In 2023, Sophie Hilaire Goldie, 37, and Rocky Goldie, 50, had just finished converting a friend’s Home Depot shed into a tiny home and were ready to start looking for their own place together.
“If it wasn’t for meeting her, I probably would have ended up in a little shack,” Rocky tells CNBC Make It. “I took a long way to get here but I wanted to be some type of homesteader when we met. She had the same vision and it’s not common to meet somebody who does.”
“He also wanted to be living off the land and homesteading,” Sophie adds. “But he didn’t have this big grand vision of all these buildings. He just wanted something simple.”
Sophie turned this Home Depot shed that had been used for storage into a tiny home.
Sophie Hilaire Goldie
The couple started their search on Zillow with a specific list of requirements that included “at least 10 acres of land” and located “deep in rural Kentucky.”
“We love old things and antiques, so we wanted a place with some history. We were actually looking for a fixer-upper that had some history, and