Make a home for the whole pack with timber framing house plans that are as functional as they are stylish.
Fuzzy, feathered, or otherwise, pets are family members and, like humans, deserve creature comforts. Thoughtful timber framing house plans support daily life with animals while maintaining sophistication, durability, and long-term liveability.
Designing Pet-Friendly Timber Framing House Plans
Planning ahead allows you to integrate custom features. Pet-savvy design highlights artisanship and makes everyday life with a pet — exercising, feeding, playing, and relaxing — much easier. Here are a few ideas to consider for your own customized design.
Mudrooms and Transition Zones
Active lifestyles for four- and two-legged family members require dedicated spaces. A well-equipped mudroom is perfect for cleaning up paws and gear after rugged outings. Strategic transition zones, like a large foyer with built-in cubbies as seen in our Eugene V2 floor plan, accommodate energetic pups and keep leashes out-of-sight and tidy.
Easy Circulation
Wide hallways, spacious great rooms, and organic traffic flow support harmonious co-existence between humans and animals. MistyMountain’s spacious great room offers more than enough room for everyone to gather. And plans with all your daily living spaces arranged on the first floor not only help humans — dogs benefit from aging-in-place features, too.
Indoor-Outdoor Connections
Woodhouse timber frame housing plans have exceptional deck designs. Decks and fenced-in areas connected to the home keep dogs contained and safe. This custom Woodhouse home (which serves as the inspiration for the TimberStream plan) has a fenced-in area and a dog-wash station.
Quiet Spaces
Just like people, pets want calm havens away from the hustle and bustle of a home’s center. Perhaps this takes the form of a simple bed or cat tree in a spare room, or maybe it’s a dedicated room of their own, such as that in Woodhouse’s Banff floor plan.
Sunrooms and Screened Porches
Give your pets a protected space to enjoy the outdoors. Sunrooms and screened porches are especially perfect for indoor cats searching for sunny naps and fresh breezes. Dogs love them too. The BigSkyEscape floor plan is one of many Woodhouse designs with a screened-in porch.
Pet Plans
Explore 100+ timber framing house plans that pets love, or contact us to discuss how we can create the perfect custom design for your family.
Meet the Experts
This post was reviewed by Pat Seaman. Pat is the owner and CEO of Woodhouse, The Timber Frame Company. He has personally built seven timber frame homes and has been involved in many hundreds of timber frame projects over the last 22 years.
