Choose Your Home and Homesite

Woodsong subscribes to The Not So Big House philosophy outlined by architect and author Sarah Susanka. This approach is based on the 3 primary variables of construction; quality, cost and size. In practice, if you want a quality home and you want to control cost, then the home becomes slightly smaller. Increasing the size of a home at that same cost, means your home’s quality will be reduced. This does not mean you have to build a small house. It means that no matter what your target size is, we encourage you to invest in the size home that enables you to build with quality materials and finishes. This provides a more livable home and protects your investment.  Woodsong  is complementary to this building approach because our plans “live” bigger than their actual heated square footage and because so much living can be done outdoors on porches, in courtyard gardens, parks, nature preserves and civic areas within our traditional walking neighborhood and mild southern climate.

Woodsong architecture derives from the vernacular of the coastal Carolinas, immediately recognizable for its generous porches. Our design standards promote beautiful, durable and functional homes while enabling rich personal expression within the shared context of local traditional building forms. Each private home contributes to the public realm of the street through its placement and appearance while nourishing the lives of its residents. Beautiful homes make a beautiful neighborhood and our design standards ensure that you will always be able to tell Woodsong homes "are from around here."

Woodsong advocates building green homes that provide healthy indoor air quality, save energy and money and reduce maintenance while conserving our natural resources for the larger community.  See our recommended green certification programs in Pre-Approved Plans.  Building green has been simplified for you via our certification programs enabling you to choose the options that make sense for the way you want to live.  Trends suggest that sustainability will become the norm in the future.  Building green now means your home is constructed to respond to anticipated future buyer preferences should you ever sell your home.

Through the use of carefully chosen plans from exceptional designers, Woodsong can provide you an essentially custom home, at a moderate price.  Your home reflects your unique style through our   diversity of plans. This approach results in a mosaic of homes that are all different, but that all agree with each other because of common design principles and materials.  This rhythm of variety and continuity provides the character in Woodsong so revered in our older traditional neighborhoods.

Woodsong has an abundance of pre-approved plans of all sizes for both primary dwellings and accessory buildings (garages, carports, storage, workshops, apartments, etc.) that are matched to eligible lots for ease of selection. However, if you don’t find something that fits as is, all of the plans can be adapted to your unique needs or you can have a custom plan designed with approval through architectural review.  Our design library contains numerous plans with both 1-story and 2-story homes including ground floor master bedrooms. Click to see our Pre-Approved Plans.

The Proccess - We have simplified the plan/homesite matching process into 2 basic options. After viewing our plan library, you can email us the plan(s) you are interested in and we can identify which homesites they will fit on, or if you find a homesite that you particularly like, we can send you the plans that are eligible for that lot. You may purchase a homesite and have a home built from one of our approved builders or purchase an existing home constructed for sale.
If you don’t plan to build right away, we can show you those homesites that are appropriate for your projected construction timeline. We can then help you select a plan that generally fits your needs and match it to an eligible homesite to purchase. However, you are not limited to just the original plan selected. This process also allows you to substitute another plan at the time of future construction as long as it meets your homesite design standards. You can confidently buy a homesite now and make the detailed design choices when necessary.