I BOUGHT MY DREAM HOME AT AGE 34

I bought my dream house at the age of 34. My family's in it, everybody's happy. Wife's dream house as well. Scooter Magoots is finally able to be outside, run around without worrying about getting hit by a car or crazy people. We got lots of property here at the new house, obviously. Very excited about it. I did a couple posts on Instagram, just showing a little bit, and people were asking for a home tour, a house tour. So here it is, man. Let's give you the full tour. My dream home. One minute, one minute! Boat door. Obviously that car door is electric, but the big boat door is not. That's fine, I can handle that. We got a side door where you can walk in as well. Look at this. Look at, oh we got more wood. There's more wood over there. So, we have no garbage services or anything like that out here so we have to bring our stuff to the dump, which is fine. But it's really cool, again in Windsor you just throw everything in the garbage or the recycling, mix it up. But here, the recycling needs to be split up into specific cans, bottles, paper, plastic, all that stuff. And that's good, we should be doing that anyway, but now we're accountable for it, so now we need to do it. So, recycling garbage in there. Check out where my canoe is. I did that myself, all by myself, I put that up there. It's on two big hooks and then wrapped around. Convenient, I don't have to have it in the way here. I don't have any cars in here, obviously it's not necessary, but once it starts to smell like crazy, I will. The morning after we came here, we moved in, The next day had like an inch or two of snow on the ground, but that was, again, a week ago and it's melted off. Yesterday was a beauty day. I set up a little ramp in here for Emerald. We were playing around on our bikes and her roller blades and stuff. So this is my mountain bike. This is a Rocky Mountain Reaper, pretty decent bike. I've had that for, I don't know, 10 years or so. But it's a big, big garage, lots of room. Emerald's little four-wheeler there. I can put a loft up there too. I don't know about an actual hangout loft because of all of the ribs. But definitely storage, storage loft. It's a big garage guys, look at it. Big, well lit, dry, cement floor, drainage holes. Well taken care of. I got a lot of my camping gear out here. My sled, my canvas tent, my wood stoves, some old extra tires, paddles, some Hunter and Harris paddles. Check out the Hunter and Harris, good Canadian company. And then obviously paints and things that they left. Some extra wood, my house is all made of cedar. So some extra cedar planks. Oh, hello, where did you come from? So coming from what I had, a little two or three bedroom house in the middle of city, no garage, just a little shed. That's huge. That can take up all of my camping gear and some. I'm keeping my camping gear inside because I don't want a lot of it to freeze, which it will do out here, but I ain't a big guy. Okay, let's go around back behind the garage and I'll show you my forest, my two acres of woods. Arrow. There's my chopping block. The house is heated by wood stove and propane, but the propane needs to be salvaged, or what's the word I'm looking for? Not used up as much. We need to save it as much as we can. Use it when we need it. So this secondary shed, I don't know if it's unlocked or not, has just a couple little odds and ends in it. More stuff that the owners left. Emerald and I had a silly string fight yesterday. Like I said, Emmy wasn't at school for a full week, so we had a full week of just hanging out here together. It was awesome. We had a lot of fun. Okay, so here's my forest my bush I will be building a little shelter in here just to hang out with emerald kind of thing But yeah, let's go check it out. So as you can see, we've got some moss Got some rocks lots of pine needles and cedar leaves. Yeah, this is not bad guys You know, it's not the biggest in the world like that. See that tarp over there on the ground. That's probably the driveway That's where the driveway is and it ends in front not too far in front of that then I've got a driveway there the neighbor but this is a decent amount of bush for my front yard I can see right now spruce right in front I can see spruce there balsam fir big cedar a couple big cedars some bird oh there's a big birch lots of dead wood look at that that's dead dead hey bud let's go it's been loving it out here just absolutely loving it I got my another birch tree there yeah this will be fine to make a little shelter uh for Emerald and me to hang out in in the front here and i'll obviously 100% still go do my my trips this will just be like a little home home base kind of thing so something i'm not used to there's a lot of rocks all over the place it's very cool to see right scoots yo dude whatever you say bro so this was here when we got here obviously it's been here for years those that wood's probably not the greatest it is cedar so it's rot resistant but it's probably been there for 20 years so 10 years ago when Will and I lived in Sault Ste. Marie we had neighbors inside our apartment and they are the same neighbors we now have next door to us which is awesome Scout grew up with their dog and now they're dog friends again all dog friends for life okay we're getting up to the house she's a haul I'm gonna have to buy a four-wheeler ATV with a snowplow because I'm not shoveling this driveway this is my house all right guys here she is this is our first living room gotta get the bigger TV up we're just that's just there for now we're going to hang the TV on that wall nice big window and we have to get a couch so we're gonna get a sectional to come in kind of on the same angle as these chairs we got chair chair table and chair we're gonna get a sectional that goes boom around kind of like a an an L or a U and we'll put these chairs over there in our second living room we have just things like the baby's little change table bassinet this table which was our old entertainment center type thing at our old house it broke on the move up so that's garbage we just have a lot of stuff sitting there for now you know just still moving in there's our big TV still wrapped up a little Lord of the Rings drawn poster but if you stand in the corner this is the very corner you can see just how big it is all cedar this stone hearth for our wood stove got a bunch of tile on the ground near the doors and then wood again this wood stove is really cool it's cast iron and soapstone so it really really holds the heat the soapstone is all in the top tiles and here and the cast iron is here and here got one of those nifty fans it just runs off the heat from the wood stove. This is obviously residually hot still. Pretty cool though, eh? I think Dougie got me another one, so I'll have two. Went one direction and another. I got to stoke this up because we run on propane here for heating and wood. And we only have one propane tank and it's at like 40%. So that's obviously from the previous owners still. We have to have the propane people in there putting in two more tanks. So we'll have three total and we'll be okay. But like when I away and stuff i need i need my family to be warm so i'll be calling the the wood guy and get a few more cords of wood today as well like i said let's soak this up and i'll show you how the damper works and everything it's a little bit different it's pretty cool actually so i've never seen a damper on the bottom like this before i'm sure it's pretty common but pushed all the way in is open and pulled out is closed i want to push it all the way in because i don't want the house to fill up with smoke when i open the door now as a safety measure the handles are not operable they are but they're super hot and they don't have a handle on them I keep the handle up here Just because we have emerald and I just would prefer it to be safe as possible If the handle here and the handle goes right on there and opens and comes off easy We also do have a secondary opening on the side, which I really like for long logs, right? You just stick them right in lengthways and not have to fight trying to get them in and around But we don't need this one open just yet. I've been mostly dealing with the one in the front it's easy enough here you can really see the soapstone tiles they are really nice it adds a little character to it too she's a warm one it took some getting used to learning how to use this one every wood stove is a little bit different this one was way more different than i'm used to but i've got it and i'm really starting to like it so damper is fully open for a little while and we'll close it down pretty nice i love the what the uh the stone work behind it all those Just rocks retain the heat and pump them out as well. Nice little set up with the tile, scoots food. And eventually, pretty soon actually, we'll have the chairs over there. All that'll be cleared off and that'll be like a chill spot with a nice little coffee table. We can sit out, look out the window or read or chat. Let's go see, let's go see mom. I'll take you outside here in a minute. This is my backyard, big old deck, big old lake. This is our dining room, you can see. got like a half octagonal octagonal octagonal viewing area you can look out and eat look down at the water which is really nice yeah a secondary door going out onto the porch on the deck that's our room over there that plant that white pine was a sapling that Will got when we graduated college yeah 10 years ago when we lived in Sault Ste. Marie I got one too but i don't have a green thumb. So that'll be planted out in the in the actual grass and it'll grow hopefully into a big old tree. So the kitchen is pretty nice, way bigger, lots of cupboard space, good lighting which is something we also didn't have in the other house, nice fridge. We are on well water which is taking some getting used to it's a very sulfury and hard that's hard water so we actually just have the guy from Culligan just leave and they're gonna put in a water softener and you know what the heck he called it our dirt dirt dirt dirt something to make the water softer to make it not sulfury and then possibly have to do a bacteria test if there is bacteria they have to put in a UV light as well and all that's gonna cost a few grand but that's okay because as of now I've been taking showers and stuff but the family doesn't really like it I don't like the way it smells either I can handle it. We have a baby. You know, we need water I don't want to be walking down to the lake every day getting water even though it's right there. I'm not camping This is my life. This is how we live. We're not camping I don't want to come home from a camping trip and go down to the water and have to boil my water again But we are walking down there getting water for scouts probably one of the cleaner lakes going So that's water right from the lake and you can't even like that's as clear as it would be out of the tap clearer than this So but anyways that's all going to get taken care of soon And there are a lot of few things that we have to get taken care of like I said the propane The internet we don't still have internet You know I'm gonna have to be paying 200 bucks for 200 megs a month, and that's not a lot Gigs gigs not megs. I don't know what those words mean right come on guys follow me I'll show you the rest so down on this side of the house. There's two bedrooms and a bathroom this is autumn's it's going to be autumn's room big old room lots of wood look it looks like a scout logo lots of wood got a little decent little hallway here between the rooms got a bathroom this is emerald's bathroom lots of wood pretty cool pretty cool got a full shower and bath obviously no peasant life soon to soon to be no peasant life with actual water got good storage here again way more storage than we ever had before so we're taking it up making good use of it you're gonna you want to go in there or what are you doing and this is emmy's room and of course emmy's room already looks like emmy's room nice and pink and frilly it's got a good view big old closet carpet these two rooms are the only ones with carpet in the house emeralds and autumn's room take you down to the other side of the house and show you my room a spare bedroom so this is a spare bedroom a little messy right now got an extra bed got the old rats in here scouts best friends and down this little hallway is the master bedroom check the size of this piece out oh where's the light so this is very very big in our old house our master bedroom this we have a king-size bed now took up three quarters of the room we had a little tiny hallway to walk on one side and like a little bit flatter on the end where our dresser was and now and that was against one wall now it's The bed's smacked out in the middle. We've got tons of room. We've got a patio out here. We're just going out to the patio. We've got a little bed, a bassinet. We've got this big old dog bed. That is a beast. And then we're going to put a hot tub right there. And this deck wraps around. It's a pretty decent size. Let's go run down to the lake real quick, and I'll show you the rest of the house. I promise we're almost done. We've got these old railroad ties for stairs going down. These things will never rot, they're like oil-infused. And then we've got raised beds as far as the eye can see. You can plant tons of vegetables and herbs and flowers and nonsense in there in the springtime. Lots and lots of opportunity for that. Look at the house, look at the house, guys. Look at it, would you just look at it? Crazy. And here is the piece de resistance, the windy lake. The big ol' windy lake. Just amazing, beautiful. can start to see across after i zoom it in all the way more wood more land hang my hammock up between those two trees just whoa look at that here just an insane amount of possibilities guys an insane amount of possibilities for real and for some reason if i got too full up on canoes or other watercrafts i could just start sticking them down there under this big old deck that has nothing underneath it at all i'm pretty happy about this can you tell it's been a long time coming guys it's been a whole whole lifetime coming this is legit my dream house and will's dream house what was one of the prerequisites you had for your dream house anything about the tree line driveway oh yes yes so not exactly what we wanted like she wanted like big towering pines lining the driveway and i wanted a little bit more of an intimate lake but like this is pretty good pretty good so then we have walk-in closets on both sides that's mine that's hers and we got a decent sized bathroom lots of wood again i mentioned the wood and look at the sink paid extra for that one looking out into the front yard this is one of my favorite views looking over my kingdom cars wood big old yard that garage though that garage makes me happy What do you think? Yeah? That's all right. All right, last part. I saved the best for last, or the potentially best for last. This, my man cave. This will be my studio. This will be family living room type thing. Comfort. Upstairs is wood. Did I mention that's all wood? Downstairs I want to make comfort. I want to get carpets and cloth couches and make a bar down here and do the whole dealie. So this is just the first part of it, right? I've got a cold cellar in there. It goes far like all the way to that wall It's big and they're all insulated. No, I think I missed a missed a light switch. There we go So we got a lot of storage underneath the stairs. Well, this is gonna be all finished all completely finished Build a little storage spot underneath there got my camping coats and vests and whatnot hung up Tons of boxes from the move and I mean like this is all camping gear camping gear Anything here empty boxes this cove I might make into my studio I'll have to build it out a little bit more because it's not the biggest but it's pretty cool in here I like the way it feels so you're half octagon. This is obviously where the Dining room is upstairs But this is this is not that small if I just built the walls out in the front a couple more feet I think it'd be alright. So anyways, this will get all cleaned up. We got our laundry over there hot water We have to get the water softener over there, too These are supports for underneath of the wood stove which is super heavy. So we'll build that into a wall I got my sleeping bags hung up already. It's all insulated as you can see not finished, but we will finish it There's a little workbench here. And I think over here will be the living room bar area. You loving it Scout. What up? My tummy did you hear that an extra door an extra bed frame extra box spring extra toilet so again, this is a lot of potential down here and You can bet I'm gonna take as much use of it as I can again not having it and then coming to it It's uh, it's awesome. No other word to say It is awesome Well, I think that wraps up the home tour guys Hope you enjoyed it. I hope it wasn't too long-winded like my loving wife told me but you can expect to see new videos soon new camping videos and building videos and bushcraft videos new fun videos soon I promise so thanks for taking the tour with us we'll see you guys in the next one Oh subscribe to me so I can reach a million subscribers because that's my goal