Timberline Homestead A self sufficient homesteading life

This wasn’t a tough question for me. Our soil is very clay and our land was overgrown with trees, shrubs and bushes. Plus, I had my mind made up at the start of my interest in gardening that I would have a raised garden bed because of how much easier …

Starting a garden for the first time is a lot of guess work. Take a chance and keep my fingers crossed..at least its been that way for me.

The gardening section in my library is still small. I find a lot of information online as its so easily accessible but I like to have hard copies of useful information as well.

The Dream- Five years from now having a garden that runs like a well oiled machine with the variety of fruits and vegetables that your local market has. With this picture comes the knowledge to troubleshoot problems and keep the plants thriving. I see this as a luxury in day …

The stripping down of the house has started! Checkout these pictures as we remove the wood paneling, the roof, some trees and over growth and more!

Demolition day number and also some new additions. With multiple people helpingout it was quick to see old things removed and demolished and new things like doors installed. Demolition is not all fun and can be dangerous if you don’t wear respirators when dealing with mold and nasty drywall dust… …

This is a collection of pictures of what the landscape and area around our house looked like prior to us cleaning it up.

I want to make sure the before pictures are as well documented as the during and after pictures for work done on our house. So that is why there will be a decent number of posts outlining and showcasing what the house had and looked like prior to the work …

Prior to the purchase of our house “work had to be done” to make the lender give sell us a loan. Basically for this house we had to do some spring cleaning and repair a few minor items… nothing a days work couldn’t cure.

So, after nearly two months of being in escrow we finally closed on our house a week and day or two ago. The house we closed on was the ‘fixer with lots of land‘.

This house is further than we wanted to be from work / city and needs a little TLC… ok a LOT of TLC but it has more than any other house we’ve looked at in terms of land, features, size and options. I have a feeling this one will go …

Well we found two homes relatively close to check out and decided to make a day out of it.  They were not to far from work or where we are now compared to others we’d checked out, and they both looked unique in the pictures online.

So, we heard back from the selling agent about the house with a view and it doesn’t sound good. Since it’s a short sale the bank has the final say and the last offer they received the bank took 2 months to get back on and their counter was for …

When we first started looking at homes I took my camera and planned to take pictures however on the first couple I took only a few pictures.  I quickly learned I was questioning what I saw because I couldn’t memorize the entire house and layout.  So, in the future I …

The pictures of this house made it look almost fake, and the interior was interesting looking in the pictures.  Since we’d seen homes look totally different in person than pictures we decided it was worth checking out. Another thing to note about this house was that it is in the …