#49 Summer days - Living and renovating in the north of Italy 

Thank you Anymaka for gifting us your full pack hammock kit - we (and our friends too) love it. If you'd like to get one for yourself, click here: www.anymaka.com

What a joy to see happy and relaxed people surrounded by a beautiful landscape fulfilling their dreams 🍀🫶🥰- see you next week 🌈

Those wine bottles are beautiful and have so much character. Lovely to see your friends and family come and visit . Have a lovely week.

This is definitely my favorite channel on YT. You guys entertain us with your clean, tidy, and resourceful work without wasting used materials you found on your property and especially without so much chatter. My admiration and respect. Thanks for sharing

While the renovations are interesting, it’s your way of life and your aesthetic that I personally really enjoy. I loved the hammock sequence, the good food and company, I hope you keep making these wonderful videos x

You continue to find more treasures! The wine bottles are beautiful!

You have become my favourite channel. Thank you for sharing your adventure. Thank you for the poetry you put in everything you do! It gives happiness! ❤️♥️🙌♥️

I love it how you find such beauty all around... even your weeds are beautiful through your lens! Grazie mille!

Okay. I'm in love with your channel 😊

So many things to love in this video! The beautiful wine bottles next to the wall. The sunflowers. The wonderful old barbecue. You have excellent taste!

I (as a German...) love how you organise everything! very satisfying to watch 😊

Its so special and lovely to have friends around.

I am totally in love with the wine bottles! ❤

that is a gorgeous collection of glass bottles. Plans for their future?

Fabulous vlog as usual! The filming in town was stunning. Great to see you enjoying some down time with friends.

Love the forge repurposed as a grill. What fun! There are so many great finds on your property.

Hi guys, I found this channel a day or two ago, I have binge watched the whole series up to date, I love the content and the way you put it together, the incidental music has a strange vibe kind of medieval especially the harp sounding bits. No doubt a massive challenge but a worthy cause and it’s obvious that you are going to/ are going about it in a meticulous and sympathetic way. Ps I love the cat velluto!!!! Good luck to you both, regards , Kevin from England. 🧐👏👏👏👌👍

Love how you are both so handy and skilled!! Amazing. 😊 That hammock is on my wish list 😅

Thanks for giving me a great idea of how to make a new tool trolley for myself, perfect use of some old cabinets I have.👍

That hammock looks so comfortable! A delight to see you having a convivial week while still getting necessary small projects underway. Regards from Australia.

Oh que hermosa colección de damajuanas!!!. Saludos

Love the bottles you stacked against the wall! ❤❤❤

I love all that organizing you do with all the things😅

That end scene with the grill and the table inside that building is what makes all of your hard work worthwhile!!! Loved that 👍

I will give you a good compliment you have become quite the craftsman from what i have seen.

Thank you for a lovely video! Food, family, friends and nature. The only missing was Veluto! And it looks like you might need another hammock!!☺

Laura's back! Love her hammock promo 👍 Find myself curious to know what she does for a living...... Fun and productive week! ♥️🇨🇦

That was such an enjoyable and relaxing time. Thank you. Love that grill.

What a wonderfull video again. enjoyed it fully. What a funny BBQ, I was laughing just as loud as Laura when the swing was jacked. Nice Hammock.. I suppose it was a form of advertisement but nonetheless... That could actually work for my garden as well. Very nice!

That's not a hammock...that's an "experience"!😅 Bertus does beautiful wood work.. he is so patient and precise. I think you were left with the worst job, removing paint is painful! Be well you two!❤

The wine bottles are SO Cool and the basket the one was in…

I absolutely love all your videos! All of your videos!! Do not take to heart negative comments. I miss seeing your mother Isis. Wasn't she planning to move there with you and renovate one of the small buildings? Keep up the great work 😊

Those demijohns are wonderful….you might have to think about making your own wine someday. Enjoy la dolce vita!

Love the table saw! Now my butt won't clench up every time I see Bertus creating something 😂

Amazing video also this week! Thank you! Hard working but full of joy..

Great video, one of life’s simple pleasure is to enjoy good food with good company. How lovely to have friends visiting to experience the pleasures with you. Have hammock will travel! Amazing how much fun you can have with a hammock! Love the idea of moving all around the “estate” I wonder will we see “making wine” in the future have discovered the beauty bottles. Just love your approach to these videos, they really are a treat, a pause in the middle of a very busy world. Have a great week❤

Mamma Mia, that focaccia looked incredible! Summer here by the sea in Tuscany is in full swing, with everyone from Firenze and the inland cities arriving for their holiday. We try to get out when we can, but with our 4-month-old, the heat makes it a challenge. It's amazing how much you guys are accomplishing - everything always looks fantastic! We're soaking in the inspiration while working on our own seaside villa renovation whenever we find a moment.

It's not easy trying to work in this heat it's exhausting!! Love the hammock!!

Delightful!

A bit of fun is good for every one. Clever people do clever things😊

I'm lovin' the old grill. It reminds me of the enormous "grill" dad made when I was young many, many years ago. Mom would roast a big sack of green chile and afterwards she would cook dinner on the grill and we would enjoy it in the shade of the trees.

Come ogni settimana progressi 👏🏻👍🏻👏🏻 Sono curiosa A domenica prossima 🎩🐈‍⬛🧚‍♀️ 🌷🪄🥰💝🥰

I look forward to these videos so much. Love that new hammock! Wow that barbecue sure fired up quickly when Bertus cranked it!

Wow that hammock is a great design! Great video as always . Enjoy your summer!

Hay Guys and Gals!!! That salad and bread looks DEVINE!!

I am binge watching all your videos. Love everything you are doing and how you are doing it. Love the hammock for summer use. Love that I can understand the bits of conversations in Flemish and Dutch. And I would love it if you could share some of your recipes, all the food looks so authentic and tasty.

What a lovely video.

Grazie per le belle immagini che ci regalate. Ciao! 👌👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👍👍

lovely meals. have never seen a grill like that.

Oh so lovely, I really enjoy watching your lives through your lens. It is beautiful, and so restful to watch although I know you are working very hard. I look foreword to each new video as I have binged on all your old ones.

Oh what beautiful bottles against that wall…you could clean a couple really well. and make table lamps out of them,they would look so sharp…buy a lamp kit and a lamp shade,wow…Iam jealous

Bertus, so happy to see you got your new table saw!

Good to see you stop working if just only for a moment to have some fun. ❤….

Another great video, thank you! You and Bertus are so talented. The end product of each thing you do is just great, can't wait to see the bench and windowsills!

Great video, as always! Thank you :o)

Bertus I can see you using that BBQ as a forge! Instead of a bellows, you can just crank the heat up!

Any time you are carrying something through a doorway, tuck your hands and fingers inside or under the object. Not on the sides. That way you do not smash your hands or fingers when the object is a tight fit.

you could make some beautiful lamps out of the wine bottles

Love hearing the birds singing songs that God gave them to sing.

Amazing vlog

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Ahhh la dolce vita, je suis jaloux 😊😊😊

WOW

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These old wine bittles are beautiful, nice for decoration or to make some lamps. What about the cat?

BEST

I think you do need a "shop Vac" :)

I’m going through from the beginning and really enjoying your posts. I’m trying to see where you are on google maps. Is it Langhe? What direction from there? I’m a retired architect and love Italian stone buildings as much as you all!!! I’m on # 10 now and excited to see how you make your decisions!!!! Thanks

Beautiful views, nice guests and, as always, a lot of work, but this time friends helped and you had a wonderful time. Barbecue super, hammock as you can see also. Isis and Bertus 🍀🍀

What a wonderful friend Lara is to you both. Such a blessing to have good people in your life.

Great video, jealous of the hammock and all the friends! But have you tested that old paint being scraped off the old window frame for lead?

What a stunning location, where are you in Italy? Very much enjoying your craftsmanship and patience in restoration ❤

Have you been watching any of the olympics? I have found this year I have shown more interest in my YT families countries. I can support so many more countries when my homeland is not competing.

Oh my it seems hot! 30degrees by 10 am?! Yikes. Hard working conditions...I never thought of using WD40 to clean a BBQ grill. Neat. So question. Out of everything that you have found cleaned and kept just in case would it be fair to say you have found a use for about most of it? How do you decide what is a just let's keep it just in case item and what to dispose of. And where do you dispose of the items? Do you have to hire a skip to throw stuff into or is there a dump/ recycling centre nearby. Just wondering.

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Are you having trouble with mosquitos in summer time?

Is the husband professional carpenter?

I thought I saw an explanation of the old grill having been converted from some other implement, but I can't find that now. Did it start its life as something else?

Very interesting episode. You could have shown us more as it felt a bit abbreviated. Was that a new view of the outside with the pillar and the small old roof?

Are those glass bottles 54 liter demijohns? Are they for wine making/storage? How does one clean the bottle inside? 54 liters weighs close to 150lbs.?…too heavy to lift and pour?.

wat zeg!

What is the sand used for?

Which area of Italy is that?

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As a fellow channel, maybe a bit more voice over on tasks. Not constant, just explanatory.

i enjoy watching the renovating but you are doing more & more more cooking ,eating, showing things that are time consuming & boring like multiple hammock scenes & mudaine trivia. if it continues lot of us are going to stop watching....

Ciao Isis, Bertus, friends and family. It is always nice to have extra hands to help. You have wonderful family and friends. Your views are just stunning. Looking forward to seeing the finished table and windows. I love the hammock; I think the base is fine as well. I love that it has a canopy, mine did not and it was under the trees for shade and let's just say the birds do not care that you want it "clean" to lay on and relax. Enjoy it. Love from N.Y.

I so enjoy watching your videos. They are so relaxing and beautiful. It’s been wonderful watching you restore this beautiful home and property.

Can I say the photography is amazing… Your talent is unbelievable…. I love watching you create!!!!!🥰🥰🥰

Nice re use of the old filling cabinets .

Harika manzara tadını çıkartın Türkiye den sevgiler 😇👋

Great watching as always, what a spot for your hammock. Can imagine so many creative ways of using your wine bottles, outdoor lighting, mother of all chandeliers... or Justin as they are, stunning. I think that they are called demi... something.???

Hi Isis and Bertus, Been here since day one and I am just amazed at how much progress you’ve accomplished… And I don’t just means how much work has happened in and around the house/buildings…. I mean how much your skills have improved and grown…. I remember the first footage with the weed wacker or the chain saw and how scared you were and compare it to how leisurely and sure footed you both look now when handling all sorts of tools ! Congratulations on this too…. As they say…. You ain’t building a home, building a home builds you ! Oh, and by the way…. Even Velluto is making tremendous progress thanks to your patience ! Happy ferragosto and all the best, Pierre

Live your channel. Love how you go about all the different projects. Keep up the fantastic work. Jerry from Ohio

Love this video! How you reuse wood, etc. enjoying the barbecue with your friends is such a joy! And love the hammock and seeing you enjoy it.

So very interesting. I’m amazed at what you both can do. I look forward to your videos every Sunday. “Gottes Segen “. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

Such a beautiful life. Thank you for giving us a glimpse of it.

There's a lot of windows that need to be done and so much work to do them. It's incredible to me that you are choosing to do them yourselves instead of buying new ones, saving money and resources!

Hi Isis & Bertus,Progress progress differen kind of work done solved,The old barbecue gril is fully usefull a nice outfit for the summer days & even at the the other year sesons,Greetings.Hubertus.

Do you have rats and mice inside those buildings?