For starters - the pic attached is NOT my home, but is identical in shape and size. The roofline is just so strange - like a second roof is stacked on the first - yet very common in my area. I'm grateful for the porch entry it creates, but surely there are more beautiful ways to accomplish the same thing.

I love traditional cottages and farmhouses with well-proportioned forms and period trim. I love symmetry and elegance. I don't love faux-colonial ranches with perplexingly awkward rooflines.

So here's my question: the roof needs replacing soon. Can the middle section be chopped down and integrated into the main roof? It seems to me to just be cosmetic, but I have no idea.

I'd also love any ideas of what else could be done - adding a porch back on, adding some sort of articulation to the roof. Basically, can you make a ranch beautiful without tearing it down?

Thank you!