Picture of house at the moment.

If it were my home, I would remove the entire roof system that is on the right side of the porch, leaving the right side of the porch uncovered. Like you, I wouldn’t accept that mistake.

Agreed.

I would definitely remove the column on the far right, as well as the porch roof on the right side.

Your original drawing posted shows the roof line of the right porch immediately beneath the second floor windows. The entire right roof needs to be torn off and re built so that it descends from that window sill area. Align the front edge with the left porch edge. Look at your original drawing. The roof line on that porch should have started higher and finished level with the left porch, eliminating the two foot difference. Don’t know if this is possible to do in “real life.” But that might make things line up. Raise it. Either that, or omit the right side of the porch roof completely.

@ptreckel The print looks different than real life because the supplier shortened the window so there would be room for the frame and trim. Because of the parts of the window frame, I’m not sure there is room to raise the roof enough so it can meet with the 11’ roof. I certainly would prefer that to be the resolution.

Mark- I realize it is bad design. Of course I’m not the expert, but I certainly questioned it and no one acted concerned. Now I need a fix I can live with.

Re: stone- Around here neighborhoods require it which I do think is asinine. I tried to get out of it, but no luck. We hope it blends in and behind the landscaping when done. I’ll get over it eventually. Bigger problem is the porch!

Option Two might be to re build, extend the gables on, the two left porches so that they extend down to match the right porch line?

I just can not get over this:

The person or persons guilty of this design decision are clueless. This is reason to verify the license of the alleged "architect". I am trying to be polite, but I find that horrifying. I will leave it at that.

I agree with the others that suggest removing the column and porch roof outside the office window.

Instead of doing the stone so high up, make it come up only to the first floor and have it extend all around the house so it looks like part of the foundation.

I had a similar issue inside with my HVAC when they told me not to worry about it before we went to permitting. I questioned not having plans before we started. Sure enough, they couldn't run a duct through a part of the house without cutting a beam which meant getting the engineer involved, Then the builder thought he should charge me for the engineer!

What happens over on the left side?

One last possible suggestion. Instead of a mis matched porch roof on the right side….remove it and replace it with a pergola structure, aligned in height with the porch to the left, or at least blurring the difference in height. It will “cover” the porch floor that is already build on the right side. And provide a transition from the gable on the left to the garage. I think you would need to see how it aligns with the ceiling of the other porch roof on the left. And how big the gap is between it and the bottom of the windows above it. And, personally, I would assume that your builder/contractor/whoever designed your original plan would absorb any change orders in rectifying this situation for you. Good luck.

With stone ”skirting”, Its all or none for me, the short stone detail always (to me) makes the home look squatty, kind of shortens the wall. Reminds me of covering the wheels of a trailer home. If it was used for the entire wall, it looks (and is lol) more expensive. I dont mind the stone on the pillars tho, adds a bit of detail.

"Masonry on a house is like a kilt on a Scotsman; if it doesn't go all the way around it is not very good.” - Me

Guys! I know the stone isn’t ideal. Trust me, I fought this one and lost. Notice my husband still got a massive garage though. My time will come! The true test of a marriage is trying to build a house together. Lol.

Update-Met with the builder today and I think we worked out a plan that will tie the 9’ roof into the 11’ column/ceiling so I will have the 11’ posts on both sides of door as planned. My compromise is a shorter post on the far right but I think once we get everything in place, I can live with it. I also had agreed to that a long time ago so wasn’t going to fight it hard now. Anyway, engineer is being called and the parts are moving. Thank you for all your suggestions and sharing in my misery. Sometimes it just helps to know that I’m not the only person that thinks something is stupid. P.S. I thought about a pergola and that was my backup plan if they couldn’t give me anything else reasonable.

If you raise the roof on the right to just below the window, all the columns can be the same size and it will eliminate the leak that will occur where the roof valley meets the second story wall. And it will eliminate the 'beam' attached to the side of the column, that I can not get over.

The weird siding and beam i would see when i walk out the door will be eliminated. The goal is to use a hanger of some sort to hold that up the roof The engineer will plan it out so I’m waiting to see what he comes up with. Basically, they are going to cut back the 9’ a bit in the corner and have the two roofs join at the post that will be moved back to meet at the other corner which is actually better for the kind of look we wanted for the steps. I made it clear the end goal should be that both sides of the door are the same. Hindsight is 20/20. He realized his screw up not listening to me and will make it right.

I don't understand how you can't raise that roof. You need 6" below the window (4" leg for flashing, min 1" gap at bottom of siding) - and adjust for more if the window trim is wide.

Keeping the roof as is, maybe add a column under the levitating corner of the low roof. Make a heirarchy of columns: the high roof gets the bulky columns with stone, the low roof gets dainty (but proportionate) columns. No need for a complicated hanger system or offsetting the main column backwards, which will not line up with the other. It appears you have a full porch foundation, so a column anywhere along the perimeter should be accounted for.

Youll have to let us know how their proposed fix turns out.

I guess it's a trend now to have so many different roof lines/angles all over the place, my builder tried to do the same and I nixed that Idea, it's like a hodge podge of roof and gables. I like the above posters idea if you cant have it fixed.

Yes, it seems like everyone is doing weird things to be different in a sea of white and black houses around my area. It definitely wasn’t my intention on our home and I would say it’s my one regret so far. We were so burnt out after spending months designing the house completely from scratch and everyone telling me it would be fine, I tried to trust it and move on. I know better now! I do think the fix will be okay and with everything put together, no one but me will know it was ever an issue.

I will definitely post an update when it is complete! If they botch it, we can all make fun of it together. :)