185. You Can DIY Your Dream Home on a Budget | Dena of Fletcher Creek Cottage

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Dena is perhaps best known on the internet for sharing about how she and her family self-built their home from scratch for only $70,000. Dena has had extensive DIY, renovation, and design experience on a number of homes, and she is sharing her best tips with us today. She shares lots of practicals, but we also dive into what it looks like to embrace your own definition of “dream home” and create a beautiful home that your budget can sustain. For anyone with a DIY spirit, this episode is such a good one!

Join us as we discuss:

How Dena and her family built their home from scratch for only $70,000
Why it was important to them to build their home debt-free
The reality of self-building a house from scratch as a family
Where to start when you are designing your home
Budget-friendly tips for creating a home you love
Behind the scenes of creating content about your life and projects
Design specifics: window treatments, outdoor furniture, rugs
What you need to know about adding old charm to a new build
Top two must-haves when designing your dream home
Evaluating your perspective on “dream home” when you are trying to live within your means

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life Podcast. Today, I'm having on a guest who I know you will find very
0:06.3	inspirational. She and her husband and their kids while homeschooling
0:11.0	built their home
0:13.3	debt-free for
0:14.8	$70,000. They had this dream of moving back with their family, where their family was, but that meant a pay cut.
0:21.8	They wanted land, but they also wanted somewhere to live, and so they had to pull together
0:28.3	this dream of building their home very inexpensively. I know you'll find that very
0:34.3	Inspired. We're also going to chat design and then they're building another house now. So let's dive in
0:40.0	Chatting with Dina from Fletcher Creek Cottage.
0:43.5	My name is Lisa mother of seven and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse on Boone. Join me as I share with you
0:50.6	My love for creating a handmade home from scratch cooking and a little mom and entrepreneur life along the way.
0:56.5	Thank you so much, Dina for joining me. I'm looking forward to
1:06.5	Chatting DIY, home design, building. I know my listeners will be very inspired by your story because you have some very
1:14.1	Inspirational things that you and your family have done. So let's start with introductions. Tell us about you, your family, your home, Instagram, blog, whatever else you want to share.
1:21.4	Thank you. I'm really excited to be here, and it's great to chat with you all things
1:26.4	DIY. My name is Dina and you can find me at Fletcher Creek Cottage over on Instagram. I have a blog with the same Fletcher Creek Cottage and more
1:36.9	recently added YouTube, which has been pretty exciting, but a huge learning curve for me as far as a personal
1:44.9	Side of things go. I am a wife for almost 22 years now, and I've got two almost grown kids. I'm a homeschool mom and
1:55.4	Something that a lot of people don't know about me is I am one of 12 children. So I've got a huge family and family is what brought us back to
2:04.1	This area where we live we live in Northern Michigan Trevor City area and we're on 65 acres here, and that's what led us to build this cottage, which is
2:14.3	Fletcher Creek Cottage. So my business was born out of, you know, a family adventure slash venture. I'm just trying to get back home. So that's me and
2:23.4	Not sure. Cool. Yeah, I didn't realize you were up in Michigan. We've been up to Trevor City. We did a road trip up there because I mean, it's kind of
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