You Can DIY Your Dream Home on a Budget | Dena of Fletcher Creek Cottage
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- 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
ABOUT DENA
Dena Breitmeyer is a lifelong DIYer, wife, homeschool mom, and the voice behind Fletcher Creek Cottage. She and her husband have renovated many homes together and are best known for designing and self-building their current home “Fletcher Creek Cottage” from scratch (five years ago) for only $70k!
Fletcher Creek Cottage has been featured in multiple national magazines since Dena launched her DIY & Design Blog in 2019 after building the cottage. Dena is very passionate about design and creating beautiful and functional homes on a budget and she shares all kinds of DIY and home improvement projects that are super budget friendly. Dena and her husband recently designed and built a backyard pavilion, raised garden beds, chicken coop, greenhouse, and a garden fence on their 65 acres near their hometown in Northern Michigan. She also loves gardening, decorating, antiquing and especially loves hosting large family get-togethers for her 11 siblings and their families.
Dena and her husband Aaron have spent the past year self-building their dream home…which is not yet complete.This 4,000+ sq ft is by far the largest DIY project they’ve ever taken on together and will easily take these hard working DIYers at least one more year to complete. Dena shares the process of what it looks like to design and build a DIY home on a budget on Instagram @fletchercreekcottage as well as on her CZcams Channel and blog in hopes to encourage and inspire others to work hard for their dreams and to simply do the best they can with what they have!
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Thank you so much Lisa for inviting me to be a guest on your Podcast! I am very grateful for the opportunity to share our story and had a blast chatting all things DIY and dream home with you!
I really liked this episode and have subscribed to your channel! @FletcherCreekCottage could you share some of the design books you’ve been liking? Looking to design something that will age well
@@evelynamos Hi, thank you for following:) The most incredible design book is called "Get yYour House Right" by Marianne Cusato and Ben Penthreath. I learned about the book from Jean Stoffer and it's very helpful.
Ladies, great content! This is priceless inspiration for young couples who have family values behind their drive to build their own home!
It's been said, "Safety First" -- but in this case I would say, family first. Let's all pitch in! Many hands make light work! 👏🏼👏🏼🥰🥰
Thank you for listening Kathryn and for your kind words...we hope that our story is an encouragement :)
Traverse?? 40 min from me. It's so gorgeous up here. My husband's name is also Aaron and he worked for Dave Ramsey in the past, so I am so inspired by this debt free process for their home. This is awesome! Yay for homeschooling...still trying to find some local groups. 😁
Three cheers for MI. Hello from Vermontville! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for this podcast Lisa. I will now be following Fletcher Creek Cottage!!
Loved this! Was so informative and fun to listen.
Lisa, you seem to always find amazing women to chat with. Thank you
Great Video and conversation so very interesting.
Hi Lisa, I love the paint color on your fireplace mantel. Who makes it and what color please? Listening to this discussion and loving it. 🌷
Great conversation! A lot of good nuggets in the conversation❣️
Thank you Lisa and Dena!
Great interview Lisa, such a sweet lady!
How do you fit 11 children into two,bedrooms
I thinknahe said she has 2 children but came from a family of 12...if I understood correctly.
No mama Tiktok is so bad for kids for adults, for all humans!!! It's been banned in many places in the world. Not trying to be negative but please be vigilant.
I don’t think her lifestyle relates to most of us.
Her lifestyle being?
??? Being a homeschool mom and working hard to build a homestead? I don't know, this is exactly what my husband and I are trying to do. 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
@@mariestadler8643 I don't have social media. But I don't think anyone is "flogging content". If you're not interested in this lifestyle, you don't have to watch? There's no reason to be rude or negative.
@@mariestadler8643 I hope you reflect on your comments and have a blessed day. 🙏