Been following your dream. Very nice. I live in a 1200 sq ft brick ranch. It has hip roof. 24 " overhangs. Front Faces the south. Overhang Shields sun in summer,then in winter low sun heats the rooms. The only thing I would consider (my father and I were contractors for years)is putting laundry room on main floor. The thing we use to talk about is reroofing these many pitch steep roofs $$$$. Plus now as Cliff talked about are roofers who know what they are doing. It's not hard just details. My father had old time training he passed some of that to me. He would always say 'think about what you want to do and do it right, do it only once. I built a 30x60 2 story gambrel roof garage. Not thinking about now(car lifts) I only made ceilings 10 ft,less heat cooling. If I had to it I'd do 12 ft clear.
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