328. House Build Reflections: What Worked, What Didn’t, and What We’d Change | Ash of Turner Farm

Summary

Simple Farmhouse Life, Episode 328

House Build Reflections: What Worked, What Didn’t, and What We’d Change | With Ash of Turner Farm

Host: Lisa Bass
Guest: Ashley Turner
Release Date: February 10, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Lisa Bass welcomes back Ashley Turner of Turner Farm for a deep dive into Ashley’s unconventional home build journey. While their previous discussion covered sourdough, this time Lisa and Ashley dissect the process of designing and constructing a non-cookie-cutter, character-filled home with a focus on healthy living. They discuss sourcing reclaimed materials, making health-conscious decisions, managing budgets, the importance of patience, and lessons learned throughout their multi-year projects. This episode offers practical reflections for anyone considering or currently undertaking a custom build—or for those fascinated by old-home style and healthy house concepts.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Genesis of the House Build

(02:51–07:24)

• Why build? The Evolution of the Plan:

  • Ashley and her family originally had no intention of building a house. Their journey began by buying adjacent land over nine years, gradually moving deeper onto their farm for better access to their animals and improved daily function.
  • “As we built out the farm, our animals got pushed back further ... and we just found we didn't like constantly farming and not being able to see anything that we were doing.” – Ashley (05:42)
  • A neighbor suggested the top of a hill for a future house, which eventually became their site. Accessibility, infrastructure (like roads and power), and long-term vision drove their gradual relocation.

• Timeframe:

  • Overall, it took about three years to build after years of planning and infrastructure work, with significant delays due to climate and building a barn concurrently.

“If I could go back, I probably would never do that [build a barn and house at the same time] again.” – Ashley (04:43)

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2. Design Philosophy & Style Choices

(07:24–11:44)

• Non-cookie-cutter Aesthetic:
  • Ashley describes their home as inspired by Cape Cod, story-and-a-half houses but with significant modifications for character, coziness, and health (08:17).
  • The home’s small footprint is intentional to offset the higher costs of unique features like timber framing and reclaimed materials.
  • “There are sacrifices. Our house is not very big, and we made it smaller in order to do the unorthodox things inside of it that cost more money.” – Ashley (08:17)
  • The exterior timber/log features are for aesthetics, not structural need—this was more cost-effective than full timber framing.

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3. Sourcing & Installing Salvaged Materials

(12:40–19:10; 34:07–35:09)

• Flooring & Wall Paneling:

  • Sourced from buildings being torn down—a process that requires immense patience and flexibility. Floors came from multiple sites and required DIY refinishing.
  • “Our floors came from three different buildings ... it took months, a really long time, to get all the flooring and square footage we needed.” – Ashley (13:45, 18:21)
  • Wall paneling was done with wood from a local mill, not pre-kiln dried, to save costs and achieve a primitive, authentic look. This required time for proper drying and acclimation, embracing inevitable gapping and movement in the finished result.
  • “Wood is such a great way to easily and sort of inexpensively make your home feel older because it's ... bit uneven all over the place.” – Ashley (23:59)

• Realism vs. Speed:

  • Both Lisa and Ashley emphasize how unconventional sourcing and finishing prolong the build, but ultimately create unrivaled character.
  • Many admire the results online, but balk at the process time and complexity in practice.

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4. Health-Focused Building Choices

(41:41–59:32)

• Insulation Tradeoffs:

  • Despite best intentions, Ashley opted for closed-cell spray foam for practical reasons (high winds, cold climate, energy efficiency). She acknowledges it isn’t the top healthy home choice but considers comfort and performance essential to overall well-being.
  • “You have to also consider your own comfort … there's a health perspective to that too. Like if we're freezing ...” – Ashley (42:43)
  • They allowed ample time for off-gassing and keep active air filtration systems (with HEPA and VOC filters) running.

• Ventilation & Air Quality:

  • Integrated attic ventilation and air filtration systems to mitigate potential moisture/mold problems and off-gassing from building materials.
  • UV filters were added to the HVAC system to improve overall air quality.

• EMFs & “Dirty Electricity”:

  • Power meter was moved away from the house for lower EMF exposure.
  • Hardwired Ethernet throughout the house (no WiFi by design).
  • Use of EMF Solutions products and grounded metal roof to harmonize/mitigate electromagnetic impact, especially since they're in a rural location with low ambient signals.

• Lighting:

  • All incandescent bulbs for healthier circadian rhythms; avoids LEDs where possible.
  • “Get rid of all your LED lights … switch them for incandescent. It's so much healthier for your circadian rhythm.” – Ashley (58:29)

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5. Plumbing, Water, and Materials Choices

(53:23–57:24)

• Water Filtration & Testing:

  • Ashley emphasizes testing water before investing in filtration—hers turned out clean, so only minimal filtration was needed. Recommends UV filters and a copper filter for drinking water, avoiding full reverse osmosis unless necessary.
  • “For a few hundred bucks, you can just have peace of mind to know what you should be investing your money in rather than just listening to people on the Internet.” – Ashley (52:02)

• Salvaged Fixtures—a Caution:

  • Learned to avoid antique or non-code-compliant light fixtures and plumbing fixtures, especially for showers, due to inspection hurdles and potential for leaks. Instead, opts for quality new fixtures with vintage aesthetics where water is concerned.
  • “I would never recommend buying antique faucets or plumbing fixtures ... just not worth those types of [leak] episodes.” – Ashley (34:50)

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6. Logistics, Budgeting, and Project Management

(41:41–43:06; 66:08–71:21)

• Budget Priorities, Sacrifices & Sourcing:

  • Saved thousands by using IKEA closet systems and retrofitting them for a built-in look.
  • Spent more on lighting due to compliance requirements and pursuit of aesthetic/quality.

• Self-contracting & Involvement:

  • Both agree that for unconventional houses, owners must be extremely hands-on—finding tradespeople, making design calls, and being on site constantly to communicate and preserve intent.
  • “If you are building something completely outside the box … you really have to go down that rabbit hole.” – Ashley (70:09)

• Patience, “The List,” and Letting Go:

  • Projects yield inevitable “regrets” (missed details, things to fix later, budget limitations), and there’s always a list of things to finish post-move-in. Accepting imperfection is paramount for sanity.

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7. Notable Lessons and Reflections

Best advice for future builders:

• Stick to your vision, but be ready to defend it.
• Expect to be very involved—don’t hand off everything to a standard builder.
• Patience is essential; slow building means better off-gassing, less risk of hidden issues.
• You will always have a list; it’s okay, enjoy living in the home while improving it over time.
• Interview your tradespeople—openness to unorthodox ideas is more valuable than initial expertise.

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Memorable Quotes

• “There are sacrifices ... you can't have it all unless you have endless pockets.” – Ashley (08:17)
• “I always ask … what size house are you looking? They’re like, ‘5000, 6000 square feet.’ And I'm like, oh, you definitely don't want my house plan!” – Ashley (11:11)
• “If you are building something outside the box ... you really have to go down that rabbit hole.” – Ashley (70:09)
• “Stress is probably the worst one ... you do what you can and then you have to give it to God a little bit.” – Ashley (51:33)
• “You’re pushing back a lot ... you have to be really willing to be like, ‘I know it can be done this way.’” – Ashley (70:02)
• “For a house like this, you have to be [the contractor].” – Ashley (66:53)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 02:51 – Start of Ashley’s house build journey
• 07:24 – Design philosophy and adapting Cape Cod style
• 12:40 – Sourcing and challenges with reclaimed floors/walls
• 18:21 – The patience required for salvaged materials
• 41:41 – Healthy home strategies (insulation, air quality, EMF reduction)
• 53:23 – Water testing, filtration, and plumbing choices
• 58:29 – Lighting choices for health
• 66:08 – Working with tradespeople, self-contracting, staying hands-on
• 71:21 – Saving for (and building around) centerpiece appliances

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Conclusion & Where to Find Ashley

Ashley can be found on Instagram at @TurnerFarm, where she documents both her house journey and her popular sourdough classes (now offered both online and in-person on the farm).

“As we've moved into the house, I started teaching sourdough classes on the farm ... you can find everything linked on Instagram.” – Ashley (76:27)

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Final Takeaways

Building a healthy, high-character home takes vision, a willingness to slow down, and direct involvement at every stage. There will always be trade-offs, budget hurdles, and ongoing lists, but the results—a home that reflects both heart and health—are worth the effort for those committed to the process.

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For more resources on from-scratch cooking, natural living, and home building, visit Lisa’s blog at farmhouseonboone.com.

Transcript

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[Ashley Turner]

You have to also consider like your, your own comfort in your house too, because I think that there's a health perspective to that too. Like if we're freezing cold.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Absolutely. Well, and what I've noticed with building is there's just always give and take, budget aside, any house aside. You want one thing, but it contradicts another.

[Ashley Turner]

Sure.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

And it just, that happens constantly. Like I can just think of so many things like that. And so there's way more factors to consider than just is this bad, Is this good? It's like, is this necessary?

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah. And that's, and that's kind of where we were at with the insulation. I really went back and forth a lot with that.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

My name is Lisa, mother of nine and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse on Boone. On this podcast I like to talk about simplifying your life so can 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 and the Simple Sewing series. I will leave links to these resources in the show notes and description box below. Now let's get into the show. Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast. Today we're having a fun discussion with Ashley Turner from Turner Farm. Now last time she was on we talked about stuff Sourdough. She offers tons of great resources over on her Instagram. She has classes and a membership, so lots of great info there. But today we're going to be chatting about her home build. Of course I am interested in this because we are right in the middle of one. But a lot of you are either thinking about building or just entertained by unconventional home building, which I personally find very fun to observe to dig into, like how this came to be, the design, all of the materials. So we are going to be talking about that. They built a home that has the most beautiful character. It definitely does not look like a cookie cutter new build and all of that was very intentional and she has a lot to share on that as well as how they made their home healthy. So they took a lot of steps to make their home a healthy home. So she has a lot to share about that as well. Let's dive into the interview. Ashley, I am so Excited to have you back on and talk about something a little different than we did last time. I think last time we chatted about Sourdough, which, if you want to find out more what Ashley has to offer on Sourdough, just go over to her Instagram Turner farm. There's so much of that. But today we're going to talk about the house build, which, correct me if I'm wrong. Did you start that in, like, 2022?

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah, it's been a. It's been a long time. We've been in the house almost a year, and I want to say. Yeah, it was about three years before that that we fully started it.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay. Yeah. So we are currently right now in the middle of a house build. I almost had a big house build. Every house is, like, a big deal, probably.

[Ashley Turner]

So big much.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah, a big house build. I mean, you know, just. It's just a house build, but it feels like a lot, especially because we're doing a lot of unconventional things, which I know you did, too. And I really enjoyed following along with your house build. And I think it helps me to be a bit realistic about the time frame because you sourced materials from, you know, not just everything came straight from the local hardware store. And so I think probably because of that, it took a little bit longer. And then you also did a lot of things in a health. Healthier way, which I think people who are maybe thinking about building a house might want to know a little bit about that. So let's just start with a little overview. Tell us a bit about who you are, and then we can dive into the very beginning. Like the design and all that kind of stuff.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah, and it is definitely something that, I mean, as I'm sure it consumes your whole life, so it's definitely something that has consumed ours for the last several years. And the planning that goes into it, even before you even start it, it takes a long time. So we actually bought property. It's been almost nine years, and we lived at the front of the farm. And then over the last several years, we've just sort of been building our road back to where we are now. So we're about a kilometer off the road now, a kilometer from our other farmhouse. And we just picked away at building that road and then starting the house and kind of like what you guys did, we built a barn at the same time, which that's a huge undertaking. And if I could go back, I probably would never do that again.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

At the same time.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah, well, because we sort of like built half the house and then built the barn and so it put everything on hold. And then we kind of came back over and you know, we get really delayed with things in the winter here. There's only so many months of the year that we can really do construction. And so the house sat for quite a while, kind of half finished, and then we kind of came back over and finished it. So it just felt like forever. But yeah, so we finished last March, I think it was, that we moved in fully. So it's been almost a year that we've been into the house and yeah, it's been, it's been a great journey actually being living in the house.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

I bet.

[Ashley Turner]

So.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

And when you bought the property, it had a house on it. I. So what was the reason? Or did you, when you bought it, were you always thinking, we'd like to go further back and build a house? That was that like the long term plan? And if so, why?

[Ashley Turner]

I think I've kind of been building this house in my brain for like a decade. But no, that was not the plan.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay.

[Ashley Turner]

We bought that house with full intentions of staying there forever. And it was only on 2 acres. And so then we just picked away at buying more property behind it and building out the farm. And as we built out the farm, our animals got pushed back further because we have neighbors out by the road. And so as we accumulated more cattle and grew a herd, they were pushed to the further fields in the back. And we just found we didn't like constantly farming and not being able to see anything that we were doing okay. And so then when we bought the larger parcel of land and then moved the cows further back, we sort of thought, well, maybe we should just build a house back there with them. And so we kind of. It took us a while to kind of like dabble in where we would put that. And actually we had never been to the top of this hill. And one year we farmed out or released out the farm fields to a farmer down the road. And he was farming like peas or something and he was harvesting and he sent us a picture and he said, if you're going to build your new house anywhere, it needs to be at the top of this hill. And so that. And we had never, ever come back this far because there was no roads. And so we hiked back here one day and stood at the top of the hill and thought, this is where we want to be. And so it just took so much longer to get here because it, you know, it's expensive to build roads and and trails and driveways and all of. And put the power back here and all that. So it was quite a long, like, a longer journey to. To get to this point. But no, in the. In, like, the very days, that was never the plan. But I do feel like in my brain, I've been sort of, like, accumulating. I was looking at old Pinterest boards from, like, 2013, and it's all the same stuff. Like, I just never swayed.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Well, that's reassuring, though, because I think if I would have built a home in my 20s, it would be very different than the home we're building now. And I hope that I'll feel the same way ten years from now. And I would say, oh, I'm glad we built this house. This is what I would have wanted to build. So it's reassuring knowing that for a year, full, full decade, you had the same vision. And, you know, that way you're not going to regret any part of it. Even though I feel like once you're living in a house, it's so beautiful and you're thinking through all the spaces because, like, you know, it's never done because there's always more little things that you could do. And so once you kind of have that in your head, I don't know that you would really decide, oh, I don't want this or I don't want that. But it's nice knowing that you are so confident in the design. So your design is unique. It doesn't look like a cookie cutter house. What would you describe as the style or how did you come about with the style and go about that?

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah. And honestly, I think one of the biggest things I can advise people who are building a new home and wanting to do things more unorthodox is, like, there are sacrifices. I mean, unless you have endless pockets of funding to do that, but there has to be sacrifices. You know, our house is not very big, and we made it smaller in order to do the unorthodox things inside of it that cost more money and that we really wanted in the home. And I remember when we first built the shell of the house, so we didn't have any of the logs. I don't know if you've seen, like, the outside pictures of our house with all the logs.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yes.

[Ashley Turner]

We didn't have any of that done. It was just kind of the shell of the house. And so many people were like, why didn't you build a bigger house? It's so small and, you know, now it doesn't look too Small up here, but the actual footprint of the house itself is small. And it's just a box. It's just a square. And you know, I have reasons for that from a health standpoint of like roof lines and you know, and we can get into that of like the, the shape of the house, but it's, it's really just literally a box. And so if you look at like sort of like Cape Cod style story and a half homes, it's sort of, of just one of those. We just changed all of the interior to make it more what we wanted. And so if anyone's like looking for house plans, like, if they're interested in something like ours, it's just a story and a half house that we actually made a little more two story because we added dormers on the, on the side so we could add more bedrooms upstairs. But that's.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

That's it.

[Ashley Turner]

That's all it is.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Well, and those big timbers make such a huge difference. Do you find that people now? So when they saw it, at first they thought, oh, it's too small. But then once you added those, people think you live in a mansion.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

It's so funny. Yeah, yeah.

[Ashley Turner]

It's just the overhangs, like we added an overhang on either side and then the big gable end that kind of comes out, like our gable end with the log timbers is about 16ft. So it does make the roof line look a lot longer. But the house itself, like is really not a large home. And so it is funny because I get questions all the time on Instagram like, can I have your house plans? And I always ask like, oh, that's so fun that you're building. Like, what size house are you looking? They're like, well, like 5,000, 6,000 square feet. And I'm like, oh, you definitely don't want my house plan. Then like our house not that big at all. It's like not even half that big. So it is interesting, the perception. And that was on purpose, like, you know, I want this really cute cabin, cozy feel. We don't have. You have a, like you have a large family. It makes sense to have a larger home. But for us, we have two kids and they're getting older and I don't, I don't want to be in a giant house. And so it made sense for us to build a cuter kind of like smaller home, but make it look really grand from the outside with, with things that aren't super expensive. And I think if we were going to go to B.C. and build a log home. It would be really expensive. But we were actually able to do the logs very feasibly because the only structural part of the house with the timbers is the outside. So all the logs that you see here, none of this is structural.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay, that's just kind of. Is it like. I can't even hardly tell. Is it not? It's just like tacked on, basically. But it looks like it's like a timber frame.

[Ashley Turner]

And they. And they etched it all out as if you were doing rafters and floor systems with like timbers. But if you took all of that off, it's conventional trusses and floor systems. And the reason that we did that is because it's so expensive here. And that's not necessarily the case everywhere, but it's so expensive here to get engineers to draw plans for post and beam construction rather than using conventional construction. So we kind of did everything twice. It was like we built everything conventionally and then we rebuilt it with timbers on the inside. But it was actually a lot cheaper to do it that way.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay, so how did like, did it take a lot longer to do all of that? Like, do you find that, I mean, with our house, there's just so many things that I didn't think would take longer. But when you think about like, okay, that makes sense. Did that make this process draw like double? Basically, yeah.

[Ashley Turner]

And I think I. I think I watched something you had posted online once, like, make sure that you interview the people that you. That are. That are building your spaces. I think it was you that said that. But it's really important for people who are building unconventional style homes, Especially if you're doing it from like adding in like the healthy home aspects of it. There's a lot of conventional builders that have no interest in doing that. And so we had to self contract, which takes so much longer because even though Daniel's family is in construction, like, we really had no idea what we were doing. And we had to self contract all of the people to do all the unorthodox things that, you know, maybe our carpenter, carpenter crew had never really done before. So we had a log guy and we had a wall guy that did all of our old wood paneling on the walls. We had a floor guy that did all of our old flooring. So our FL is not flooring. It came out of an old homestead and we refurbished it into flooring.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah, so that took a lot longer. That, that set us back seven weeks. Our floors, just our floors.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

I mean, I'm not surprised. We had so many setbacks like that.

[Ashley Turner]

And so. And it. And it just. Honestly, for me, and like. And I think when people think about it, as far as, like, from a cost perspective, that also takes longer. So our house, definitely, there's aspects of it that cost a lot more, but cost a lot less than maybe doing it if I hadn't have had the time to source the materials the way that we sourced them. And that takes longer. So, like, our floors came from three different buildings that were being torn down at three different times that were stored in warehouses. And I just had to wait until they had enough to do the square footage in our house. So what.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

What are they?

[Ashley Turner]

So it's. It's pine. So it actually came out of the upstairs one came out of an old homestead that was being torn down. It was from the 1800s, and they're actually much narrower. And then the large plank floors that we have downstairs was from two different buildings. One was a church and one was another homestead that was being torn down. And. And they had all different types of, like, we had to have them planed down because they had all the old oil paint on them. And so we had them all planed down and then we actually finished them ourselves because when we had it priced out to have a company come in and finish them, it was so astronomical. We were like, we're gonna YouTube this and do it ourselves. And it was hilarious. But that's what really set us back a while. But anyway, they. They turned out really nice, but they're not something that you can just go to a store and buy.

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[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay, so what did you search like? I'm trying to figure out how you even figured out what you wanted with the flooring and then go about finding it. Because if you just search salvage floors, like, you had something more specific in mind than just salvage, you know, like.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah, I found a guy.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay.

[Ashley Turner]

So we, like, talk about our house. It's like, I had a log guy, and I had a wood guy, and I had. So I found a guy, and he tore. That was what he did for a living, is he tore down old buildings and salvaged the wood.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay.

[Ashley Turner]

So our walls actually came from him, but the walls are actually old wood from a barn that you could never use for flooring because they're too, like, porous and they are, you know, banged up and whatever. I had to find flooring that was like flooring in a building. Okay. And. And so I found a guy that kind of knew how to go into these buildings and source it, and then I just bought it from him.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay, how'd you find this guy?

[Ashley Turner]

He was. He's a guy I found. So, like, when we talk about. I've been building this house in my head for 10 years. So, like, 10 years ago, I thought I was building this house, and I went and I found this guy, and I bought a whole batch of, like, boards for the walls from him and stored them and then ended up selling them, like, five years later because we just never built the house. But I found him then. And so then I reached and I found him because he used to own an antique store, like, in town, and then he closed it, and this is what he started doing for a living. And so I think, you know, like, there's those guys all over the place. Like, I'm sure you have a guy that, like, tears down old, like, beams and salvages old beams. They'll often salvage the flooring, too. This guy does beams. And so I just had him source. And it took months, like, a really long time to get all the flooring and square footage we needed for the house.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

And I think that's where people stop, because it's. It's one thing to find things, but then it's confusing on how to put it all together. And you have to be very confident that you love this design. You're not going to sacrifice, like, just due to timeline in order to make that work. And I think most people, at some point, they're like, okay, we're not gonna find the flooring. Just go get something. So we can get into our house. Yeah, yeah.

[Ashley Turner]

It's so true. And honestly, like, it does take so much longer to wait. And we did get to a point where I was ready to make sacrifices. And, you know, I'm glad that we had a place to live in the meantime. You know, not everybody has that. And so I can appreciate that they're under a time constraint if they, you know, sold their house and they only have three months to get out of it or something.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Right.

[Ashley Turner]

So we were very fortunate that we were able to just live in our house until we weren't living in our house. And so it. Because. It. Because it just all takes so much more time, you know, and then even we did on our walls. So wood was like a big. When I had started researching healthy homes, and there's lots of companies in the states that you can go through to dial, like, a healthy home, and they source the materials for you or whatever. It's astronomically expensive. And so I started kind of researching their philosophies on how they did their building. And what I recognized was, like, a lot of these homes were very cold, so a lot of stone and a lot of, like, tile flooring and, like, just things that I really didn't want in my own house, just from an aesthetic standpoint and how it made me feel. And so I think that there needs to be a balance for people, too, when they're building these healthy homes that you to also think about, like, how do you feel in the space? Because that's important too. And so I started researching other elements of homes that could be used other than, you know, these colder materials. And wood was a big one. And so wood off gassing takes a long time. So you don't want to put wood all over your house and then move into it, like, within the month. You want to make sure that you have, like, a solid three to six months of it. It kind of drying out and off gassing, because it can make you really sick. However, when you have wood paneling on the walls, which is what we did, we did, like, all wood paneling on the walls when you're building a home. Because our homes are built so airtight now, often what happens is our building materials, such as, like, our truss systems and our strapping and things like that, have gotten wet and not had enough time to properly dry out. And so it's a really big issue with these newer homes being built that they have. Have issues within a couple of years because. Because of the building material and there's no airflow. And so with wood it takes a lot more time. And I can tell you how we did a little cheaper. But essentially it breathe. Your house gets to breathe. And so your H vac system works within your walls too. So it pulls the moisture and like whatever you would be dealing with from, you know, any like, like moisture issues on your strapping or your trusses and it pulls that out because you. It can breathe. So that was a, that was a element of our house that took a lot longer was all of the wood that we used. But I was really adamant that we did as much of it as we could so that those internal like or exterior structures could, could also breathe and dry out. But when we went and did the wood paneling and we priced it out to get like tongue and groove board to put on your wall from like for example, I don't know, like Home Depot or Rona's or whatever it is, it was so expensive. So we actually went to a local mill and we bought it un. Like it wasn't kiln dried. Okay. So it was, it was dry, but it wasn't kiln dried. Again, if you're going to do that, you have to wait a while before you move into your house. But so we were really nervous to do that because it would gap so much. So if you actually walk around my house, all the walls are like, they're not flat. Like they've. You know how like there's some cupping that happens when boards start to dry and shrink. But it's so cool.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay.

[Ashley Turner]

I love how it looks. It's just really authentically primitive. Like it just looks. Because nobody was kiln drying shiplap back then. So it looks like true wood walls and I think it looks so, so great. So that's a way of doing it a lot cheaper if you're okay with it not looking uniform.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah. So it will just continue to dry out. Like how long will it take for it to fully dry?

[Ashley Turner]

It's probably dry now. So this, this winter, as soon as we turned on the wood stove, I noticed a whole bunch of it changed.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Did they fill back in the summer?

[Ashley Turner]

Like, I don't know yet because we really, we were here in the summer and when we moved in it was March, so it was already starting to kind of warm up and I. So I don't really know how big, how big the gaps got. Like I don't know if they filled back in. But same thing with our floors. Like there are definitely some gaps in some of the floorbo because. Because it had never really been with Wood heat before. So there's a couple parts where I probably will try to fill in a couple of the cracks because they bother me a little bit. But if you're okay with that, then, you know, wood is definitely such a great way to easily and like sort of inexpensively make your home feel older because it, it just kind of is. Is bit, bit uneven all over the place.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah. Okay. So the difference would be in modern houses, if you do bead board or treatment of some kind, like a tongue and groove board, usually there's drywall behind it, but then yours is just like insulation and then the studs. And then. Okay, we did the same thing. And I actually am like very familiar with this whole drying out gapping thing because I'm starting to experience it in our house. But. Yeah, but it's, it is cool because instead of it looking like a sheet of fake beadboard that we have in some of the shiplap we have in there and some V group board, I'm like, well, you can sure tell it's real because.

[Ashley Turner]

Yes, because it's gapping. And so did you do it as a ship lap? So like when ours gapped, like, we can't see through to the, to the insulation or anything like that. It just shows the like, like board in between the two boards or whatever.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah, there's that. And then we do have ship some beadboard too. But it was, it was laid like it was put on so tight that now you can just tell like where one board ends and one begins, but you can't see back to the insulation. But part of me is like, we don't keep our home as climate controlled as the average person. So like in the summer, because they're like, well, then, you know, if you install it at this percent of moisture, then you install it so it won't have gaps like. But I'm kind of more worried about the fact that I don't run the AC at, you know, 68 degrees. And so what about in the summer? Wouldn't buckling be a lot worse than gaps. Gaps in the winter?

[Ashley Turner]

So just something that hasn't been our experience.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay.

[Ashley Turner]

And we did not gap ours because I knew it was going to like, separate. I just had them install it like tight together.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah.

[Ashley Turner]

And then. And now it's kind of done its thing and I didn't find any buckling in. And we have a very humid, humid climate here in the summer and we don't use air conditioning. And I did not find that.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay, well, I just Mean, like, if you do it really tight when it's already dry, I'm wondering if the opposite. So instead of.

[Ashley Turner]

I see what you're saying.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

So, anyway, this has been on my mind lately because it was kind of one of those things I had never thought about. And then I started realizing it, and I was like, oh, no. But I'm like, well, really, honestly, this is probably good, because in the summer, it could have been bad if it was so tight in the dry, dry winter.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. And honestly, it doesn't. The way that things move and breathe and crack and do their thing. Like, I love that. I just. I am not a uniform person. Nothing about the house that, like, we're in is uniform. And I do think that I have to, like, preface that with people when they're like, I love. I love the design, and I love the vibe, and I really want to do it. And I said, well, just. Just make sure you're not somebody who needs things to be really, you know, perfect, pristine.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

And I am so with you. One of the things that's on my mind right now is countertops. And we're doing. We're doing more of, like, a farmhouse, so not as much. Like, not as rustic. But one thing I want is I want marble. And in our last house, I did quartz. And I'm like, I'm not going to be talked out of this. This time. People are like, it'll etch. I'm like, I know. But I can't have it looking, like, perfectly plasticky perfect all the time. And I think that's okay. So, yeah, same vibe. Yeah.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah. Don't let people talk you out of it. Like, so we did wood, and I finished it myself, which. So it's definitely far from perfect, but it stains and marks and, like, it just is what it is. Like, back then, they had stains and marks and all the things all over their countertops. And I have friends that have marble, and it's stained and marked and etched, and I just think that's so cool. And, like, it's. It's real, and it just feels more lived in. And I. And. And you can tell that it's like, a real marble. Like, I, I, I would have loved to do marble, but I. When we kind of, like, sourced out the materials for the kitchen, I was so committed to the vibe of all of the different wood that I was like, I don't really. And I can always change it someday, but, like, I didn't want to. That was the hardest part for me, I think, for the the kitchen. I second guessed myself a lot because there's so many different types of wood in the kitchen that as it was coming together, I was like, oh, gosh, I don't know if this is going to look good at all. I have no idea if this is going to come together because it's very unfair.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

It's hard to know. Yeah, yeah. But it is so beautiful.

[Ashley Turner]

Thank you. Yeah. I was really happy once we, like, had the back wall painted and I put everything in and I'm like, okay, I think that this fits. But there's a lot of different wood tones going on in this kitchen and none of it really matches. But it did come together. And you have to really trust your process when you're getting to that point, because it's not a builder grade kitchen and nobody really knows what to do with that. Like, from a builder standpoint, like, they're just like, I don't know what you, like, what are you doing? And, like, you know, they don't really. They think you're a little bit crazy. And, you know, you just have to be so committed to the vision of, of what you're looking to do. And for me, it was really hard to find Pinterest examples of what I had inside my brain. And so you just have to really trust that process you do.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

And you are going to get a lot of pushback, like you said, because there's the standard way of doing things. Like you get in your cabinets and then you measure and then you do the counters and there's this order. And when you're doing a lot of these unconventional things, the order kind of gets. Gets a little messed up. Like, we're doing, like you said, like, tons of tongue and groove wood. And so we kind of have some trim carpenters there. But then we're supposed to also be painting, so the floors can go in. But there's still some trim carpentry being finished up. It's not like this very set, like drywall.

[Ashley Turner]

They don't know what to do with that.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

And honestly, I don't either. Like, the one guy's texting me today, he's like, are we ready for the floors? I'm like, probably not, because we ended up having to put a little trim up because so it's just so, so different. And I think you do have to kind of just tell yourself, don't get impatient. I'm gonna live here for however long. And if I start sacrificing now, then, you know, you are, like you said, you're committed to this Vision, even though it's very unconventional. And you realize why people don't do it, like, once you're fully into it. Right. Like, I get, I guess I, Certain people don't do this.

[Ashley Turner]

I completely agree. Like, when we were almost done. And I think that's the problem, like, because at the beginning. So, you know, in a week's worth of work, so much looks like it's happening in the beginning.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Oh, yeah.

[Ashley Turner]

And at the end, like, you're like, I have walls and a roof and like those things are not long. And then it's like these people will come into your house and they'll work for a week and it doesn't even look like they've done anything.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah, that's for weeks. Yes.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah, it's very, it's, it's very discouraging, especially for things like wood and things that take a lot longer. And, you know, if you're working with a crew that's really open to doing what you. But they maybe never done anything like that before, they're kind of like learning all of these things. They're on that journey with you. Yeah. And so for us, I think one of the questions that the audience had asked was like, how did we, what are things that we sacrificed as far as price goes, as far as budget? And then what are things that we didn't? And one of the biggest things I can say that we budgeted on was our closet systems.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Oh.

[Ashley Turner]

Because like, because if you actually break down like costs of like what those are, if you were to get like, for example, like a walk in closet and like have it custom built with all the things and it's so expensive. So we went to ikea. We bought all Ikea and we retrofitted them to look like custom built. So we put them like faces on them and we had them kind of all, all retrofitted. So that same saved thousands. Okay. For in our closet. So that was a way that we kind of saved a little bit of money there and then things that we didn't. So I, I, I don't know if you've bought, have you bought all your light fixtures yet for your house?

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Most.

[Ashley Turner]

Okay. So our. I made the hugest mistake and I really wish I had had someone consulting me or I wish I had had a podcast that I listened to that I learned about this before I built. But I really have such, like, we didn't want to sacrifice on like builder grade light fixtures. I wanted the light fixtures to match the old kind of like vibe of the home. And so I Went out and I bought all these kind of like old style light fixtures. But the problem with that is, like, a lot of them came off of like Etsy, for example, and they come from Europe or Africa or wherever they come from. But none of them like, like a. They don't meet code. Which is fine if you're renovating because you already have an occupancy permit. So you can put whatever the heck you want in your house at that point. But when you're building and you're working with an electrician, that has to be like doing things by the code. They have to have that kind of like UL stamp or whatever on it. And all these lights.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah, Mine then. Mine won't fit that at all. Like we have all antique light fixtures.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah. So you may get away with a electrician who will put up and your codes might be different. Like here, here it's so strict.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah. Way less strict, I think.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah. So you're probably fine. So like here you have to have that sticker on it or like they make or they'll like failure inspection.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Where can you buy those? No, I'm just kidding.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah, the stickers.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah.

[Ashley Turner]

So my electrician was like, that won't work and you're all that. And so there was like a couple that I convinced him to put up light bulbs until the inspection went through. And then he came back and he like swapped them out for my weird, unorthodox light fixtures. But there was a lot that showed up up that didn't even fit in our, like, I don't know, plugs or okay, whatever fit them into, which would be different in the states than they are here. But I lost so much money on light fixtures for. Because of that.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Well, TBZ on that. Like, we could be in the same boat now. Did you do any other, like, salvage materials? I know you did a lot. Obviously the wood, like so much wood was salvage. Did you try. Salvage materials are tricky to get them to fit.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I would never suggest salvaging light fixtures unless they've been refitted, like refitted to like, fit in your. The boxes that we have. So I didn't do any of those because I got in such a mess. So all of our light fixtures, they are from different places, but I ended up spending a lot more on them in order to get them.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah. You can get brand new ones also. That looks very like almost indistinguishable from antique. But they're definitely pricey.

[Ashley Turner]

Yes, they are. So I definitely spent more on lighting than I Wanted to. And there's a couple places in the house where we still don't even have the lights. Because I just.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

We.

[Ashley Turner]

I got to a point where I was, like, done with this. This is getting too much. So we're waiting on a couple, you know, places in the house that we'll fill in later. And so. And then I would never recommend and buying, like, antique faucets or, like, plumbing fixtures.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay, that's actually a question I have, because we did. We did antique claw foots and then sinks, but we can get new faucets for them. But there is a. There's an opportunity with someone that they would like to send me some toilets from the 30s. And I was like, cool, that sounds great. And, like, they're redone. But then I got to realizing my husband brought it up. He's like, they take, like, so much more water just to flush properly. I'm like, ah. I didn't think about that.

[Ashley Turner]

I know, I know. I have this, like, our guest bath is my favorite bathroom in the house because it's so. So, like, antique. Everything in it is so primitive. And then there's this toilet that's like this modern white toilet. It's like, it bothers me so much, but I don't know. Those are the plumbing things. So I actually bought some, like, old. I don't know if they were old, but they were, like, true brass fixtures. And I ended up. So we did install one in our bathroom, our guest bath. Cause I wanted it to be really, like, everything to look really old. And I had bought a whole system for our shower in our en suite upstairs. And so when we installed the one in the bathroom here, we ended up having a water episode where it leaked in the wall. And.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah, and that's. Thankfully, we have wood walls, right?

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah, right. Thankfully we have wood walls. So dehumidifiers can dry that out really fast. And we didn't have any, you know, drywall that was trapping any moisture. But still, it could have leaked in the wall for a really long time without me knowing. Like, thankfully, it didn't leak in the wall without me knowing. But, you know, I just don't think that it's worth those types of episodes. So, you know, I ended up buying a whole new system before we even installed it in the shower upstairs. And then I bought, like, a brass, like, Kingston brass or whatever. So it's still really pretty looking, but it's more new looking, unfortunately. But, you know, I just think that those are things you don't mess around with, especially with Water. Because as far as like, mold in your house, like, those are just. For me, it's just worth more to spend, like the money on the new fixtures, even if they don't look as old as you want. And you can still kind of make do with your antique cloth foot tubs and like, kind of make it more antique and primitive looking with other things that aren't going to cause like a water episode.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah, that. That makes sense. And you can get unlqueered. Did you like unlacquered brass for the faucets you did buy?

[Ashley Turner]

I did.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

So we'll show that patina and age. I made the mistake in our last house of getting like, I guess they were like, fake, but it eventually would rub off. And I'm like, okay, this might be a place to spend a little bit more because you're taking the time to install all this stuff and then it doesn't really look. It doesn't have that same patina after everything.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah. And at least with like, faucets that aren't in the wall, I would never maybe, like, I don't know, if you did do faucets in the wall, I would. Would never do a faucet in the wall.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

We actually didn't do any. We almost did, and then I texted the plumber last minute and I was like, okay, we're actually going to just do this. And we had something different. Okay.

[Ashley Turner]

So we actually have two faucets in the wall, and one is in our laundry and one is down here in the guest bath. And I would never do it again. And the reason for that is because if you have a water episode, it is catastrophic and you probably will get mold and you will probably get water issues. Like, if there is a leak, it's. It's probably leaking in your wall before you know. And so if you end up getting a water issue like this just it. I would never do one in the wall again. Just personally, especially if you have tile. If we had tile, I wouldn't have even known it was leaking. It would have just leaked in my wall and I wouldn't have ever known. So.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Well, and I'm sure we all or a lot of people have stuff like that happening. And how do you ever find that out? I guess you just don't.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah. So I mean, and I think that's like, for us, mold, when we built our house, as far as, like, the vibe of the house, that was at the top of the list. But, like, mold was at the top, top, top of my list for how we Bu. Okay. Because I just think it is such an, a common thing, like even roof lines, even people who are going out and like searching for new homes, like choosing homes with simple roof lines. I think yours is pretty, yours is just a regular roof, isn't it?

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah, it's, it's a, it's a real, it's pretty steep pitch too.

[Ashley Turner]

But it's just like one side, right? Like a side and a side. It doesn't have a bunch of juts out anywhere.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

No. Yeah. Well, there are, there are two dormers, but they're in the attic and you would notice because. Cause you would just see stuff coming in, I guess there.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah. And so all of the. So these homes that have like all these different roof lines, which is really common in these like one level ranch style houses to have like all these different depths of roof lines. Those are actually really bad for moisture and they can like build up in corners. And then if it does mold, your H Vac can like push those spores through your house. So simple roof lines are really, really important when you're building a house, but then also really important if you're like searching for a new home. So that was an, that was one thing that was important to us. Like just like simple, square, simple roof line. Like if you have some dormers, I think that's fine. But like trying to avoid lots of different jots out in the roof. It's more expensive to do that. Like all the juts anyways. But we try to keep it as simple as, as we possibly could. So that was like one thing that we kind of. Yeah.

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[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay, so on that topic, what are some of the other healthy home things that you guys did? And I'm, I'm just going to take some of these and if we did it wrong, I'm just going to release that. But let's, let's hear it for those who are thinking about building.

[Ashley Turner]

You know what it's like there's so many things to think about. And like even after we finished building, I was like, oh shoot, I shouldn't have done that because of whatever. So like one of the things that we did that's not as healthy as you could is we did our. Like we spray foamed as our insulation, which for people who are really understand a healthy home, they're probably like, can't believe she did that.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

But yeah, that was like the only thing I heard you weren't supposed to do.

[Ashley Turner]

I know.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

I think the rest of the stuff, I had no idea.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

But I could be, I didn't do like any research on it, so I really don't know. Well, as far as healthy home.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah. So when we did, we live at the top of a hill. We get, get 100 kilometer winds here and it is very cold. So as far as like the R value of using sustainable insulation, like we would freeze essentially.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah.

[Ashley Turner]

It just, it's, you have to take into consideration that's like what is, what is healthier. You know, I did manage as far as like using the closed cell spray foam. And I'll tell you, kind of like what we did to mitigate some like exposure to that. But like you have to also consider like your, your own comfort in your house too, because I think that there's a healthy perspective to that too. Like if we're freezing.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Absolutely. Well. And there's always like what I've noticed with house building is there's just always like give and take. Like it really. But budget aside, any house aside, you want one thing, but it contradicts another thing. And it just, that happens constantly. Like I can just think of so many things like that, that. And so there's way more factors to consider than just, you know, is this bad? Is this good? It's like, is this necessary?

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah. And that's, and that's kind of where we were at with, with the insulation. I really went back and forth a lot with that. And ultimately where we live, we needed something that was going to be warm in the winter and just not Heating us like, like it would have been so expensive to heat a home that was not properly insulated like that. So what we did do is we. We did the spray foam. So we have like a full open attic, but we added as far as like our H vac venting in the attic. Because what happens is when you do closed cell spray foam, it's very common for there to be moisture in your attic because of it's so closed in and there's no heat up there, so.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Right.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah. So what we did was we had them push venting through the attic and treat it like another room. And as a result, it's very dry. And so that is something that people can consider if they are, you know, kind of pushed into a corner and

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

doing close with spray foam.

[Ashley Turner]

The other thing is like making sure we bought air filtration systems that we put through the house. And they're HEPA filters. So they're good for like mold and dust and things like that. But they also have other filters in there that are really good for VOCs. So any, any types of like, different VOCs from like painting or materials that you're using in your house, they will kind of capture those. And so we had those going for. Well, we still have them going, but like, we had them going for a while before we moved in. And then if you are spray foaming, making sure that you are spray foaming and not moving in for at least six months. So that's those.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Oh, wow. I guess the timing though, with that kind of makes it to where that's like the time when you're finishing the house.

[Ashley Turner]

It. It is usually okay going too fast and. But like, if you're going too fast, that's when people run into mold problems. Problems. It's like you want to build slow because it gives the materials in your home a chance to a migrate through the seasons, but then also really dry out before you're just like closing all that in and letting that build up. So it's actually really helpful to take a long time to build your home from that perspective.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Oh, well then, hey, we're doing great now, I guess though, as long as it's under roof.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah, well, yeah, as long as there's no water episodes happening. Like as long as long as it's closed in. But you. You have airflow. So like, we had our windows open while we built and like, as long as things are off gassing. And so the biggest thing with wood and with spray foam is that you, you want at least six months. I think it was almost a year before we moved in, after we did any of those.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay, that makes sense because. Yeah, once it off gases, that's. It's.

[Ashley Turner]

It. You're. Yeah, you're pretty. You're pretty safe at that point.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay.

[Ashley Turner]

The other thing that we did for our house is we took the meter and we set it way back from the house. We didn't put our meter on our house house. And, oh, if you can turn it away from your house, that's even better. But ours, for whatever reason, they wouldn't let us do that. So ours is still facing the house, but it is set back way off the house.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay.

[Ashley Turner]

That mitigates like, dirty electricity or things like that. Especially since our house was small and if we had a padded on the house, it would have been right underneath my son's bedroom. So we took it off the house. We put it way back. Back.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Oh, man. Mine's under my son's bedroom.

[Ashley Turner]

Is it? Okay. So next thing then, there is a company, it's called EMF Solutions. And so when we were trying to mitigate, like, EMFs in the house, because we live out in the country, we do have a metal roof, which is terrible for ems. And it's like probably the worst thing you can do on a house, like, for ems, because it makes it like a hot pocket. So you want to ground your metal roof. Roof. And so I found this company because we actually hardwired our Internet into our home. We weren't going to have WI fi at all.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Oh.

[Ashley Turner]

So we. We have all of the wires run through everywhere, and we have, like, Ethernet cords that we can plug into the jacks in each of the rooms. But I did find, as I was kind of researching all this, I realized, like, that's not even enough. Like, we are still. Because a lot of people around us would use. Use like satellite Internet, which we would still get. And so this company, they use like earth elements, and they do it in a way that they create these products that harmonize the dirty electricity and like, electromagnetic frequencies that would be inside of your home as a result of WI fi or, you know, fans. Fans are another big one. Or like H vac systems or.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Wait, what do you like? What kind of fans? Like, what do you mean?

[Ashley Turner]

Anything that's spiral is very. Yeah. So, like, if you have a fan in your room, like, my son likes to sleep with a fan in his room, it should always be like a solid six feet from your bed, like in the far corner of your bedroom.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Really?

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah. Because the circulation, it's not emfs, but it is like, what do they call them? It's like a type of frequency that is just like, it's like sub chaotic frequencies is what they're called.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay.

[Ashley Turner]

It has a sub chaotic frequency that is like very, very difficult for our brains. And so when you have a fan in your room, it should be like as far away as you can, but you can harmonize the sub chaotic frequencies so that like our bodies kind of like don't feel them the same way. And so this company has figured out a way to do that and they developed these products and what I really liked about them is that they did these like scientific studies with people's like blood, blood and they did the with red blood cells and they would put them in chambers with like electromagnetic frequencies and they would coagulate and they would clump together and make like irregular cells.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Oh.

[Ashley Turner]

So causing, you know, why we would all get sick from EMFs and things like that. And then they would put these products like these earth elements in with it and over time it would actually like uncoagulate the cells. It would help help the red blood cells kind of like remain normal.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay.

[Ashley Turner]

So I decided to do like a home test and, and, and I ended up getting their products to put in our house. And I have to say, if you're harmonizing frequencies in your home, it also helps with mold because mold grows faster with a lot of sub chaotic frequencies. It feeds off dust, but it also grows a lot faster with ems. And so just like harmonizing your home as a whole is just like a really great idea and a way to do that. Especially if you have a meter that sits at your house. Especially if you have a smart meter. We don't have a smart meter, but if you have a smart meter, these help with that. So anyway, if you are interested in going down that road, that's a really good company to, to look into.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay, that's good to know. Somebody told me one time about like behind your refrigerator, which. Our refrigerator. So it's in the pantry. And so I'm going to be standing in front of it at all times in front of my stove and my island. And somebody said something about a shield, which I kind of completely forgot about until we're talking right now for like a good six months or so. So is that something to think about? Yeah.

[Ashley Turner]

So fridges. Yeah. So your refrigerator, I think for me, as long as you're not sleeping. So like if. As long as your bed doesn't share a wall with your fridge because it's it's more like when your brain is going into that REM phase, it. It disrupts that. So, okay, there's, like. There's studies of, like, children that have, like, shared walls with a fridge and, like, experience seizures and, like, really awful autoimmune issues, and then when they've moved their bed away from it. Yeah. And it all went away.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay.

[Ashley Turner]

So I don't know about shields during, like, during the day, but I just know it really, really disrupts your REM sleep, and it's not something that you want to share a wall with when you. When you sleep.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay. Okay. I. I will say one thing about building on, like, social media YouTube is you get so many people saying so many things that you're like, oh, messing everything up. Like, we are going to die, for sure.

[Ashley Turner]

Like, it's one of those things. That's the other thing, too. It's like, stressful. Stress is, like, probably the worst one. It's like, you do what you can, and then you have to kind of give it to God a little bit, because if you. If you don't, then you're living with this. Like, the stress will make you sick. So I've. I've kind of had to, like, really remind myself of that since we've been in the house. It's like, okay, we made the decisions that we did for the financial budget that we had at the time.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Right.

[Ashley Turner]

And I have to be okay with giving the rest of it it, because I otherwise will just live in fear, and that's just as toxic, I think. So there's lots of things you can do, and there's lots of ways inexpensively, like getting a simple water test. I mean, that costs money. But it's like, for here, I think it's like a few hundred bucks. And we had a full panel done on our water, and you can look into different water systems that will have help make your water cleaner, especially if you live in the city. So, like, we have UV lights on our water, but I haven't yet put in the full system because it's like $5,000. And that was something that I was like. Our water came back so clean that I was like, we have a filter for our drinking water, and I put a UV light, and then I'll worry about the rest another time when we have the money to do that. So. But if it had to come back really dirty with, like, cadmium and some lead and like, maybe some heavy metals in there or, like, different types of bacteria, then that would have been something that would have been pushed to the top of my list to invest in, in our home. And so we haven't put that full filtration system in. But those are cheap ways of like, you know, for a few hundred bucks, you can just have peace of mind to know what you should be investing your money in rather than just listening to people on the Internet.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Right? Yes. So I am curious what kind of filter you went with and then what kind of long term, like, is it a whole house system that you want to eventually install?

[Ashley Turner]

Yes. Yeah.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

And I'm taking lots of notes, by the way.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah. You can get someone to come out and do a full water panel test. And it was like 19 pages. Like, they tested for everything.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay.

[Ashley Turner]

And they'll tell you everything that's in your water. They'll tell you if it's hard or soft or, you know, lead and heavy metals and different bacterias, chlorine. They test everything. And so they can put in a full filtration system and it can include a reverse osmosis. I don't love reverse osmosis because I think it removes too much of the good bacteria that can be present in the water too. So we chose not to do reverse osmosis. But you can opt for that and then the full filtration. Because we absorb things like chlorine through our pores a lot more easily than we do by ingesting them. If you have chlorine in your water, it's a really, really great option to do a whole home filtration system because then you're showering in clean water too. However, if you can't do that, you can also get things that go over your shower head. So if you test your water and you know what is in it, then you can specifically go hunting for things that go over your shower head and filters that you can filter your drinking water, and those are a lot less expensive if, you know, you don't have the option to install an entire system in your home.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay. Now what are your thoughts on water softeners? Because we're at the point where we've never actually had a water softener ever. But also I do know that all of our things, like eventually the water line on the fridge stops working. Like the espresso machine. You have to, like, chisel out the calcium every once in a while. And so I can see why it's enticing, but I haven't done enough research yet.

[Ashley Turner]

The only problem with them is they're. They're salt. Right. Like, you have to add. Add salt to the Water. So I would definitely, if I were you, get a water test done. Because what you can do, like you. You would probably need to have a softener, but you can remineralize your water. There's certain types of different, like, I guess, like processes that you could put underneath your sink, especially if you're remineralizing your water to drink. So for people who are softening their water, oftentimes those minerals are removed.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Right, Right. Yeah.

[Ashley Turner]

But, yeah, I. I used to have a water softener in like a ho. Not the last host, but the one before. But we live on a rock right now, so our water is not usually. It's like, if you live in sandy Lumi soil, you'll have harder water. And we live up on a rock now, so ours is not like that. Yeah, but we used to have a softener. The only thing that you're gonna find with that, if you do end up with a softener is it will affect your sourdough starter.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Really?

[Ashley Turner]

Because of salt.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay. Okay. Well, that's a thought because, yeah, our last house, I mean, anywhere I've lived, we've never had a water softener and the sourdough starter. Like, I've never had any problems. People will send questions and I'm like, I don't know. I've never had a single issue with sourdough. It's been pretty easy. So maybe that's part of it.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah. Yeah. I think a lot of people struggle with if they have a water softener. And I'll often ask people, like, do you live in a city? What's your water like? You know, if they, if they're using a filter. I often don't like water filters for feeding your sourdough starter because you remove all the minerals and the bacteria, so it's harder. So for our drinking water, we have a certado, I think, is the company. It's a copper water filter and it has ceramic filters in it. So it's very clean. And it removes so many things from your drinking water. And you can actually get one that works for, I think, hard water. And it also works for chlorine. We don't have chlorine, so I didn't get that one. But you can get specific filters for chlorine. So S E R T A D O is the, Is the company now,

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

is that like a, like, it's like one where you. Like the Berkey, where you throw, like you put it in. Yeah. It's not like an under the counter thing.

[Ashley Turner]

It sits right on your counter. And you just keep refilling it. And actually copper is really remineralizing and so it's actually very healthy just to drink water out of copper anyways. So it, it's a great, it's a great filter. So we drink all of our water out of that. Even though we could definitely get it from the tap. It's nice and clean. But that would be one thing I would say to people like, as far as like building your healthy home is like your lighting, your air quality and your water. And those are like my three biggest ones. And so we do have UV filters on all of our H Vac systems too. Okay.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Is that something that you can add later or do you have to know

[Ashley Turner]

that one on It's a lot light actually. So you like can put it into the coils of your H Vac system and it filters any types of bacteria that would come through in your H Vac. It kills it, like just stops it. So that's an easy thing to add later on.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay. And you said lighting, what do you mean by that?

[Ashley Turner]

So our whole house is incandescent. So that's a really cheap thing for people if they're like, you know, right now I want to make my living space healthier. Get rid of all of your LED lights, just all out, switch them for incandescent. It's so much healthier for your circadian rhythm. And then we try. So I do have some pot lights or can lights, whatever people call them in the house. We got strong armed into putting those in and I regret it, but that's like a builder thing and they really want people to have those lights.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

There's those certain things you know they want.

[Ashley Turner]

Fine, just do it. But I did find a company and I haven't bought anything from them yet, but it's called, called blue light, block, block light. I don't know. I'll try to find it and I'll give you the link, but they have can lights that are blue light blocking, so there's no LED in them. And I'm thinking about it would be expensive to switch them all, but I'm thinking about switching the ones in our, in our kitchen out to those.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay. And I guess worst case scenario, you can just not turn them on.

[Ashley Turner]

We just don't, we never turn them on. I think I can count on one hand the amount of times I've used them in the whole year that we've been here. Here. Yeah.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah. Now you also mentioned the house being square and that being an intentional thing for health. Was that Just because of the roof lines.

[Ashley Turner]

That was because of the roof line.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay, Gotcha. Okay.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay, so we have the, the shape of the house. Now did you guys purchase plans and then adapt it or did you, I forget what you said. Have them drawn.

[Ashley Turner]

We found a Cape Cod square house, like story and a half. And the inside was sort of like a layout that I liked. And then, and then we completely changed it. So we just took it to him.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

We totally changed everything.

[Ashley Turner]

But I took it to him and I said, this is like the, the size that I want and this is where I want my stairs, for example. This works. Like the size of the living room works. But like, then I was like, take that wall out. Take that wall out and the outside is going to look completely different. And, and, and he. I found like a picture of sort of like a log home in Alberta or B.C. and I said, I want the outside to kind of look like that. And he sort of just put it all together and, and made it all fit and. Yeah. And so like, the rooms are not very big upstairs because really it's supposed to be a story and a half. So like we, we squeezed a lot up there for, for the square footage that we have.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah. Is there like, there's like a couple rooms and a bathroom up there? There.

[Ashley Turner]

There's actually three bedrooms and then two bathrooms and our laundry room.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay. So that sounds similar to our second story. It's not that big. And it has four bedrooms, a stair hall, two bathrooms. And then, you know, all the rooms have little closets. But yeah, they're, it's. They're all small. It's all kind of packed in there.

[Ashley Turner]

I remember when we first built the master bedroom or like our bedroom, and I walked in because we didn't do a dormer. And I would say like, of anything in the entire house, if I could have changed anything, I would have added a dormer to our bedroom just to extend that slanty wall out a little bit.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay.

[Ashley Turner]

But when we first walked into that room, I was like, we live in a closet.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

It's tiny.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah. Like, we're not even going to be able to fit a bed in here. And we do. We have a, like a king sized bed in there and it's cozy. But I, I don't have a problem with the small bedrooms at all. I just, I think we sleep in there. I don't spend a lot of time in there.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Right.

[Ashley Turner]

It wasn't something that I felt like we needed. Huge, gigantic bedro. I thought it felt like very wasted space. So, yeah, it works for us.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah, that's the same with us. Our bedroom in the new house is I think just over 10ft wide. So it's very skinny.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, ours is. Ours is small and like half of it is like I said, it's like slanted ceilings, right? Yeah, like half. You're like. You walk around the bed and that's pretty much it.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

That's all you got?

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah, that's all we got.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah. Yep.

[Ashley Turner]

So. And it doesn't. It doesn't bother me. I. I thought it would, but it really doesn't. We have a nice. A nice size closet and then we have our bathroom. And like, really other than that, there's just not really a lot we're doing up there, so.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Exactly. Yeah. Well, I love your house because it seems like it fits very well in with the landscape. With what, you know, it's like, it's. It's has its sense of place where you are. Was that very intentional? Obviously, I'm sure it was.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah. Well, the location. But it's funny because we'd never actually spent amount of time up here. And now that we live up here, you know, we are not sheltered from any weather. And it is, it is. It's very hard.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay.

[Ashley Turner]

Not. Not something that we sort of like anticipated fully. In the summer. It's very nice. It's, you know, when everyone is kind of suffocating from the humidity and the heat. Down in the valley, we don't really have that. We don't have bugs because we have the breeze off the water. But in the winter, you know, where it's mild and no snow anywhere like we are. It snows all the time up here. It's like we're on a belt.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay. And that's not something you'd thought of? Yeah.

[Ashley Turner]

No.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah. Well, I will say we're not in Canada and we're not near an ocean, so it's very different than what you are. But we also built on a hill and that is one thing we noticed as we are up there more is, wow, it's always windy here.

[Ashley Turner]

It's always nice in the summer though. Like the wind is nice. And I will say, living on a hill. Do you have a basement? Did you build a basement with your house? Yeah. So much better as far as water flow. Like we don't ever have to worry about like a water episode from a flood. We are so high up.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

No way.

[Ashley Turner]

Everything slopes away from our house. Like there is no water accumulating anywhere. Like it's like we are Just like this.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yep, true.

[Ashley Turner]

As far as that goes. Like, that was really intentional for us because there was an option for us to build down further in the field, and that was something we really considered is like, it's kind of wet down there and the water runs at us. And I didn't want water ever sitting around the house because we were going to have a basement. And so, you know, being on a hill has its disadvantages, but I really think that, like, that's. You could say that about living anyway. Yeah.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yes. There's going to be some things that maybe you didn't expect, but it's absolutely beautiful. I've loved following along and it's over now, but your whole entire process, I just felt like it looked so unique. It had so much character. I could tell it wasn't builder grade. And so it's interesting following along with that. And for people who are interested, I'm sure you have highlights saved of this whole process on your Instagram.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah, on Instagram. There's lots of. Of highlights. Yeah. And we're actually looking at maybe we. We've been asked so many times to sell the plans with an outline of, like, the materials, even though they're a little bit more custom, but just kind of like how.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Right.

[Ashley Turner]

We sourced different things in the house. And so that is something that we're maybe looking at doing this year is putting together a document that we could sell for people who are looking to build something a little more unorthodox so that they have, you know, confidence to kind of. Of come at builders with something more than just a Pinterest page.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah, well, and even just so having all the resources and what you use and the specifics, but even having the pictures so that you have the vision and you can say, you know, if it. If it doesn't align with this, like, maybe we should pursue other options because that's what we've ran into along the way is you'll have people who, they came in thinking, I'm just going to do like, the standard regular thing. And then you can tell, like, you feel them out and you realize, okay, this isn't going to. To work out. Yeah, I think that would be very helpful because it's really important to go with that vision and to be committed to it.

[Ashley Turner]

And interviewing people who, you know, it doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to even know what you're talking about, but just that they're open to the Craftsman different. And like, we were really lucky to have found a building crew that was Open to that. And they were excited about it. And there were a couple. Couple people that we had interviewed before them that really didn't seem like that. It was more like, these are the style of houses that we.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Right, exactly.

[Ashley Turner]

And I was so. I was like, well, okay, that's probably not going to work very well. And you know, and I think also self con. Did you self contract your house?

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Not technically, but I think because it. It ended up being so custom that we were probably about that involved, to be honest with you. Yes.

[Ashley Turner]

So someone wrote me halfway through the build because I came here one day to pick all of the location of the light fixtures and the outlets and stuff. And I remember I got a message from someone being like, I just don't understand why your contractor sucks so much. Like, why can't they just do that themselves? And I was like, well, I'm the contractor. And I honestly, I think that in a house like this, this, you have to be.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

That's what I learned. They wouldn't have known what to do. Like, they are so willing to go on this journey with us, which has been amazing. But they, they didn't know. They didn't have half the clue of what we were trying to do at the beginning. It's just been a journey. Yeah. I've been. We've been so involved. We found people for just about everything and sourcing things. We order. We're constantly ordering things. It all goes through us. Yes. It's. I'm like, I feel like it. It kind of just has to because it's. Yeah, you're going to be. If you're going to do something like that, you're going to be very involved. You can't hand it over to somebody who does standard builds and just expect them to go find that reclaimed flooring from the floor guy, you know?

[Ashley Turner]

Exactly, exactly. They're going to be like, well, there's. Here are your options from the local hardware store that we have that we can buy. And, And I think that that's not because they're not trying to be helpful. It's just that's what they know and that's what they have out there. So I think, you know, really making sure if you're renovating or building that even if someone else is contracting it, you have to be so heavily involved in the. In, like in the tradespeople because there's just. And I think that's why it takes longer because there's so many different hands in it all the time.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yes.

[Ashley Turner]

The different, like even the brick floor that we did in our mudroom. I was like, he was trying to use one of the little tools to scrape out, like, to make it clean. And I'm like, I don't want you to use that.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Right, but you were there and you said that. Yeah.

[Ashley Turner]

Yes, exactly. He's like, what do you mean? Like, no, that would be.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

You're like, yes.

[Ashley Turner]

I can't.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

I know. It's weird. We get it.

[Ashley Turner]

It's weird. I'm like, just do it. Like, I promise. And it's like, bubbled. And even people on Instagram are like, why are your floors bubbled? And I'm like, I told the guy

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

I wanted them that way. Okay. I know.

[Ashley Turner]

There's.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

You just. We're. We're there every day. Like, we don't live there, so we're driving there every day. Usually a couple times a day.

[Ashley Turner]

Day.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Whether it's my husband going out once, me going out once. Like, he's usually there, like, half the day. So it's. It's very intense. But also, there has been so many things that we've been like, oh, you know, like you said, that's just a tiny little thing. But you had this thing in your mind about that brick floor, and they had the way it's normally done. They don't call and be like, hey, do you want me to, you know, scrape out the mortar a bit more? Or whatever. Like, they don't. That's just not how it works. And we had something just like that. I mean, it's just constant. We had something just like that the other day with the window sills. And it wasn't that they didn't want to do what I want. They just thought, this is how it was done. And I was like, I'm pretty sure it's not how. How we want it. And then I kind of dug deeper and realized, oh, no, this is how we want it. But it just. It's constant. Like, if you're going to go on this journey, just expect that you're going to be very, very involved for a year or two, or maybe three.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah. Yeah. And you're pushing back a lot. Lot. Which, you know, that's. You gotta have. You really have to have thick skin as far as, like, knowing what you want and builders being like, well, that's not how it's done. This is what I do. So I know. And I'm like, but that's not how it's going to be done now. Like, you have to. You have to be really willing to be like, I know it can be done this way because, you know, and so I think. I think that. That when people are renovating and going through this process, like. Like there are companies that you can hire that build new old homes. That is what they do. But they are so expensive because it's very niche. But all their houses look the same. They look new, old. They look like, you know, they look very old, but they all look the same. So it's like if you are building something that is completely outside the box and different, you know, you really have to go down that rabbit hole. And like, for me, and I don't know how long it took you to plan your house, but, like, I just think that it needs to be years. Like, it has to be years of, like, understanding every single part of the house. And, like, we started buying our light fixtures probably two years before we installed them. And we started. We bought my oven. My oven sat in storage for two and a half years.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay. And remind me, I know it's beautiful, but remind me what it. It's the La Conche, isn't it?

[Ashley Turner]

It's the La Conche.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay. I thought so. That's what I'm getting too. Yeah. Okay. I thought it was a La Conch. Yeah.

[Ashley Turner]

We have the Sully, which is the 55 inch double. The double oven.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Okay. I have the Clooney.

[Ashley Turner]

Okay. Yeah.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

It's the 39 inch. It's the smaller one. Yeah, yeah.

[Ashley Turner]

And that. We bought that. Like, I saved up and saved up, and then as soon as I had it, I was like, I gotta buy it now, because if I don't, I know, like, you know, when you get into these builds, it's like you run out of money and you're like, well, that's it, I guess.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Don't let me run out of money for that.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah. I'm like, I am not running out of money for that oven. So I built the whole kitchen around the oven, but I actually left it in the crate. It sat in a crate in my garage for two and a half years. I didn't even know it was the right color because as soon as you open the crate, your warranty starts. So it sat in storage for two and a half years in a wooden crate. And like, the day it was like the heavens open, the day that I got to open up that crate, it was like.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

And it was beautiful. It's black, right?

[Ashley Turner]

No, it's green.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Green, that's right. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, it is. It's such a beautiful centerpiece of your kitchen. And it's lovely. I'VE seen them enough online to know that that's what I wanted. We got the smaller one just cause of how the kitchen layout worked. But then we also have a wood cook stove. So half the year I'm like, well,

[Ashley Turner]

we'll have two ovens.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah.

[Ashley Turner]

Oh, I love a wood cook stove. We didn't have room in here for that. But I really wanted to do like a, like a fire pizza oven thing. But I just. We didn't have the wall space.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Maybe outside.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah. So we thought of doing it outside at some point. We'll build one outside and we'll use it in the summer. But it. We would had to get rid of some of our windows if we were going to do it in here. And I, and I didn't want to sacrifice the windows.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

See, that's what I always say. Like, like I said, you have to make sacrifices just based on like, yeah, window or wood cook stove. I'd of course choose window too. And you'd have to change the entire design of the house to make that not the case. Like there's just so many times along the way you're like, like there's just no other option. You know, people will say things online like, I would have done this. I was like, that would have been great if we didn't want xyz. And so because of that, we had to do this.

[Ashley Turner]

Our power goes out all the time here. That's the other thing about living up on a hill is we lose power all the time.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

I bet.

[Ashley Turner]

And somebody wrote and was like, I just don't understand why you don't have a generator. I'm like, well, that would be lovely. And it's $5,000 to have a generator. We just built a house, so someday I would love to have a generator. But like, you know, those are things like. And same with the water filter. It's like you make what you want in your house as you go, and then you make a list of the things that are later. And I thought at the top of my list would be a water filtration system. And then when I got that test back, I thought, you know what, I can move to the final list now. And you'll always have a list. And that's okay. It doesn't have to be a stressful list. It's just like when we have the money, we're going to buy a generator so that we're not uncomfortable when the power goes out and we can water our animals. Like that's, that's on the list.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

That's on the list. Yeah.

[Ashley Turner]

So it. I think that's like, unless you have endless pockets, then there's always a list. And when you're building a house, you always go over budget and so things get put on a list because.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah. Yes.

[Ashley Turner]

You just can't do it all. And so there's. There's just like our. Our basement's unfinished. We had intentions of doing a rec room for the kids. That didn't happen. It's on the list. Like, the. There's. There's just lots of things like that. And I think when you move into a house, you start to realize, well, maybe I would have did this different and maybe I'll change this. Like, you just don't ever know fully until you're there. And I think that that's okay.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah, I. I think you're right. I've already started making a list for like. For like a YouTube video I thought would be good of, like, regrets with the new build, you know, because there's just going to be those, you know, long list. Yeah.

[Ashley Turner]

I. I think that's everybody, like, for sure.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

There's no way to avoid it. You can't fear it because there's just no way to avoid it.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah. I can't wait to see your house. It's going to be so beautiful from what I see already. I can only. You've only. Have you only showed the outside? Have you showed any of the inside yet?

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

We have, but there's really. It's just now getting to the point where there's much to see inside. Like, we're. We just started, like, we're finally done with all the. The bead board and the ship lap and the V groove and.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

So it's starting to take shape and we're starting to work on, like, doors and floors and all that, but there hasn't been much to see inside. But I love your coming soon, soon

[Ashley Turner]

dining area with all the windows. Is that where your dining area is going to be or your.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

It's a sun room, but we definitely are going to put. We. We want several tables. So that's going to be a dining area. Not like the main one, but it's going to be a dining area.

[Ashley Turner]

It's beautiful. I love the windows. I can't wait to see it done. It's going to be so nice. And you'll love. I know that you've been wanting to do a homestead for a long time, so like, Like a bigger homestead. Yes. You'll have more space to. To have all the things. And that'll that'll just feel so nice.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yep. We are super excited. Well, thank you so much. And for those who want to follow along to learn more, tell us about where to find you and what you do. I know your house content just kind of fell in. It's not like what you do. But yeah, tell them where to find you.

[Ashley Turner]

Yeah. So Turner Farm on Instagram and so I teach sourdough classes online. We have an app coming out and and then I also, just as we've moved into the house, started teaching sourdough classes on the farm which has been so cool. Yeah, really fun new offering. It's just like like a dozen people in the kitchen and we bake all day and it's like a really fun offering. So I started doing that. So you can find everything. Yeah. Linked on on Instagram and I have a little bit of stuff on YouTube but not as much. I'm not as active on there as you are, but I do have bit a little, little, little bit of stuff on there too.

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

Yeah. Awesome. Well, we will leave links also below. Thank you so much Ashley. I appreciate it.

[Ashley Turner]

Thanks so much for having me. Lisa,

[Lisa from Farmhouse on Boone]

thanks as always for listening to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast. My husband Luke and I and our kids work together side by side on our farm in Missouri and use our blog, podcast and YouTube channel to reach other homemakers, home cooks and homesteaders with practice practical recipes in daily family life. For everyday sourdough recipes, make sure to check out our blog, farmhouseonboone.com and to dig deeper, we do also offer a course called Simple Sourdough over at Bit Ly Farmhouses. All one word. We also teach people how to ferment vegetables and mill their own grains through our courses Fresh Ferments and Freshly Milled Grains. We will leave links for all of that down in the show notes below.

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