LAYTON, Utah (AP) -- Jeff Kidder knows the quality of work that went in his new house. He's a high school carpentry teacher and his students built his home.

The Layton, Utah, educator says he had no idea he would be living in it when they started construction last year.

But he and his wife applied to the county program that sells the finished houses and they were chosen.

Kidder tells the Standard-Examiner newspaper that construction brought them all closer together.

He says by the end of the school year he and the students felt like family.