Modest multi-story homes with a minimum of 1.800 square feet are beginning to have elevators built into them.

Until recently, usually homes with a minimum of 4,000 square feet had an elevator built into them.

Any elevator built into a home is the type that’s rudimentary that only features a gate as the elevator’s “door” (albeit the elevator having a safety feature where it comes to a stop if the gate is pulled open while the elevator is in transit), is very slow, has very basic controls; and is much smaller in size compared to the far more common commercial-style elevator in commercial buildings, apartment buildings; and the like.

Examples of modest multi-story home plans with elevators built into them:

http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl77437.html?from=search

http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl77263.html?from=search

http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl77026.html?from=search

http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl77026.html?from=search

http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl77460.html?from=search

http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl77450.html?from=search

http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl68181.html?from=search

http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl77091.html?from=search

http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl76588.html?from=search

http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl76755-1.html?from=search

The size of house that you would normally expect to have an elevator built into it:

http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl75406.html?from=search

A multi-story home with an elevator built into it would make a multi-story home more desirable in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”, and the elevator would be an asset to everyone traversing up and down the multiple floors, especially with my paternal grandmother and her arthritis; but then there’s the additional maintenance that comes with the territory of owning a multi-story home. And especially if we went in the direction of buying property located somewhere in Oakland Township, Michigan and built our own house.

So, for those aforementioned reasons; that still leaves owning a large ranch or a large tri-level home highly attractive.