THE BEGINNING OF THE END | Farmhouse Renovation at our Irish Homestead
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- This is a jam packed week. Clare starts with a tour of our water irrigation system that helps keep our polly tunnel balanced and feed our family. Rob continues with the wiring while Clare works upstairs to paint one of the bedrooms.
Seedlings are planted for the coming winter months and Rob makes his world famous Orange and almond Cake.
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I've being watching you guys for months, I have to say yous are amazing and all the work you have done. You should be both very proud! That orange cake looks amazing I'm going to be trying to bake it.
Tough when you are the builder, roofer, framer plasterer, painter, all in one, but we can't believe how much we have learnt in the process and wouldnt change it for the world🙂
The orange almond cake looks and sounds delicious…will make one today! The upstairs bedroom is moving forward and is looking lovely. Your hard slogging work is paying off.
Hope you enjoy!🙂
The bedrooms look amazing, and once the OSB is varnished it'll be a lovely seamless look on that floor.
I actually like the hall lights.
I think they'd be a bit 'funky' looking anywhere else, but with the vaulted pitched ceiling, stone wall, timber doors etc they work really well as that particular space is almost like a 'castle' corridor if that makes sense?
And it's kind of reinforced by the gold interior throwing off an almost candle-like light / ambience - Almost like medieval 'torches' mounted on the wall.
I got my postcard (THANK YOU!) and as,with the other it looks great mounted in a frame - The two different pics work well side by side as I have them.
The greenhouse really seems to be Clare's 'Happy Place' and I can confirm that the home made fertiliser mix does work really well, and obviously it's organic too!I
You're nearly there with the sockets Rob - So close lol!
One last thing - Do you know how to make Irish soda bread and / or potato bread?
Either one MAKES a breakfast lol!
Thank you for another great video!
Oh Phelim if there's anyone who can make something sound amazingly wonderful, it's you , with your castle like candle lit medieval lights! 🤣 I love it, just the comment I needed 😁
Yes I think soda bread is on the list, but potato bread, now that's a new one 🤔
Wow does that paint make a difference. It looks so nice. Great job.
The paint really makes the place seem airy and fresh, it is truly transformed😊
Eletris ..work bites but soo beautiful working
All your hard work is wonderful ..kick back and enjoy!!❤
Hopefully one day we will / can
The lights look great it's getting closer to finishing the house now it must be really exciting getting to this point and seeing all your hard work come together thanks for sharing your journey
Fingers crossed!🙂
The bedroom and bath turned out beautiful, and much bigger than I had imagined!
The sheer height in the rooms even the bathrooms makes them seem very spacious and airy 😊
Lovely green tunnel episode, fun to me as a gardener too.
Hi Claire,
I have a tip that I’ve used for years. Lots of people use it satisfactorily. I save my teabags, banana peels and eggshells to make my organic food to put in gallon containers along with my well water to fill up and ferment. You have to put the egg shells first into a coffee grinder for the soil to absorb the calcium. I use a heavy duty plastic bag and run a glass bottle over it to make the shells very small and works well. I get giant tomatoes, great free food!
I dry out the teabags a day or two to dry up and store in a plastic container until needed for next batch. I rotate 5 gallons.
I buy my almonds whole, blanch them in boiling water so the skins pretty much rub off. Then I food processor them first, then put smaller amounts into a coffee grinder to get powdery. A 8lb. bay almost da ground up last a long time. I use it for my own almond paste too. A fun job.
I just made 5 jars of lemon curd actually. I like it added to Greek yogurt for a tasty desert. I love making and baking, sewing, knitting too. I am a retired florist so very artsy all round. Almond tastes great too with cherry, also raspberry.
Have a good week both of you. 😀
All the best, M.
That's an interesting recipe... Gotta try the tea !
Thanks again enjoy watching. Questions and ideas. Dessert first. Drizzle some dark chocolate on top. How do u heat the polytunnel in winter? Have been watching a herb show, how about dandelions and plantain for greens? Couple ideas one would love to see a cookbook. me either print or online if it was online, you could do it with the demos. I keep watching survival things I would a root seller be appropriate there? since Ireland is so windy as an alternative energy source is there anyway to use the wind, windmills or whatever I’m not too clear on this, but I’ve been wondering. Doing a great job keep it up!
Have never operated a polytunnel in the winter before, so open to all ideas. Yes the root cellar is a must get. Love the recipe idea, watch this space 🤣
Hi Claire what paint sprayer is it please, and are you going to do a recipe book with all the lovelies you have made coz I will deffo buy it ❤
The paint sprayer is the Wagner 690 Flexio Sprayer from Amazon. Yes the recipe book is a nice idea 😀
Love the sconces
Yeah they are looking good!
Love is like oxygen / The Sweet?
Not quite but great tune 🥰😉
I'm with Claire on the lights!!!!
Haha, I'll have to properly see when we have the electricity, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt🙂
Another tipsy foody outro. Becoming a habit, the best kind 🥂 🍰 ❤ Good to see you folks enjoying the project starting to get wrapped up. Starting to get some balance back to life eh.
Balance! Enjoyment! Oh man, if only you knew!! Getting there tho. It's one hell of a rollercoaster, the end isn't what you expect tho, or even isn't where you expect! That's another video I guess 🤣🤔
❤🎉
Thankyou 🙂
might have to finish watching later but I'll start now , currently volunteering in Ukraine and I'm giving an english lesson at 7,30 . for some unfathomable reason there don't seem to be many native speaking english teachers wanting to teach in Ukraine at the moment , can't think why
Oh wow... That's crazy! How'd you get into that line of work!
Thanks Rooney , showing us how you go 🤣
😊
I don’t know when I’ll be baking again but I’ll definitely try this recipe ✌️💚
Tomorrow😁
Cake looks yum, I’d put in a drop or two of Grand Marnier or brandy! House looking great! 😊
Great tip 😊
Since you asked…Your daughter’s room could take a loft space and ladder for reading or storage, etc…!😊
Great idea!!
I love your cooking segment ❤
More to come!
Well, Clare did say 'Winter is coming' and those lights would look well with John Snow striding down the hall with a hand-and-a-half 'bastard sword' drawn in his hand lol!
Plus the warm light throws the perfect-imperfect stonework into stark relief as regards the old pointing.
To me it just works in terms of 'feel'.
Your lovely home is a wonder of transition from the old traditional irish cottage vernacular to the new almost alpine look on the (now front) elevation.
The OSB, concrete counter tops, oiled beams etc all add to that seamless transtion in styles.
I can really see your 'vision' for the build coming together now, and it's inspirational@WestCorkWander
You know... We do have swords, real swords we needed for our Kendo :)
Thanks Phelim 😊😍
hi there wcw !
you could try to plant potato onion, (potato onion is a onion that acts like a potato, you plant the bulb and from that bulb other bulb comes if you get what i mean?)
from wiki
"The potato onion (also known as an Egyptian onion, underground onion or multiplier onion) in some old English varieties may be large, although others may be less so.
According the french ethnobotanist Michel Chauvet, the potato onion, also called family onion, forms several more or less flattened bulbs which, unlike shallots, remain enveloped in external tunics. The term aggregatum was coined to describe this type. It is cultivated in the gardens of many countries, including Finland, Russia, Sri Lanka, Philippines, and Ecuador."
in short potato onion is a type off onion that can handle the weather in ireland becasue they are pretty thought ones (if i have seen right)
just a tip off a plant you can buy and try out! :)
have a great day!
Wow, I have never heard of the potato onion. How interesting, I will have to research this, thank you 🙂
Brilliant watering system Clare! Also great progress on the house, and I kinda like the spiral wall lights! 😊 All desserts are your favorite Rob, lol! 😂 Love you guys! 💚
Haha yes he loves his deserts! The lights are growing on me 😊
You are a wonderful plaster and painter,hurrah for you, looks good.❤
Thanks so much, still learning all the time 😊
Yes the lighting is beautiful in the corridor
🤞Thank you, we will see it so much better with electricity 🙂
Absolutely amazing amount of progress your both making ❤
Thanks, ploughing on!
You could try broccoli, cabbagr and cauliflower before the winter hits. They will definitely grow in autumn in the greenhouse.
Great ideas there, yes will have to research these 😊
💕I think you need a commercial poly tunnel/greenhouse about 30’ wide so you can grow more varieties of freshly grown produce to eat year round💕
It's on the wish list 🤞
Rob did you let the oranges cool down before you put them in the fridge because if you put any hot food in the fridge, it changes the temperature of all the other food that needs to be kept cool in the fridge 👍😉🇨🇮☘️Eire
I actually ran outta time and added them in warm but normally I'd do as you suggest 👌 cool to room temp or ice bath and pop in.
Wall lights look good and Keira’s bedroom 👍 did you use almond flour or ground almonds or is almond flour the same as ground almonds ? 🧐 can you tell I’m not the greatest cook 😂 going to make the cake
Thank you. Haha I asked Rob the same question when we were in SuperValu the other day. Apparently ground almonds are the whole almond and almond flour is without the skins. It would be interesting to see how this would taste with almond flour, as with ground almonds it is quite coarse.
I was wondering if you can make a tomato pie? House is really looking good🙂💐
Thank you😊 I will add this one to the list 🙂
Yes please share recipe for cake, would love to try and make it.
Rob doesn't really follow a recipe and eyeballs everything! You could look it up, I know he used more oranges than normal as he loves them 😊
I’m going to try that cake.
Go for it 😁
Peas in the tunnel
Good idea 🙂
Everytime I feel too ' not bothered' to do something. I think of you guys and I get on with it. Plus, just about to try that orange cake. I'm not a baker, but hey it looked so good! 👍
You can do it! 💪 Orange cake is really good 😊
Orange cake is my favourite yum
Gorgeousness
I made the cake! ! Oh my word .. First edible cake ever 😂 Love it. Thank you guys. ❤️
Fantastic!! Well done you!
I love the lights ( sorry Clare ) house is coming together really fast now , it all looks great, cake looks delicious as well ! 😊
I think they will grow on me especially when we can really see the effect with electricity 🙂
Thanks for the shout out - I found the paint sprayer worked fairly well for the walls and ceiling ( after I had a rough ish time trying to paint doors - much overspray as I didn’t get to grips with it at first). I think it works well when you have nothing in the room. I’ve been trying to mask off and cover floors and furniture with limited success. It I do agree the sprayer is good though and the results are worth it.
Yes I had a short fuse when learning at the start, however with Rob's patience and some RUclips videos (which I would recommend), I got there.
I feel the more I use it, the more I learn. Only just the other day, I realized that if you over tighten the black part at the front of the larger sprayer, it makes a massive difference to the amount of paint being released. I have got to the stage now where because I'm going from room to room, I don't even clean it or empty it, just release a little bit of pressure from the vessel while it's sitting idle.
Yes taping and covering up is a pain as the bloody thing wants to pull everything off on you! The only way seems to be to weigh the dust sheets down. That actually is the biggest issue, I'm with you there😔
@@WestCorkWander ya - RUclips instructional videos helped me too. I agree it’s a learning curve. I’m in 5he process of getting a new house built so will have plenty of scope for practice!
With the new house, you will be flying without anything to cover up 🤣
I remember making this cake for my daughter’s baby shower more than 21 years ago, and I’d been making it for many years before as it’s a family favourite. I always serve it with thin slices of orange cooked in an orange syrup and whipped cream, of course. Yum!
Thanks for sharing! It's a great one 🙂
What abeautiful place and a very comfortable lifestyle,,😍🌹🥰
It has been a while coming but slowly yes it is 🙂
Love, love that cake❤❤❤❤
It's a tasty one🙂
Guys ye are doing a great job!! Fairply to ye both....ye have worked so hard. Its a credit to ye. Would you consider white Day/night blinds.
Yes, we have pretty much decided for the 5 sash in the main house, we will have venetian blinds. For now the kitchen will remain without 🙂
Sorry i meant in the bedrooms upstairs.
I love the wall lights
They are growing on me! 😄
Good morning!
If you create a row for winter cropping, leave enough space beside the glasshouse wall to sidle down it... when it's frost season, pop some hoops along your row and pop row cover on for the overnights.
Spinach, kale, bitter greens- radicchio, broad leaf greens. Have a pile of grassclippings/ a few bales of hay or straw tucked in a corner of the green house, and at the warmest part of a winter's day, use your pile to build up mulch around your greens... tuck them into a warm blanket of mulch .
Yes, I love these ideas. I have never grown as anything in the winter, and certainly never had a tunnel to experiment in before, so thankyou 😊
Might i add, if your tunnel is getting below 20C during the day and quite cool overnight, move your seedling trays inside to a warmer, sunny window ledge... you need them to establish and be bulging out of their trays as you plant- to get them grown before the frost- they don't really grow over winter unless you can keep your tunnel above 15C overnight- they just don't die through winter freeze- so you want to push the plants to be grownish before a hard frost.
Hope that makes sense 🌻