My Shed Stories
I am sharing my journey of bringing a 100-year-old homestead back to life in rural Estonia.
My dream is to build a simple, slow-paced and low-cost life with no mortgage and more freedom with my time. In the summer of 2025 I bought a neglected property with an old farmhouse and several run-down sheds in a quiet village. It had been six years since anyone lived there. I started with clearing out the sheds and removing the shrubs that had taken over a lot of the yard. I had to demolish several of the buildings that were in poor shape. This has transformed the area massively. Next, I need to figure out if the old log cottage is salvageble and hopefully start with restoring it.
Revealing what was left inside another garden shed
The red shed got cleared out - what was inside?
What the previous owner left on the porch and after cleaning it up
A look around the attic
Cleaning up in a 100-year-old house - timelapse
Inside my 100-year-old log house before renovation
Before and After: My Neglected Homestead's 3-month Makeover
Planting narcissi and tulips in my homestead
Lifting and transporting a metal garden shed with the help of Nobe Nael, a moving company
Garbage cleanup in bushes at my countryside household (timelapse)
Manually taking apart a big collapsed stable in my countryside homestead: 5 days' timelapse
Painting one wall of an old toolshed in my rural homestead
Old toolshed cleanup from decades of accumulated stuff - timelapse
Nobody had lived here for 6 years: discovering the property on the first day