272. Mortgage-Free Homestead Living: DIY Cottage of Your Dreams! | Natalie of Home of Hollands

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

I hear from many of you who have a dream of living a homestead lifestyle on your own property out in the country. Natalie and her family had a similar dream, and they were determined to do it without taking on a mortgage. Rather than opting for an RV or tiny home, they turned a shed into the cottage of their dreams. Natalie joins me in this episode to share about the process, answer frequently asked questions, and talk through their long-term vision. I hope Natalie’s story inspires your creativity and resourcefulness as you work toward your own dreams! In this episode, we cover: What led Natalie and her family to sell their property in Texas and build a 750 sq. ft. shed home in South Carolina Making a small house work for a large family is easier than you may think Why a shed house is the perfect solution for families who dream of living on land What costs should you factor into a shed home build? These long-term options make a shed home worth the investment What it’s really like living with four young boys in a tiny house Answering the most common questions about Natalie’s shed home Logistics of moving a large family with farm animals View full show notes on the blog + watch this episode on YouTube. Thank you for supporting the sponsors that make this show possible! ABOUT NATALIE Natalie Holland is a believer, wife, mama to four boys, and stylist turned homemaker. Together with her husband they built a little cottage out of a shed. They work as a team with Natalie taking care of design and Jordan executing her vision. Natalie is passionate about sharing ways to create beauty in everyday life through homemaking. RESOURCES See the tour of Natalie’s shed home here! Get your copy of Natalie’s cottage build and design guide Join my FREE masterclass to learn my 4-step framework for making money on YouTube Sit in my FREE masterclass to learn the secrets to becoming a full-time blogger Master the rhythm of sourdough with confidence in my Simple Sourdough course Gain the sewing knowledge and skills every homemaker needs in my Simple Sewing series Learn how you can earn a full-time income from home with my Create Your Blog Dream course Turn your content creation dreams into a profitable business with my YouTube Success Academy Keep all my favorite sourdough recipes at your fingertips in my Daily Sourdough cookbook CONNECT Natalie Holland of Home of Hollands | Website | Instagram | YouTube Lisa Bass of Farmhouse on Boone | Blog | YouTube | Instagram | TikTok | Facebook | Pinterest Do you have a question you’d like me to answer on the podcast? A guest you’d like me to interview? Submit your questions and ideas here: bit.ly/SFLquestions.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	If you're going through menopause, perimenopause, and you just can't seem to find comfort in your body anymore, or if you're done with menopause, but you're still feeling like a wet sock on a busy highway, then you have to try hormone harmony.
0:13.7	Hormone harmony is not just a supplement for women going through perimenopause, menopause, or postmenopause.
0:18.7	It's become a phenomenon.
0:20.3	Women cannot stop
0:21.3	talking about it on social media. A bottle of hormone harmony is sold every 24 seconds. Happy Mammoth,
0:26.8	the company that created hormone harmony, is dedicated to making women's lives easier. And that
0:31.6	means using only science-backed ingredients that have been proven to work for women. They make no
0:36.3	compromises when it comes to quality
0:37.8	and it shows. I look through all of the ingredients on the back of the bottle. Several that I recognize
0:42.1	that I've, over the years, pieced together for myself when certain hormone situations arise,
0:47.0	ingredients that I've trusted for years all put together in one supplement. It contains science-backed
0:52.6	herbal extracts called adaptogens, which help the body to
0:56.2	adapt to any stressors like chaotic hormonal changes that happen naturally throughout a woman's life.
1:00.7	The hormone harmony isn't just for menopause. Any woman with symptoms of hormonal imbalances can take
1:05.5	it, but it's perfect for those horrible symptoms that put a woman's life on hold. Hot flashes,
1:10.6	night sweats, Racing thoughts,
1:12.1	low mood, poor sleep. Hormone harmony can help with all of those things. For a limited time,
1:16.4	you can get 15% off your entire first order at happy mammoth.com with code farmhouse at checkout.
1:22.0	That's happy mammoth.com with code farmhouse. Either we throw a bunch of money at rent while we build or we build
1:29.4	this shed house and that way we can take our time. We can be on our property. My husband will do
1:34.0	some of our build and so he can be here and like oversee it. And the reason we went with a shed
1:39.8	rather than just building a small little house is if it's a shed and you don't go over 16 feet
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -77 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Lisa Bass, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Lisa Bass and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.