Haha, been there myself with reclaimed stuff... always looks great until you start working with it. Did you end up renting a planer or did you already...

Totally get where you're coming from on the slate thing. When we built our first custom home last year, I was dead set on slate at first because it ju...

That's a really neat insight. I'm currently building my first custom home and we've been debating similar things—especially the reclaimed wood idea. Y...

I totally get what you're saying about the paperwork overload. When I was building my first custom home, my lender handed me this huge binder full of ...

I get what you're saying about simplifying HOA docs, but honestly, I think some of the complexity is unavoidable. When we moved into our first custom ...