The trouble with building a self-sufficient life...

Our homestead is starting to pay us back...

Somehow failing our way to self-sufficiency

This is the homestead life we dreamed of (more or less...)

We're ACTUALLY becoming more self-sufficient?

It never QUITE goes how we imagine...

Smarter or harder? Irish summer on the homestead

This is why we kept going

PLUS trying to save this harvest! 😅

REALITY of building a self-sufficient life... (well, trying to)

Trying our best... despite it all

Spring was supposed to change everything...

We've been living like THIS since November...?

The cottage FINALLY has a working kitchen & HUGE new homestead project begins…

Some now...some in 10 years?? EXPANDING our homestead

The inspection FINALLY happened… after everything

TRYING to tame the wild edges of our old Irish cottage

We thought white was safe... we were WRONG | Old stone cottage DIY

We're Changing Things.

This is NOT how we planned it...

After YEARS... it's time! | Cottage bedroom DIY

2 YEARS OFF GRID Everything we built on our abandoned land | Homestead renovation TIME LAPSE

Homesteading was supposed to be easier now..? (& more cottage bedroom progress!)

Homestead life after renovation burnout... | Cottage bedroom progress & hill conquering

What it REALLY costs to start over

We live here now... still a building site though

The calm after the CHAOS? | Our abandoned cottage DIY

Our FIRST NIGHT in our abandoned cottage

Our abandoned cottage starts to look like a HOME & we get back to homesteading!

After MONTHS of waiting it's FINALLY happening! Our abandoned cottage starts to look like a home...

The FINAL PUSH? Our productive (and scary) cottage & homestead renovation day

THIS is our bathroom..? I might cry | ONE WEEK to make our cottage habitable!

But we can fix it..? 2 WEEKS left to make this abandoned cottage habitable!

Our abandoned cottage gets a glow-up with 3 WEEKS LEFT!!

4 WEEKS LEFT to make our abandoned cottage habitable!

After 2 YEARS without! Our abandoned cottage gets an upgrade

Renovation FRUSTRATION & homestead PRODUCTIVITY

Renovating & homesteading ALONE (well, trying to...)

GOOD NEWS for our abandoned home AND the homestead!

Living in a CARAVAN while RENOVATING & homesteading: a REAL day in our lives

He's EXHAUSTED! But it's starting to take shape... | our abandoned cottage renovation

FINALLY! Underfloor heating for our old stone cottage gets underway | DIY renovation

NOT the job he wanted to be doing… | homesteading AND renovating an abandoned cottage

Renovation started well this week... | Abandoned cottage DIY update

Abandoned Irish Cottage Renovation | 1 Year TIMELAPSE

We're tired of renovating | abandoned Irish cottage DIY

Our cottage gets a floor! | Abandoned Irish farmhouse DIY

Plumbing, plaster boarding & paint | our abandoned cottage renovation

Almost there...? | Abandoned cottage DIY

A tough week...we did NOT want to do this | abandoned cottage & homestead DIY