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This is our first ever inventory clearance sale. Archival Designs has a small inventory of stock plans being offered to the public at 50% off their advertised price on our website! These are complete sets of plans that have not been used, and all vellums come with a License Agreement. These are being offered on a first-come-first-serve basis. To view the complete list of available house plans, click here.
If you've ever thought of combining two plans but didn't want to spend the money, or if you're a builder who would like to build multiple homes, this is the time to buy.
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  House Plan of the Month
Chateau Melliant
Starter Castles
5745 Sq. Ft.
2 Stories
4 Bedrooms
5 Baths
What immediately catches your eye about this majestic European-style home is the two-deck veranda, each curved level surrounded by stately columns. The lower veranda wraps from the dining room around
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  Archival Designs' Home Designer Blog

Six Degrees of Separation - We can do that!

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Every month Archival Designs will share one of its historic "relative views".
This month, let's talk about the Chatteau Novella house plan, Blanchard house plan and Wesmere house plan.

RELATIVE VIEWS

Chatteau Novella is a majestic storybook castle, best-selling house plan design of Archival Designs, Inc.

We decided to design smaller luxury starter castle house plans by combining the castle elevation with some of our Best Seller house plans. Castles have represented luxury, security and prestige for centuries, and these new makeovers that have proven so successful are no different. Buyers today find the same appeal. The interior of the Wesmere house plan is a proud descendant of the Westover house plan with the exterior based upon Chatteau Novella's design. The Blanchard house plan is a sibling to the Wesmere house plan, boasting six bedrooms (two are in the basement) with full baths - great for kids and in-laws! Visit our website at www.archivaldesigns.com for more photos, descriptions and details.



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  Luxury House Plans by Archival Designs

Want to Build A Beautiful Custom Home But Don't Want To Pay Exorbitant Architectural Fees?

Archival Designs offers a large portfolio of house designs, house plans and blueprint packages for people who want to build their own homes but don't want to pay huge architectural and engineering fees. We offer a wide range of house designs, and house plans from modest homes to starter castles.

Our plans provide all the elegance and design details of a custom house design at fraction of the cost.

Archival's library of award-winning house designs are used by architects, builders, construction professionals, plan publishers and individual homeowners throughout the United States and in countries throughout the world.

Although Archival is best known for luxury house plans such as our estate homes and starter castles, our more than 400 house plans include ranch and 2-story designs, contemporary and classic house designs, and home sizes from 1400 square feet to over 20,000 square feet.

Any Archival house design can be customized and modified for specific sites or needs. Archival Designs' Services Include:

  • A library of more than 400 house designs and house plans, from small home plans to castle homes.
  • Full blueprint packages that include applicable building codes and the most current updates for individual jurisdictions. Our building plans conform to national building codes including ICBO and CABO.
  • Modifications to adapt any plan for particular site or needs, or to give homes an individual signature and personality.
  • Elevations (exteriors) can also be modified
  • We provide promotional floor plans and renderings


"Archival Designs is one of the rarest companies that I've seen where every house, estate, and castle has a unique and distinctive flair - unlike other's plans from other organizations which are very repetitious - cookie-cutter like. I praise you and the design team, and I am extremely glad to have found you! The builder was correct when he told us that you provide really good plan modification capabilities. I would refer your company to all those looking to build their dream." - Amy Warren

Choose From More Than 400 House Designs and House Plans We offer house designs in a wide range of styles and sizes. Some of our more popular house designs include European-inspired Georgian and Palladian homes, English Manor house plans, Tuscan-style Italian villas, French chateaux, and Colonial house plans. Our Tuscan-style villas range from 1800 sf to 13,600 sf. Our Newport Classics house designs are gentrified New England-style cottages that range from 1500 to 5000 square feet. Our starter castles and estate homes are designed in the grand tradition of some of the most impressive homes in the world. And Chateau Novella is our most popular house design. Please feel free to search our house designs or browse our photo gallery to get a sense of the many styles and types of house designs we offer.


What sets Archival Designs' house designs apart from all others is that each house design, no matter the style or size, is based on the principles and proportions of the world's classic residences. Company founder and award-winning designer David Loftus intensively studied the great manor houses, chateaux and estate homes of Europe and the world, and artfully extracted the essential elements of design and proportion that made these homes great. He then adapted them for modern uses, while still retaining all their classical elements.

Archival Designs' house plans are known for their creative use of space, their open living spaces, their ideal balance between rooms, and between interior and exterior spaces, and their superb functionality. Regardless of house size or style, this artful blend of classical architecture, unwavering attention to design details and exquisite use of space are the hallmarks of Archival?s award-winning and enduring house designs, which never go out of style.

Award Winning House Designs
In addition to the rave reviews we receive from the builders and homeowners who have used our house designs to build their dream home, Archival has also received many industry awards and recognitions for our house designs, including:

  • Best Custom Home between $500,000-$1,000,000 - Maxwell Court-First Place Winner, Pinnacle Awards
  • "Best of Show" - At the American Institute of Building Design (AIBD) international competition (Cordelia house design)
  • 1st place Gold Award in the Luxury Custom Homes 2,000-4,000 sq ft category - AIBD's Atlanta Homebuilder's Association
  • Decorator Showhome Choice - Georgia Cancer Society (Stonepond design)
  • Best Of Show, Best Curb Appeal and Best Bedroom awards
  • Best Product Design, Best Product Design for a Parade home, and Best Landscape Design in the over 4,000 sf category - North Carolina

Building professionals and discriminating homeowners know that house design is the most important element of homebuilding, and that good design is vital for maximizing value and satisfaction for one of life's largest investments. Archival Designs blueprint package library is the ideal source for your house design and house plan needs. Let Archival Designs Help Make Your Dream Home a Reality!