These RV garage plans are great for protecting your motor home or recreational vehicle from prolonged exposure to the weather. Each has an efficency apartment in the attic and three additional bays for car or boat.

A house plan with a widow’s walk provides a wonderful opportunity to get a great view from a rooftop vantage point enabling you to see over the tops of other houses or obstructions. A widows walk is also known as a widows watch or roof walk. The story goes that the name came from the wives of mariners, who would want for their spouses return, often in vain as the ocean took the lives of the mariners leaving the women widows. The widows walk is a variation of the Italianate cupola, also known as a belvedere or a rooftop windowed cupola.

At Southern Cottages, we provide several house plans with widows walks. There is nothing quite like being at the tiptop of the roof and seeing that grand view of the coastline or other natural feature. We offer house plans with an enclosed and windowed widows walk as well as others with an open, railed rooftop deck. Special care in detailing is needed for these types of structures to properly waterproof, flash and protect the structure underneath from water intrusion. At Southern Cottages, our house plans with widows walks and rooftop decks are carefully detailed and specified so that your builder can construct to avoid these potential problems.

Access to the rooftop windowed cupola or “widows walk” is by 5 foot circular stair in the Island Cottage, Mountain Cottage, and Grand Gazebo Cottage. The 5 foot circular stair is approved by building code for habitable spaces in this rooftop room. Access to the rooftop windowed cupola or “widows walk” in the Grand Island Cottage is by a conventional straight stair. Access to the rooftop deck is by exterior stair from a lower deck in the Porches Cottage and Lookout Cottage.

Below are the sizes of the widows walk or rooftop windowed cupola (we call it an Observation Room) for the following Southern Cottages house plans:

Island Cottage 2058 SF: 9’-0” x 9’-0”
Mountain Cottage 2376 SF: 10’-0” x 10’-0”
Island Cottage 2470 SF: 11’-5” x 11’-5”
Grand Peaks Cottage: 11’-8” x 11’-8”
Island Cottage 2756 SF: 12’-0” x 12’-0”
Grand Gazebo Cottage: 15’-9” x 15’-9”

RV Garage Plans

Island RV Garage – 45′ Motor Home

Shingle RV Garage – 39′ Motor Home