YEAR THREE | Renovating Two Stone Cabins in the Italian Alps

The 3rd year on the homestead, from October '23 to October '24. Most of the outside work on the first cabin is done and I am focussing on the work inside. The goal is to pack the tent and be inside before snowfall. The first night I spend on a few floorboards that are just installed. It's a heavy winter but working inside makes things easy. Some extra heavy snow falls in March, and even in April when the trees are already green. In summer the work outside starts. I'm building a greenhouse where the tent was before and make a start with the work shop and the second cabin. Support the renovation project: Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ARZW35KWBMJN6 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/martijndoolaard Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/martijndoolaard/ Discord: https://discord.gg/ny9tCXbarE 0:00 Intro 1:06 New battery box 3:17 Apple pie (1) 4:52 New windows 5:51 Start masonry stove 10:21 Core finished 14:07 Start building stairs 22:28 Dinner at Johannes 24:08 Chimney pipe 24:29 First snow 25:31 Oven door 28:11 Picking up floor boards 30:31 First fire 32:51 Walk with Ollie 34:21 Chickens attacked 35:11 Roof of the stove 35:51 Pointing stove wall 37:04 Salvaged kitchen 37:54 Building the floor 38:54 Packing the tent 40:24 Looking back at living in the tent 53:46 First real snow pack 44:56 Finishing the floor boards 45:19 Kitchen part 2 46:31 Start building kitchen 47:01 Connecting water 48:55 Fire wood 49:55 Lunch at Johannes 51:25 A walk 52:26 Building door 53:16 First bread in the oven 53:56 Fire wood 54:36 Red morning 56:16 Sanding and oiling floor 56:43 A walk 58:41 Sanding and staining kitchen 59:01 Backsplash 1:01:05 Sewing curtain 1:07:43 Stove lid 1:09:56 Wolves 1:12:00 Paving the basement floor 1:12:40 Design new workshop 1:17:10 Big snow pack 1:18:57 Grouting floor 1:20:48 Biggest snow pack of the year 1:22:38 Walk in the valley 1:24:48 Finishing floor 1:25:38 Taking down tent deck 1:26:48 Threshold 1:28:08 Bathroom vanity 1:31:58 Door frame 1:34:28 A walk 1:35:28 Copper shower 1:36:31 Hair cut 1:37:12 Birch sap and potatoes 1:39:22 Walk with the neighbours 1:40:43 Fire pit 1:41:33 Dinner with neighbours 1:42:13 Finishing door 1:43:33 Sewing curtains 1:44:54 Flower box 1:45:44 Finishing fire pit 1:45:54 Apple pie (2) and granola 1:46:17 A walk 1:48:27 Wood paneling 1:52:37 Chiara visits 2:03:20 Finishing vanity 2:04:35 Finishing woodpaneling 2:04:45 A walk 2:05:35 Making drawers 2:06:15 Installing tap 2:07:45 Last finishes cabin 1 2:08:16 Cabin 1 finished 2:09:45 Tour cabin 1 2:14:50 Looking back 2:16:43 New chickens 2:18:03 Greenhouse 2:18:24 Family visiting 2:21:37 Planting greens 2:23:07 Glass in the gree2nhouse 2:23:37 A walk 2:25:57 First greens in the greenhouse 2:28:17 Roof greenhouse 2:30:17 Bike ride 2:31:17 Building fences 2:33:17 Brother visiting 2:36:17 Making a bench 2:37:57 Bike ride 2:41:07 Start second cabin 2:45:06 Trenching 2:47:07 Start levelling workshop area 2:52:28 Dinner and moonwalk 2:54:09 Driveway and seeding grass 2:55:29 Threshold 2:58:39 First mushrooms 2:59:19 Land Rover 3:02:11 Apple Raspberry pie (3) 3:03:08 Drawings cabin 2 3:03:58 Land Rover ride