Nico makes some much needed repairs

After Nico pulled all the ivy and whatever else was growing on the barn down, we started taking a look around the corner of the structure (which faces our neighbors and we can barely see) and noticed that one patch of plastered wall was about to fall out of the timber...

A progress report from 3 long days of work!

Well, it’s taken a few days to recover but the marathon of work while Stefan’s parents were here has come to a close for now. We still have a few other small project that we are working on (like the mudroom which I’ll post about in a bit) but we...

New toys for the woodworking shop

There was a high chance of rain in the forecast today so we decided to try out Jake’s chairs finally and use it as a sort of test project. We have big plans to construct the bedroom furniture in our guest house so we wanted to start with something not so huge to...

A little inspiration for our barn

Yesterday we went to a wedding and the reception was held at an old farm. They’ve turned the fields around the farm into a golf course and the farm itself is just huge. The call it the chicken farm although the only real traces left of the birds are on their...

What goes in this container?

Once again an empty container is sitting in our courtyard. It’s actually very hard for me to not go out there and start filling it up the second it arrives…but that’s not fair to Stefan who is still at work…and it’s looking like it will...