 Morning pack. This is gonna be the most real and raw tour you ever did see I always see so many put together tours and I wonder why doesn't my place look like that not gonna lie I've cleaned my vans drawers for a tour before but not today We're gonna show you as it is. I've been asking Crystal to do this video idea for quite some time now I can't believe you're letting me do it Every morning I open my eyes and see my unfinished ceiling Well, I'm still my PJs. Let's get this tour started Welcome to our halfway cabin tour. What do I mean by halfway cabin tour two years ago? We purchased this off-grid land when we pulled up It was unloved Overgrown and in desperate need of work like a lot of work We started with clearing the land building a driveway and installing a brand new roof all doing so without any Source of water or electricity the last year We made massive strides with our cabin transformation including trenching all around the land We turned on our off-grid power system for the first time Everything changed when we got new windows and running water in our kitchen at the cabin It's amazing to think how much has changed since and yet how far we still have to go This is our bedroom one of two in the cabin We chose this side because we built a deck right off of our bedroom and recently installed an eight-foot patio door That gives us walk-out access to the beautiful woods as we are nestled in the remote Canadian wilderness Our cabin is a little bit more than 600 square feet meaning it is a tiny cabin Which is why we have our washer and dryer in our self-built closet. It still needs some work So I understand all the woodworkers out there. We will do the finishing touches soon But more on the washer and dryer we went with the Bosch series 500 It is a compact washer and dryer that you will find in people's kitchens in their closets as they're only 27 inches wide nice and little the heat pump dryer means it uses 1200 watts instead of your 5000 to 7000 watts an average dryer uses so we live off-grid and Our system can handle that no problem. I think it's not hooked up yet, but it will be kidding We did the calculations. It'll be great. We built shelves for all of our clothes You'd think we would be a little bit motivated to put our clothes away since building that but as you can see we still got a bag of laundry here and Who doesn't have a pile of clothes on their dresser? Guilty anyone else today the drawers aren't much better than what's on top of the dresser yikes This is awkward. Actually this whole video is awkward, but we're done hiding it It drives me crazy. Oh my goodness. Look at this. I literally just don't even know That's my cue to head to the takeout window Another beautiful day in the woods When's my order ready? Thank you. Nothing says. Good morning like coffee Good morning while everything's under construction. The coffee machine is always delicious and consistent To be honest, I'm super happy. We're doing this tour because it's really important to reflect and celebrate where we are today We still have so far to go and for a long time We thought we had to be completely done before we do a tour, but to be honest I was inspired by Max Bid's tour It was beautiful and I like to see places at their current state and see how they evolve We've done this all together pack. So I hope you enjoy this tour Welcome to my favorite space. This is the cabin kitchen When we arrived to the abandoned cabin, it did not have a kitchen. It was very rundown We needed to rip it apart take back the walls the ceiling and get everything out of here to start from scratch Today we have a bright beautiful kitchen that we customize with Baltic birch cedar walls large windows and an island And in the island we have a sink The sink holds our dishes until we're ready to clean them Speaking about the island it has 360 Storage, are you ready for this? Even doggy dishes because we have two dogs on each side or else our dominant dog bella bear would eat Izzy's food Love girl like an onion Love the skins too. I don't even know what this store is. Do you know what this store is? I call that junk drawer number one this drawer pretty good organization garbage cleaning supplies and Our beautiful plumbing job It was the first time we ever did a plumbing job and we didn't have to go to the hardware store for an extra part So pat on the back super proud junk drawer number two Everyone's not covered And to be honest for a long time living here We lived without a kitchen without running water and electricity and it made life very Challenging it definitely made us stronger But I have to say having the ability to cook and clean and prep food has been such a game changer Although there are still quite a few things to do in here like you know switch out our plywood counters for a real counter Finish off the windows and our bar area. We are so pleased with how it's turned out. I love it Fry anyone she literally can't do this to her right now. She's freaking up But I just showed the fry in the stove. That's gross. Come on. Everyone has it like it's a little later We'll have fries on their door, but this is our gas range stove five hang on where you can find old fries If you have a fry or something in your stove, please write in the comments like we're all not perfect We cook we drop things it happens and I clean it later I made fries last night. Give me a break lady This is a full-size fridge, which you'll figure out how we run later on in the video hint hint and freezer Snack break please What was that throw? Oh? My god, I'll do myself. Haha. That's a good one ways to get to our drawers currently. Take a look. Oh Are you going here? Who's spice cupboard explain? They all need vacuums Well, this has surely come a long way. Goodbye dusty old makeshift kitchen and hello sink with running water Room number two a quick. 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We are first-time home owners cabin owners and there's a lot that we didn't know when we started putting all of these things in this Closet we need to get a humidifier in here We need to get the AC up and running and we need to get some proper trays to waterproof this room as well Because there is tons of condensation and water coming off of all of these things So that is a lot of work Upcoming soon, and if you have any tips we would greatly appreciate it because currently these towels are not doing much pull it up There's out yeah, not a good look and needs to be dealt with immediately. Yes. Hey, can you I'm thinking I'm gonna have some soup. Can you pass me it? How did that get in there who knows storage room? Putting it back. We plan on doing something really cool on this wall and even something really cool on this wall toilet paper on toilet paper as you can see this room is currently unfinished We plan on doing that this winter along with our attic, which will be our third room. Oh Yay for winter projects I always forget how big it is up there until I look and it makes me so excited for indoor projects This is the smallest room in the house. It's the bathroom, and I want to say it's the most done However, we're not quite there yet got some light hanging from the ceiling. I have finished roof up there Ceiling no handles yet here, but almost there almost there. It looks pretty space It's like a little spa. I love it the way that you know everything turned out is just so neutral muted and Spacious we did have to go with a fairly small shower in here because it is quite small But it's so much better than showering outside using a house showering in the greenhouse and Winter was a lot better after we had a hot shower inside. Also you were just a lot better Yeah, no like we both were the other house. We both were we smell better. You get it We smelled a lot better. Everything was everything was better Bathroom is a game changer. Let's break down the vibe. We have a maple plywood vanity with a Concrete-looking quartz counter Concrete sink with a vessel tap. Did I get it? I think so We're learning. We have a massive mirror that has storage in it This is huge because like I said, it's small in here and we don't have a ton of storage And last but not least everyone Yes our drawers probably look like All of yours this little cubicle is way too small as a rainfall shower head. It's glass And you look like you're in a museum. Yeah, you look like you're a little in a museum here But it's amazing. We fully installed the shower ourselves top to bottom Waterproofing this entire room putting tile down real tile. Oh while everyone let's talk about how we in this household In this household we burn our poop insert short here in this household We burn our poop. Yep, you heard me right from solid to ash. How I became toilet girl that video went viral But this is our incinerating toilet. We love it. It is so sick It takes your waist and it burns it And then you have a little bit of ash that you can then put in your flower gardens or your flower beds Or you can dispose of it's an off-grid toilet. We are off-grid We do not have septic yet. So this is yet. Are we getting it? This is the real deal. Are we getting it? Maybe It's wild to think how far we have come when we arrived This room was nothing more than a storage room with a poop bucket And now to see it transformed into an almost completed space is really one of our biggest milestones yet caught caught caught Trying to sweep trying to sweep. I Don't think like I think it's cool to like show it in its raw Honest, but like it's not like we like I didn't sleep this morning because I was busy, but like it's not why I live like this So yeah, you do you sleep 20 times a day? Everyone knows you can often find tools when you sit down. Oh Kidding y'all I knew it was there perfect doggy number one Perfect doggy number two this room is easily the biggest transformation at the cabin yet because It's transformed this one window, but we got to start from the bottom When we got here, we took back the walls in the ceiling in this entire room And then we redid the floors. We insulated ran our electrical and ran our plumbing This took a long time. What did we find in our walls poop? There was poop everywhere Let me say a band and cabin. This is what we're talking about. Oh Oh My goodness our goal in this room was to make the inside feel like the outside We really wanted our tiny home to open up to the outdoors and to feel like you're in nature at all times This is especially important living in Canada having all four seasons whether it's winter or it's pouring rain or a beautiful summer Autumn day you have the view of the outside world You can see nature passing by you and you just can't beat it It is the focal point when you walk in here and that was the goal That is why this room is also muted very scanned navy and like and beautiful. It really just draws you to the outside The living area does not have a TV. It has a wood stove in the winter months This is our main source of heat. We also have a backup source of heat in here Which is the propane heater in the guest room office or storage room. Whatever you want to call it second room And we will also have a heat pump that will help heat and cool our cabin coming soon coming soon through youtube near you This is unfinished The trusses are unfinished. The trim is unfinished But let's not forget how much work went in to the ceiling We raised the roof and put drywall in between the trusses We are going to be doing some faux beams And to top it all off jasmine recently just finished doing the micro cement texturized cement style ceiling It turned out really really well. I love it It's a lot of telling I love it This door completely eliminates the south facing wall Let's a ton of light in And opens up the space entirely to the outdoors Welcome to our deck everyone My favorite space ever And my favorite build we've ever done together. It was super fun We enjoyed the research process and learning how to build a deck and the build itself was a blast I would build decks for a living for sure Yeah, I can't wait till we have to redo the decking boards because it's just so fun I'm gonna invite friends over and we're gonna have a nice Decking board party in all realness. This deck is our outdoor living room We have our barbecue and our wood fire pizza oven here with our dining table This is a great place to host our friends and family and we love it so much We have the little seating area with the fireplace, which is a gorgeous place to snuggle up at night And watch the fire. What about the fun thing? Oh, yeah, we do have a trampoline off our deck because fun and right now There's a canopy sitting right there Because we're trying to figure out if that'd be a good spot for the outdoor kitchen So let us know where you think our outdoor kitchen could go after you watch the full tour And figure out where everything is one of the best things about this seat in the house Is I get to stare at my roof and it's not just any roof Crystal and I laid a metal roof just the two of us all by ourselves And it took us around two weeks when we moved to the cabin and the shingles were falling off the roof It was so important that we laid the metal roof before winter came And to be honest, we kept pushing it because it is a very intimidating project and we had zero experience laying a roof Not only to mention laying a roof in the cold But just laying a roof in general is very challenging and we did it just the two of us my most proud Project we've ever done And that's why I love this seat because I can just sit back and look at our work And it's watertight after three years. So roofer Welcome to the woods our cabin sits on a 15 acre wooded lot It is fairly natural and unkept the further you get away from the cabin The trails grow up with grass and ferns and moss and there's a beautiful stream running through it That leads to the lake. We spend a lot of time here the four of us No matter what the weather you'll catch us in the lake even in the middle of winter It's a great place to refresh Clear your mind and just sit completely nestled in nature And honestly for a long time the river was a little bit of a lifeline for us as we needed to Clean ourselves so we would jump in there and get refreshed after a long work day and That was huge before we had a shower It's easy now to see what drew us here It's the feeling we have when we are close to nature To wake up every day and to marvel at its beauty It's the space to explore and the quiet to reflect and the chance to build something that is uniquely ours Welcome to the porch. We lived off a generator all winter long for the last three years here at the cabin So let's just say Did a couple oil changes on the deck porch This thing Take a look oil oil oil We're gonna fix that. Yes, that's recycling sitting in a bag on my beautiful storm door. Your socks are a very big representation of this video What can I say? My love's a mess. Let's go. Come on girls We gotta do that soon and that this is our driveway. It's always filled with upcoming projects. Here's one and here's another Lovely just lovely the first thing you see when you come to the cabin is the gorgeous front yard We did a really good job putting this together the first time. We had beautiful green grass However, we've done lots of work since Trenching and so we now have piles of sand overgrown grass and huge divots and puddles Lawn makeover is clearly an upcoming project I am the most excited for this because every day when I look out It's just been months of looking at this to be honest. How does it make you feel? It drives me crazy I love this area And I just can't wait to get it back to a flat beautiful even surface without big giant puddles This area is extremely low. It's been wet all spring puddles puddles galore. So what's an upcoming project that's going to go along here Yeah, we are doing a tractor path Love it pad pools are actually living in here And our goal is to take care of the drainage because this spring after all the trenching we did last year to get electrical and plumbing We created a lot of holes a mass yard a big mess. This is a big mess And although it just looks very magical sometimes it's just simply not right now What is magical is our berry trellis our dream when we got to this property was to have a self-sustaining Homestead and grow all of our own fruit and vegetables and this is a little bit of the fruit of our labor The berry trellises the berry trellises Then they're doing good. This is the solar field behind me We have 10.8 kilowatts of solar on two pole mounts. We installed these the end of last summer fall there was a lot of steps to get power out here like Trenching building a battery bank all of the foundation and the installation of the panels running wires in the house Clearing however now we are living with power and that is an incredible feeling that you just cannot replace We spent the majority of our time living at the cabin without electricity or power we were using generators and battery banks and It was shifty and it was slow battery a lot of the time That is no longer a problem and we are forever grateful that we took our time and research What we needed out here. It's been awesome. It's the system has been working great and we have never run the what the system Oh, I think you might say the system the system Since we're keeping it real around here. We'll keep that in the system is more. Oh my god The system has been working great. Yeah, we even went 10 days without sun and our bodies were at 50 percent Which is incredible. We're doing the next day. It was sunny back up to 100 percent. Yeah, although this just looks like a pile of wood chips and a pile of Rocks give them the wide angle here I have big dreams for underneath this all array, you know garden hangouts and when are we doing all this this summer Since we're on a real-life tour. I Since we're on a real-life tour. I'd love to show you our siding this siding. It's not siding Is 26 years old and it's really not siding. It's actually just plywood quarter inch ply Crumbling under the sun and the weather and the rain and the long cold Canadian winters This siding will not make it another winter. And that's why we're going to do it soon. Just like everything else We're just walking around, you know, like doing the tour and laughing at you know, the things that we don't show You gotta get it or that I actually don't even look at myself because I want to put blinders on Oh my goodness. Look at this I'm embarrassed got her completely broken fascia completely rotted Oh my goodness There's there's some uh, some major upgrades to be happening around here. You know, although we've been doing a lot There's still a lot to be done I'm happy though. That that makes me happy. There's a lot to be done. What is that? My broken gutter and my hopefully non-boisness You know long work day that day I don't know. I I can't explain it again What's under here storage? Anyone else store stuff under their house I don't know. This is actually this is cool. I'm glad we're doing this because I gotta look at this all day long. You know, I'm walking around, you know I tell jazzy every couple weeks. I'm like, we've got to go do a walk around Go go walk around. I'm picked up off. Keep it clean. Come on. Okay And not only is this showing all of you a toad A real life to where it's also Showing all of you. What's to come this summer? It's pretty exciting. Just about time to get my whipper snipper fixed What about your tractor and my tractor? Recently we had one of the hydraulic fluid lines go on the tractor Hydraulic line has come loose. It's on its way We live in the woods and we have the hydraulic fluid So one out of two things and as soon as we got that working We are well on our way to many other exciting projects. Poor old clementine needs a new line This is clementine our tractor clementine is new to the pack And thank you to all of you for giving it that wonderful happy orange name But I have to say if I could go back in time We would have gotten one a lot earlier because for the last few years We've done a lot of hauling a lot of lifting a lot of digging By hand and it's a game changer and you broke your back basically Yeah, I kind of kind of did not okay No, I do have an injury however tractor life is the life for us Especially out here with this much acreage It really helps to have a machine like this for all of the different projects we're working on Like the one behind the tractor Just a tub in the middle of the woods, you know, it's going to be a lot more magical one day swamp water You're all going to love this one day. Just not yet. Oh you need a hand Oh, oh, have you all seen that new gadget? It's a retractable hose motorized just retractable But it's motorized. No, man. You know how a vacuum cord works. You pull it it goes in that's what it is Motorized. No, it's not Have you all seen that new gadget where you just give your hose a little pull and then it retracts in so perfectly I think we need it How can you be mad when we Chris is not mad just so just some ankle breaking rocks down there if y'all remember I rolled one How can you be mad when finally we have electricity and water and shelter and all of these necessities to living off grid And life has never been better out here in the woods. It's never been better, right? Never been better You're right about that all of this lumber is for the project right over there where we just were and It's important when you live this far out to accumulate and order everything you need Or else you're going to be making a lot of trips majority of the time You're going to see basically lumber yards everywhere in your yard no matter where you walk There is piles of wood everywhere out here So as you can see there seems to be a common theme here, you know upcoming project to the left Upcoming project to the right It's a thing. Oh, would you look at that? We still have a trench open here. Who did half a job? Clementine I blame clementine something that's magical in the woods that you might not always hear our outhouse Super beautiful. We built this last year. The ferns are coming up nicely Doors a little funk after setting in the winter We live in canada pretty clean though I'd say we're doing good in the outhouse department Not much two for two magic in the woods. Here we go. Welcome back to the spa area We are so pleased with this area. We've been loving it. It is as good as it looks It actually doesn't get better than this. There's still an open trench, but you know, we'll get there So we've got two cold plunge tubs built up on a deck As well as a place to hang your towels your robe set your water down or your beverage And then hot tub and sauna the words they come sometimes Hot tub. No, I wanted to say something great, but it just didn't come the best parts of the spa area The sauna and the hot tub both wood fired and a place to rinse off This might look a little luxurious for off-grid living, but for us it is crucial We are doing tons of work out here And this is a little piece of paradise to get away to after the day is done And boy, does it feel good on the muscles and you know what like this is what it's all about look up Look around like being out here and being with nature in one of these tubs. No better feeling in your own backyard We have two apple two plum and two pear trees In the fruit orchard and this is actually their third year here So they are growing to be quite big and the goal here is to be able to produce jams Pie Pie of course pie. That's the biggest priority out here Anyways, the fruit trees are happy and they're going to grow to be quite large and hopefully produce a lot of fruit each year This is our garden area. We designed it. We planted it. We built it and we love it There's two realities here. It is absolutely beautiful We are working very hard at it. The other reality is we are very new to gardening and it's a lot of work And we're kind of just crossing our fingers and our toes and hoping that everything's going to turn out Mother nature over here the tomato plants look really good And over there they're looking a little sad. Is it us? Is it the weather? We've had very inconsistent sunshine and rain We're learning we've built seven raised garden beds out of six by six milled lumber It is heavy duty and it's beautiful because you can sit down and get right in there with the kale The cucumbers the tomatoes the herbs the peppers the onion the garlic There's all kinds of beautiful vegetables growing here and we are super super proud of how this turned out This is the dream. We've been dreaming of this for a long time. I have anyways We have a garden trellis. We have a garden workbench This has all of our supplies that way when you're managing a garden this large You have everything you need right here and organize. They say an acre takes 11 years off your life We've had this pro mix for about a month. It needs to go in our in-ground garden right there Surprised those cucumbers are still alive without the pro mix. There's your key needs and cucumbers Oh, what do I know? This is the workshop when we first moved here We actually didn't have anywhere to store all of our tools that we were going to be using for the big Upcoming projects of renovating the abandoned cabin. We were actually living with them at the time and for a long time However, that needed to change for a few reasons We started by learning how to use a chainsaw for the first time and felling the trees in this area We then excavated it and leveled it that way this 12 by 34 Auxiliary building could be placed here and we could use it to store all of our tools And it could be the battery house for our off-grid solar electrical system So really this is so much more than just a building because Getting to this point meant that we could frame out the battery house We could then start building the off-grid electrical system inside Trenching around the property to run the electrical lines and connect it all to the house giving power across the land Before we move on I need to draw attention to the fact that the building did not always look like this In fact, it's rather embarrassing how it was looking a few weeks ago It had accumulated everything and none of it was organized We spent 10 days behind the scenes bringing this to life a full-blown renovation You can watch that video here and now it's a beautiful organized workshop Do not be fooled because not everything is looking unorganized. This is the tornado of a lumber pile We have going on right now I would love to stop and clean this up right now But we're just not going to no maybe next week No, in all honesty, we have a great plan for all of our lumber yard. However Let me just take you to the other side of the workshop because This is what's holding us up 11 cord of wood sitting on the opposite side We do plan to build a lean to right here to store all of that tornado lumber back there However, we need to build a firewood shed and we cannot wait We're super excited to build one because this will be the first winter that we have properly dry wood Ready to go in a proper structure That a tractor can pick up with forks and bring it right to our porch It's going to make this winter so much better. And I know that all of you probably have amazing wood storage storage designs So methods of bringing your wood to your house, but we didn't hook them up in the comments Remember we had to be a utv Utv yeah, that is not the way to do it this winter We were literally hauling wood by bags wheelbarrows and that's not good in the winter So our goal is to get this wood moved with the tractor and build a structure So that way this frees up this entire area Question for you all We've said so many projects that we're going to do this year And I mean this year like we're going to finish all everything that we've talked about before winter comes Do you all think we can do it because I don't know if we're being a little optimistic, but Ambitious we'll see. Oh gosh Look at that Welcome to the garbage Slash donate pile Since we moved here our goal was to get our green thumbs out and we've done that We have this beautiful garden around our garbage house However on the other side We are still working at keeping it clean and organized and tidy things have accumulated once again And you probably don't see this in the back of the videos because we probably avoid showing it But For your eyes only Um, how about we just talk about like the diesel container in the in the in your green thumb garden? You might have jumped over that, right? Yeah, we keep our diesel cans behind the trash bins This is vulnerability people. We're learning all out. Is it going to be like this forever? No, but is it right now? Yes And if you're building a house or a cabin or any sort of project, you'll know this is the reality You just have so much on the go and you can hard to decide of what you need to choose to do each day Just checking it with myself Even if you're not building anything life man life. We're all surviving Can't really talk to bucket trash lumber pavers I literally just don't even know really clean gorilla cart generator generator wheelbarrow wood trellises scaffolding big mess future project future project pavers everywhere What the heck's going on elephant in the room porter Porter's machine's been here for about five weeks His truck is currently broken down. He's working on it. He's working hard to get back here. His engine blew up. We're still waiting for him So we get we get to look at kitty cat, which I'm not gonna lie Grave you I would say this is one of our biggest accomplishments when we first got here was Making this driveway it's very long and it was a ton of work And we learned it all for the first time we learned how to run an excavator and we're both so proud of that It's holding up extremely well with the geotextile we put down I'm very much very proud of it to this date and it's made it through jasmine's plowing. However It's lined with pavers Pretty one day We'll get to that project too This is a three to four season growing dome. It extends our growing season. We built it last summer It took us quite some time, but we are now officially have it growing a lot of maintenance, but we're enjoying it It is Thriving in here other than the fact that I just discovered we have some Afins or aphids or whatever the heck they are. I'm gonna go literally get some tape right now and take them off They bug me those things This is annoying. No, I Yeah, lots of them. They're very annoying the sun's energy hits the growing dome and it becomes trapped in here Because it's geodesic it follows the sun and the sun reflects off of here and bounces back into the space One thing that makes having the greenhouse so incredible out here is that it is an additional room It really is a place to come and sit down call a friend Get away stretch. It's so nice and relaxing and warm in here There's nothing not to love when you're in here And it's definitely one of my favorite spots except those aphids aphids aphids aphids and now for the reality I was wondering where my hat went Wow hose Another hose extension cords. There's power and water in here. So sometimes if I need power I plug it in here Which is glorious, but let's be real. We just don't clean up. This is honestly not bad. It's really not bad It's it's fairly organized. Yeah, there's some stuff that has to be put away, but It's all right. The biggest problem right now is those things Oh Chris doesn't want to talk about this house anymore dumb The reality behind gardening and being self sufficient egg All right, time to clean up now