The Farmhouse Edit: Pregnancy, Motherhood & Homebuilding: A Summer Life Update

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Pregnancy, Motherhood & Homebuilding: A Summer Life Update

Description

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

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.

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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 all
0:26.4	the time. My name is Lisa, mother of eight and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse
0:31.0	on Boone. On this podcast, I like to talk about simplifying your life so you can live out your
0:35.4	priorities. I help you learn how to cook from
0:37.5	scratch and decorate on a budget through this podcast and my courses simple sourdough in the simple
0:42.6	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
0:50.9	description box below. Now let's get into the show.
1:02.5	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,
1:11.4	answering some of your frequently asked questions,
1:14.3	giving you basically a summer life update for our family and our projects,
1:18.6	which are a lot right now.
1:20.5	So first, just to talk a bit about the build,
1:23.6	we are fully in the middle of framing right now.
1:26.3	Now, when this episode comes out, I imagine that framing will be mostly done because as of recording, they're already working on framing out the second level. Some advice I received from anybody who's ever built, because I've talked to a lot of people who have built, whether it's a custom home or it's, you know, any kind of home,
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 28 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous 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.