Look at the side of the house when you’re driving up to your carport. They look completely different because the roof has been brought all the way out versus stopping.

" Look at the side of the house when you’re driving up to your carport. "

What carport? What did the builder say when you asked him why the framing differences? Is he willing to change the roof framing if you ask?

Looks like he matched the pitch he built for the center gable. You need a lot of changes to make this look as good as the finished house you've pictured. If he won't build to plan, I'd have to replace him. It happens. Messy but necessary, ime. The current design lacks character with a tacked together look.You have to live with the look every day for years. Get it right now.

The canned plan company calls it a “Perfectly Balanced 4-bed Modern Farmhouse Plan". Although some may disagree with that, many times when a design has a "minor" change, it changes a lot and destroys the original design intent.

Since there is no architect (designer) in this project, discuss it with your builder and seek a win/win solution. This could be an issue that negatively effects the client/builder relationship and derails the project.

Thank you- he is redoing the carport side to bump in the roof and make it symmetrical to the other side

The issue is with the marketing pictures: Both are named "Plan 56478SM," yet they are subtly different. The Kentucky-built version does not have symmetrical wings and the main gable is larger on the right side. The Texas-built version has symmetrical wings and a taller central wall height (or more shallow porch). These differences surely eminate from slightly different floor plans.

I'm not so sure that the roof pitch was done differently on the marketing plans vs what is being built. The version being built looks like the Texas version with a Kentucky left side roof.

Your actual construction documents should tell the story. The builder should be going off of the exact plans, but if they have built a handful of these, like in a tract-planned neighborhood, then it is possible they can be using plans that are of a slightly different version and just "winging" the roof layout to be different. More info would be needed if you are looking for a solution.

Thank you 3onthetree. Your explanation is very likely what has happened. I sent him floor plans for the symmetrical house without the left-wing being longer to begin with and I believe he has built this plan several times using the left wing longer plan. So when we saw that coming up we knew it wasn’t what we had chosen. It doesn’t look bad. It’s just different. But he is going to redo that side to be like the Texas version. My reason for posting was to get opinions on aesthetics or if there is something functional between keeping that Kentucky side left wing long. I have determined that by bumping it back and creating a longer roof line on the carport side of the house. It will protect my windows and not create two Ridge lines/valleys with water running into my garage and master bedroom corners. If that makes sense?

The Texas version of roof you are changing to is definitely less imposing on that side. If you have access from the garage (carport?) to that attic, you will have less space though if you are counting on it.

This is sounding like a BBQ order. "I'll have the North Carolina slaw, Memphis sweet sauce, and a side of Georgia peach cobbler."

Would you like your order farmhoused?

Yes! Farmhouse me with a modern cherry on top.