Returning Home ｜ Addition Build on Original A-Frame House

We are officially headed back home to hit the ground running on building the addition to our A-Frame. End of an era, start a new one. The renovation house project has come to an end and the transformation is incredible. I'm so excited. It's time to go home. As much as we loved this break from our personal build to focus our creative energy on something new, there is nothing like returning to home sweet home. It's time to build. Thursday's concrete day. Here we go again. I'm going through and caulking underneath the tile with some 00, that's the color, mapey caulking. It's pronounced mapey or mappy. I'm not sure what it is. It's the same exact brand as the grout we're using. So the caulk and the grout are the same exact color, both 00, and it should match the grout lines perfectly. And the reason why we're using that, because we use grout on the bottom tile where the countertop is, over time, five, six months, the bottom grout line is going to crack. That's why you caulk the bottom grout line and that caulk is the same exact color as the grout. After six long months of renovations, we are, believe it or not, pretty much done here. So I think we probably have like two days left. Today we're going to be finishing off the kitchen and getting all of the floating shelves built and installed. And then the last thing that we're going to need to do here at the house is staining the front deck, which is covered in snow and ice right now. So we're obviously not going to be doing that today, but we're heading back home. Yeah. We're done. Don't worry. Once that entire place is furnished, we'll do one more walkthrough to show you guys that. But we're done here. Yeah. As far as like filming and documenting everything, at this point, we're just going to be letting all of the furniture and decor trickle in and getting all of that taken care of, like landscaping outside. I don't think we're going to document any of that back end stuff as far as like getting the website up and running and getting everything stocked so that this could be a Airbnb. Yes. Hospitals start soon. I'm so excited. It's time to go home. Pick it up. Get it close. Where's it supposed to be at? Don't worry about it. It's fine. I got you girl. So we're going to start here. It's about 54 and a half roughly. So the two by four is probably about an inch and a half in on both sides. And we'll build everything out and then we'll slide this shelf around the top and nail it in place. Build these shelves. I'm going to take these little two by four blocks and came to another two by four that I ripped down on the table saw, mount them to the studs and they're going to be sticking out like this. Then we're going to build the shelves and the shelves are going to slide onto the two by fours and screw down and then you're going to have floating shelves and it should turn out pretty good. I hope. Should go something like this. That one. It's crooked. That thing is way out girl. Yeah. We'll get the base for the shelves built and installed on the wall. So the next thing we're going to do is take some one bys and build a box of the shelves. So while Josh works on getting the next set of shelves built, I'm going to go ahead and start staining these. We're also going to put a coat of poly on all of these shelves just so that they are easily cleaned and wiped down and don't collect a whole bunch of dust. Early American. Yes. It's the majority of the dark wood in here unless it was rough sawn. Rough sawn is golden. Yes. The plain stuff is early American and it all jabs together. Of course it is. You like the color? Yeah. So I'm using screws to attach these shelves. The reason why I wouldn't ever want to take them down, if I nailed them in, I'd have to pry it all off and pretty much destroy these to get them off. So put a few screws in there. Now they can easily go on and also easily come off if we choose so. But I think they look pretty good. I haven't stood back and looked at them yet, but I think it's going to pull it all together. I got this shelf up and built. I'm going to do the next one right above it and I'm going to start wrapping it around on the tile. And this is where it's going to be a little more time consuming because I got to drill with a hole saw that's meant for tile to drill holes through the tile and then pretty much anchor everything to the wall. We're going to use those same type of lag bolts that are going to go into the studs. And we could have issues there. We got to be very careful because if we tighten them up too much, there's a good chance we can crack these tiles. And if we did that, we'd be pulling the entire thing out and doing it again. And we do not want to go that route. So we'll be careful. I had all the faith in the world in you that you weren't going to crack that tile. The thing about it is you can see how you took that thing and you turned that tile at a 45 degree angle and perfectly mudded it. You can see the lines on here. You did a fantastic job. You know, Josh, I think I have a career in tile. I think you do too. I don't know if you guys know this or not, but Erin's favorite time of day is bedtime. It's true. It's so true. But sleep is so important to all of us as a way to recover after a long, hard day. And thanks to Helix, the sponsor of today's video, we are continually waking up very well rested. Yes, we are. Helix has premium mattresses and bedding that are customized to fit your needs and conveniently shipped right to your door for free within the U.S. Everyone is different. And Helix knows that, which is why they made the Sleep Quiz, to match your unique body type and sleep preferences to find the perfect mattress for you. They have something for everyone's unique taste. 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We're going back over there and we're doing it all day. All day. I know. I'm about to get back in that grind. I was about to end it, though. Yeah. I don't think... Let's throw it into the fire. It looks like a legitimate kitchen now. It looks good. It does. The only issue is that wall is not perfectly square. We cut our end square so it's a little bit of a gap. No one's going to know. You know what I mean? We'll put a plant there. I like it. You like it? You did a good job. Thank you. Great job. So, now here's the question. Do you want one where you're sitting? Is it going to be too much to put one there? Should we do something different? We can do something different there. Okay. We could do a hanging fruit basket or something different. Okay. I like it. I do, too. Looks good, right? Yeah. Success? Total success. That's it. This is the last video of this house, guys. We are officially done here. We will come back when everything is furnished, but we're not going to make any more videos here. Yeah. We're done. All the odds and ends will be finished off camera. Off camera. And we're going back home. End of an era, start of a new one. Let's go, Daddy. We have a path that goes from our upper pasture down to our lower pasture. And during the last ice storm we got, we had a lot of trees fall. And this one in particular pretty much fell on the road. It's been a real pain to get the cows moved back and forth to this tree here. So, now today is the day we're going to start cleaning this thing up. Once you get it unhooked, let's make sure that we have it clean all the way. Let's help Daddy move the trees, okay? We'll get all the big branches and then we'll bring the cows down. I'm right here, girl. Start grabbing them. My work is done. Well, we got our road back. Thank goodness. Yeah. Let's get the cows now. Get the cows. Yep. Over the course of the past year, our primary focus here at our home has been streamlining our farm systems just to make everything more efficient and more reasonable for us to manage while we work both inside and outside of the home. And so far, we got paddocks built out for our pigs so that we can rotationally graze them. We built a feed station for our livestock so that we can house their feed in bulk. We built out a mobile chicken coop that is fully self-sufficient. It has an automatic door and also a rainwater catchment system. To the left of me, we have our rainwater catchment system that comes off the roof. The barrel fills up, goes down to the pipe, down to the nipples down below, and everybody's watered. So this entire thing, it's hands-off as much as we can be. We still gotta collect eggs. And our other major project was fencing in both our lower pasture and our upper pasture so that the livestock can freely go in between both of those and also have access to the barn whenever there is inclement weather. Because what the norm has been for us is moving the cows from the upper pasture to the lower pasture, the lower pasture to the upper pasture, or from either of those pastures into the barn whenever we have really harsh weather. They're not able to just roam freely between all of those acres on their own without us guiding them from one fenced-in area to another. And it's a huge task because we have a lot of ground to cover with that fence and we've been working on it. We're right there at the tail end and it's going to be closed up here in the next couple of months so we won't have that problem any longer. But as of right now, moving the cows is what we do. A lot. What are you doing at the top of the haystack? Grab a bale, girl. Come on. Get the hay bales, girl. Oh, you're heavy. Girl, you're a stinky baby. Now that the renovation house is done, we're back home. We have an entire addition to build back here. Spring's right around the corner. We're excited. It's a lot of work. Good, nice, f****** warm air. Let's do it. It's not warm outside at all. Not today. It's right around the corner, though. It's 23 degrees right now. It's cold. So if you guys are looking at this right here, this is the existing A-frame that goes around. This is the front porch that comes into the front door. This is the entire big deck area. And this is actually the great room. Everything here is exactly the same. This right now is actually set up as Ellie's bedroom. This is actually set up as our bedroom. And our plan is to pull this wall down, open this entire thing up, and be a pantry for freezers, dry food storage, all that sort of thing. The bathroom will stay the same. When you come over this way, this is actually going to be our office. This right now doubles up as a laundry room, mechanical room, and office. So it's going to be pretty nice if we change that up to an office. Now, as you walk out, which is the back door right now, this is the entire addition that we're building on the backside of the house. You can walk upstairs. We'll go there in a second. We have a little closet for a water heater. You'll walk into our homestead kitchen, which will keep milk and supplies, soap and supplies, anything. Homestead supplies and stuff to operate things will stay in this kitchen. We can work out of that kitchen instead of cluttering up our normal kitchen. We'll have a homestead kitchen. As you come back around, we have a mudroom. There'll be another little covered deck right here. That's going to go out. I guess the powerhouse is back around there somewhere. We'll come around. We'll have another bathroom on this floor. And you'll walk in. This is going to be our gymnasium. A big issue we're having these days. Erin used to love going to the gym. Prior to us moving out here, there's nothing out here. We want to get a gym for her. I need a custom pound, so I'll be spending a lot of my free time in there, hopefully. I say it now, but we'll see. We'll walk into the laundry room. The best part of this entire house, in my opinion, is if we walk into the laundry room, we're going to have a door that walks into a safe room. It's going to be a 27 by almost 11 foot 1 safe room. Concrete walls all the way around. We have a concrete ceiling. We can store things in there. It also doubles up as a storm shelter. As you guys know, we got a nasty storm about 8 months ago. We had 90 MPH winds come through here and destroy a lot of stuff. When that happened, we already had this plan underway. But when that all happened, we definitely wish that was already done. Now coming back out of the safe room, we're going to come up the steps to the second floor. You walk around the corner. You walk into the master bedroom. It's Erin and my bedroom. We walk around. We have a walk-in closet that goes to a bathroom right here. And we also have walkouts onto a balcony. So if we want to go outside from our room, we can be on a balcony, which is going to be pretty nice. Come back out. Ellie's bedroom is right outside of our bedroom. She has her own little private bathroom. Come back around. We have both the boys' bedrooms. They are actually going to share a bathroom that's in the hallway. This right here is going to be very nice. It's called a laundry chute. From right here, we throw the laundry right down there and it lands right back on the first floor where the laundry room is at to make everything a lot easier. Come back around. We walk through this door right here. This actually goes back into the existing side of the A-frame. This right now is the boys' loft. It's their bedroom right now. You're going to be able to go out here and look over the railing. You're going to see the great room of the A-frame. We're going to remove the ladder that's down here so you're not going to be able to go up and down. The only way to get through here is the second floor of the addition. That's it. It's a major undertaking, but we're very excited about getting this addition started. We'll start clearing the footers today in the safe room and tomorrow we'll finish all the forming this way. We'll work our way around forming up on Thursday's concrete day. Here we go again. It's going to rain Thursday. Let's place our bets now.