1 Year Renovation Timelapse | Abandoned Farmhouse to Incredible Home | Amazing Transformation! 

Thanks Henrik, let's hope that 2023 is a good year for both our projects 😁

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Aaw, Mickey. Thank you for your kind words. That's so exciting. Is he hoping to buy a property in Piemonte specifically?

WOW 😲👍 great job 👍

I'd love to do this but the logistics seem daunting: where do you dump all your debris? Where do you find power tools and plaster and tiles? Who makes the custom doors? How do you find all these things in the new country where (I assume) you don't speak the language?

haha thanks Carolyn, a lot happened in a year! Some days it feels like we are standing still and not making any progress, but looking back at this really puts everything into perspective and reminds us how far we've come 😊

Thank you so much 😍

Hi there, thanks so much for watching our videos, we’re glad you’re enjoying them and we really appreciate you taking the time to write a comment to us 😁

Love all your positive comments, thank you so much for your support!

Welcome aboard! And thank you so much 😍

Thank you so much! 😊 The reason we remove the terracotta tiles is because the floor under needed reinforcing (eg remove the old sand and loose cement and replace with a proper concrete slab). The tiles had also been painted with several layers so it was impossible to remove them without having several tiles breaking.

Thank you so much! 😁

Thank you so much, Barbara!! 😁😁

Thank you! Haha we will add a light curtain there

Merci beaucoup e grazie mille ragazzi! Happy new years! 😍

Pipes have been completed by a plumber as we need to have them up to code and signed off to be able to have the project completed. The dark green colour is something tried and true as we did this in our 100 year old apartment in Stockholm too. We like to be unique with our interior design and create a truly beautiful space that is inviting and inspirational to be in. Fingers crossed we an pull it off here too

Hi there, you’re right, it was definitely a bold design choice. Although it’s not actually black, it’s a dark green but does look even darker on camera.

Rewatch the part of the video where they are applying the dark paint. You will see that the dark portion of the wall appears to look farther away from you than the older white portion. Dark paint can make a wall visually recede and actually increase the apparent size of the room.

Thank you so much!

Thanks!

Tack Mamma!

Thank you! 😊

Thanks! We had hoped to keep all the tiles too, but unfortunately all the floors needed to be removed for reinforcement works. A shame to loose the traditional tiles, but a necessity in the end.

THANK YOU Alison. That's so kind of you. Well, we actually don't have the time and energy to clean them up and reuse them but our window maker happily adopted them so we were super happy they found a new home. So are we. We still cant afford to decorate or furnish it but at least it will be structurally safe 😅

Thank you so much!! 😊

Thank you so much 😊

Thanks so much for the lovely comment and support! It definitely takes a lot of time and work to bring these rundown Italian farmhouses back to their former glory 😅

Thank you so much Marisa!

Unfortunately the floor under the tiles needed reinforcing

Grazie mille! 🥰

Thanks Bob

Thank you so much for your kind words James!

Hi Marianne, thanks for the comment - it’s certainly been a lot of hard work! 😅 The farmhouse isn’t actually a ‘stone’ house, it was built with a combination of “mattone crudo” and “mattone cotto” (raw bricks and kiln fired red bricks). The raw bricks look like stone but are far from that, they need to have a plaster coat on top otherwise it will cause big issues over time. When it came to the floors, all the tiles had to be removed to allow for restructuring the floors. The way that it was built originally, placed compacted sand and earth with tiles on top. Removing them and digging out the old earth and sand allowed us to place rebar in the floors and poor new concrete which stiffens up the whole house and improves the structural integrity for generations to come. You have to remember that the house was abandoned for at least 20 years with minimal weatherproofing since the windows were broken and tiles had slipped from the roof. This meant there were a whole host of issues that had to be fixed and unfortunately meant that the original features couldn’t be maintained. When we replastered the walls, we did so with the “rustic” plaster to ensure a traditional look and we have included many details and features that respect the original house and the period from when it was built. 😊

Hahaha, love that Well, I think that people who have not remodelled an old property have very little understanding for that no matter how much you love something, it's not worth keeping if it's in too bad condition. We would have loved to keep both the terracotta floors and the green terrazzo, but then we would have to live in a house without heating or electricity (since they put the tubes for all of that under the floor) and the outer wall would risk separating from the rest of the house and fall down on the neighbour. We also learnt along the way that it's so hard to judge the real state of things at the viewing. We absolutely overestimated the condition of the floors and plaster for example. Oh well, lesson learnt the hard way haha

@@OurItalianDreamHouse Well if it were in great condition it probably would have been out of your price range is how I look at it. My husband and I have something we always say to each other when working "take out anything that isn't a nice house." We also repeat our neighbors words and laugh! We have remodeled eight houses in our 49 year old marriage, still doing one now in our 70's, it gets in your blood.

haha the doors just leads out to a private terrace.

Thanks Diane. In our other videos you can follow the progress of each room/project. But this is also a great idea, maybe we do a more detailed before/after video 😊👍 the wall plaster is lime based render without pigment.

We had to pull them up to remove the cement under which had sunk. Also, in Italy they put all plumbing and electricity under the floor and inside the walls so the job was absolutely necessary.

Thanks so much! 😊

THANK YOU!

Thank you! We had two pickups and the first one was 300-something and the second one the muratore had to arrange so we don’t know what he paid unfortunately.

Yes! :)

Well, in Italy it’s standard to put all pipes and electricity in the walls and under the floor so unfortunately everything needs to be ripped out in order to modernise the house and make it habitable.

That makes total sense Thomas!

Thank you SO much Tracy 🙏❤️

Thank you. We’ll keep going as long as we can 😁

HAHAHA. 😂

caso*mai - Infatti! Bravi comunque...

Haha we will put a light curtain there. Also, since we live in a UNESCO protected area, changing the original size of windows requires a lot of admin and money.

And thank you! 😊

Thank you so much Netti! We have another timelapse on the way.

Thanks 😁

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Thanks a lot! :)

No idea unfortunately. It's all automatic with RU-vid.

haha thanks! We think they added the extra layer of brick to keep moisture out.

Thank you so much for your lovely comment. Fingers crossed the rest of the house turns out as nice as the bathroom 🤞😅

Manca il bidet! E' obbligatorio per legge dal 1989.

Thank you so much for your very kind comments Rose! Happy to have you following our journey!

Oh, we dont even want to know ourselves haha

We have an Italian Geometra. Obviously.

Absolutely. And above all, what truly matters is your happiness in your new home. I genuinely hope that Italy brings you good fortune and embraces the love you have for this country, which is now your own as well.

We're between Asti and Alba.

Thank you Elisabeth!

Thanks Juan! 😊

Believe it or not, but we’re still not finished 😅 hence an exact number is impossible to say.

What a compliment, thank you Ann!

Thanks so much! 😊

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You’re welcome! You not what they say “no pain, no gain” 😅😂

@@OurItalianDreamHouse so true. 😋

Thanks Jim!

Haha thank you so much Monika. Happy new year! 🥰

Wow, thanks Jane! ❤️

Haha we know it's a sensitive subject for italians 😅

Thanks Matt 😊👍

Wow, thank you Cynthia. Happy new year!

grazie mille ❤

In Europe it’s getting very uncommon with bidets these days. Mostly the Italians themselves are still installing them.

Aaaw, thank you Paul! ❤️

Hopefully we can get the master bedroom and bathroom finished and then we move on to the guest accommodation. Fingers crossed 😁

@@OurItalianDreamHouse Keep up the great job. Anything about the farm?

Amazing. Thanks so much for subbing! 😍

Haha thanks Evelyn!

Wouldn’t that be nice, a free house! 🤗 Unfortunately for us, abandoned refers to the fact that no one has lived in it or taken care of it, not the fact that no one owns it. Alas, we had to pay the previous owners to purchase it!

Thanks so much! 😁

I totally agree. Would never have black walls. Green walls though, amazing! 👍

Thanks! Luckily our walls are not grey but green.

@@OurItalianDreamHouse grey - green is the same devil...awful coulor for interior walls but other than that is brillinat. your hard work is paying off. One day when all is done you will look back with pride.

Thanks for your comment Elena. We wish we could have kept them too, but unfortunately they had to be removed to make reinforcements and ensure structural integrity.

Aaaaw thank you so much! ❤️

Thanks so much Raffaella! 😁

We're between Asti and Alba in the Piemonte region.

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