Transforming an Abandoned Stone Farm in Portugal: 1 Year Renovation Timelapse 🌿

After selling EVERYTHING we owned, we bought an abandoned farm with 2 stone houses to renovate in Portugal. It’s been a wild journey so far full of highs and lows, and as 2024 approaches, we’ve been reflecting on our progress from the last year & thought it would be fun to create a timelapse showing our last one year of work in 25 minutes.<br /><br />Working every week in our spare time to renovate & restore this abandoned farm into a beautiful homestead, we easily forget how far we’ve come & the transformations made so far, so seeing it all put together in this timelapse video has really spurred us on for a productive next year!<br /><br />LIKE THIS VIDEO if you enjoyed it & SUBSCRIBE to follow our journey as we document our life here in Central Portugal & the many DIY projects that we'll be tackling including renovating a tiny stone house, setting up systems to grow some of our own food & finally restoring the 100+ year old farm house.<br /><br />Also say hi in the comments! We'd love to hear from you <br /><br />Ricky & Victoria x<br /><br />-------------<br /><br />We're Ricky & Victoria We're slowly bringing an abandoned farm back to life & transforming it into a beautiful Portuguese homestead for us & our two rescue dogs Teddy & Poppy.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />-------------<br /><br />00:00 - Intro<br />00:58 - Cleaning up the tiny stone house<br />02:46 - Building a track<br />03:35 - Greenhouse and veg garden<br />08:07 - Fencing the farm<br />09:27 - DIY plunge pool renovation<br />11:53 - Removing tiny house roof<br />13:10 - Preparing the stone walls for a new roof<br />13:54 - Concrete ring beam<br />17:02 - New ridge beam<br />18:30 - New roof structure<br />20:49 - Building a warm roof<br />22:22 - Preparing for roof tiles<br />23:19 - Tiling the roof<br />24:22 - Thanks for watching<br />