Really stuck! Can you give advice for this logo design?

I'm pretty stuck. I need to design a logo with the words Building for Life. The word Life needs to be predominent and larger than Building for. We are a housing company and there's a simple line drawing of a roof with chimney over the words. The colors are red and yellow and the font I need to use is quite thin. I am having a hard time getting the yellow to stand out on the white background and since the letters are so thin, it looks silly with a shadow. Any advice would be most appreciated. I seem to have a terrible case of designer's block!