Back pasture all cleared out and mowed-ready for fencing!Garden so close to being ready for tillingUsing our post hole digger for installing the lean to addition for our tractors storageOffice beforeAfter!Right now this room is dangerous with the basement just below but we will be putting in a bannister here to keep light coming in and a door frame on the doorway. This room will be carpeted as well so that we have a cozy office nook:) Our room beforeAfter!Fresh paint and new carpet 😀 Before basementAfter!We want to finish this basement by ripping all of the insulation off the walls, painting the foundation with moisture blocker, then insulating and drywall it all. Insulate only the areas using such as the Rec room, spare bedroom and art studio. Laundry room and pantry can remain un insulated. Add a drop ceiling and carpet with our walkout door and it’s done! There it is! All of our hard work documented and we accomplished it all within a month! With hard work, perseverance and a lot of praying for strength 😅 we got it done :) Hoping this post motivates and encourages you today in following your dreams!
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After 14 years of discussing owning a hobby farm and planning, making lists, research and a lot of dreaming, God blessed us with our farm! 21 acres of privacy, quiet and peace with plenty to do and play with and a cute ranch home to boot! why did it take so long you say? Well, starting and owning a business early on in our marriage set us back some since trying to buy a home while starting and growing a business from scratch takes a lot of time before a bank will even look at you. Once we sold the business, we were able to focus on growing my husband Michael’s career as a salesman. So with all of that history, now we were in a better place to buy and own 21 acres with a home that needed a lot of work. So no more drafty old houses or old home quirks to contend with. Maybe some people out there enjoy the quirks but we just found them super frustrating! We owned our other farm house for 2 years before finding this gem but it was a great flipper and starter home so I don’t hate old houses, just don’t want to live in them forever is all. This is our forever home! We will retire here and grow old here, owning our land and animals and raising our children here so we are tickled to be staying and not moving. EVER. AGAIN. We’ve moved 13 times in our 15 years of marriage so yeah. It got old. So here’s a little background info since the last time I wrote in this 3 years ago. We bought our flipper in 2018, flipped it and sold it in 2020. Took the money we made from that sale and put it into this home. I have since been raising chickens for eggs, gardening and learning everything I can about owning cows, ducks, goats, horses and growing and preserving food. Now I get to put that knowledge to the test:) throughout this post there are going to be before and after pics of the work that we have done since moving in a month ago. I hope it inspires and motivates you to follow and pursue your dreams because it is possible! Our story is proof of that. We had Jesus guiding us and providing for us our entire marriage and Having faith that the Lord would give us our hobby farm someday was what kept us going through all of our trials and life bumps. He loves you and wants what’s best for you, and His very best is better than anything than I could have ever imagined. I remember praying and wanting at least 3 acres and being excited about that. Then it went up to ten. But silently I wished for 20. Was too scared to pray for 20 but I’m sure at one point I discussed my desires with him. He knew my heart and what we could handle so instead He gave us 21! Believe in Him and just watch what He can do for you❤️ The Farm!This is an Ariel view of the farm. I have drawn lines to show where I’d like pastures, the garden behind the shop and where I want the lean tos for the pasture animals. We have 7 acres of lawn, 14 acres of forest😳. 2 ponds, one near the house and one way in the back. Not stocked, except with frogs and snappers...and a soon to be 3 season room off of the back of the house off the kitchen. We want to leave the forest layout alone so that we can hunt back there and make plenty of trails to enjoy and trail ride with our horses. Have an acre garden to live off of the land and more ducks and chickens. A miniature jersey cow is also in my plans and 3 horses. So there it is. Our outdoor plans. Now to show the Pics of what we’ve done so far. The backyard-our favorite spot to take pics of the farm❤️Yard behind our house-garden shed is behind that big pine on the left.Fence removed!Front pond beforeAfter of front pond, excavator took out lots of cat tails and brush that kept out the view of it.Duck house by the pondWhere our future garden will be-plan is to have almost an acre garden with a tall fence to keep out deer. 3 compost heap piles in the back with fruit trees lining the garden. Apples, peaches, pear trees, 3 of each:)Garage will be turned into a work shop for Michael. Lean to will be built on the side shown to store our tractor.Back of the house-will add a 3 season room off the left side off the kitchen. 3 season room will have a deck and pool off of it.We will be adding a walkout basement off of this side.Back pond that’s in the back of our property. We will have a nice trail that leads up to it and have it cleaned up.Excavator fun with daddy❤️Before front of homeAfter-took out 2 trees with our tractorWe took my she shed and converted it into half of a chicken coop for our 6 chickens!Inside renos before and afterKitchen BeforeDemo begins! Walls down except one, basement stairs yet to be moved Putting in flooring bracers Cut the drywall to fit door frame Cut a hole in the floor of spare bedroom for basement stairs to go We moved the basement stairs to their new home! After!after we took out the center wall where the basement stairs were and moved the stairs to the spare bedroom, we kept one wall up for added storage and electrical.added a new stove, new cabinet hardware, flooring, paint and microwave. Living room beforeAfter!Living room-fresh paint, new floors, new fan, cut out wall to put door frame to go down into basement Hallway beforeAfter!New flooring and paint with new doors in hallway Bathroom beforeAfter!New vanity, painted floors and walls. New light fixture that’s not shown and linen closet installed which is behind the door. We have yet to add new vent and paint ceiling. Roses room beforeAfter!Renos continues in next blog post... |
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