Welcome to our 1 year Timelapse. We have come a long way since selling up and buying our Dream Homestead in the West of Ireland in early 2023.

We wanted to share our progress and take a moment to see what we have achieved and how far we have come, because sometimes as a amateur DIY couple it really doesn't feel like it.
Our story starts sharing the background of us, Clare and Rob, where we came from and what drove us to this point; from when we met in boarding school, travelled the world and started our escape from the rat race journey to our HOME

After years of looking for an old farmhouse or cottage in the Irish Countryside we finally found a beautiful 3 Acre Homestead that we fell in love with. It hadn't been lived in for 15 years and there was a lot of work to do but we couldn't resist and bought it with every last penny we had. In a beautiful home and broke we got a grant of 70k from the Irish Government designed to reclaim derelict homes. This just about covered the building materials but we had to learn all the trades and how to do everything ourselves, while both working full time jobs.

*Sorry about the audio, we bought a new mic for this video but it didnt work out as we hoped.

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00:00 Introduction
01:06 Clare and Rob.
02:52 Coming Home.
03:34 Demo the Turf House.
05:52 Demo the Barn.
06:24 The Pump House.
07:27 Rooney Proof.
07:51 The old Kitchen.
08:58 Digging the Piggery
09:28 The Storm
09:56 Stone walls and footing
11:11 The Bedroom Floor
12:31 The Piggery Floor
13:22 Stone Wall Ring beams
14:33 Gutting the Farm House
15:39 Roofing the Pump House
16:32 Gutting the Roof
19:47 Framing the Roof
22:24 Extending the Rafters
23:48 Red Roof
26:53 Firing the Stove
28:01 Building the Bedroom
29:42 Demo the Oats House
30:31 Ringbeams and Stone walls
32:04 The Kitchen Floor
34:15 Framing the Kitchen
37:55 Roofing the Kitchen
39:40 New Windows
42:18 Insulation and Noggins
43:07 Delivery Driver Disaster
45:20 Bathroom and Shower Pan
46:24 A Flushing Toilet
48:05 Sleeper Sink Stand
48:47 The Shower
52:00 The Old Front Door
52:45 Flooring the Upstairs
53:34 The Upstairs Rooms
55:57 The Larch