#1 RENOVATING Our Loghouse Kitchen | Alfheim Farm

We're Kirin and Sarah and we live on a farm in the forests of Norway. Subscribe and follow along on our journey. Okay we're gonna start the kitchen renovation process today. We're gonna start moving our stuff out of the kitchen cabinets and put it either up in the cabin or in storage in one of the bedrooms. And I'm super nervous, I think Kirin is too, because it's such a massive job to renovate this kitchen. And it's going to take so long, it's going to be so much chaos, but let's do this. We're putting all of our kitchen stuff in the storage here in the bedroom and Sarah just refuses to move. This is her favorite place or one of her favorite places to sleep. Where couples that crock together stay together. For a little bit. For a little bit? It got a bit late yesterday but we finished taking everything out of the kitchen and we took some units out and we also set up some units where the future kitchen island is going to be just to see what it's going to look like. And I think it's going to look great. Definitely. Oh it's going to be so dusty. Good job darling. So we just decided that we don't need a new kitchen. It's fine, we're just going to live with the old one. Because it's hard work. It started out really good with it being really easy getting the drywall off because it was just framing and we could just cut it and get it off in big pieces. Like this is what it looked like in the beginning. And then we came to this part and it is just not coming off. Or it's coming off but it's like dust bit by dust bit. And yeah so we're just gonna have to live with our kitchen. Yeah that's fine. Yeah. We can cook in this. We're fine. We're okay. I think at one point I said that I was enjoying myself. That might have been like 20 minutes ago. Now it's just hard work. So there's a emotional rollercoaster in here. Are you feeling optimistic? Yeah yeah we're getting through it. It's uh we definitely have a lot of progress. It's just very hard work and my arms are getting really tired. This is like three hours work. We procrastinated for like four days to do this. It's just so messy. I know but we're just powering through. Like we're gonna do this in a day. So all in all it took us five days. Four days of procrastination and one day of work. Oh my gosh. We did it. Good morning. Wow it's really hard to pick up a camera when you're stressed and you just do not want to pick up a camera. It's been a few days since the last time you saw us work on the kitchen. We had to go to the city and do some errands and we needed a day off. So um we haven't worked on the kitchen in a couple of days. And now it looks like this. So we took out the insulation. We found a huge wasp's nest in here. So that explains why we had this wasp invasion last summer. It's insulation everywhere. Tools everywhere. Materials everywhere. New flooring in the hallway. What a disaster zone this is. It hasn't even been that long living with the chaos but I'm already like feeling the stress of living in a building zone. But yeah it's just scary like seeing all the eaten up insulation. You know that there's been mice in our walls. We need to do mouse proofing. I'm getting like out of breath just talking about this because I'm so stressed. It's just stressful. It's you know you're tearing your home apart. You don't want to make mistakes. You want everything to be right. And there's money involved. Yeah a lot of money. And I don't know how to do this. I'm just like figuring and like learning from Karin and figuring it out as I go. So yeah. It's gonna be okay. Okay. Karin has started hacking up the floor and it's a lot of work. Right? Look at this mess. Pretend it's not there. Yesterday was a very very long day. I think I cried five times. I'm so tired of this product right now. I am a person who gets really affected by my home environment. So when it looks like this then I feel like a catastrophe inside myself as well. So yeah. But we did have like an hour or two of progress at the end where I put down vinyl flooring. I don't know if you can see but there are already spots or stains. This is on the floor. And it really stinks. Like there's been some liquid here. It smells like wet dog mixed with some sort of animal urine. Yeah so that's why I'm sanding it off as best as I can. And like these mats that were underneath the floor like they stink as well. I think they've soaked up a lot of the urine. She had four or five big dogs so it's quite likely. It stinks. Ew! There's more. It's another day of flooring and I am so close to reaching my limit for how much crap and dirt I can clean up after another human being. So we're pulling up the floorboards and like the stank just hits you in the face. There's urine everywhere underneath the floor. Do you see this stain? That's all urine. This stuff is so gross. And it's just I'm so happy that we pull it off now. Took it off because this needed to be dealt with. Like I was wondering where this stank came from. Because like we cleaned the whole house since we moved in. But it's been like coming up from the floor. And this green stuff it's stuck to the floor. And the smell and like when you touch the floor that you take off like your hands get sticky. And it's so nasty and I am so fed up with this right now. And if you didn't know we spent six months cleaning up this house and the whole property of trash. And I know this is the final stretch but I'm getting really sick and tired. Because I mean how much dirt can a person live in? Like she never cleaned her house or her property. And it's just sad and infuriating and it pisses me off. Okay this is what we're dealing with. Two huge sinks. And a third one over here.