Weathering the storms and chaos of life while building a home together

Our abandoned home is almost finished…

Our abandoned watermill got a glow-up

Finding my dream oven on marketplace (and other fun things)

The biggest delivery of our watermill home renovation…

The inside of our watermill is changing fast!

Our abandoned stone watermill looks completely different!

Moving in by Christmas? MAJOR PROGRESS at our home renovation

MAJOR DISASTER AT OUR HOME RENOVATION SITE

THIS MACHINE Just Transformed Our Watermill Again

Our house will never look the same again...

The Day We've Been Waiting For... PLASTERING FINALLY BEGINS!

2 Big Setbacks Building Our Off-Grid Home

Our Stunning Wooden Door Restoration Reveal!

WE CAN'T MOVE IN until we do this...

Solving a HUGE MYSTERY and Making a BOLD DESIGN Choice For Our Old House

Finishing 2 Major Jobs On Our Old Home Restoration

The Unfortunate Truth Behind WHY Our Home Build Has Slowed

All Alone and Off-Grid. Overcoming Challenges on the Homestead

The Risky Home Renovation Choice We Can Finally Expose

Tricky Problems With Our Old Home Restoration in Portugal

Our VISA Struggle. What Happens Next?!

Beginning a Big New Project in Our Custom Home Renovation!

Facing WILDFIRE threat near our home renovation

Stopping Our Build. Renovating a Ruin in Portugal.

Picking a COLOR! Restoring an Old Home in Portugal

DESTROYING a Wall to Make a Door!

If THIS Isn’t Finished, Everything Stops

This is HUGE!! Our Off-Grid Homestead is Changed Forever

Forced to Leave Our Homestead… But Nothing Went to Plan.

Is This Temporary? Building Our Home in Portugal

Attempting Historic Bread Oven Restoration

We bought something BIG! Traveling to Europe's HOTTEST city

Working together to weatherproof our MASSIVE DECK

Cutting out our windows to save them. Renovating a watermill in Portugal

The OFF-GRID irrigation system on our steep land IS WORKING!

Sanding the beautiful wooden beams inside our old stone house

Completing projects that get us closer to the dream. Homesteading in Portugal

Turning the mechanism inside our Watermill for the first time in CENTURIES!

DENIED CITIZENSHIP through Heritage, so we moved to Portugal

Tricky restoration of our HANDCRAFTED, extremely HIGH wooden ceiling

A SURPRISE on our homestead! Americans living in Portugal

We have a BIG PROBLEM with our windows. Renovating an old home in Portugal

We built a NATURAL ROCK WATERSLIDE on our homestead

Revealing our FINISHED STONE WALLS and what we hid inside...

THE HONEST TRUTH: Renovating an old house in Europe

THIS turned out EVEN BETTER than we imagined (watch till the end)

Discovering waterfalls, a hidden spring and more treasures on our homestead!

STUNNING transformation of our STONE HOUSE in Portugal

CHALLENGES RESTORING STONE WALLS inside our home in Portugal

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING. Solving damp issues renovating a ruin in Portugal

Choosing handmade terracotta tiles, cork flooring or hydraulics?

ARE WE PREPARED? Living in a WILDFIRE risk zone

We found THIS in the wall of our old stone house!

Going our separate ways: he's going back to the USA and I'm staying in Portugal

Tackling 2 tricky challenges on our homestead

The epic transformation of our watermill walls

What it really takes to restore an old stone house

The cost of renovating our watermill in Portugal Q & A

Excavating a MASSIVE Final Project on Our Homestead for the Year