Took us about three years to get to this stage. We do a little bit at a time and is a work in progress.
Married for over five years now, this was the house we purchased as soon as we had the opportunity to do so. It took us a while to find it, but we were lucky we did as we both liked the location as well as the potential that the house had to offer.
Previous to buying this house we rented in a local town, to be honest the rented house was OK, but not the same as actually owning your own, where you can continually improve it.
I do go into more detail in other posts of how the house was when we found it, as well as showing some pictures of the remediation work, which my wife was in charge of.
We have four dogs, two large and two small house dogs which think they are large dogs.
Recently i installed nine high quality Reolink cameras which record twenty four hours a day, for piece of mind. Installed these myself, which was fairly easy to be honest sort of a plug and play system. Our cameras can be remote viewed from a mobile phone and various alarms can be set and that sort of thing. Night vision is superb with infrared, and the garden can be viewed even in complete darkness.
We love our home, but one thing that isn't cheap is electric. I was thinking about installing a small generator one day, as the power does tend to go off quite frequently, especially if there is a lot of rain or strong winds.