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It is important for customers not to get lost in a variety of architectural styles, choosing the right private house project for turnkey implementation. Europe brings to our attention projects of European country houses Scandinavian and Western European directions, which are quite popular in 2018 among domestic developers.

Author's and standard project of a modern European house in the Western European direction is a dwelling designed according to the principles of rationalism and practicality. All this is reflected in every element of the house, from the materials used to the nuances in the design and layout of the space.

European project plans sky houses: individual features of the German style

Architectural projects of houses in European style, based on the German school of design, realized on a turnkey basis, are geometrically simple shapes, quadrangular in shape.

The salient features are:

  1. European houses (photos, videos, draft designs, diagrams and drawings can be viewed in this section of the catalog) have window structures made in the form of an arch or rectangle. The windows are small, and window shutters are often used. The window frames are a massive structure. With the development of new technologies, shutters and massive window structures are becoming a thing of the past, giving way to window structures with small frames. In buildings built in the Western European key, quite often installed wooden doors different in color from the facades of the building.
  2. Modern European house, made in the spirit German school architecture, has a plinth tiled with natural or artificial stone.
  3. In Western European-style cottages, you can see balconies and bay windows, while balconies, unlike bay windows, are made without frills. Bay windows are a kind calling card European home.
  4. The roof in most cases is not distinguished by the complexity of the design and is a two or four-pitched roof with a large angle of inclination of the slopes. Bituminous or metal tiles are used as roofing. At the same time, the color scheme does not differ in variety and is almost always limited to a red or blue tint.
  5. The input group in most cases has a low concrete stairs with a small number of steps and a small canopy.
  6. The house in the spirit of the German design trend is a one-story or two-story building with an attic. The layout of European houses with an attic, made in the German style, is well thought out and distinguished by rationality. Such houses do not have long corridors.


Layout of European house projects: Scandinavian style

  1. Finished houses built in the Scandinavian spirit are projects of European one-story houses with a residential attic, in rare cases you can see a variant of a two-story building. The material for the house is most often wood with a varnished surface, but in Lately for finishing facades, paints of red, brown or beige scales are used.
  2. Window structures in Scandinavian-style houses are quite large; panoramic glazing is often used. The massiveness of the frames is a common feature of houses made in the German and Scandinavian style.
  3. Unlike German-style houses, Scandinavian-style European house plans do not have a basement or basement.
  4. The roof structure in Scandinavian-style houses has a pitched shape, but there are houses with flat roof. As roofing material various types of tiles, sheets of copper or other metal, as well as coatings made of polymeric materials are used. Rare use flat roof due to the complexity of snow removal, as well as certain difficulties that arise when snow melts on the roof.
  5. The entrance group is a porch with a wooden staircase with carved wooden balusters. Sometimes in such houses the entrance group has a full-fledged terrace.
  6. Wooden elements with carved patterns are used to decorate the facades of the building. In contrast to the German style, bay windows and balconies are almost absent in Scandinavian-type houses, which reduces the cost estimate.

Schemes of European houses can be bought from us at average market prices. For an additional cost, our specialists will develop original design European houses.

We wish you to find in our collection the house that best suits your wishes. Happy viewing!

This section of the catalog contains the most popular projects of European houses, which our customers choose more often than others. By increasing the size of the photo, you can see all the details of the exterior decoration of the house, and detailed description and documentation give a complete picture of the scale of construction.

Modern European style

This concept is not so much a specific architectural style as a certain set of criteria. Strictly speaking, all the trends that emerged after modernity belong to the new time: constructivism, minimalism, hi-tech, art deco. In their pure form, modern European architects rarely use them for the construction of residential buildings.

You can highlight the common external features that distinguish the best European houses:

  1. pragmatism, architectural "simplification", no frills in the decoration of the facade;
  2. a simple rectangle shape, with a flat or low gable roof;
  3. missing in design clear signs historical styles (Baroque, Empire);
  4. tendency to decrease in the number of storeys, horizontal forms, asymmetry of appearance;
  5. large balconies, panoramic windows, terraces and built-in garages;
  6. natural or imitating their external and internal finishing materials.

But the most important thing in European houses is a comfortable layout for life, the presence of modern engineering solutions in terms of energy saving and ecology.

Stylish house projects

The catalog contains turnkey solutions for the construction of traditional and new building materials. Regardless of the type of construction and design, they are distinguished by a thoughtful layout, competent location of communications using advanced technologies. The architects of our company carefully monitor current trends and include them in the projects of European houses. They provide for the arrangement of garages, utility blocks, saunas, several bathrooms on each floor. The main thing in modern home is the convenience of living.

Conventionally, several types of buildings of the European type are distinguished.

  • Brick cottages are one of the most common options. Usually they are built in 1-2 floors, clinker, plaster, wood paneling, siding are used for exterior decoration. Examples in the catalog: residential building No. 48-33 with an attic, No. 48-30K with a balcony and a garage.
  • Foam block houses, an economical, easy-to-build material, are increasingly being used for building walls. If necessary, it is insulated with a layer of cotton wool, other material, artificial stone is used in the decoration. Sample: 2-storey house with elements of the English style No. 40-06G.
  • Projects of wooden country houses - the tree occupies a strong position outside of fashion. In countries where residents can use this expensive building material (Russia, Finland), its ideal environmental properties are appreciated. Photo No. 10-69 shows an example of a structure similar in design to the Scandinavian style.
  • Frame structures are valued for their high construction speed, and modern metal structures are highly durable. The projects presented in our catalog have a variety of design designs. For example, number 70-84 is a bright, friendly cottage with a large open gallery on the second floor.

European-style houses and cottages can be very different. The idea can be based on German, Scandinavian or any other type of building. Architects and designers create a project, focusing on the customer's request, and skillfully include elements of one or another historical style that are appropriate and like the future owners of the house.

Already from the beginning of December, noisy European streets begin to prepare for the New Year, light up with garlands and dress up as Christmas trees. A little later, real Christmas construction will come into its own and modern mothers will start baking traditional walls, roofs, windows and doors in electric newfangled ovens in the kitchen spaces. So that later the whole family can enjoy a real culinary masterpiece European house projects built: gingerbread house.

Even in ancient Rome, it was customary to bring small beautiful buildings to the altars in order to new year's eve God settled there. And then, in the morning, the whole family will enjoy the culinary miracle together and feel their involvement in the divine.

By European house projects modern gingerbread houses have been built since 1812, after the Brothers Grimm sent an evil sorceress to the fabulous building for permanent residence.

Do not think that building a gingerbread house is very simple. It has its own secrets of house building and a recipe that cannot be violated in any way.

Therefore, the gingerbread house is kneaded with vodka or cognac, honey is put instead of sugar. And no margarine is allowed here, only butter. As planned by the builders, the walls and roof of a real gingerbread house should remain soft.

Despite the fabulousness of what is happening here, everything is real: design, carved shutters, small tiles, turrets and a horse. Everything goes into decoration: cookies and sweets, chocolate, marmalade, protein cream. And everything is connected with hot caramel or honey syrup.

Just before the holiday, this cute creation is placed on the windowsill, illuminated from the inside with a flashlight, and it remains to wait for the miracle that comes to every home on Christmas.

Foreign and, above all, European house projects are centuries-old traditions of suburban housing construction. Emphasized modesty and minimalism external forms hides the fullest possible filling inner space at home with useful and necessary space and premises for family members.


Projects of country houses of the European school offer a large living area, cost-effectiveness in construction, rational use technical space at home. All European houses are designed in such a way as to save electricity and heat, it is advisable to use each square meter usable area. This is precisely the main advantages of foreign houses, which are presented in a wide variety in this section of the PARTHENON catalog.

If you want to purchase a foreign house project, we recommend that you carry out additional adaptation work to link the finished house project to the actual construction conditions on your site.
Below is a table that spells out what additional work is carried out by foreign architects to adapt ready-made standard projects.

The cost of adaptation and additional design work
(at the request of the customer)


* Note: We recommend that this type of work be carried out on the basis of a report on the geology of the customer's building site.

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IMPORTANT: we sell house designs at architects' and copyright owners' prices. Therefore, if you see our projects at a lower price, please let us know and we will sell you the project cheaper than on the resource you specified.

In Shop-project you can purchase foreign projects of houses and cottages. These are the proposals of the Polish bureau, adapted to the Russian reality. In the projects of foreign houses from our catalog, the basic principles by which private housing is built in Poland are observed, and the possibility of their implementation in Russia is provided.

What attracts projects of foreign houses?

The architecture of modern Eastern Europe is a centuries-old tradition of private suburban construction. The style of the settlements of Poland is recognizable at first sight externally and has specific traits in the organization of internal space. Modest, minimalistic architectural forms hide the maximum functionality of the layout.

In foreign projects of houses and cottages from Poland, a fairly large living space with many useful premises is assumed. At the same time, they differ in savings - during construction and after its completion. They are planned modern materials, which are inexpensive, easy to fit and install and reduce the cost of heating, lighting, etc.

Despite the brevity of external forms, foreign projects of houses and cottages have a European charm and meet a high level of living standards. This is what attracts customers who choose them all over the world, including in Russia.