Tackling a stone home renovation in your spare time, you sometimes have to change your plans once the project is in full swing. Renovating a house with no experience means you're taking on most tasks for the first time and therefore enormously underestimate how long things will take! Your renovation timeline starts to fall behind, the seasons change, and you have to adjust some of your original ideas for quicker ones to try and get you back on track. In our case, we decided to rebuild the top of the stone walls with red bricks (tijolos in Portuguese). The exposed brick was always going to be temporary, but we weren’t prepared for quite how controversial they’d be! 😂
Let me tell you, there have been some strong opinions about them, but this week they will be disappearing as we begin to render our tiny house - DIY style! 😬 SPOILER ALERT Things are gonna get messy!
Although we’re focusing our efforts on the little home renovation, that doesn’t mean that progress stops on restoring the rest of our abandoned farm. We gave our veg garden a much needed upgrade with a simple drip irrigation system, plus a reluctant Teddy and Poppy get a bath 🛁 to wash off the dirt from lots of long days playing on the farm! 🐕 🐕
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Ricky and Victoria x
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We're Ricky & Victoria 👋 We're slowly bringing an abandoned off grid Portuguese farm back to life & transforming it into a beautiful homestead for us & our two rescue dogs Teddy & Poppy.
We both agree that we’re not experts in anything that we do here, however we don’t let that stop us from giving it a try. We live our life by trying. We live our life by doing. We live our LIFE BY LIVING.
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11 май 2024
