Ryan and I often joke about hiring a professional to come in and do parts of the build. But the joke ends with one of us saying it, the other laughing, and then we get back to work on the build. We didn’t sign up for this self build just to give in and hire someone to do the uncomfortable parts. However, I think we’ve met our match with plumbing. Never, have I ever, wanted to hire a professional more in this build than I have now. Don’t worry, though, we are still all in on doing it on our own. It will take us WAY longer than it would take a professional, but in the end we know we feel so proud of the work we have done. Also, overcoming these hard parts of the build is actually what makes it great. You never look back at an easy time in your life and realize that it taught you a lot or retell it as a great story. Nope, it’s the hard parts that actually make you grow and the hard parts always make the best story. So we dig our heels in and tackle the plumbing system for our house. One piece of ABS at a time.
And now a little back story on us, in case you just found us on YouTube. We’re Sara and Ryan. We are your average suburban family, but 9 years ago, we purchased a raw piece of land in the Hood Canal in Washington. We’ve been developing this piece of property slowly, and this year we knew it was time to go all in. So we purchased a log cabin kit home and decided that 2020 would be the year we built a house on our property. We plan to build this cabin (as much as we can) on our own. Unfortunately, COVID-19 put a delay on our cabin kit being produced and delivered in the time frame we had originally planned. While we could have just waited it out and pushed back starting on the build of our home, we decided to shift gears and change our course for the time being. We purchased a 30 foot yurt, and will be setting it up as additional living space when we begin to build our cabin. In the summer of 2021, we FINALLY moved to the Hood Canal so we could start the build of our future home. While we are building our home, we are living in a camper trailer and the yurt that we built in the summer of 2020. We hope to have our cabin kit home built by the summer of 2022. Just my husband and I are building the house. We get help here and there from friends along the way and we do plan to get help on the roof but other than that we are doing it all on our own.
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