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We made walls for our bathroom out of scrap wood and scrap metal. The boards are all 2x4s, 2x3s, and 2x6s from the scrap bin at the hardware store, and the metal is galvalume siding from a scrap yard.

We recently finished making a driveway out of rocks from around our property. All together, it took about a month, but it was well worth it since it's improved our yard so much! If you live in an area

Happy Halloween from the homestead! This is "Ol' Betsy." She hangs around here often. You may have already seen her in the background of some of our pics.

Over the weekend, we made a firewood rack for free! We built it out of a few old pallets and a couple sheets of corrugated scrap metal – we find this stuff all over the place. As you can probably tell

One day, while exploring our neighborhood, we found a bunch of old doors. We decided that one of them would be perfect for a large computer desk, something we desperately needed. The transformation was

We made this fire pit out of an old metal culvert we found and some rocks from around our yard. So simple, but so much better than just a hole in the ground.

The stuff you're looking at in the picture above is pyrite – aka, "fool's gold." Apparently we have a lot of it around us, because we find it quite often. It even fooled us a little the first

We captured this footage during monsoon season. Video doesn't really do it justice, but it's still very cool to watch in slow motion.

This photo was taken from the shore of Cathedral Park in Portland, OR; our favorite park in the Pacific Northwest!

Check out this lettuce we regrew from a stump! We simply put it in water and set it in a place that gets partial Sun. Every few days we changed the water. That's it! Lettuce is not the only food you can

Took this photo while hiking through Marquam Nature Park in Portland, OR. Much scarier in the photo than in person. In person, it was actually quite serene.

While hiking one day, we came across the last remains of an abandoned town. The town was called Cazador, and there isn't much known or written about it, other than it had a train station that was frequently

We know it's getting pretty cold in many parts of the world this time of year, so we wanted to share this post with you. This was written for people living in tiny houses, but these methods could be applied

Whenever we go off-roading, our dog completely loses it! In a good way, of course. She hangs out the window and makes this high pitch yelping sound that almost sounds like laughter. Does anyone know if

Found this gravesite hidden away on an abandoned property. It appears to be the final resting place of the couple who used to own the land. Cool, creepy, and sad all at the same time. Steepshot IPFS IOS

Tesla Solar Roof in slate. Image courtesy of Tesla.com. Where Are Tesla's Solar Roof Tiles? Back in October, 2016 Tesla unveiled their prototype for Solar Roof tiles. They had four versions of the tiles

This post summarizes the best way we've found to get Internet off the grid without spending a fortune. We also briefly discuss the first method we tried and why it didn't work very well for us. Even if

This video documents the process we went through to get our land ready for the delivery of our tiny house. It was an arduous, tiresome process that seemed insurmountable at times, but the alternative was

Sometimes you just get that feeling a certain place has been waiting for you your whole life, and that is exactly what was captured in this photo at this moment. It sounds corny, but it's true. Steepshot