All on One Level - Reading the Floor Plan of the Residence
- Colleen Gustavson Brownell

- Apr 22
- 3 min read
Updated: Apr 27
Photography sells the feeling of a house. A floor plan sells its logic. At Blue Sky Farm, that logic does something unusual for a property of this scale: it puts the entire family on a single floor.
Below is the complete plan of the principal residence and the two-story tractor barn that shares its driveway. The numbers tell the headline story. Three finished levels totaling 8,729 square feet of internal area, paired with a primary garage, a four-bay tractor garage, and a 700-square-foot terrace. Read closer and the architecture begins to suggest a way of living that can flex with whoever moves in.

The Main Level — All Four Bedrooms, One Floor
The plan opens at the covered Veranda and a centered Entry (11'0" × 9'11") that hands the eye directly into the great room beyond. The Living & Dining Room (33'5" × 21'11") and adjoining Kitchen (15'2" × 25'1") form a single 50-foot uninterrupted axis along the pond-facing side of the house, with a Terrace off the back and the Veranda wrapping the front.
What is not common at this price point is the bedroom arrangement. All four sit on this main floor — the Primary Bedroom (14'11" × 17'2") with a Primary Bathroom (12'2" × 17'2") and an 18'0" × 9'2" walk-in closet at one end of the home, and three additional bedrooms (12'9" × 13'4", 12'9" × 13'4", and 11'5" × 13'9") at the other. A Den (15'1" × 8'1") and Pantry (15'0" × 8'1") flank the entry; the Laundry (13'3" × 9'0") sits adjacent to the primary suite and the three-car Garage (24'5" × 28'6"); a hallway storage closet runs the entire 32'5" length of the rear wall.

Single-floor primary living is one of the most-requested and least-supplied configurations in the Loudoun luxury market. The plan accommodates households that want everyone close (young children sleeping a hallway away rather than a staircase apart); households planning ahead for aging in place (no stairs to the bedroom or to the laundry); and multi-generational families who want a private primary suite across the home from secondary bedrooms. The pantry off the kitchen and the den off the entry both read as quiet candidates for conversion to a fifth bedroom or a discrete home office should the household evolve in either direction.
The Lower Level - A Canvas, Mostly Empty
Floor 1 Residence · 3,469 sq. ft.
The lower level reads in two halves. On the right, a finished Family Room (23'4" × 22'7"), a finished Office (22'11" × 16'6"), and a Bathroom (14'9" × 5'7") — roughly 1,034 square feet currently configured for daily use. On the left, an unfinished Storage volume of 66'3" × 40'7": effectively a 2,420-square-foot blank room, plumbed and framed, walked in through its own grade-level entry.

Programmable possibilities for the 66'3" × 40'7" volume
Home Theater — dedicated AV room with seating tiers
In-Law Suite — two bedrooms plus sitting room
Wellness Wing — gym, sauna, recovery
Wine Cellar — climate-controlled cellar and tasting room
Bunk Room — multi-bed guest quarters for grandchildren
Studio — pottery, painting, yoga, music
The MLS description hints at four uses — media room, gym, guest suite, additional bedrooms — but the floor plate is large enough to host several at once. A buyer with extended family in mind could subdivide for a full one-bedroom apartment with separate entry, a wine and tasting room, and still retain a 1,000-square-foot recreation hall.


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