Everything We've Built So Far | Off Grid Homestead Debt Free

Baron and I lived in a 13t trailer for 5 years on the road making YouTube videos and saving every last bit of our income for One Day to land and create a house in 2021, we paid cash from our savings for 40 acres of uncultivated land and we have We have spent the last 2 and a half years slowly building our Homestead off the

grid

debt

free

as we can afford it. Today we will give you a tour of

everything

we have

built

so far and then show you some of our Dreams for the future thanks for watching and if you have ideas for us leave them in the comments below.

This is our house that we

built

ourselves with a lot of help from family and friends. We hand stack each of these blocks individually. 40 pound blocks. One by one, our neighbor James cuts all the wood in his sawmill, so it is raw wood. It has been quite a project and we are very happy with it. It is still under construction. Obviously, little by little we are discovering what we want and where. and it's been amazing so far, we currently have it split into four different rooms within this one big room, so let's split it up. This is our kind of rest area.

It's wonderful in the morning because the sun comes in through this window. Initially we thought we were going to put the stove on the other side, we ended up here just because it felt more fun and it worked perfect with how these bricks lined up, but all winter since we moved this winter or in the early winter we were spending All our time with these two lazy boys and when we weren't with the lazy boys, we dogs burned about a liter of firewood this winter, we didn't actually necessarily need that much. Many times We were burning the stove because it's nice to have a fire going, this is our sofa, clearly we built this sofa ourselves, it's fantastic, comfortable and a bit strange looking, but it works very well and this bean bag comes off and we can use it like another chair.

AR or seating arrangement, what the sofa is made of, is it a double bed for the base, a memory foam, yes it is a memory foam bed. We need to get some kind of consistent covering for the back and butt, but we need to match them. a little bit better yes, but yes, it works very well, we built it a few weeks ago and we spend a lot of time here, this is kind of Elsa's corner and here we have what we are working on when it comes to our gardening. We're trying to figure out how to grow indoors with these south facing windows because eventually we're going to put a greenhouse outside the house which we'll talk about later so we're trying to figure out the Kinks and what can grow and

everything

this season this is our new editing station Baron just spent the last week working on this desk it's a solid slab that he turned into a desk and we're planning on filling these cracks with what's called colored epoxy So it still has some finishes but since we live in Scamp, we slowly figured things out, so we wanted to get it going to see how we liked it and where we liked it before we finished it completely, which is to come. later and in the kitchen, the fork goes to the kitchen, these slabs are actually very similar to what we built the desk with these are from James, our neighbor who has his own mill, the plan is to use these slabs as countertops in our royal kitchen. put them in place to see how we like them and where we like them the orientation of everything is pretty much how it will be except we will have a sink we will have a sink we will have a full size refrigerator and oven so it doesn't really know It looks nothing like what it will be, but it's a good start.

It's been amazing to be able to make breakfast inside so I don't have to get out of bed, go out to boil water for coffee, it's even just amazing, this has been like that. The good Baron recently bought us an espresso machine that has received a lot of love. We've been drinking an exceptional amount of coffee lately. We still use the same 6,000 WTH hour battery for solar power. It's barely enough, but it's actually the panels we don't have enough panels, the battery has been great for all of our needs as we have everything in our house running on this 6,000W battery, which is pretty crazy, we got pretty good at it operating on very little solar, okay, this is going to be the solar room back here, so talk about it, okay, this is going to be our utility area currently, it's like storage, but our solar kit is going to go here eventually, no there's a lot to say, we run this is the north side of the house so we put pecs under this so we can have radiant solar panels that are not for electricity but they circulate fluid to heat the floor here and then hopefully that too will go up to our room, but yeah, this.

It's just storage. I moved most of our tools to our little shipping container outside, so believe it or not, there are a lot more of them here than recently. This is our

free

zer that used to be our treasure. We have plenty of venison. We left it here, very low, yes, but what do you think? We have over 100 pounds left, um, easily, yeah, we've barely made a dent in it, so it's wonderful, this will be the bathroom, but we'll talk about that later, um, going up the stairs. I love it up here, this is our amazing room, this is the first time we have had a real bed in our entire almost 13 year relationship, it's a Queen size bed so we both have space, the Scamp we live in.

There were 6 years between a twin and a full, so this is a big improvement. We are currently recording the Audi book quite carefully. It's taking quite a while because it turns out it's a lot of work to record an Audi book. This is also going to happen. to be our podcast setup, it was originally in the office, but we thought it was just a nice, open, lovely space to do it in, so we moved it here and a few of us have taken over, but where else would you work? about jewelry we will go to the office, we will become fine, but what audiobook are we recording? some people might, well, I imagine everyone knows that you're a world-renowned author who published a very successful book, normal on Nomad. buy your own copy of normal the number2 nomad.com get a copy before the audiobook comes out what it's about this is a book manual it's a manual for the modern it's a manual for the modern freedom seeker it has everything you need Know about how to choose a platform that sets you on the road Tips and tricks for how to be successful as a nomad Is it only for nomads or aspiring nomads?

My book Normal to Nomad has nice pictures throughout, if you haven't bought a copy, do so whether you're an aspiring Nomad or not. I think you will find it interesting, there are many similar virtues, values ​​and ways of doing it. things like one foot in the future, one foot in the past, yeah, I think you'll like it and you can get it on my regular site the2 nomad.com. What do you want to talk about the closet that you and your father built? Yes, this is the closet my dad and I built. It works very well.

We don't have any built-in closets in our house because it's all block and we don't put much framing into it, so we had to get creative with clothing storage. everything but yeah this is all of our clothes and it works great because it still lets air through and doesn't like to block space and everything eventually we'll have a little porch here just for our bedroom so when we can make coffee in the morning or whatever and just come here and sit, it will be wonderful because it faces east so we can see all the sunrises and everything you want to show us your jewelry room or the aame.

I don't know what's better. Well, the office is not ready to be seen on camera. What do you mean he just won't be? However, eventually okay, maybe we'll go to the A-frame. Okay, now let's go to the A-frame and here we have the A.-frame we live in the A-frame for a whole year. I loved it, but we are very happy not to live in this anymore. It was never designed for us to live full time. Anyway, we've been using it. as a guest house, maybe it will be a future kids room, we'll see what happens with this space, but let's take a look, how nice here, we built this pretty quickly, over the course of maybe a couple of weeks and I think everything in total we spent less than $3,000 and about $2,000 on everything with the help of James we did some wood with James so we lived here for quite a while and it was super comfortable and very quick to set up yeah. and it was so quick and cheap to install it's pretty amazing, so I hope we can help people do the same.

We are currently using this space for storage. We had a group of friends stay there during the winter. We have a mini cubic wood stove here similar to the one we had in the Scamp, but the larger model and that's been really nice, but we have propane heat here with a thermostat and that's what really pushed this space over the edge when we moved from Scamp and here it was a night and day difference, we built this space around the view, like I said we didn't design this space to be lived in full time, it was actually more of a man cave space for Baron an. office eh, we've found that building an office where we sit in front of our computers with a large window right in front of it is not the best for viewing the computer screen, so this is more of a lounge space, a reading area for hang out and I think There will be a lot more to come from this space once we have all our other spaces set up, the ladder is built into the wall, wow, and this is the space upstairs, it only fits a full size mattress and that that's all. cozy you have to be careful not to hit your head when you wake up in the morning and the view here is also outrageous and that's all up here okay?

Do we have to go clean the office or can we just go to the office? just look at it, I mean, it's a work in progress. I'm currently working on a lot of things so well it will be cool to see what it looks like as it develops yeah oh real quick can we show what we live in? 6 years yeah, it's crazy that we did this. We lived in this camp for six years. Five of those years on the road. We are never going to sell the Scamp. I think we'll fix it, even though we won't be in it. video, but we plan to renovate the interior and make it more of a getaway vehicle that we can take out at any time, it still requires that we like to prepare to go camping when we take this campsite out and it is full of all kinds of equipment.

Right now we have probably at least four tours, four or five camp tours, if you want to see it in its different iterations throughout our travels, it's really nice to see those old videos, you can watch the tour videos and go. to the oldest and then go through them and see our progression of how we build the Space over time and that is the same logic and process that we will use to build our house too because it is really difficult to predict exactly how you will use different things like our chairs at the same time. side of the wood stove, for example.

I never would have anticipated spending as much time as we did there all winter and all our storage and where everything will go. in the kitchen, all those little details that you little by little discover over time or at least want to do so so as not to make big mistakes when doing something permanent before you know that is what you want. The shipping container office was the first thing we built. Our property was intended to be an office, but again computers in front of a beautiful giant window didn't really work, so I turned it into my studio.

Alright. I know where everything is. This shipping container is only 5 tons wide. It's a micro shipping container, so we built the table and windows to extend this large desk. The table is also a slab, like we have our desk inside the house and our kitchen counters and everything you're doing here. I work on everything. My metal smithy is here, but some people might not even know that you make rings and stuff. I have a hobby of metal smithing and that's what I work on here. I have a large batch of jewelry coming soon. I keep adding more. jewelry, so it keeps getting pushed further and further back, but eventually I'll have a big release for backers first.

I release all my jewelry to backers before anyone else, so if you want to be first in line, access all my jewelry first. patreon, okay, now let's talk about PL's future plans and what we want to do with all these spaces. Now let's talk about the things we are going to build in the future, starting with the greenhouse we want to build in the front. our house that can be accessed through these sliding glass doors mainly because it faces south, it will be mainly glass around the sides and then some type of ISO poly, what is called semi-transparent plastic, as a roof, we need to investigate a little, but we want to do it sooner thanlate, but it's going to be a big project so it'll probably take a minute, so we're growing all of our plants and everything inside to get an idea of ​​how it will work.

We want the greenhouse to be a second type of living space of ours, especially during the winter, so that we have a place to retreat to and get plenty of sun. The nice thing about how the greenhouse will work is that we have these sliding windows. windows so in the winter during the day, when the sun is beating down, we can open these sliding glass windows and let in the heat of the greenhouse like Ben Faulk or something like that he was talking about, like there was Ground Zero 1 2 3 4 Zone zero you see and interact like every day Zone one maybe once a day zoned, maybe a couple of times a week, so the closer you can keep your garden to your space, the more you will like to interact with it and take care of it.

This is a place where our piano was going to go, but obviously our wood stove went here. Instead, and I think this corner is going to be quite transformable, we wanted to put wheels on the entire bottom of our furniture so that we can really move everything around depending on who's here, what we're doing, what we want. However, here are two shelves with a bunch of plants and plants as we said we are going to try some houseplants this year to see how they grow indoors for practice in the greenhouse. This area will probably remain pretty similar. we want to put in a little l and then maybe some like those chairs we have upstairs have been really nice to move in here when we have people over we're going to build a coffee table mhm we're going to finish the sofa sand and make it nice and we plan to add a second shelf here and really fill it with plants.

I don't think we're going to have much lighting installed in the ceiling. I think most of our lights will be lamps. and yes some little standalone light strips yes we have been using Lifx bulbs so you can adjust the brightness and what color you want them to be and everything we normally keep them a really nice amber but having them all over the house would be really cool, we built a door into this wall for a future room. The last edit on the list of goals is to add a room extension. We just wanted to make sure we had a place where we could do it if we ever wanted to.

I have been kind. wondering if I should put a wall painting on top of this or something cool for the time being on this wall. We've talked about putting a pegboard all over the wall and turning it into an equipment wall where we'll hang our backpacks, camping gear. rip things off like that, but we're also considering turning this into a full library shelf, just a huge bookshelf. We've also considered the idea of ​​having a loft on top as a short loft maybe 4 feet high on the highest loft as a little reading nook that you could go up to and just hang out there.

We were also thinking that the kids could also sleep there as if it were a micro bedroom, just a place to sleep before we threw them into the kitchen frame, the sink. it's going to go right here in the middle of the island, this is going to be our kind of kitchen table, our main oven in the eating area across the way and we're trying to decide between a refrigerator here in this corner because it's an item big and bulky than leaving some open space on the counter and having some nice air flow to that door or putting the refrigerator in here because that's the first time we both when we were younger you just want to go into the kitchen and open the refrigerator all the day.

I feel like it would be better in the corner, it's a little out of the way and we'd probably have some kind of vented hood. I don't know if it will really have ventilation outside. I would like that, but I don't know. where I want to go to send that, we've always talked about having open shelves, the problem is I think they would get crowded pretty quickly, we're still debating whether we're going to have induction or propane stoves, I don't know. I really have a preference. I think we need to experiment with induction before going down that route.

If you have used both systems. I'd love to get your feedback on which one you like best. M. This will be the bathroom and we will have a vanity with a shower. The access hole is for our 600g sister which is filled from the well down the hill. We have this big hole in the floor because we needed to access the front of the sister, but I just cut a big hole in the foundation so we can access that. this way and then build the shower on top of it. We've been debating whether we're going to have our washer and dryer here, so you want the washer to be accessible from this back room, so I was thinking then we'd cut the wall inward and put them in there so they're flush with the wall. from the bathroom, going into the bathroom, you know, but you access it on this side, but if we have them accessible in the bathroom, which is what I'm more inclined to do to keep everything contained in the bathroom, then we would just have a straight wall and we would access to her from the bathroom.

Yeah, I guess it depends on how much space we end up having. Our plan for these stairs is for them to be storage stairs, like small house stairs, we just needed stairs to be able to climb the stairs, so we built stairs and most of our solar kit, like batteries, inverter and solar controller, all that It will probably be in this area, if not under the stairs, we have to have all that in hand to see where we should put it and how we can place it. I feel like the bedroom is almost finished, the roof is something we still have to do, we're brainstorming ideas for that, we're still focused on the idea of ​​either one. we cut plywood into planks like we did on the A-frame and then sanded them so they're a little bit golden and a little smoother and then we painted them like a dark charcoal gray like a very dark blue or something like that or using miled planks of wood and doing the same type of things, this is where the small patio of our bedroom will be.

We plan to build a main terrace off the kitchen and then we have always planned to make a spiral staircase to go up to the balcony of our bedroom and then go up to the roof deck it depends on what we do with the garage because the garage could be a walkable platform own and then the first platform that leaves the kitchen may be a little smaller, even yes, we are imagining it. everything as we go and see how we use the different spaces and all that will determine how we get to the roof deck, there's a lot of space up here, yeah, I have no idea what we're going to do, but come on.

Obviously making railings around everything for safety at night, the wind always blows and it gets really nice and we have an amazing sky for stars and stuff, so having a little propane fire pit here and I think this will be a place awesome at entertaining and keeping people hanging out mhm so this is our house it's really moving forward yeah very excited there's a lot left to do and we're about to get it going we have a full playlist of the construction of our house. So check out those videos and stay tuned for more as we continue to finish and make this house the most epic dream home ever created.

Thanks for watching, bye.