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Originally Posted by R Leo
My preference is for a simple hip roof. It does away with gables that are hard to maintain and provides nice, shade producing eaves.
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They have their upside but there can be a downside. We put a room in the attic of an old house (1907) in Berkeley a few years back and it had hip roof all around. In retrospect, we should have made the backside at least into a gable cause head room is really limited unless you're within about 6 feet of the center of the room. It's about 28' x 16'.
On the tricky roof deal, oh man, I've been on some houses where the labor was double or triple on the roof from what it would have been with a simpler design. People get wide eyed at gimmicks it seems.