RENOVATING THE KITCHEN in our tiny home self build in Portugal
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Beijinos e abraços,
Carissa, Iwan, Frankie & Albi
Carissa, Iwan & Frankie decided one night over a bottle of wine that moving from North Wales to Portugal would be a good idea. Within a month they were on the road to Portugal to find the perfect piece of land to call their new home. We picked up Albi the cat along the way. Subscribe to follow our journey as we turn an old stone barn into our home, and learn the ropes of looking after a piece of land to make an abundant garden and one day, our very own winery.
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I have been watching the both of you from the beginning because of The Indie Projects. Better audio and film than the start, so just like watching your veg patch grow, it's been nice to see your viewership grow. Well done.
Oh love your endings with flowers butterflies, puppers and kitters, lol. Lovely
Fast forward Frankie makes me smile every time I see her. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
Beautiful. Your "arty eyes" picking out flora, fauna, scenery for us to enjoy with enchanting music in the background. Almost felt the warm sun & breeze on my face. Well done!
The animals look blissfully content ….they are the lucky ones ❤❤❤
farm life. It's all about the journey. the kitties and puppy dog look so adorable sleeping together on the sofa. my two cats sleep together most of the time.
I agree with Carissa about that section of wall. It feels like I’m looking down through a gorgeous cloud filled sky to the earth below.
You both are very hard worker’s making your home a lovely place to live in and enjoy.
I just love how sausage and alby come in and out of your videos!! Love when frankie looks like giant caterpillar in your sped up parts.😀
Your pets are so nice
Nice to see the rain with you, U can use it, we have plenty here in Ireland!
One day you are gonna be most popular vloger love from🇮🇳
Lovely to see the animals so happy, stretched out long legs with gorgeous black toe beans! I love 🖤🐈.
Keep up the good work, nice to have some rain at last.
Love to Frankie, Albi, little 🖤 guy, the 🐔🐔🐔🐔& you two.
Xx
Nice to see the rain with you and not here! (Ireland)
You can use it, we have plenty!
So nice to have Nick from Project Portugal as a guru! He is so talented.
He really is! We’re lucky to have him around 😅
He so loves you guys 😊. Nick definitely sports a favorite uncle vibe.
Yea new vlog, hope you soon mobile again. Got to love the sleeping animals.
Love your videos and the energy and positiveness you show. Really enjoyed the jazz music.
Wow the music choices are spectacular in this video. Your choices of music in all your videos are the best. So much fun watching you both bring your dream together. Keep the vids coming I love them.
You need a laying box, we have 3 hens, have a chicken tractor but let them out, one likes to lay her eggs in the dog kennel. We are also in central Portugal.
Eggs look lovely - bet you have to check that sand to make sure the cats haven’t left you any presents! Good to see your progress - I love your calm videos ❤️
Really sorry to hear about your car. I hope you can get it sorted soon.
I love these jind of vl9gs where u have a little bit of everything 💖💖💖💖💖
I so enjoy the music you choose for your videos. 😁
A suggestion? Could you build out your kitchen walls to be flush with the stone walls? Therefore you could insulate behind and then have the ability to hang some cupboards for more storage. Added bonus, you aren’t reaching so far back?
I love that wall too - it looks fab on camera
Your capturing if the clouds in the sky was just grand ty
The background music👏👏👏❤️. Love watching you both work. Work is a privilege.
2 eggs 🥚, great job chickens 🐔 👏
your farm is looking so beautiful in spring!
Thanks Cindy! It’s our favourite time of the year!
Lovely music.....I fell asleep and had to go back and rewatch it!!!!
WoW those are the first eggs the little ladies give to both of you❤ also very good job 👍 the kitchen gonna be so beautiful ❤❤❤
Hazel ☘️ …
Just as a matter of interest … do you intend to kinda hand plaster finish those kitchen walls ?
I’m thinking of it as rustic, undulating walls painted over, in keeping with the barn look ?
With Portuguese tiled (perhaps slightly widened) shelf ?
You’ve probably mentioned what your doing, but my memory being what it isn’t ! … I know you have discussed the shelf in the past.
Have a good week end … 🙏☘️😘
Terrific video❣ Your music choices are so relaxing. Love the editing, the cuddle puddle collages.
Nice job🥚🥚, chook chooks👍🏼. Good girl, Albi🐈 protecting your chookies!
Thank you for filming the sunlit mild rain shower as you walked around outside, and letting us view the full-on rain (it's so droughty in Calif). Thank you for featuring all the beautiful skies, flowers, vegetables, trees, critters, butterflies, bees, the Sausage Dog sausaging in the sand (hope she's feeling better soon!), as well as your work. Thanks to uncle Ken and anty Gina fur checking in on Frankie.
Thanks for another lovely vlog with some great jazz music infill. I watch a channel called Fy Nyth about a lady called Ariel who lives in a tiny house on wheels in the Tetons, Wyoming. She has hens and her nesting boxes are just buckets laid on their sides - nothing too fancy unlike the hen house.
I love how everything is springing forth like the wildflowers etc - it looks idyllic. I remember you saw a snake when you first viewed the land - do you still see them because there has to be more than one or have they moved on somewhere else?
I am glad you have taken the pressure off yourselves by trying to get everything done at once. Its rough news about the car too.
I hope you have a great week and can you please send some warmth up to Britain because it has been very cold here this past week.
Always enjoy your videos and seeing your place turning into a lovely home.
I actually love the wall behind the sofa. Your place is really starting to come together. Love you, vlogs. Thank you
Progress! Bit by bit, you're right, why the rush? All in it's own time.
I was thinking whne you did your Q&A vid, the wall looks like a professional backdrop for photography. The texture is just right for backgrounds.
The kitchen is coming along nicely…you both should be proud of where you have come it’s only been a year and look around!
Thanks so much Trudy 💛 we like to go slow and steady but it’s great to look back and see that even then things have improved. Can’t wait to see where we are in a year with it!
It’s so exciting when your new hens start laying eggs and the rain sounded glorious! Thankyou for this vlog I really enjoyed it xx
They would do better if they had nesting boxes and a perch. Chickens will roost in tree branches in the wild and not on the ground.
They have one nesting box, I’m not sure they know what it’s for yet. And they all sleep on a perch at night time. Do you think we should add one to the outside run area?
@@FrankieOffGrid no, chooks are quite happy to scratch around during the day outside. Inside the chook house it is always a good idea to give them a choice of nesting boxes (at least 2). Older experienced chooks will know when they are going to lay an egg and will hang around the nesting boxes until they lay. Your chookies must be new at this if they are laying in random places!
Soo much cement work. I can't wait to see the end result. Looking great.
Getting better everyday. The egg breakfast looked super elegant and yummy.
Look at you guys go go go !! Excellent on the cement💕 Will you be covering the cement blocks too?
Wow!! Fab video guys, loved the end sequence, well Rob that!!🤣 Hopefully see you soon xx
Thanks guys! You’re welcome to steal it ☺️
Really lovely video both. It’s all coming together. Frankie is such a joy to watch. I wish we had your weather here !! Wishing you the best from West Wales 🏴
Well done, those walls are going to look amazing when they are finished 😃
I remember the first eggs we got from our hens. Gorgeous!
Great video, as always!
Kitchen walls are coming together. Be nice to see the sun shining on the white walls. Have a good week. Hope Frankie's nose heals soon xxx
Thank you so much for including the names of the various flora and fauna on your property. I had never heard of a hoopoe bird until I watched your videos. You are so fortunate to have such beauty all around you. Cheers from Canada. :)
Hi just started following you, I think you’re doing a great job. Not sure if you’re aware of the indie project. They also have a Vlog on TH-cam and are also renovating an old stone board. They are a lot further down the road than you, but obviously you can go back and watch their blog from when they first started it might give you help and insight into the renovations that you are doing. And I’m sure that they would be happy to give you advice and info on anything you’re not sure of. Keep up the good work well done xx❤️
Hi! I must say those eggs looked delicious, the colour of the yolks were perfect! Your kitchen walls are coming along nicely, bet you will be pleased to have it all sorted in there. Lovely relaxing video, thank you for sharing. Love the shots around your land with the music. Xxx stay safe
Love your beautiful farm your doing well lots of veg flowers chickens what more could you both want a lovely life what kind of tea were you drinking looks interesting doing a great job hope Frankie is alright
The tea is an absolutely gorgeous organic hand picked white tea from Japan, we’re hoping to get more this year, it usually arrives in July. I believe we are the only place worldwide who sell it.
It’s going to be such a nice kitchen. I like the idea of a separate kitchen like yours. Thank you for another relaxing episode!💐💕 I love the music!!!🥰
Your both continue to do wonderful work, Sure it is a never ending, but that is how stories go. Keep it up..
So beautiful life , thanks for sharing my friends!!!!
If you want to check who is laying the bones either side of her vent / bottom when laying two fingers will fit between not laying one finger , cheers lovelies👍❤️❤️❤️🙏
I love your small home. It really is becoming homely and your land is really tidy
Agree. Love how this chill & industrious duo manage and care for it with Sausage Dog's and Albi's help, of course, and with cameos of João.
your videos have the most beautiful quality -calmness, moving with nature's energy, time to notice everything around you which you so obviously are in love with -its joyful to watch. I love how everyones channel has a different style , showing different characters with different plans and ideas but all of you connected to the land you have become guardians of . So inspiring.
You're so inspiring , love what you do. Happy weekend 😍
You work well together. Living together and working so closely on projects is challenging, you make it look easy.
I too like the palette finish on the wall, it popped beautifully on the Q&A vlog. Perhaps a darkish farrow and ball / Annie Sloane flat paint finish over the final render coat would look good.
Music is fab.
Lovely lovely lovely!
Progress! 🌀💚🌀
Love the butterflies and birds and flowers! Spring is my favorite time of year. Good luck with the car, great work on the kitchen. Looking forward to what you do next. Really enjoying the maps I bought from Carissa's Etsy shop and the tea I bought from Seibiant. ;-)
Oh hoopoe and swallowtail are both on my want to see list!
Wonderful video. Beautiful music. How fantastic to cook eggs on toast! Love your 3 darling animals sleeping on the couch together. Frankie has such an adorable cheeky personality. You probably mentioned it but what colour are you going to paint your kitchen?
Some job hi looking forward to the kitchen when it's finished it's amazing what you can cook on wee two ring cooker great we channel good luck with your project
Great jazz
What an improvement in the videography so much better have you been coached or taking lessons ? Love your channel guys x
The kitchen is looking good! It will look amazing painted white😊
Thank you for sharing some nature shots. I love swallowtail butterflies❤️
Another great video!
Love the music! Very relaxing ....
Can’t wait to see Canada map done I want one so bad ty for doing it!!!
Onto it this week ☺️☺️☺️🖊
Wow, I wonder how many spotted the birds flying over in a v formation when you zoomed in on the sky?
Great to see your progress !!! to a white world, hopefully not for long as yesterday I actually got out and tidied up my deck 'workshop'! Love from Vermont.
wheel the barrow right in next to where your working, save filling buckets
Another lovely video. Lots accomplished and thank you for sharing the beautiful rainbow!
lovely video, loved your music choices too
Great to see a plasticiser being added to the mix ;) 👍
Well done both ❤
Quick question when will you he doing another q&a and could it be more about how you get residency in port ect looking to do exact same thing as you 2 ❤
Your getting there - onwards and upwards - well done 👍👍
Hey you too, why don't you put a rough wooden frame around a pretty bit of your wall and render the rest around it, so it becomes rustic art !! J
Looking great you two. I'm enjoying these videos. Thanks.
Beautiful filming :-) always exciting to wake up on Sunday morning to your video xx
Tough luck with the car! Older vw golf 's are trouble for sure, get rid of it as soon as possible or you risk having more problems in the future!
Beautiful flowers 🌸 and beautiful music thanks for your vid.😇💟💟💟 love you guys.
Beautiful Video, Love watching your beautiful Land 😍 thanks for sharing.
Homestead coming along, sorry bout the car, on that any roadkill for an engine. Thanks for sharing.
we Hope Max, Indians will watch REAL Life Useful Videos of families like you ;
Hello from Mid Wales - enjoying your videos. It was a scarce swallow tail that you saw - nice. Some good ID books that I have found for the Algarve are the Dorling Kindesley 'Flowers of the Mediterranean' as well as 'Wild flowers of southern Europe' (Davies and Gibbon) which would help with the ones I see on your land. I love the 'Algarve Wildlife, the natural year' which has a wide range of species in it and is readable - really helps with ID of a range of species you see and has good photos - I guess it would still be useful for central Portugal. I also have the New Holland European Amphibian and reptile guide which is great for thumbing through (better than the Collins). Loved hearing the cuckoo in the last video - looking forward to hearing them back in mid wales!
Next time, instead of concrete, you may emploied lime or plaster, lime can be mixed with sand as well. They are better for thermic reasons, ask to the natives, we use it even in the northwest from where im, even if that regions is much more humide, they are also cheaper, mainly the lime option. lime is called cal, and plaster gesso.
We wanted to avoid lime due to the possible movement of moisture from the bank that the house is built into. The local builder we know around here who is 75 and made a living off restoring stone barns also said to stay away from Lime.
@@FrankieOffGrid
Often, it is the opposite, lime absorves humidity, concrete does not, even if has lots of sand. Plaster to do this kind of work is called gesso estuque in Portugal, but it will be more expensive than concrete, cimento. You can also add lime to concrete in some parts. It is cute.. There is a product to avoid humidity, it is a little bit expensive, and it can be added to concrete or lime, to plaster im not sure. A person with 75 years old in pt is from the concrete Era already, and from the green revolution. Your channel is good, bon courage for both of you. Oh, thanks for the answer.
amazing work guys :) seen all your videos and everything seems very lovely there:) Portugal is the next for me and my van so i might pop by for a cup of tea, maybe, if that's okay :) looking to buy land there as well ,eventually, so ill be looking around in central Portugal, after the crazy heat tho :) :) wish u all the best and hopefully see you guys around :)
"Cue the cat fight in 30 seconds" - hahahahaha
2 eggs! Eggciting times
Dare I suggest that they are both from one bird? "Ali" has a bigger comb than the others so appears to have reached maturity first ... though I have my doubts: the camera moves quickly
Loved seeing the skein of geese head over! (Geese? Birds of some sort migrating across Portugal, heading north from Africa?)
What about theos passat engine? Would that fit?
Dont use cement for the stone walls! Use lime! You'll get damp and salt problems
We’ve been advised by Portuguese and British builders that using lime would not have been right. We’re no professionals so we’ll stick with their advice. Thanks though! 🙏
Is your friend going to render the walls for you ? he does a nice job
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Hi.. i'm following you guys for sometime now... i love your energy... keep up your awesome work and approach to life.
PS - i'm fascinated by your little Tea Infuser (i think it's called that) and how it filters the herbs ... can you by any chance help me find one similar?
Thanks for watching! A tea infuser is what it is, this one is a Japanese type called a Kyusu. It had the handle at 90° to the spout rather than the western version.
@@FrankieOffGrid , thanks for the reply... so it can't handle 100º, boiling point, it needs to be a little lower, like 90º?
Yes that’s the idea, they’re made for Japanese tea’s but they’re quite versatile really!
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That was really a light tea?
A white tea, from Japan. We met the farmer when we visited Japan a few years ago and we now take almost his entire stock of white tea every year. It’s beautiful!
Do the chooks get to enjoy the spent tea leaves?
You guys really should be using lime instead of cement. I find it much nicer to work with and you wouldn't be creating damp problems in the future.
We’re using a waterproofing agent in the cement so we won’t be creating any more damp problems, with the back wall being built into the terraces if we used a lime based mortar we would definitely be having damp problems. I agree it’s nicer to work with though 😅
Numa próxima arrange umas cabras para aparar a relva
Temos uma amiga com uma cabra, talvez podemos pegá-la emprestada, pois não sentimos prontos para mantê-la.
@@FrankieOffGrid 🙂