If You Build It (Wrong), They Will Come...

...and complain. The bathroom dormer was initially constructed with a roof slope much steeper than the rest of the roofs.  This would have made it very hard to have a shower along the side. But our contractor completely rebuilt it once the mistake was pointed out. Phew!

Pretty, but...

...it doesn't match

Another View

Of the wrong roofline. There's the ladder that was used a lot during rainstorms to patch up the tarp. Fun.

Rebuilt

Note that the original gable end roofline and the new dormer roofline are now parallel.

View from the back

From the back corner of our driveway

Inside View

With the tarp as temporary roofing.

Head on View

It might not be as pretty in some way, but it makes the side walls significantly higher.

Intersection

of the two ridges -- the main one and the bathroom dormer. It would have taken me a week to figure out the compound angles to cut for the rafters.

View from the parking lot

There aren't many places from which you can see our bathroom dormer. I guess that's a good thing.