From the hustle and bustle of city life to the peace and tranquility of rural Portugal
In 2020 we packed up our life in London and moved to the interior of Portugal to spend more time enjoying life and less time working behind a desk. We bought an abandoned property and have been slowly – but surely – restoring the house and land back to it’s former glory.
This is not our first renovation project. We’ve previously completed three others in the UK. But this one is the biggest to date by far!
On past projects we’d lived on site in dusty rooms while they were being worked on. We knew that this time round, we wanted to take a different approach.
Operation Move on to The Land
In the first few months of 2021 we set up base camp on our land. This gave us the chance to live rent and mortgage free while working on the house meaning we could take as long as we needed to do the job properly.
We built a large 65m2 deck, built a shed for cooking in (and housing all our solar electricity gear) and installed an open-air shower and basic washing up station.
We lived in the tent for over two years but we finally have a flushing toilet and kitchen in the house.
Living the Dream
Our new life allows us time to spend time working on the things we enjoy – spending time outside working with our hands, rather than being stuck inside, chained to a desk.
We enjoy making, doing, growing all sorts. But in particular we love trying new things and sharing what we’ve learned – and hope to inspire others to do the same.
If you’re thinking about starting something new – or building a new life somewhere – we say: DO it! And don’t put off until tomorrow what you can start doing (or at least researching) today.
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