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In 2023 Sophie Hildi, 37 years old, and the 50 -year -old Goldi just finished Convert home depot of a friend shed into a tiny house And they were ready to start looking for their place together.
“If I didn’t meet her, I would probably be in a small house,” Rocky CNBC says. “I went a long way to get here, but I wanted to become a kind of master when we met. She had the same vision, and to meet the one who does.”
“He also wanted to live on the ground and on the manor,” Sophie adds. “But he didn’t have this great vision of all these buildings. He just wanted something simple.”
Sophie turned this home shed used to store in a tiny house.
Sophie Iler Goldy
The couple started a search on Zillow with a certain list of requirements that included “at least 10 hectares of land” and settled “deep in rural Kentucky”.
“We love old things and antiques, so we wanted a place with some story. We actually sought a correction that had a story, and we really did not find great things on Zillow,” Sophie says.
The local photographer connected the couple to the realtor, who found their estate of 37.5 acres about $ 390,000. The property had two logs from the 1840s, which were combined to make one home 2200 square feet – with four bedrooms and one bathroom – and one cabin 200 square feet and two sheds.
“I think I had been waiting for the whole life to come home. There were elements of the barn that felt like this, but this place felt most right. I knew it would be the last time I moved and where I spend the rest of my life,” Sophie says. “I knew I wanted to put so much energy into these surrounding hectares, and this look. Searching home in the rock, and this house felt that I could finally release the burden I kept trying to find a place.”
The couple’s estate has a separate cabin and two sheds.
Sophie Iler Goldy
When the couple first visited the property, it was in a rather poor state. There was a poison ivy in the front yard, the pavement had cracks, and there was garbage everywhere.
But Sophie felt optimistic. “I knew we would buy this house before we even entered it,” she says. “I saw all the promise. With me and my husband work on this place full -time, a few years later we could transform this place.”
“I knew it looked awful, but I saw it all,” she adds.
Rocky was less confident, but says he was shaken by his wife’s admiration.
“I thought it would be a lot of work and it was beautiful,” he says. “Sophie always talked about the pros, and I talked to the disadvantages, but she convinced me.”
“I think we balance each other in this way. I toxically optimistic, and Rocky is pessimistic, but I knew that there was no way that we would not live here,” Sophie adds, laughing.
The property was in a rather poor condition until Sophie and Rocky moved.
Sophie Iler Goldy
Sofi and Rocky closed the property in the early 2024. The couple has provided a 30-year mortgage with a minimum monthly payment of $ 1790.18 and plans to pay it less than five years.
Since moving a year ago, Sophie and Rocky focused on carrying out the house and property. According to the estimates, they still spent about $ 13,000: $ 9,000 per tools and $ 4,000 on the interior of the house.
This does not include hundreds of hours that the couple did, doing things as cleaning the old trees and shrubs, getting rid of all poisonous ivy to property and getting rid of brown spiders – one of two spiders in North America with dangerous poison and the other is a black widow.
The couple uses your love for antiques to decorate most of the house.
Sophie Iler Goldy
Work and their thinking
Sophie says that when she looks around for the first year of her life, she divides it into two categories: work and their thinking.
“The first part of the year was a lot of clearing. This place was covered with garbage, and so it was a lot of trips to the landfill. It was a lot of sorting through these things before we even took it to the dump. It also had a chaos to have too much animals and it was completely my fault and I knew it, but I couldn’t stop myself too,” she says.
“I think the first year was really difficult and even difficult to return to this place, but it was also so strange and exciting. There was an endless amount of things, but everything was fun and exciting.”
Sofia and Rocky also added new things to such signs as garden, lots of fruits and nut trees and more than 30 animals, including chickens, goats, dies and cats.
In addition to additions to the site, the couple also started repairing the house, including removing the kitchen, a bathroom and to organize rooms around the house.
Sophie and Rocky perform most of the repair works.
Sophie Iler Goldy
Both try to customize themselves as much as possible. They eat eggs from the chickens in the barn and use the milk from the goat to make cheese, cream and bake. Hope also use the material they get from the clearing to make their own hay.
“We have our own eggs. We have a fruit. It will be the first year when we can preserves what I learned from one of our neighbors,” Sophie says. “One of the numbers we re -make to enter the cannery, which will have, who knows how much months it costs food that is ready to go.”
Now that the couple lives on the property for a little over a year, Sophie says that the most significant lesson she has learned is the influence that a person can have on a piece of planet.
“We came here, and now you see how long two people work, you can take a place that was so neglected and change it,” she says. “Now we see the fast wealth of all the work we have invested in it. It makes you think much more about the impact we have on the planet, especially in the rule of this earth. This is a great responsibility, because you have a lot of effort to do good or bad.”
Inspired by Life on the estate, Sophie also founded her own skin care company Seoul + Soil.
Sophie Iler Goldy
For the rock, the biggest lesson he has learned is someone who is in his career. He served in the Marine Corps a few years before the career in maintenance, which covered more than 20 years.
“He was so attached to that person, and when I told him he quit his job and the yard full of time, I saw how the sirens would go in my head,” Sophie says. “As he quit, I ask every few months as he feels, and every time his answer is the same, he forgot to even think about what he quit his job.”
“This is rooted in this culture, which people identify with their work. The work becomes your identity, and even if you have a few plan of how you want to live the way we are still scared to release this lifetime,” Rocky says. “When I left, I thought I would probably sit at work today, but never happened. The only thought I have now is what I didn’t do it before.”
Sophie and Rocky do not plan to move and sell their estate in Kentucky.
Sophie Iler Goldy
Sophie and Rocky do not plan to sell their property and are happy to continue working on the estate, growing a skincare company Sophie, Seoul + soiland share your journey YouTube.
“I look forward to the day when these are not all these huge projects, and all the major things are one, and then we just sit around Dilly, who is engaged and engaged in his hobbies,” Sophie says. “I always want to continue to study and eventually spend half a day just sitting here, doing the hobby.”
Like Sophie, Rocky is looking forward to the time he can just enjoy his hobbies.
“I like to read and learn for some reason, so I would say that my goal would be to get to what I could do the day, the weekend, find out what, and then practically apply it the next day,” Rocky says. “I am sitting and thinking about what my goal is, but it is rather a feeling, and I already have the feeling where I can sit back and just feel in the world, and in the world anywhere I wouldn’t. I think I’m already in the appointment.”
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