292. Pregnancy, Motherhood & Homebuilding: A Summer Life Update

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Building a house from scratch has been such an adventure—full of surprises, lessons, and all the little details that bring a space to life. I’m sharing where we are in the process, how we’re blending old and new to create a home with real character, and answering your questions about pregnancy, motherhood, and home birth. If you’re in the thick of family life or just love chatting all things home and babies, I think you’ll really enjoy this summer life update! In this episode, we cover: Framing progress on the build and why we’re showing up daily to avoid costly mistakes Lessons from past renovations where small contractor assumptions caused big regrets Mixing salvaged doors and painted porch floors to achieve an authentic “new old” house feel Where we’re sourcing vintage windows and antique doors—and what’s worth buying new Deciding to include a range hood for health reasons and adding a wood-fired cookstove for winter My experience getting pregnant while nursing and what our typical age gaps have looked like How I’ve learned to manage the baby stage more smoothly with a larger family and older helpers Encouragement for moms feeling maxed out with littles—why it won’t always feel this hard How we evaluate home birth safety, from ultrasound decisions to midwife experience Why some pregnancies feel harder than others, even when everything seems the same View full show notes on the blog + watch this episode on YouTube. Thank you for supporting the sponsors that make this show possible! RESOURCES MENTIONED Brent Hull 100 Year Window by Brent Hull Thornhill Range Cookers Join my FREE masterclass to learn my 4-step framework for making money on YouTube 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 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 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.

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0:00.0	So you're in this season of in your mind just so overwhelmed and I think we forget that it'll change so fast.
0:06.0	Like in one year you might be a completely different kind of overwhelmed.
0:11.0	And so maybe your brain just needs like a year or whatever it might be.
0:15.0	Don't think that this is how you're going to always feel.
0:17.0	I think you just need a little time.
0:19.0	I think maybe you're in a particularly
0:21.0	overwhelming season and you're forgetting that that changes because it does. It just changes
0:26.2	all the time. My name is Lisa, mother of eight and creator of the blog and YouTube channel
0:30.5	Farmhouse on Boone. On this podcast, I like to talk about simplifying your life so you can
0:34.8	live out your priorities. I help you learn how to cook from scratch and decorate on a budget through this podcast and my courses simple sourdough in the
0:42.3	simple sewing series. I also help people reach their goals from home through my business course
0:47.1	YouTube Success Academy. I will leave links to these resources in the show notes and description
0:51.2	box below. Now let's get into the show.
1:03.1	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast. Today I'm going to be doing another solo episode talking through our build and progress that's happening there, talking about the
1:10.4	pregnancy, answering some of your
1:12.1	frequently asked questions, giving you basically a summer life update for our family and our
1:18.0	projects, which are a lot right now. So first, just to talk a bit about the build, we are
1:24.0	fully in the middle of framing right now. Now, when this episode comes out, I imagine that
1:28.8	framing will be mostly done because as of recording, they're already working on framing out the
1:34.8	second level. Some advice I received from anybody who's ever built, because I've talked to a lot
1:40.0	of people who have built, whether it's a custom home or it's, you know, any kind of home,
1:46.9	whether it's a barn dominium, a farmhouse style, modern style. The advice has been the same
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