Design types - mansions

Mansions.

Grand in scale. Disciplined in proportion.

A Storybook mansion is not a big box with columns. It is the same thirteen principles at their most ambitious - proportion, scale and balance holding a commanding composition together.

Ambition, composed

Presence without pomposity

Layered gables and wings break the mass into a silhouette the street enjoys rather than endures. Inside, cathedral volumes, galleries and long garden views do the impressing - quietly.

Compositions that command without shouting
Formal and family zones resolved in one plan
Gardens and approach designed with the architecture

Twilight Brae - a grand Storybook home — Twilight Brae.

From the Storybook archive

Lance Creek House - a Storybook home — Lance Creek House Owner-built

Finsbury Estate - a Storybook home — Finsbury Estate Owner-built

Kallista Cottage - a Storybook home — Kallista Cottage Cottage

A selection from more than 2,500 archived Storybook designs. Your consultation includes designs matched to your land, family and budget - book a time to see them.

Storybook manors on film