WE BOUGHT AN ABANDONED FARM With Stone Houses to Renovate in Portugal | TIMELAPSE 1 Year in 25 Mins

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.

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!

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.

Also say hi in the comments! We'd love to hear from you 😊

Ricky & Victoria x

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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.

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.

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00:00 - Intro
00:58 - Cleaning up the tiny stone house
02:46 - Building a track
03:35 - Greenhouse and veg garden
08:07 - Fencing the farm
09:27 - DIY plunge pool renovation
11:53 - Removing tiny house roof
13:10 - Preparing the stone walls for a new roof
13:54 - Concrete ring beam
17:02 - New ridge beam
18:30 - New roof structure
20:49 - Building a warm roof
22:22 - Preparing for roof tiles
23:19 - Tiling the roof
24:22 - Thanks for watching

[LifebyLiving]

Hope you all enjoy this one! 😊 It was a mammoth task to put together but so worth it as it reminded us of everything we've achieved this year. Thank you all for coming on this journey with us ❤ Ricky & Victoria x

[anniemac]

Great video, you two are inspiring!
You need a fence, so you make one, want a pool so you adapt one, want to grow food so you build a greenhouse & install raised beds, a sickly pup turns up so you nurse her back to health & make her one of the family, need shade so put an awning on the house & so many other projects too many to mention.
Everything you do you finish once you've started & your whole attitude to life is the best, I have respect in bucket loads for you both.

[Gigi-wbpe]

My husband and I live off grid in the western US. We've been renovating our place and 60 acres for almost 4 years. Every Sunday evening, we settle in to watch our favorite couple in Portugal chip away at their own projects... It's so nice to sit and eat cheesecake while we watch someone ELSE do roofing work! 😆 Seriously, what you're doing is very impressive and we love you both! ❤

[SeedFiddler-kpeg]

What a beautiful thing! Husband and wife simply enjoying one another's presence.

[lesliekendall]

Making an old woman think about all the things I should've done differently. Fantastic job!
And when the hard times come, and they will, just remember I said, work it out, there's nothing better out there. Trust me. I looked.

[neutonrenda]

Judging by the journeys I follow of people immigrating to Portugal, the stray animals seem to be finding fantastic new families. I can only guess how much Poppy has added to your experience, but I can't imagine it without her. Great watching your journey guys.❤

[umberceri]

You two are such a likeable, upbeat, hard working young couple -I wish you all the success you can have in the future!

[G.G.]

An amazing job the 4 of you did. 2 working and 2 watching 😂😢😂. All the hard work you've invested into your own estate will create unexplainable feelings. When you can walk into your home every day and say "we did this" is a feeling very few will ever experience. I'm sure you feel so proud of your accomplishments, and we can't wait to see what transformation happens in 2024. We'll done!

[stevenlands]

I loved this. I found myself smiling like an idiot watching you both building your dream together, you are a lovely couple.. God Bless.

[elsestelema]

You both should be so proud of what you have achieved together. Well done ! Portugal is lucky to have you ❤️

[micheleparadis]

I was here for your very first video. I like absolutely everything about you and Victoria but, for personal reasons, what I appreciate the most by far is how happy Ted and Poppy are. You're beautiful human beings ♥

[dorothybrown]

It was fascinating to watch a man who knew how to do something, and encouraging to watch a couple work together to achieve a mutual goal. How blessed you are.❤

[dorothysmith]

This is the best video of its kind that I’ve watched. From the clean up through the demo and the completion of your projects… perfection. You are such a lovely couple and it’s a joy to watch you working together, laughing and joking around. You’re both so sweet ☺️. Thank you for letting us in to watch your journey 🥰.

[raymonde]

I still cannot get over how great the roof looks, it was amazing that you did it all yourselves. I remember how much work was involved in making the gravel track. Endless trips with a wheelbarrow. And the most labour intensive job of all, putting the world's most complicated greenhouse together.

Great work Ricky and Victoria, plus Teddy and Poppy who were happy to observe and supervise at every step of the way.

[anklebiterwoodworks]

An entire video of 100% Couples' Goals! So wonderful.

[pathogan]

Thank you both for letting us be apart of your lives ! fantastic to see how you both and the dogs have transformed the abandoned scrub land into a wonderful homestead ! very best of luck and continued happiness and health !

[MrRugbyprop]

We enjoy your way of presenting the renovation of your property, with humor. We also like that you show us the completed projects. Good luck going forward!

[yvonnebailey]

Hi Ricky &Victoria, I can't believe it's been a year since you started the renovation on your land. I have watched you since the beginning of your channel. I actually first saw Ricky when he kindly helped the Indie project renovate their stone barn
etc. You have both grown in confidence and are a joy to watch. Keep up the good work. Take care and stay
safe. Looking forward to the next video. Best wishes to you both.

[roygaol]

Today my wife makes me in bad mood, luckily I found your channel and truly makes me better. I love the way you works, laugh, and smile guys 😂

[annahudson]

Hi I am Anna Hudson (Anna H.) presently living in Arkansas, US. I have previously lived in Hawaii for 20 years and in the Himalayan mountainous part of China, teaching minority kids English.
Happened upon your u-tube channel and really enjoyed your creative solutions and fun interaction with one another. Good luck with future projects. The roof is looking great! Congrats.
See you in the next video! Your new friend, Anna H. And my cat, MaoMao Piper
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