Bonnet vs. Gilliam vs. Westland vs. Stranahan: The Vineyards Townhomes Compared

All four Vineyards townhomes share the same basic footprint — a one-car garage, two stories, and three to four bedrooms—but they split on one real question: do you want a dedicated flex room or a third full bathroom instead? Everything else follows from that single decision.

Because all four plans sit in a fairly tight size range, from 1,738 to 1,929 square feet of air-conditioned space, the differences between them are more about layout choices than raw square footage. That makes this comparison genuinely useful in a way a size-only ranking would not be.

The four plans side by side

Bonnet: the no-frills option

The Bonnet skips the flex room entirely and keeps things to three bedrooms, an 18'8" x 13'10" living room, and a straightforward layout with no extra rooms to heat, cool, or furnish. It is the smallest and typically the least expensive townhome at Vineyards, which makes it the pick for a buyer who wants three real bedrooms and does not need a dedicated office or playroom taking up additional square footage.

Gilliam vs. Westland: nearly identical

These two plans are close enough that the difference comes down to roughly 45 square feet spread across the shared living space—both include a flex room near the entry (11'0" x 9'7" in the Gilliam), three bedrooms upstairs, and a one-car garage. The honest answer here is to walk both in person, since the layouts feel more different standing inside them than the raw numbers on a spec sheet would suggest. Buyers who have toured both often describe the Westland's shared living space as feeling slightly more open, though the room-by-room dimensions for the Westland were not fully legible in the source floor plan and should be confirmed on a walkthrough rather than assumed.

Stranahan: the third-bathroom answer

Instead of a flex room, the Stranahan puts that square footage into a third full bathroom and the largest primary bedroom in the entire townhome lineup at 20'0" x 11'0". A buyer choosing between "I want a home office" and "I want an extra bathroom and a bigger primary suite" is really choosing between the Gilliam/Westland pair on one side and the Stranahan on the other—there is no plan that offers both a flex room and a third bathroom in the townhome collection.

How buyers typically narrow it down

Most buyers touring the Vineyards townhomes start by deciding whether they need a fourth bedroom at all—if not, the Bonnet is the clear and least expensive answer. From there, the choice becomes whether a home office or playroom (Gilliam, Westland) matters more than a third bathroom and larger primary suite (Stranahan). Only after settling that question does the Gilliam-versus-Westland decision come into play, and at that point walking both models in person is genuinely the fastest way to decide, since the numbers alone understate how different the shared living spaces feel.

What the flex room actually does for daily life

A flex room sounds like a minor feature until it becomes the room where a household actually spends the most unplanned time. In the Gilliam and Westland, the flex room sits near the entry, separate from the main living space—which makes it genuinely useful as a home office with a closed door during work calls, a playroom parents can see from the kitchen, or an extra guest space when family visits. The Bonnet and Stranahan, by contrast, ask a buyer to fold any of those uses into the existing bedrooms or living room, which works fine for some households and not at all for others depending on how many people live in the home and what they each need from it.

Bathroom count as a decision factor

The jump from two and a half bathrooms to three full bathrooms in the Stranahan is a bigger practical difference than the number alone suggests, particularly for a household with more than one adult getting ready in the morning or with guests staying overnight regularly. A third full bathroom removes a genuine daily friction point that a flex room, however useful, does not address in the same way.

Garage and storage, plan by plan

All four townhomes share the same one-car garage size on paper, but the effective usable storage space can still vary slightly based on how much of that garage footprint is taken up by mechanical equipment like the water heater or HVAC air handler. Buyers who plan to use the garage for more than parking—a workshop, extra storage, a home gym—should ask specifically about each plan's garage layout during a walkthrough rather than assuming the listed square footage translates directly into usable space.

Putting a number on the trade-offs

None of the four townhomes differ from each other by more than about 190 square feet of air-conditioned space, which is a genuinely narrow range compared to the swings seen among the single-family plans. That narrowness is exactly why the decision among these four plans comes down to specific features—a flex room, a third bathroom, and a slightly larger primary bedroom—rather than simply picking the biggest number on a spec sheet.

What to ask on a walkthrough

When touring the Bonnet, Gilliam, Westland, and Stranahan back-to-back, it helps to ask the same specific questions of each: how does natural light change through the flex room or extra bathroom at different times of day, does the garage layout leave usable space beyond the vehicle itself, and does the primary bedroom's location relative to the rest of the home match how the household actually wants to use the space? These questions surface differences a spec sheet cannot capture.

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