We are not the first, nor will we be the last to decide to go back to the future and build a usuonian house. When we went for our second visit to the Pope-Leighey house in Alexandria Va, we were the only ones on tour and asked if we could really take our time. The docent knew exactly what we were up to and said, "sure, lots of people bring tape measures."
I don't think we were that organized. I had an old grocery list and pencil stub and Pat paced out the rooms while I wrote down the dimensions. You can buy a floor plan for any of the unbuilt Frank Lloyd Wrights houses from his foundation, but that will cost you a pretty penny, plus, then you have to abide by their rules and regs and they will have an advisor come out to tell you how it should all go down.
You can go on ebay and buy FLW plans to modify and/or just build.
However, we knew we wanted to take the basic plan and modify it enough that we didn't want to do that. We had already designed our country home and built that without any problems...even after the dog ate the plans on the second day of framing.
A family out in Ohio designed and built their own usonian.
This house, while it really looks like it could have been designed by FLW wasn't.
What these Ohioans did, and what we are attempting to do is bring that sense of FLW style back with modern materials- so our roof won't leak.
The inside furniture looks really like FLW's but I didn't like that style, and in his book, The Natural House, FLW discusses how difficult it was for him to design a comfortable chair. Indeed, he and Mamah Cheney had mission style chairs for their use at Taliesin.
The chair above is from TARGET.
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