 I'm here to tell you how you can build a house without money and without electricity. In fact, lack of electricity will save you lots of money because it makes it pretty pointless to buy power tools. So, when I was a little girl, my dream was to build a house on an island. I also fantasised about travelling in time and taming wild horses, but I kept going back to building a house on an island with my bare hands. When I got a daughter of my own, this dream grew stronger because I wanted her to have summer holidays in the archipelago of Stockholm, which is the most beautiful place in the world in case you didn't know that. So, this was a dream and that became the reality. It's a swamp in a jungle, basically. All of this is from the same island, but this was the property I could afford. You'd be surprised to have affordable swamps, sorry, it's lovely. So, then I had no money. If you guys want to build a house and you don't have any money, what you need to do is learn how to do the job yourselves and then you can get the material for free by recycling. So, for instance, this is a house on the same island. They had their fireplace redone and their chimney, so I asked if I could have their old bricks. These were 18th-century bricks. Beautiful quality. They've been around for 300 years. They're not going to dissolve any time soon, but they're heavy. You can't get to this island by car, so my means of transporting these bricks was a wheelbarrow. I could take four at the time, and each round across the island would take roughly half an hour, so that was a very good workout. Then I built myself a fireplace. A little crooked, but it works. So, basically what you need to understand if you plan to build a house with recycled material is that the collecting of the material is going to take just as much time and energy as the building of the actual house. So, for instance, people may tell you that it's rather pointless to try and recycle boards because you have all these old nails, old rusty nails, and it's so hard to pull them all out, but I disagree because I hate it when perfectly fine boards go to waste. So, this is happening all the time because perfectly fine houses are torn down just to make room for new houses, and they throw away the materials. So, you can even offer to tear down the house for the owners in exchange for getting the material for free. It's lots of fun, promise. Then you pull the nails out, and then you will build a wall. That looks a bit scruffy because it's going to be full of holes. And then, at the hardware store, they may tell you that you need to buy a project like this, but I advise against it because you will use this much to mend your holes in a wall, and then you want to use it again two months later, but then it's just rock hard dried out and completely useless. So, you have to get a new bottle, but if you do what they did in the old days instead, use molding plaster. This is what they have in play schools when they make little figurines like these. Those are probably nicer, but yeah. You can instead fix holes in your walls with it. So, what you do is, the genius part is that this is a powder, right? So, if I could just have a glass of water, which I have, then I could just mix the precise amount that I need each time so that I don't need to waste any of it, and that way I can just fix my wall quite conveniently, you know. And this bag is going to last me a lifetime, and stinginess is great for the environment. At least that's my excuse. So, while all of this is going on, I kept taking my daughter back to this mosquito-infected jungle. That's her mindlessly waving her stick at the frozen swamp. One of her first sentences was, I want to go home. I want to go home to the apartment. She repeated that a lot, and I'd go just a minute, darlin. Mum's just going to finish the house. That took roughly 10 years. Earlier today, I could have done it in a year. That's a bummer. Sorry, a day. He said a day. It's crazy. I could have done it in a day. Anyway, we've had some lovely times in this house, and I've never regretted the decision to build us a house on an island, even though it's been years of bleeding, sweating, and a couple of tears as well, to be honest. There might be sexologists who will tell you never to try and turn your fantasies into reality, because the reality is never quite like the dream, and I want to warn you about the opposite. I want to warn you not to try and turn your dreams into reality, because in my book, reality is always better. Plus, it's a bloody good feeling when you've accomplished something like this. Thank you very much.