Ok Irene....I think I have some tips that might help you with the roof on your cool house. ( it IS a cool house, by the way...interiors have so much personality!)
When I looked at the house, the first thing I noticed is that you have a lot of horizontal seams on the roof....and what I mean by that is blunt seams where different roof parts to not flow into each other:
What you want to try to do on the top section is get the parts to flow into each other more....something like this:
That way everything draws in to the main body of the roof and blends with each other better. Does that make sense?
The next thing is that I would suggest you put in your decking so you can see exactly where roofing needs to go. It makes roofing work easier.
Also...and I hate to say this because the second floor is already furnished, but you need to remove the stuff from the second floor. Yuck, right? I know. But the roofing tool will not allow collision with any objects and I think that is why you cant add that one section. And....you need to be able to draw into the walls enough to get smooth seams on your roof. That is why I generally do all of the exterior stuff before I place any interior stuff.
Another big challenge of this roof is that you have that cute patio area on the decond floor with some roofing in front of it. Most roof types will cut into that patio, as you no doubt already discovered. The half hip roof ( single slant) will work on the lowest setting here without encroaching on the patio...it is the only one that really does....but it means you cant see part of the fencing. That is the best we can do with this layout:
Using that roof, we get a nice smooth seam with the front section. The part you could not get to roof, I covered like this:
Now....another challenge ( this is a very tricky roof...no wonder you were frustrated!) is that if we use the single slant on the front...we get a goofy gap on the other side like this:
Under the circumstances, the best way to handle this is to make another small patio area and then roof the larger section like this:
Here is the final look all together:
Let me know if you have any questions about this. This was a really hard roof to deal with...but I think this solution gives a smoother more unified appearance in the end.
