Another Year, Another Barbeque
It has been already a tradition to feature the first barbeque of the year at our rural country house in the blog. See First Barbecue Festival in Our Newly Inherited House2018 is no exception,…
Home Remodeling – Bākūži
Tapping Birch Sap in the Backyard
Can't decide on a new hobby? Think about tapping birch sap in early spring. Depending on the region you are located and availability of birch trees you might even enjoy this drink - a birch sap.In…
Grass Trimming 2017
It was back at the end of June 2017, we had just returned from about month-long travel (Turkey, Georgia, and Greece) to notice that grass have more than overgrown.I took my old pall - Edward The…
Planting Onion Springs and Radishes
For the past three years, it has been already a tradition planing some veggies in the garden.For this year's early garden works - planting onion springs and radishes.Planting spring onionsPlanting…
Winter in Bākūži 2 - 2018
A couple of weeks ago I made a couple of HDR's back at Bākūži (Bākūži Winter 2018), despite it was still a winter, we had little to no snow back then. Now at the end of February 2018, I made some…
Bākūži Winter 2018
Made a couple of HDR's back at Bākūži, the country house where for the last couple of years we have done some home remodeling.In today's Piece of Life series, simple winter mood from Latvian winter (…
DIY Open Wooden Compost Bin
A compost bin is a must-have garden construction at our rural property - fallen leaves and trimmed grass mostly go here. It was on early May 1st, 2017 evening I decided to build an open wooden…
Home Remodeling - Season 3 (2017)
We had some great plans for this Summer's home remodeling works, unfortunately, we faced some obstacles, and decided to stop any further home remodeling works for this year.Despite being pretty upset…
Autumn Harvest in The Garden
Back at our rural country house in Latvia, we have a pretty international garden, plants, and flowers from different countries across the world, so, for example, we have a tulip bulbs from the…
Summer Solstice 2017
This is already fourth Summer Solstice featured on this blog. see how three years ago we made a barbeque on our Tbilisi's balcony and how we celebrated our first Summer Solstice…
Home Remodeling - End Of The Season 2
Wow, that was a ride. In this post I will write down all major tasks we performed during Summer 2016, which was second year since we started to manage and repair our rural property.Learn more…
Planting Strawberry Plants In Fall
It was at the end of September (2016), when we planted 80 strawberry plants in a field which was prepared few days ago with a tiller. See: Ground Milling With A TillerEarlier this Summer we…
Temporary Window For Bathroom
This year's (2016) home remodeling works are coming to the end, though one problem were left - a window for bathroom. As just outer constructions of walls were performed, and there are still a…
Ground Milling With A Tiller
During the Summer of 2016 we met some new faces, and so back in July we met with a neighbor (Ok, he is actually living some 10 km from our rural house) with a tractor with tiller - I started to ask…
Inner Wall From AAC Blocks For Pump Room
Last home remodeling works are carried out for this end, in today's article - final inner wall from aac blocks, for auxiliary room, where right now just pump is stored in the corner, but it's planned…
DIY - Bookshelf From Wooden Boards
Time after time I love to excel as a Do-it-yourself guy, for today's DIY article - how i built bookshelf for our rural house from wooden boards.Let's start that we have a complete mess in our master…
Connecting The Dots - Water Pipe And Pump Installation
This day marks a huge milestone - for the very first day, since house was originally built in 1896 - house will have a fully automatic water supply. This day also marks the end of the planned…
Demolishing Inner Walls To Build AAC Block Walls
In today's home remodeling series a story how I continued to build a bathroom and how we demolished an inner wall to later rebuild it from scratch, again with aac blocks.Let's start with what we got:…
Preparation Works For Bathroom - Breaking Ceiling, Demolish A Wall, Pouring Foundation
Ok, it took a long, but here I'm returning to the building bathroom from scratch worksHere is what we are going to do today:At first we will need to break ceilings or floor at the loft, then we will…
Rock Garden Extended
It was at the start of the September (2016) - we were finishing wall replacement works and already had installed first bearing beams, there were still some things left on home remodeling works,…
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