Leaving Our OFF GRID Cabin 2 Years Later

When we arrived to our land two years ago, it was just a dusty piece of land, and after a lot of perseverance, ups and downs, and thousands of hours of work, we completely finished the first stage of our off-grid project. It all started with the cabin, a key building where we could live at while we built the final house. At the same time, we created a food garden, from when we now eat every day. And lastly, we built the workshop, a multifunctional building that finalizes this stage of our project completely. It holds our off-grid solar system, to produce our own clean electricity. It also works as a greenhouse, so we can still grow food during winter. As an artist studio for Eugenia, and a woodworking one for me, it also has the washing machine, space to keep our tools, extra storage space for food and clothes. And maybe in the future, we will finish it up as a guest house, for volunteers that want to stay with us and help build our project. Today, we finished the project completely, and after months of non-stop work, we decided to leave. I'm not able to paint in between these two boards, so I'm going to need to use the air compressor for that. So this leg over here is sticking up a little bit, so I need to trim it somehow. The idea that we had here was to screw all the boards from underneath, so we don't see the holes on top. But the planks are so badly bent, that it's not going to be possible to do it from underneath, and still have them all, you know, lining up at the same level. So we have decided that we'd rather see the holes, and have the boards somewhat flat, than not seeing the screws, and have them all in different heights. If you have more tools than what we have, you are able to do this properly and better. But it is what it is. That's the tools that we have. We don't have a planner or things like that, you know. But it's going to be fine for the workshop. It wouldn't be fine for, I don't know, like an expensive dinner table. But for a workshop bench, I think it's going to be more than enough. Regina loves it. She loves the aesthetic of, you know, everything different. It looks very, you know, handmade. And I agree, but I would rather... I'm going to try to have it as clean as possible with the material here. ¿Y tu amigo Yuki dónde está? Venga, ve a decirle hola, corre. What's good to you, man? What's good to you? You want to play, right? It's okay, man. It's going to be your friend soon. I'm getting ready to fill all the holes. Yesterday I did the test. Filling it with this putty, and then applying the oil. And it kind of looks pretty, pretty good. I just wanted to double check if the color would be somewhat similar. It looks fantastic, so I'm going to go ahead. Lolita just found her new favorite spot. Lolita, is it cool in there? Do you want me to turn the water on? Should I? We haven't been working for a couple of days because we have been waiting for a sander that we bought in order to finish this table. It's a sander that we wanted to have for a long time and never found the time or like the excuse to buy it. The idea is to sand all these little, you know, imperfections because the boards are not flat. So the idea is to sand everything down like really roughly with a like probably like a 40 grit or like a 60 grit. Try to make the table as smooth and horizontal and, you know, one plane as possible. And for that you need this type of special sander with the other sander that we have. It would be very complicated to do this kind of job. So I'm going to test it out. I've never used it before. I've been watching a few videos about it and how to use it and it doesn't look very complicated, but I guess we're going to find out pretty soon. Come, come, come, come, come. Are you happy? You're wearing a Yannick underwear. I'm very happy with the tool. This is looking very, very good. I don't know if the camera is going to pick it up or not, but you can see the lines are invisible. Well, not all of them, no, but most of them are like really flush to each other. And I still have one here that is bothering me. It's like half a millimeter. This is level to that part. So the line is just underneath. I'm going to try to eat a little bit more here. Eat a little bit more there and make this line flush. Eugenia told me to leave it as it is because it's looking quite, quite good. I normally try to stop right when things are looking good because normally you probably mess things up a little bit more. But, you know, I have the tool. It's working quite well. So I think I'm going to keep going. Yesterday I stayed until very late at night. I kept going for hours, like probably like three, four hours more. I went from, I think it was 40 grit to 80 grit to 120 and then 240. And it has came out so good. I wasn't even dreaming to have this finish because, you know, the wood was just outdoor wood that was left exposed for probably like a couple of months. It was all bent and warped and it is just flat as like a proper table. We have dust everywhere right now and I need to clean it. Now I'm going to clean everything up, try to remove all the dust from everywhere. I don't know if it's going to be even possible. And then I'm going to apply the oil. These legs are twisted. So if I put this perpendicular to the leg, the whole square will look twisted from the table. I don't know if it makes sense. I'm sure it makes sense. I'm trying to guess the rotation that I need to give this so it looks parallel to the table, even though it won't be parallel to the bottom of the leg. It's fine like that. By the way, I'm building these feet just because the wheels that we bought are square and they are bigger in this dimension than the actual leg. So I cannot screw from the bottom of the leg. Might not be the better looking thing I have done in my life. But you know, this is like a cottage car workbench. So it looks good for that. Wow, the height! The height is perfect! What do you think? It's a bit higher. It's a bit higher than that one, no? Let me see. No, it's the same, man! It's really comfortable. The size is perfect to work standing up. And then we have the brake. All right, I just finished applying the last coat of oil. I'm gonna let it dry for the whole night. We'll show you tomorrow how it looks with good light. I want to thank Squarespace for sponsoring this video. We built our first website with them back in 2014. And we have been using their platform for all these years. They make it extremely easy to create beautiful websites without any previous experience. And you don't need to know any web coding at all, as the whole site building process is completely interactive. 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