Simple and unpretentious, early Georgia and Florida settler cabin style Country Cracker house plans offer a pleasant combination of a warm welcome and cool energy efficiency. Elevated on pilings of stone or oyster-shell brick, these rustic one-story cedar or cypress wooden cottages typically feature deep shade porches, large breeze-beckoning windows, and chimneys placed at the end of each gable of their steep corrugated metal roofs. While the basic one room "single pen" floor plan has long since expanded past even the larger "dog trot" and "double pen" or "saddlebag" designs, larger southern style Cracker homes retain their natural sense of pre-air conditioning environmental friendliness. With their down-home charm, today's quaint Country Cracker home styles have become enormously popular as coastal vacation cottages, back country cabins and comfortable year round residences for families and couples seeking the nostalgia and authenticity of an earlier, more relaxed era.
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