Elm

The Elm asks the same question as the Dogwood: what do you do with the space beside the Cedar’s living rooms? It answers completely differently. Where the Dogwood puts a club room there, the Elm puts a second primary suite, on the ground floor, with its own everything.

The bedroom is 18 feet 8 by 16, which is the same size as the primary upstairs. Its bath runs 14 feet 4 by 15 feet 4 with a soaking tub, a separate shower and twin vanities, and there are two walk-in closets, the larger of them 18 feet 8 by 10. Nothing about it reads as the lesser suite; it is the same suite on a different floor.

That is what makes this the six-bedroom plan, and it is the reason to choose it. A parent moving in, an adult child who has come back, two households sharing a mortgage. The arrangement only works if neither suite is obviously the spare one, and here neither is. The downstairs guest bedroom with its own bath is still there as well, by the entry.

The rest is the Cedar: a 28-foot dining and living volume onto a covered patio nearly 30 feet wide, a kitchen of 20 feet 4 with an island, an 18 by 16 feet 6 family room, and upstairs the primary suite with its sitting room, three more bedrooms, a loft and a covered balcony of 30 feet 4.