this is topped with the idea of a traditional English country garden complete with croquet on the lawn and the odd English eccentric as a house guest.

In short fairy tale house plans are only limited by the limits of your imagination. The Swedish architect Ola Torrang, has developed an new type of family houses called: "Det Sagolika Huset", or in English the fairy tale house. It is a prefabricated concrete structure built for easy maintenance and the beauty of it is that it can be erected in two days, which means it is a fairy tale house plan at a fairy tale price.