Problem Avoidance!

Yes! You, too, can practice problem avoidance! It goes like this: before you put together the shell (or start doing anything, if it's already put together), practice a construction "dry run" in your mind. Where are the doors? Where are the windows? Is there any part of the house that's going to get blocked off? The Hampton features a "secret room" to the right of the bedroom and directly behind the bathroom--if I put it in before doing any of the finishing, then I'd pretty much be making it impossible for myself to paint the walls, add flooring or add a ceiling. Below is a picture of the floor without the walls, which form the secret room, installed.

Instead, I build the house without the secret room, and put the walls that form it aside for later. I'm not going to do all the finish work to the room before I install it, but I am going to do about half of it--the walls, flooring, and ceiling (but not the trim).