Can you start over with an architect? I see nothing that looks decent enough to continue with, in my honest opinion.

Your current house looks far better. The other two sketches cram too many disparate design parts into one house.

Is there a floorplan in connection with any of these renderings? You can't design an exterior without considering the interior and visa versa. I can't tell what the goal is here. Is the purpose of the addition just to add a garage and convert the existing garage to living space?

I hope you’re not considering prettiness over practicality.

As someone else asked - what’s your end goal for the project, the problem you are trying to solve?

And FYI, there’s very little love lost on designers on this forum.

There is nothing cohesive in this rendering. It appears to be sections of different houses pieced together. What style are you going for? Start again.

There are too many existing conditions that effect the design process in remodeling or adding onto an existing structure to give adequate advice.

Is the designer related to you?

Here is the new layout. We are doing the renovation because we need another bedroom for our kids, our primary bathroom is the size of a phone booth, and our kitchen is a “flipped” kitchen from previous owners that makes no sense in terms of where it is in the house and the cabinetry is failing. We also don’t have any functional storage, and my husband wants to be able to set up a workshop in the garages.

No room to do this?

Without knowing what is existing, you are asking a black hole question.

@markbischak there is a picture of what is existing in the post and the dashed lines for existing structure are on the layout.

@PPF There is room in terms of the lot, and that is how the garages are currently oriented. There is a downward slope on that side of the house that I think they were trying to avoid with the garage entry flipping sides.

THOUGHTS? Not good. Too many roof lines,

Your house reminds me a bit of this. There is a Before and After photo posted.

I'm just not crazy about a railing on the porch of the rendering.

Design the rear and two side elevations and leave the front to happenstance.

A picture of the front of the existing house and dashed lines on a proposed floor plan gives enough information to be dangerous.

Are you excited about the new interior floorplan? From an outsider's perspective, there seems to be a lot of wasted space and strange angles, but if that's your thing, you do you. It looks like you have a gigantic laundry room AND a separate "mud room" - both of which are comparable in size to your primary bath. That seems excessive to me, but I don't know your needs. Your butler's pantry and kitchen are not placed in a convenient/logical path from your formal dining room. For such a large (and likely $$$) addition, your non-primary bedrooms and baths are an afterthought - one of the secondary bedrooms has a bathroom with a prison-like shower stall! If these are for kids, would they perhaps prefer a tub option in at least one of the baths? The garage angle is causing a ripple effect on the interior with angled walls in storage-based spaces (the laundry/mudroom/hall closet, etc.) - this equals WASTED and inefficient space. If storage is important to you, you may want to revisit the angled garage concept.

Also, keep that nostalgic faux dove-coate detail. It's old school and far more awesome than the proposed exterior finishes on those renderings.

I really dislike the way the garages are the first thing the eye goes to in your renderings. Is there no way to not have the garages angled?

Quite an ambitious project! It is clear the architect was trying to break up the long mass of the house and work with balance to direct your focus. But the context of the aesthetic is unknown. What do you mean the elevation is "close," close to what in your interpretation?