Reviving an Abandoned Farm:

We finally finished our stone wall in our abandoned farm for our very ever room in our project. We also work on the extension and add some beautiful trim to it and do some great improvement on our land! goes here

Building Our Roof from Start to Finish in about week! We have done amazing amount of work in just a week ans finally, we got a roof on! We show you the amazing transformation of this room from when it was knocked down until it was finished!

Will it be worth it? Renovating an abandoned stone house and land in the Portuguese hills. In this episode we work on the room to get it ready before we install the roof. We continue with the electrics in the tiny house and we start our very first seeds.

Renovating an abandoned 100 y.o farm and stone house in the hills of central Portugal. This week, we tackle a lof of differemt projects in our property. We built up the gable walls, install the plumbing in the tiny house and finally start the veggie garden.

We come back to lovely abandoned far, and continue with our project. We resume the tiny house extension and organise the plumbing of this space. We also start the shuttering and pouring of the ring beams on the old stone house.

Join us today to show you all the work Simon has done while we were away. You have no idea of the shock we received when we first arrived and saw how far the project has gone. It's amazing!

We have come back from the UK to Portugal and left the island forever. We had a crazy journey back from organising a ton of paperwork, shipping our belongings over and dealing with travelling with three cats!

We renovated e a 100 year old Victorian house in the north of England. The house was neglected by the previous tenants and needed a huge renovation before it could go into the market for sale. We painted every single wall, replaced flooring, restored 2 fireplaces, installed a new kitchen and the family bathroom was redone.

This week we continue with the wall and making the french drains but unfortunateky a down pour for several days delays the work and makes a right mess in the courtyard.

More walls are taken down this week! But it was not what we had in mind to do! The wall was about to collapsed, so we took it down before it unsafely cave in. We work more on the wall and clear the courtyard. A lot of work this week!

We finally get to work on the wall of the stone house and add a window space. We also start to work on the courtyard area and let you know a bit of our plans for this space which, will be amazing. Hope you enjoy the video!

We continue with our tiny home renovation and finally finish the tiles and the roof. We also continue some renovations (weather permitted) in the abandoned stone conversion and add some shuttering.

Working on our stone house renovation in Portugal and tiny house. Bringing old stone walls down for new ones to make way.

We start to build the walls inside the stone house, we do some serious clearing up and finally get rid of all the wood infront of our tiny home!

We start to take down the walls of our abandoned farm we bought in Portugal. The outbuildings will be converted into living quarters, starting with this room which, will be a guest room. We explain why we need to do it this way in this video.

We come back to our offgrid home in Portugal and start new projects!

It has been raining all week so we show you what happens in our abandoned farm project while it's raining. We do some gardening, restore a beautiful redwood door, clear some land and show you a mistake we have done, so don't do it!

We finally start to see some shape on this tiny home conversion. We finish the framing, get on with the veranda, digging trenches for our waterpipes, visit markets and beautiful river beaches!

We have been working on our tiny home extension and we explain why. One day, maybe we would welcome you. This abandoned farm will be transformed into place with meaning. Everything will have a place but first, the extension needs to be completed.

We get ready for the next big step of our renovation. We have our tiny home which will be extended to house our kitchen and compost toilet and, we are preparing the main abandoned stone house to be rebuild.
We also start to sow some vegetable and flower seeds

We had a really closed call with a forest fire this week, we tell you what happened and how it affected our area. We also start our house renovating by demolishing the roof.

We are back living in our beautiful tiny home in the countryside located in our abandoned farm purchased last year. We do some rearrangements, visit some beautiful spots and show you what will be doing next.

On this video, we will tell you our plans and future projects. We discuss what we are going to do this year, what it's the most important job to do as soon as possible and the future projects in the years to come. We also mention the side projects and what was the point (long term) of out container tiny home!

We have finished the roof on our tiny house! We are super excited to show the beautiful roof on our beautiful tiny home in Portugal! We are now dry in, waterproof and weather proof! So happy with the result!

We finally raise the roof (Rafters) on our tiny home in Portugal! We will soon have an amazing Off Grid Portuguese Farm! Our tiny home is looking more like a house than a container! We are doing this project and making a solid homebase while we renovate our 100-year old Portuguese abandoned farm and become a fully off-grid home eventually!

We need to start learning new skills when it comes to farm life and one of them is to successfully harvest olives, prune trees and turn them into olive oil or other produce. Unfortunately, we didn't have much luck this time as our trees are very neglected!

We have come to the time to do the rafters on our container tiny home situated on our beautiful land on Portugal! It has been a rocky start! Doing rafters with unseasoned wood has been quite a challenge but luckily with three heads together, we are probably going to figure it out! I show you also some things about the house and why things are being done this way.

This week we completed another major job for this roof build and we also have some amazing help! We are getting closer to finishing this roof which will be our home for the time we will be restoring the main farm house.

We continue the roof build this week with great success on our abandoned farm project! This tiny home is closer to get insulated and ready for the winter!

It has been pouring with rain therefore, it was the perfect opportunity to build indoors. We made our first worktable with some scrapped wood and an extra set of planks for the top. It costed us less than 60 Euros to build.

We place the rest of the timber wood posts including the shou sugi ban. We encounter some hiccups along the way. We also visit some friends living off the grid and have a great picnic by a waterfall.

We continue with the roof frame post installation. We also witness one amazing sunset at our place and find out with have edible wild mushroom growing in our land.

We start to cutting and placing the wooden frame for the future roof on our cabin. Cut and place the bigger charred wooden posts and show you the local market.

This week, on our off grid roof cabin build, we apply the Japanese ancient method of charring wood: Shou Sugi Ban, to preserve our 15x15cm posts which will be holding the roof of our container.

We are doing the final prep of our materials before building the roof up! We also do our second trial with the Shou Sugi Ban Japanese wood burning method by changing some of our tools. We also show you a bit more of our land.

In this episode, we are building foundations for our outdoor kitchen. We use concrete forming tubes this time to make it easier to pour and prepare the foundation.

We come back home from the UK after a fantastic drive through Southern France and Spain. We settle in to our tasks, clearing the land and a broken tree. We also make some jam and chutney from our neighbours' gifts.

We finally left the UK, moving to our new home before the summer ended. We take the long way around and drive through France and stay at some of the best campsites in South of France. Our experience moving to Portugal this this time was super easy. An enjoyable European road trip off-grid!

Have you thought about traveling abroad at the moment? Flying during a Pandemic was not fun but our plan to travel to the UK had to be done sooner than expected as times are way too uncertain at the moment…

We have compile a huge mountain of old wood that we cannot reuse due to pests, old varnish and oils added onto this wood. Most of it was very crumbly as well. We seized the a window between rainy days to burn it all. We also build an sheltered, simple outdoor shower.

We start to build the concrete piers for the roof supporting system. These piers will be holding 15cm wooden posts. We also share some of our future plans and we have a great visit from an old friend.

We have started to building our own roof on top of our tiny house;. We want to renovate our property ourselves, so this will serve up as a great learning curve and prepare us for the bigger tasks coming up next.

We finished our tiny house ceiling! Omar sorts out the electricity, installs spotlights on the ceiling, bedside lights to maximise space and lastly, panel the ceiling with beautiful varnished pine!
It looks amazing and we are very happy with the result!

The summer months are approaching and with that, the hot weather. We start phase 1 of our insulation process of our container home which, it's the ceiling of the container. Unfortunately, it doesn't go to plan.

We cleared some of the wood from the ground floor in the stone house. We also start with the insulation in our tiny cabin

We need to work with unseasoned wood as it’s the most accessible wood to us so we seize the opportunity to build a compost toilet to learn to work with it

We finally moved to the land so we start with the first tasks and the basic needs

Finally moving our tiny home, the container, to our land and start our new lives in the countryside

We discuss our criteria, what was important to us when buying land and a property and how much we paid for the property.

Our first ever video. We give you a tour with some of the ideas before we even moved to the property.

We have been given the opportunity by Jackery to try out and review the Jackery 500 Power Station and we show you how we do it! It would be so amazing to us to have a power bank for emergency and this may possibly be the answer. #Jackery9Years

We review the Ecoflow Delta Mini, a fantastic power station that has become an integral part of our system.

Our first Q&A answering all your questions about our abandoned farm house, future projects, costs, land, buying property in Portugal and more!