#41 Discovering an ancient stone floor - Renovating an abandoned farm in rural Italy 

I really love watching you guys sort, organise, clean, recycle, repurpose, build, make and create 👍 awesome progress ❤

It fills me with awe that a building which was meant only for domestic animals was so amazingly constructed with care and attention to detail. Such beautiful masonry in such a beautiful country. Thank you for rescuing it.

I loved everything about this video. Isis your herb garden and delicious looking food. Bertus what you did with all the wood is amazing and must feel so good to have it organized and usable. Everything is so green and beautiful right now.

I love how you both keep all your building so cleaned up after your work, and take time to sort out the lumber and place it were it has its own space. The bread you make looks delicious and perfect ❤ I also seen the kitty on the window ledge how sweet. Thank you both for sharing your journey. Have a bless week and see you next week ❤ Love from the USA🇺🇸

The wood on the shelving is almost an Art instillation, esthetically pleasing to the eye ❤️

Dear Isis, your little garden front the house is very very beautifull!

Having multiple huge workshops and having to constantly run between them to fetch things is a problem I aim to have one day.

Hi Isis & Bertus🇧🇪🇳🇱🇮🇹, I think I`m ajoure with catching up with the latest episodes🤔, Well you guys did make for sure great progress👍🏻, the polaio servet some nice suprices such as the complete stone flore some gave a ancient look from the past centuries, from that building for sure a lot to clean out from all those excrements 😓from div animals, Great you removed that old rotten sealing and get a better view of the rot in te sealingplanks 💪🏻hope fully the beams are safe🤔. The new work shop in the old barn gets a nice form.You did also sorted out all that reuseble wood planks short parts small beams well stored in they div dimensions.😉well done.Greetings.Hubertus🇳🇱🇳🇴🙏🏻🍀☮🇮🇹

Things are coming along wonderfully with all your hard work.

Hi guys, you have a lot of work to do! I'm Belgian too, bit I'm living in Italy since many years. In 2020 I moved to the countryside between Milan and the Lake of Como. Now I started with my own channel and Friday I published my first video.

Almost 60k subscribers🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Put your rusty nails and screws in with hydraenga flowers and it makes them more blue❤

I just love how you reuse things and then make everything beautiful - you two are amazing!

I've been watching you since the beginning. It takes much determination to do what you are succceding at. I admire your grit {pun intended!}. I look forward to each installment. i also looj forward to when you will be working on the main house!

Love the thunder! Love the stuff just flying down from the ceiling...dust everywhere!

Watching these videos are as amazing as you two!!! Can’t wait to see what’s next!! Thank you for bringing that old place back to life!!!

Fantastic work.

Ciao Isis and Bertus, the backbreaking job you did to get the workshop done has paid off it looks Bellissimo, I have not had Elderflower, but would love to try it. Your "pollaio" is such a beautiful building, I am so happy you are restoring it. The herb garden is so nice to have, the bread looked delicious. The drone shots are so beautiful. Well done, love from N.Y.

Love your episodes. Love your progress.

Revealing that ancient floor was very cool to watch… you guys are tireless 😅

Repairing old windows and doors is your speciality. They all turn out great.

So awesome to see Velluto eat from your hand! He is so handsome. And, yes, I am the "cat lady"😂 I love the little barn, it has so much potential. Ohhhh....that bread!👍 I could just taste it.

You guys are awesome 😊😊😊

I just lucked onto your site a day ago and I must say I am glad I did. I've been trying to get through the older ones as well as more recent ones. There great. All of them. One comment, I love the quality and clarity of the videos, tack sharp. Also the tonality of the color, reminds me of Agfa color film. It's fun to hear the odd Dutch language snippets which I still understand even though my family left more than seven decade s ago. Thanks for the wonderful videos and look for many more to come.

You are truly my Sunday meditation. Heartfelt gratitude and blessings to you both.

I love to see you reusing all the found materials. That's great 😍😍😍

That boy will have a room of his own soon enough. Looks like he was window shopping…😅. Or at least checking to see what mamma was making for supper. The progress is fantastic, the little cottage room really is just sweet. See you next week guys….❤

Elderflower cordial is sciroppo di sambuco. I love it. It’s so healthy and great for digestion.

Enjoy watching your progress. Velluto is taking his time, poor baby! Look forward to next week!

That stone floor is a beautiful find! So glad that in cleaning out you are also discovering the wonderful secrets your buildings hold. And the progress with Velluto is also great to see. Thank you, as always, for sharing your story.

One of the great things about how you are using the old pipes is that you can continue to use it in future without having to buy other fittings. 👍

I truly enjoy your videos, and envy your piece of the rural Italian countryside, I would love to have an old farm someday with beautiful stone buildings. Keep those video coming! I also enjoy seeing you two working side by side, something I also enjoy doing with my wife.

I think I said it before, but who cares? I love your artistic, highly aesthetic videos and the peace they promote. Thank you so much and keep it up, please!

Fotografisch mooi opgeruimd metalen rek voor de laatste restjes hout. Dank weer voor de mooie aflevering!

Your mountains remind me sharply of our own mountains in Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. I love watching your plans coming together, but without any apparent hurry or anxiety. Very pleasant to watch - so glad I found your channel!

I need to take a lesson from you both in organizing my garage 😂

Looking good. Love seeing the drone shots. Enjoy listening to the birds 🐦 singing their tunes that they are given by God to sing.

I agree with you, it is pretty. I love the character of that little building, it has loads of potential.👍

Záběry přírody jsou dechberoucí.

I've seen others using a leaf blower to get worked in dirt out...may save time and certainly saves your back and arm muscles!

Like I said last first time I saw your RU-vid channel. I really like the old house. 😊

Definetelly a way of life as renovations can go on forever and yet i would do nothing else inside my 450 square metres at Copacabana/BR potential seems endless!!! Surelly its not for everyone! Filming it majes it all the more especial! Congrats and "buon prosseguimento! "

The scenery is gorgeous and I love your podcast best of all. It’s fascinating to watch what you are building and making. How about some recipes. Cordial and bread. And your herb/flower beds are beautiful. Envious but so happy for you. 🇨🇦

The three tonnes of wood two weeks ago may now be near 4 tonnes that you have already kept, well sized and ready to be reused! Excellent husbandry of resources!! See you next week!

So clever to convert the old pipes into storage racks! And they are sturdier than almost anything you could buy!

As you clear out each building, we really begin to see how the bones of these buildings are solid and beautiful. I so enjoy watching you tidy and organize your each new room. Terrific job, folks!

You've probably answered this question already, but I wonder how you are disposing of all the trash and unusable building materials . It's a marvelous process to watch you both work so hard to restore the compound, and your farm is full of charm!

It is getting much more organised .⭐️⭐️👋👋

Following your determination and hard work has become my choice of relaxation When I actually have some spare time.

There is so much going on at your place, you work hard, but the results can be seen every time it gets cleaner and cleaner, everything finds its place. The bookcase, that's excellent use of materials, bravo. Isis, Veluto is eating out of your hand, that's huge progress, I'm very happy for him, and how adorable he looked through the kitchen window. The views from the drone are beautiful, you live in a wonderful area. My warmest greetings to you and see you next week.

Beautiful old wooden work bench in your former workshop. I hope you will preserve that too. It is so good to see you renovating the old things, not throwing them out.

The herbal borders are so lovely, fits the house perfectly. 😍

I see all that old lumber and all I can think of is how it would look like after running through my planer.

Wonderful documentation of the hard work you are both doing. Beautiful scrap wood setup. Gorgeous bread. Thank you. CH

Marvellous stone floor. I hope you didn't forget to sweep the walls too. Like I said, you should definitely open up that old window. But best of all was the view of those three loafs. Totally Top Chef.

That old muck, straw and poo would be great for the garden. Looking on the positive side that is. Guess you added it to your compost piles. Love those by the way. Great idea with the wire as the containers. Also love your bread. It has been years since I used to bake my own. Great to see "Smokey" as I think of the cat, having a favourite safe spot to relax near you and nervously eating from your hand. Love your neatness. You have so much barn space. Best wishes.

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Thank you for sharing your beautiful videos, and congratulations on your progress with Veluto! 🐾🐈‍⬛🩷

This is so beautiful, clean and so very satisfying to watch! I wish I had a place like that👏👏Can’t wait for the next episode😊😊

The henhouse looks fabulous. Just in case you’d like to know, the word trough only has the one h at the end otherwise it means to look through something (and similar applications). Might hv been a typo but English is a strange tongue sometimes. There seem to be two or three accepted pronunciations for trough: trow (in Australia mainly) and variations on troff. Also cute to say ‘paint of coat’ but it’s the reverse 😊. I don’t mean to be picky, I just thought you might like to know. Keep up the great work. Love watching your vids.

hello! Could you add the subtitles in Spanish? Congratulations on the work, it shows that it was done with a lot of love.🎉🎉

Thank you 🪴

You are right it is pretty…some people would pay lots of money to to have that copied in their home…love your videos with my Sunday… morning coffee …keep up the great work 😊

I enjoy your videos so much. Thank you for sharing 💐💐💐

Isis & Bertus sono orgoglioso che siete nel mio Paese, grazie e ciao!

Have spent a few hours pulling nails from old wood, requires some major grip strength.

Another lovely vid. Fabulous progress. Bertus, was that a drive train you took out of the that little room? Looked short enough to be for a Fiat Cinquecento. 🥂

Would you share your bread recipe ? Looked so good!

When you started pulling the pipe out I thought, it would make a nice sturdy scaffolding! Great & handy to have for roof & gutter work also for painting the upper story! Then when you started to build, I thought, he is building a scaffold! Looks Great as is! BUT if you should find more of that heavy duty pipe... That pipe AND scaffolding are expensive! But I do have many more ideas, trellises, fence posts, art builds, on & on😅❤!!!

Complimenti! Siete eccezionali 🎉🎉🎉

I sure enjoy your videos! Thanks!

Thank you both, makes my Sunday nicer :o)

I know subscribers have mixed feelings about this however .... I feel like it might be a good idea to have an Amazon wish list for a few things... I keep thinking 'shop vac'. ♥️🇨🇦

Build raised beds at least 2 feet tall...at least :)

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Not that is one great old wood storage unit! It's good that you are keeping it because as well as having wood when you need it without needing to buy it. These old pieces could be used in the future for a lot of uses!

Have you considered catnip for a corner of your herb garden? 😊🐈‍⬛

Progress! Nice stone floor. Will you keep it?!

Have you ever thought about having your own chickens?

you are so meticulous in your work, I was wondering why didn't you brush off that wood you stored so thoughtful ?

Have you seen the cat lately?

To much drone footage. Apart from that you make good videos.

I Adore your work ethics. So much beauty. Thankyou.

Does Velutto still sleep in the little box you made for him? If he does might I suggest you open it up once a month and put in one of Bertus’ unwashed smelly work shirts he has worn after a day or even two days labour. He will then hide himself in the smell and get used to it. Then swap it out for a different shirt a month later and so on. Our cats love to hide in my husbands dirty work shirts when they fall on the floor. The monsters cannot smell them when they are masked by Dad’s smell. Also how about putting a camera in the wall of the box, something like a Blink or Ring camera from Amazon that will notify you whenever he goes in there on your phone. I loved his first meow video.

Hello, from Australia

I’m so thrilled to follow what you do every video, if I had the chance, I would do exactly what you are doing. You start a project and finish it, your commitment to tidiness is amazing. And, you seem to be enjoying it even though I can see just how hard you work. I wish you every success to complete your dream, I hope you keep us updated on your progress, however long it takes. Love your cooking segments too. Regards, Eleanor from Brisbane Australia.

It is so incredibly enjoyable to have the normal sounds of your working and the nature rather than sped up montages to music. The slower pace is a taste of mindful living. Thank you!

What do you do with all the scrap nails? Will the wood you put on the shelves be for building in the future?

Thank you for inspiring with both how you really seem to enjoy the pace and take the time to reuse so many things others would discard, and also your storytelling with very nice shots and contextual words when needed. ❤

Lovely video !

I enjoy your channel very much! Suggestion.... related to raised garden beds for the future...your have a wood planks...build raised beds, face them east-west, 4 feet x 8 feet using scrap with posts at the corners, place them.... perhaps between road and the hen house as it creates a wind break and is south facing, if necessary line bottom of beds with wire mesh to prevent rodents, then... cardboard, much of the content of the wire compost bins you currently have, grass clipping, rotting wood, logs, sticks, straw, sand, dirt.... what ever you have available...and repeat layers as it rots down and add more layers....lasagna gardening, no till, no dig, the materials you are composting becomes the garden soil....if you build the boxes now and start filling them you will be able to plant this fall...asparagus , kale, chard etc. Goggle lasagna gardening...too much back breaking labor to garden in the ground of such rocky soil...intensive raised bed gardening is the answer...huw Richards on you tube is an excellent resource...happy gardening...we have used this lasagna method for 50 years. :). Best wishes!

I would have thought if you were looking to be there into the future the barn built to house animals would be necessary when it snows

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So wonderful to see the work and progress happening (while I sip my coffee Sunday morning). I'm quite envious of your endeavors and wondering how I could do the same. Can't wait to watch your next chapters.

I had a house with four floors, a half duplex, with a garage, nothing was ever where I was, and often wasn’t where I remembered.

Another beautifully shot video, you truly live in a most beautiful part of the world. You have certainly shifted a lot of building materials, both reusable and well past its best. It’s quite amazing the skill that was used to build buildings that were only to be used to house animals. They were certainly built to last! ❤

Seems like the rain has just been unrelenting this spring. Is the amount typical or much above normal. I admire your persistence in working no matter what the weather!!

Bertus is the Grand Master of repurpose! I love to watch his creations!

I love your gardening, so beautiful flowers and herbs to see