Its official! 2 years of living for free in the same place! Many Be...

Welcome to my Home!

This is a post to document and celebrate 2 years of occupying this cabin here in Norway. The changes that have happened are quite astonishing to look back on and I'm really happy to keep it all on blockchain so I can always access it easily in the future. If the owners ever come back to use it or to sell it, then I have documented evidence of the work I have personally done on their property which saved the cabin from falling down completely.

I guess they wont be back anytime soon though- they haven't been here for 20 years according to the neighbors, and the place did have some rotten floor boards and smashed windows, and some structural damage.

This brings back memory's - this snap is from 2 years ago of the front of the cabin..

And here is was looking after the renovation..

Here's a recap of how it went, I guess actually no-one that reads this would have read the first posts of the renovation, so I will leave the links at the bottom for those interested.

It was fun, we had no electric..

....I managed at the time to buy a dewalt drill that we could charge up at the nieghbours and I had hand tools anyway. 10 brand new handsaws later, 333m of wood for internal walls, and 700kg of plasterboard later, it was complete.
This is not in much order and the previous posts are in better depths and order!

Removing the front door to replace the rotten side kitchen door to be used as the only entrance inside. A second hand window that I thought weighed just 11kg when it actually weighed around 60 kg, and I had to go get it without a car - which was testing! It was at the undercoat stages of being painted. The window to the right is my bedroom window which replaced the old big window next to the front door.

Inside!

This was taken the second time I came to the cabin, just a day after I found it, but I had to show my mate it because we were occupying places together so I thought to invite him to live there too. The doors were locked but the kitchen widow was smashed so we got in like that and then could unlock the doors from inside.

pondering the possibility's....

And this photo below was taken right now from exactly that same spot as the first photo.

Just a bit different huh?!

Imagine if you owned this and one day decided to go see it expecting it to be caved in on itself hahahah. That's why I document it because I will own it after 10 more years from occupation rights. If I get evicted before hand, I can get money for the work i have done here and the money me and my mate spent which was around 10,000 euro on building materials. We realized that it would be worth to do it as the place is so quiet, and so so far its cost us 2500 euro each in rent a year which is very cheap for this country.

After the Pondering...

We were first thinking just to put tents up inside and use the old wood burner but this place was like a gold mine! We are both travelers and arrived with only the best home ever for true freedom and independence - a tent and good sleeping bag - and we both had money at the time so we thought about taking the inside wall panels off, and putting insulation in the walls. But then I realized, without the right tools we would damage the wood and when we tried to replace it we would have exposed rockwool which wouldn't be good. It was just less hassle to make new walls and ceiling all with 10 cm insulation.

completely new suspended ceiling, with cables run for lights and sockets.

Luckily they have here 6mm thick plasterboard, if they didn't I would have had a lot more work to to to make the new ceiling level because at some point in time the chimney stack has sunk and the ceiling are now all different angles. The thin plasterboard is flexible to overcome this multi angled ceiling problem.

Here's a pic showing the angles, its quite funny!

The ceiling was up, just the kitchen ceiling would be separate from the rest, and then it was time to make 2 bedrooms. In the photo above, I removed a kitchen wall to put a door there into one of the rooms, and below is the separating wall standing in one room looking into the next, and also the lounge going into the kitchen.

My Room - just finished the plasterboarding and filling the joints.

Small Structural Repairs for the kitchen!

It wasn't so bad, the guttering was very blocked from overhanging trees and constant dripping had eaten the kitchen floor away so this work here had to be carried out. I had to do some brickwork and then replace the wood you see in the photo.