North Park left side: thinking about cutting the roof

Meh.  Gotta do whatcha gotta do!   The original builder of my North Park/Ellwanger didn't attach the porch for perhaps a similar reason!

Is the staircase completely walled in, or would you be able to angle the house a teensy bit to compensate for the overhang? But I agree that you gotta do what you've gotta do... besides, if it is the only solution, it is probably one of those things that most people won't notice anyway.

 

OR what about cutting it off and then re-attaching it later using wood glue, masking tape on the underside to keep the glue from dripping, and popsicle sticks or something to reinforce/hold it straight while it dries? Then when it's all done, you can shingle.

Cheverly, I've been thinking sort of along the lines of your second suggestion.  The thing is it's not just the roof overhang, there's also trim and gingerbread... I imagined doing something where the trim, gingerbread and detached bottom of the eave were a single removable unit, with the join disguised by overlapping shingles, but I don't really think that's possible -- the trim/gingerbread really does need to be glued in place along the roof line.

 

Or could I unglue the whole back roof from the house and engineer some kind of peg-in-hole/clip-in system of attaching it?

 

I'm going to think about this some more and avoid shingling the back of the roof or installing trim/gingerbread until the very end of the build.

I solved this problem! I was wrong here : the trim/gingerbread did NOT need to be glued in place along the roof line.  there's a groove in the trim/nosing that holds it in place on the roof.  Pictures of the solution later in the album!