I think that would look nice to mix it up. I don't know what defines a true Craftsman exterior. I have seen some that are all brick that look good too and the advantage there would be less maintenance if you plan to live there for a long time.

Love the sketch. May we see the floor plan?

Yours is going to be a gorgeous home.

I too am building a craftsman. Wish I could do a full porch like yours but because of zoning restrictions I have to limit the size of porch. I am doing stonework on bottom half, and making the porch area all stone too to tie in with front of home

. Also because we are in FL we can't do true gable roofs because of hurricane codes and insurance. Here's what I'm planning with mine to give you an idea. Bottom half will be stucco, top half will be hardie board planks to look like wood. Hope it helps give you an idea.

Beautiful house design! I really like the idea of the stonework on the bottom of the house and for the front porch. I think that will look really nice. Thanks for sharing the visual of your home! I think I am leaning toward all brick with stone accents on the pillars and shakes in the gables. I really like the brick on the attached picture and thinking the shakes could be the color of the the shutters in the picture below. It's hard to tell in our drawing but the awnings are metal. I really want the house to have a soft, southern look...if that makes any sense.

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It is a very handsome house design but it's about 10% Craftsman and 90% Colonial Revival.

Craftsman houses originally used natural materials like shingles and stone but in the later examples they were built by developers who used manufactured materials like brick.

The second house with the tall porch is half French Colonial and half Neo-Classical, both very Southern but sort of anti-Craftsman.

A low brick band above the foundation level on traditional homes always looks terribly inappropriate to me because there was no way to build such a wall before modern brick cavity wall construction was introduced. that lower cost system allowed the structure to be independent from the brick cladding. If a 2x4 wood bearing wall had been built on top of an 8 inch solid unbraced masonry wall it would have eventually collapsed since it could not resist even minor wind loading.

A structural wall must be continuous from foundation to the second floor so changing two material that look structural at the half way point of the wall is a kind of architectural joke.