Looking for roof designs for my floor plan

[Plainwacky]

I designed my floor plan but not real happy with my roof and front of house design. The problem I have is that I can't visualize a roof design, so I'm looking for someone to give me some ideas. 

This is a mostly a single story house (see the floor plan) with a second story (game/gym room) over the bedrooms and baths

I initially had the front of the house and garages all in-line and thought it looked like all garage, so I decided to angle it as shown. I'm open to changes to the garage. I just don't want to go with an L-Shape with the garages cause of how I enter my property, which right now is a vacant lot. 

If this is something you'd be interested in, please let me know your ideas and how much you might charge. I'm not sure how this would work cause I certainly don't want to pay someone for something that looks ridiculous, or I really dislike. The only way I can think of getting around this, is for you to give me your ideas, perhaps a mark-up, and if I like it, I can send you the plan and pay you for implementing your ideas with my input.

[basketballman]

6 hours ago, Plainwacky said:

The only way I can think of getting around this, is for you to give me your ideas, perhaps a mark-up, and if I like it, I can send you the plan and pay you for implementing your ideas with my input.

 Hmmm. sounds pretty open ended - risky.

    Judging by your name, wondering if this be a joke ?

[Gawdzira]

Does this idea of asking to verify if you will enjoy a product before you agree to pay for it work at restaurants? Asking for a (hungry) friend.

[Plainwacky]

What I am saying is.... shoot me your ideas, tell me what you would you do differently, what you don't like about my plan, etc...and if I like your idea(s), we come up with an agreement including cost for the service. It could be as simple of marking up my camera view using Microsoft Paint and sending it to me. 

I'm not expecting someone to work for free, and to me this is no different than having an interior designer/contractor come to your house to tell you their ideas prior to hiring them. Such as "we can move this wall, put an kitchen island here, etc". 

As an example, if someone responded to this posting and said, "what I would do is get rid of two of the garages, or I'd separate the garages from the main house, or I'd get rid of the balcony, or get rid of the second floor, etc", of course I'm not going to enter into an agreement, cause I don't like any of those ideas. 

In regard to the restaurant comment.... It's no different than looking at a menu to see if there is anything on it you like prior to ordering.  Do you pay for dinner without knowing what the restaurant is serving? 

I believe a confident and experienced designer would immediately have some creative ideas and have no problem sharing them, knowing I'd going to love their ideas. 
 

[Rookie65]

Yes, it is very different. Most interior designers and contractors charge a consultation fee. This is what separates the serious people from the time-wasters. We don't just walk around handing out free advice because someone doesn't want to make the effort to learn on their own.

As for a restaurant, you go there with the expectation that you will find something on the menu you will like, and subsequently pay for it. It's not like servers from each restaurant stop by your car to bring you something to try and hope you'll want to order it. 

Your expectation of "a confident and experienced designer would immediately have some creative ideas and have no problem sharing them." is expecting them to give you ideas with the risk of a) not getting the project, or b) you taking their idea, figuring out how to draw it yourself, and ignoring their request for payment.

For them to be confident and experienced comes from many years of practice and learning. For you to expect multitudes of people to spend time on your project for free, that's a selfish ask. Learn how the program works and try it yourself.

If I remember right, you also used to be on the Home Designer forum regularly and have been asked, multiple times, to create/fill out your signature so people know what version and year software you are using. Yet you still haven't.