Category: Episodes

Today, we are completing the foundation for our cabin. We are installing the main beam that will support the weight of our 2 story, A-frame style cabin. This part of the project is so tedious, but SO important. We struggle to make sure the beam is level. In our past projects before building our own… Continue reading Is it LEVEL yet? // Completing the Foundation of our Cabin Kit Home – Ep. 33

We are FINALLY starting the build of our cabin kit home. We begin with laying the sill plates over our concrete foundation. The sill plates are anchored to the concrete foundation of the house and some say that they are the most important part of your house. This is because they are the FIRST piece… Continue reading Do We Have ENOUGH Materials??? // Installing the Sill Plate on our Cabin Kit Home – Ep. 32

In the last episode, you saw us unload the first truckload of our cabin episode. In this episode, you get to see use RACE to beat the epic heat want that hit the Pacific Northwest at the end of June 2021. Will we be able to unload this truck in one day, or will it… Continue reading It’s FINALLY Here // Building a Cabin Kit Home – Ep. 31

We have been waiting for this day for 1 ½ years! Coronavirus put a halt to our dream to build our own cabin because the company we purchased our cabin from had to temporarily shut down their production. We opted to push the delivery of our cabin kit home off to this summer. So we… Continue reading Our Cabin is HERE // Building our Cabin Kit Home – Episode 30

Our family is going through some MAJOR changes! In our last episode, Ryan and I announced that we had decided to move to the Hood Canal to live full time. We are SO excited about this move, but when you’re in the thick of it, sometimes you forget how excited you are because you’re so… Continue reading Why we’re MOVING into our CAMPER Trailer // Building our Cabin Kit Home – Ep. 29

For the past year, we have been STRUGGLING. Struggling with going back and forth from our home in a small town in Oregon to our land in Washington. Struggling to find time for the build and time for our home in Oregon. Fitting in all the driving between the two places has been a huge… Continue reading Big CHANGES Ahead // Building Our LOG CABIN Kit Home – Ep. 28

In this episode, we feel like the building gods are against us! We work to install our temporary electric to our future house site, and although we feel confident in the installation, we have a terrible time working with the HUGE wires. Because of the length from our main panel to our house panel, we… Continue reading Do we REALLY know what we’re doing? // Building our OWN House – Ep. 27

We are well into the project of installing the permanent electrical to our future a-frame cabin. This project requires us to lay a little over 300 ft. of thick wire from our main panel to the sub panel for our cabin. To pass our inspection, we must lay the wire 24 inches below ground level… Continue reading Are we in OVER our HEADS // Building Our OWN House – Ep. 26

We are really getting into this electrical project now, and the trench that we have to dig is literally tearing apart our land. When we look at the mess it’s creating it’s hard to remember that this will all pay off BIG when we have electricity in our cabin. Right now, though, it’s hard to… Continue reading This RUINED our LAND // Building Our OWN House – Ep. 25

It’s time for us to take on a HUGE project! It’s time to install our permanent electrical that will run from our main panel to the cabin panel. This means a lot of things! First, this included just getting the 340 ft. of thick wire we needed to complete the project. Ryan was able to… Continue reading It’s her BIRTHDAY and She’s EXCITED // Building Our Own House – Ep. 24