Selby- What to do with the shed?

We are happy to announce another home we are currently building and plan to keep you updated on the progress and the fun up and downs of building a home. This lot was a ton of 'fun' to start building on it. The driveway to the lot was blocked by the neighbors shed. We probably could have easily gone around it and started working while the neighbor figured out how to move his shed, but of course the access to the utilities for the lot were under their shed, preventing us from starting.

  When we figured this all out we began talking to the neighbor. After speaking to the neighbor they began debating on buying the lot from our homebuilder's, which delayed us a day or so as we waited to see if they would make an offer. They chose not to make an offer on the house, so the shed still had to relocate.  The neighbor wanted us to move the shed for him since he couldn't(?), eventually he found a way to move the shed so we could begin work on the lot. We now have the foundation in and are getting ready to move to the next step. It's important to know that part of the building process is encountering hiccups, with such a big project their almost bound to happen, but you have to keep going and work through them and enjoy the stories you gain from them.
Til the next update,
Lindsey

P.S. The  link to see the Selby Floor Plan is below: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzR_FQtiHWaec1ZfbXJnd2xyVUE/edit?usp=sharing

Blenheim -When neighbors get in the way.

We have just recently broken ground on a new home in Layton.  With the backhoe in place we 'planned' to break the ground the next day and get going, but the neighbor parked his RV trailer on the lot. Having to work around the trailer the construction cause a 24 hr delay on its first day.  The trailer is now removed and we are already rolling into this part of the the building process. We've heard the neighbors kids are taking advantage of giant dirt landscape and if we stopped now you would have a nice hole for a swimming pool. We're hoping we won't encounter any more hiccups and will get this beautiful home built in no time.

Stainable Primer

At the National Association of Home Builders we discover a really neat way to paint your drywall, cabinets, trim, mantels and so on, it's called Stainable Primer. So what is it? This new primer allows you to transform any hard surface into a stainable wood surface.  Once you apply their primer you can treat the surface just like you would wood, so then you get any stain you can turn your surface into a beautiful peice. We found this to be so interesting. This is their website if you want to check them out yourselves: http://stainableprimer.com/ Below we have images explaining how it works visually.

The white section is the original wall, the next yellow hued section is where they applied their primer and then the next section (the one that looks like wood) is the primer they stained. 

This one follows the same process as the picture above.