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Originally Posted by Elphaba
If you're not ready to make some major (expensive) changes to your home, I have some poor-man ideas that might improve the hot/cold issue.
- Your sf. suggests that you can move all of your regularly used living spaces downstairs, and less used upstairs. It's less expensive to heat or cool a single guest room than the entire upstairs.
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The SF would suggest that, but the layout vetoes! We use 2 bedrooms and 2 baths upstairs; we could convert the 2 connected offices downstairs into bedrooms, but privacy would be an issue as the doors are glass. The downstairs bathroom is also more like 3/4 bath - very small (maybe 5x7) and not big enough for 3 ppl to get ready in.
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- Install a door at the top of the stairs with weather stripping, so your heating/cooling efforts downstairs stays there.
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We have a door at the bottom of the stairs (the top of the stairs is open - it's a switchback staircase that opens into a sort of clerestory-like landing - there's no doorway per se at the top) that we could close. It's glass, however, so not very insulating. Still, might help. The problem is, the upstairs is where we sleep and ratbastid is a goddamn furnace. We need to keep the upstairs fairly cool. I'm doing all I can with passive cooling - windows open at night, closed and shaded during the day - but it's NC, and at this time of year the nighttime temps are still in the mid to high 70s, so it doesn't do much good. We kind of deliberately leave the door open so the downstairs cooling system can lend a hand to the poor, overworked upstairs cooling system.
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- And like Wise Will said, vent your roof. 
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I missed that suggestion...what does that mean exactly? There are 3 eaves spaces that are insulated...do you mean vent those?