Make them do it as the plans show.

Can I ask why you have dormers over the garage? Is there a room up there?

Keep the windows centered with the dormers as written on the original plans. My architect went to great lengths to make sure that whatever was below my dormers was properly centered and symmetrical. From his architectural point of view, this was super important. This is easy enough for them to fix and things like this happen all the time.

I always took tons of photos as they were framing and when anything new was getting installed. There were things that I never noticed at the site, but when I got home and studied the photos, I found little things that were just not quite right. Take lots of pictures along the way (especially of the plumbing and electrical before they insulate). It’s really helpful down the road to know and have a record of where everything is located within the walls.

What do the drawings show? (I didn't ask what does your architect show, but that's what I meant) Can you post the drawings?

Coult, when I started building, I also took lots of pics. Good thing too.

Nidnay is right. I got home looked at a photo of my DH's office and noticed the window was too far to the right. Went out and measured and sure enough they had centered it between the closet and the end of the room instead of centering it on the room so that both east and west windows lined up in the center. Only problem with ours was it wasn't stick framing like yours, but concrete block. (I'm in FL.)

Once everyone has gone home for the evening, take your plans and a measuring tape to the job site. Measure the various openings for correctness. If you don't understand how to do this, call your GC and get him to come with you. A good GC won't mind double checking. It helps him, too. Now is the time to catch errors. Later on it becomes very expensive.

Absolutely, hold the GC to the plans! This is House Building 101. Those ground floor windows MUST line up directly under the dormers as your plan shows......anything else is a botch.

As to the 3rd, central ground floor window shown in your plans....I don't have a strong opinion. Leave it in if you really want the extra light and ventilation, and you don't need wall space for curtain stackback or other reasons.

The three windows look fine.

What I would change is I'd nix the arched window on the second floor since there is no other arched window on the front elevation. It also dates the house.

Meet on site with the builder and a set of drawings. Ask him if he sees a difference between the drawings and the current framing. Ask him when his crew will be correcting the framing. Thank him, and offer him some home made pie...!

So there you go. Problem solved. Glad to know DH is acting as GC. This way we will know to blame everything on him.

I have built a home with a similar elevation. We used a shed dormer on the back to the house over the garage rather than dormers on the front. I'm not a big fan of dormers because of the potential of roof leaks and the lack of usable space.

I suggest that the original elevation with the two larger windows aligned with the dormers is more pleasing than the three little window version. The three little windows seems busy and cramped to me.

Give your husband a piece of pie, and a piece of your mind that he didn't follow (or ensure the framers followed) the drawings in the first place...! :-)