Oct 12, 2005 — NEW YORK (Reuters) – Martha Stewart will help design new homes in an agreement with builder KB Home that extends the lifestyle expert’s brand well beyond the merchandising of towels and kitchen utensils.

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. and KB Home said on Wednesday the first model homes imprinted with Stewart’s style sense will be completed in 2006.

The first group to go on sale will include 650 houses in Cary, North Carolina, under the name “KB Home Twin Lakes: Homes Created with Martha Stewart,” the companies said.

Talk about building some equity!

Link: ABC News: Martha Stewart to build houses with KB Home
Link: NYT: Builder to Offer Martha Stewart-Style Homes
Link: Boston Globe: House of Stewart
Link: USA Today: Martha Stewart to design houses with KB Home

More (full-size) pictures from the listing are available in the photo album. Keep in mind this isn’t our stuff in the house.

Update: It’s a 1966 sqft. home located in northwest Raleigh. It was built in 2004 by Centex.

My house is listed under the MLS #2525401:

House Listing 1
House Listing 2
House Listing 3

Outside
• [X] Change the elevation rock from color scheme #2 to color scheme #8.
• [X] Replace the screen on the back sliding glass door
• [X] Fix the large hole in the foundation concrete in back yard
• [X] Remove the brick off of the roof of the house
• [_] Paint the pop-outs around the windows in the back yard and right side of the house to match the other pop-outs.
• [_] Paint the light-green eaves to match the house.
• [_] Paint the patched area on the bottom corners of the garage door.
• [_] Replace the dead tree in the front yard.
• [_] Fix the places in the pop-outs that are missing stucco on the front of the house. (Noticed after the elevation rock change)
• [_] Fix the chip on the bottom left of the window shutter on the front of the house. (Noticed after the elevation rock change)

Inside
• [X] Mount the dishwasher.
• [X] Remove the screws in the walls/Corian countertops. Caulk and fix scratches as necessary.
• [X] Add a ‘register’ over the vent in the guest bathroom.
• [X] Patch the hole in the drywall above where water leak was in kitchen. Needs painted
• [X] Fix the water leak in the kichen found when removing the screws in kichen (#2).
• [X] Replace the baseboard near the closet in the guest bedroom. Appears to be gouged.
• [_] Fix small seam separation in the vinyl flooring in the kitchen area.
• [X] Straighten the thermostat.
• [X] Fix the kitchen and master bedroom phone jacks; only get dial tone in den.

So, apparently when my stove AND dishwasher were stolen, they had to replace the Corian countertops as well. To hold the back part of the countertops on, they used some screws temporarily drilled at an angle into the wall. Well, I have been trying to get them to pull out the screws, and I didn’t touch them because I didn’t put them there. So, the guy is removing them and he gets to the third one….

When he pulls the third one out, water starts squirting out of the hole (about a 1 foot stream of water). He quickly put the screw back in, and the water stopped squirting out. So, they then scheduled a plumber to come out and repair the water pipe that they apparently hit when they put the screw in. Now I have about a 10″x10″ hole in my drywall above where that screw was. I wonder how long it’ll be before they have THAT fixed.

To add onto my problems, Cox Communications came out today to install my cable internet. I was really looking forward to playing Halo and catch up on the various internet things I’ve missed over the last three weeks. Well, after about an hour and a half, the installer said that he couldn’t proceed with the install, because the tube that contains the wiring was clogged with dirt (my best explanation). They scheduled a guy to come out tomorrow to blow that out and then can’t install the digital phone/cable internet until Thursday. Life without high speed internet is tough…