Transforming old building ruins into an outdoor kitchen
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- Опубліковано 23 лис 2023
- I spent 6 months turning the old kitchen end of the ruins into a new BBQ and pizza oven area, using the walling stone I retrieved from the ruins.
I will be continuing the renovation project alongside the excavation work as I turn the first building in to a walled garden and patio area. More to come!
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Freestanding door:
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Back after a break, more videos coming soon! Planning to switch between excavation and then rebuild videos.
On a related note, I am considering doing landscaping work/projects for others, so if you or someone you know lives in southern part of UK and would be interested in a similar build in your own garden (from scratch, I am assuming you don't have ruins), then you can email me: afontirs@gmail.com. Until next time🙂
Are you going to finish excavating around the outside perimeter ??? The work you have done so far is absolutely beautiful. I am jealous ... I would love a retirement passion project like this one. What an amazing find. I'm seeing pergolas, archways, fruit trees and landscape fountains .... The only limitation is your imagination at this point.
I was wondering how you were doing just yesterday, I even checked to see if you had posted a video and then this popped up this morning. It looks terrific, your hard work is certainly on show.
I love this! You could have easily made this into 12 videos. So much work involved! Thank you for sharing!
❤ Very cool video I liked commented and shared. I look forward to more.
@@jamesbell8861 I will excavate around the perimeter on the downhill side (the side with the doorway) but not the uphill side I think. and yes I am planning an archway build, but I'm doing a video to talk about my vision for the place.
Imagine if that old kitchen could talk and tell you its stories. Now its got a second life and more memories to make.
Eg. Remember when they burnt the toast😂😂😂😂🤡
I love your new outdoor kitchen! You did a beautiful job with the stone work. What a wonderful way to honor the past and you get a barbecue space with a view! Thank you so much for sharing the process.
Thank you, glad you liked it.
@@afontirs great work, looking forward to seeing more progress!
Think about it for just a minute.
Someone used to live there, a long time ago. They did their cooking there and put their blood, sweat and tears into making it. And just when it seemed like time and the Earth itself was going to erase it, someone has come along to restore it--and that memory of those who were there before.
It's incredible.
You can also use your pizza oven to do regular baking things. :) Bread and beans and everything our ancestors would have used it for!
THIS is a prime example of the beauty of European architecture, structures made generations ago and finding repurpose meaning that makes it timeless. Structures like this should be prided more, it’s less wasteful, very economical, there’s a historical connection, and it’s maintaining function while being more aesthetically pleasing than 90% of modern structures these days.
Beautiful work! Hopefully spring and summer comes soon enough to enjoy this outdoor kitchen.
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Amazing! When you think of the original home, the people who lived and cooked there, and the years it sat hidden under the ground, it's incredible how it's come full circle to a useful space again!
Like to imagine the spirits of the old owners are smiling at you after you finised the restoration
Absolutely beautiful, cant help but imagine the people who once lived there too.
I’ve been watching this project and am always happy when a new video pops up. I was wondering what you would end up doing with this area when you finished digging it out and it looks like you’ve come up with an excellent plan. It’s a great way to honor the history of the old kitchen and make it useful again. Great idea!
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We talk of healing generational trauma, to be able to dig up the bare bones of our ancestors dwellings and to discover a place for it in modern times, is heartening and so hopeful. Kudos and good luck.
It's really cool you did this Afon. Excited to see whats next!
It's obvious what's next.... 🍕 Pizza 🤣
Hurrah! another video, and a very nice outdoor kitchen
Fantastic!!!!! You should be so proud of what you accomplished! It's beautiful! And you preserved a bit of history that was almost forgotten. Thank you for sharing!
I love what you've done here. You have brought something back to life with skill and sympathy for the old. Very well done indeed.
I like the idea that its possible that in the area you live there are living relatives of the ppl who used to live there.
wow that looks awesome, keep us updated, and share your thoughts after using it for a while
What a wonderful transformation 😍 you did magnificent
It's looking so nice now, can't wait for the other wall to be exposed.
I'll say it again, Afon you are a treasure. This is amazing! 😊
How fun! I wish I had some old foundations to dig out too!
That is fantastic! It's wonderful seeing how much original history is left in place while still making it useful today
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You must be SO SO proud of what you have made of this old home.
The beehive bread ovens set into the side of an Inglenook are a standard feature of the older farm houses of the north, Meirionydd, Dwyfor I know for sure. In the early 1970s Builders Merchants of Pwllheli - Huws Gray, still had stocks of the wedge shaped firebricks for relining these (once upon a time ) essential features of a well designed house. In some villages there were communal ovens that cottagers could use. There used to be a complete one (rusted but intact) at Nant Gwytheryn the Welsh Language School near Chwilog and Trefor on the Lleyn Peninsular.
So much history. Thanks to you another piece of it is given a new life. Many happy barbecues to you over coming years.
Thanks for the info. I am starting to think that this building may have been a communal kitchen/utility space for a row of cottages and they shared this one. as there were 3-4 other buildings in the row, described as cottages on the map.
@@afontirs Welcome. Again congratulations !
We bought a 3 in 1 up in Ardudwy in the 1970s. It was attached to a newer more substantial house at one end. Formerly road workers cottages from the turnpike days (1830s) The 'free' end dwelling had all 3 privvies behind her kitchen. with a narrow crack of an access passage serving the 3 units. A small patch c. 10 feet square attached that that end cottage was originally some sort of squat utility area , backfilled to wall plate from the field above. I dug it out. Remains of leather buckets with zinc bindings, fire residues aplenty and a barrow load of (mostly ) limpet and tellin shells . This property was a clear mile uphill from the beach.
I was puzzled until an ancient quarryman passing by told me that around 1920 there was a tremendous strike of slate workers which brought on a lockout by the quarry owners. Starvation followed. Children were sent to the shore for shellfish. These were boiled often in laundry 'coppers' and used as food by families. The shells were then burned and crushed to be fed to poultry as chicken-grit (makes egg shells)
Similarly small springs and ground water seeps were harvested and used as a communal water supply. At our place the water was also collected (for three houses) in a redundant cast iron 'copper'.
Citizen archaeology has much interest. Ardudwy has a vast store of very ancient built environment which 'experts' like the National Trust are only beginning to realise. It is a heartland of Welsh language so perhaps there has been reluctance to share with a less than popular incomer.
There used to be a learned society for "Study of Welsh Vernacular Architecture"
Also recommended reading is Oxford Agrarian History of England and Wales Vol. 5 With a masterly section on old Welsh farmhouses. This would fascinate you. Unfortunately now wildly expensive on second hand book market but very likely on shelf at your county library. NLW at Aberystwyth will certainly give reader access to you.
Thanks for a marvellous series. Hugely popular !! and deservedly so.
@@afontirsAs a PS. Try the brief Wikipedia entry for Rural Historian Joan Thirsk. A most interesting academic. She was editor of the Cambridge series , Agrarian History. Much is there 😊
It look awesome 👌
OMG! What a beautiful outcome! Stone-novice no more! 😄😄😄
Imagine if the original builders/ inhabitants knew about all of this project, they would be truly amazed 😊
Wow! Cheers to a job well done! It’s a beautiful space. I wonder what the original occupants would as about it. I think they would love it.
I would like to think so too! thanks
I love that you did this and that you kept the original front metal to the oven
well done fella its looking good cant wait to see what you do next 👍
You did such a fantastic job, I'm so glad there are others who love to fix up old things they find rather than trash them!!
A beautiful job. I love watching such positive and creative videos.
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Totally amazing (and hard) work - thank you for sharing
Amazing restoration and recovery of the old historic kitchen
Absolutely AWESOME work Afon, what an amazing transformation, from a ruin to a beautiful outdoor barbecue area 😎👍👍
Wow! Well done. You are very talented and it's hard to fathom that you were a novice stone cutter. I also admire the amount of research you've done to bring your project to this stage of completion. Looking forward to seeing videos of the next phases of your journey to rescue history and make the house and kitchen a place meaning and warmth once again. One day I hope to see you bake sourdough bread in your beautiful oven. It's not just a pizza oven. Bakers from Pompeii would recognize the function of your oven immediately. Thanks for the video.
Thank you. I became a lot better at the stonework as I went on, plenty of time to practice! It will definitely get used for cooking different things, not just pizza. Pizza is just the starting point.
Very impressive 👍. Will you add a seating area?
Really beautiful! I’ve enjoyed watching the whole process, so far!
I found your channel when you had first begun digging out the old foundation. What a difference time and hard work makes! Looking forward to seeing further projects to bring the old place back to life!
So glad you decided to restore the ruin.
This has been an amazing journey and adventure! Does me old heart good to see the old made new.. Cheers from the high desert 🏜
It turned out so beautiful! I'm so glad you found a good way to use the ruins, and to breathe new life into the space. You're going to have so much fun when the weather warms up again, and you can start cooking in the new kitchen.
Brilliant! I’m looking forward to seeing what you do next. Thanks for letting us follow your progress.
I'm so happy you were the one to find this. Most people wouldn't have the fortitude to take on such a project. You did such a wonderful job.
I can only imagine the satisfaction you received from doing this project. It sure makes me happy watching you do it, and a bit jealous. Well done Mate!
watched this from the first, from the look of the land we are almost neighbours, love the whole idea of an outdoor kitchen, you are a very hard worker and have a great sense of adventure and imagination, keep up the awesome work, well done.
Thanks very much. 😊
Excellent job. Looking forward to seeing the next installment.
Oh what a great outcome. Even my son says that you did great. Love watching you finding this and then making it into this.
Afon, you did a great job; it was well worth the wait! I’m already looking forward to what you’re going to do in the Spring. Happy Holidays!
This project is awesome man! Inspires me to leave the big city and start an actual life ❤
Beautiful reuse of the space! Well done!
Love the sympathetic rebuild of the walls, in a couple of years you wont even see the new from old
I too have been watching your progress with this project,so cool what you have done so far.great that something lost to time has been brought back to life.well done mate.
Wow! I love that you didn't ignore it as an original work of art that 'shan't be messed with' and used it again, refreshing it as I wish more folks would do, to be used.
Love this so much. It’s so honoring of the people who once were.
Wow! What a cool project. That was clearly a TON of work.
Easily got me and my wife's thumbs up. You put a lot of planning, time, and hard work. Its turning out very nice and we love your country side view of the valley
That's so cool! You did a great job creating an outdoor kitchen whilst preserving the history of the old cottage 😊💚
Good job, well done. From a retired mason/builder.
Thanks, I appreciate it.
A fabulous unique, new space from old. Fascinating to watch. Well 👍
Beautiful job! You are honoring the history of this site!
What a great discovery. Just beautiful. Good job at restoration
Wow! What a beautiful transformation from indoor kitchen to outdoor kitchen.
Keep it up, hard work deserves credit
My cottage in Gloucestershire has both the iron range and bread oven in place. When I bought and renovated the house I was careful to restore both to working order after many years hidden behind fibre board walls. It is always a joy to get the fires lit and use them as they were designed.
You did a great job of reusing the materials to make something special.
Great job, brilliant use of the existing structure! 👌🏻
This is absolutely AMAZING!!! You should be so proud of yourself!!
I can only imagine how much work this was! I'm sure this short video doesn't even begin to show it!
Very well done man! This is AMAZING!!
Thank you so much!!
Buried treasure. How magical for you my friend.
I love how this has progressed from "huh there's some stone here in my garden" to full on functional outdoor kitchen. And I can't help to think that making a few corner pillars and a roof on the thing would be a great progression. And maybe some big window panes to keep the view but keep it useful for longer in the season. Then it's time to start adding rooms until you have the hill covered :D
I've been waiting and checking back from time to time for this one! You should be proper chuffed! WONDERFUL JOB!! Looking forward to more videos.
What a fantastic job you've done.... saving a bit of heritage and making it useful in the 21st century
Amazing job and you have used great imagination, we have so many areas like this in Wales that we just ignore or cover over, it is a great example of what can be done with a bit of hard work and thinking outside the box.
Well done, great to see an old building brought back to life. I hope you get lots of enjoyment out of it, I know I would!
It's great you've taken this this far, and will be able to enjoy the fruits of your labour.
Man, the only thing that makes me sad when I watch your video is thinking that it will take a long time for the next one to come out. Incredible work. Keep digging!
haha, I know I always say this but I am hoping to change my habits and post more frequently, a few more videos by end of the year, though they won't have as much progress obviously!
What a pleasant place to crack a step two and bake a pizza!
Two summers have been and gone already. It barely feels like five months since you started, although I suspect you feel like it's been a full two years of work.
I wouldn't wait until next year to cook. With friends and family, all you need is a cold, clear night. The bbq and the oven fired up will keep you all warm.
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Thank you for taking us along in this fascinating conversion.
Amazing ! Thanks for sharing this beautiful stone work.
Ancestors crying from joy. Well done!
You call yourself a novice, when it comes to laying the stone foundation, but you did a most excellent job. What an achievement and you should be so proud of it.
Bravo on a project considered and created very well! Glad you decided to use this space over! Look forward to more content in the future!
Great job. I wasn't sure if there would be another video, so I was happy to see this posting and the progress you've done.
That was a lot of work, you did a great job, and it turned out incredible!
A lot of hard work!! Thanks for sharing this journey with us!! Excellent job!!
Awesome job! Thank you for taking us along on your journey.
Great work! I can envision an old cast iron dining set in the middle, what a great place to go to cook and relax with a beautiful valley view.
I wish more people would use an refurbish the old ruins an old forgotten history.
Very nice work.
Wood fired pizza, an esky full of beers & some nice comfy deck chairs. Perfection👍🏼👍🏼
Absolutely love the repurpose of the old house.excited to see future vids.
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You did a really great job, I'm so pleased you will be using the area again. 👍
I absolutely love what you did.
The excavating. The rebuild. Everything :)
Very nice job
Building a stone wall is an art. I've read an entire book on it.
I love the work. Really, really cool to find an old stone structure on your property and refit it the way you are. Don't let the colder weather stop you, get out there and make some pizza. I've been out in front of my oven in 4*F making pizza for Christmas Eve. Looking forward to seeing more progress. Happy Cooking!
It's nice to see these ruins no longer ruined.
You did a wonderful job rebuilding this!
This is by far my most favourite archaeological/restorations video, keep going, I can't wait to see the next part
What a lot of hard work. I hope come summer you’ll be able to enjoy using the space with friends & family. 💞💞💞
Turning an old building into an outdoor kitchen, you have many good ideas, it is a kitchen that is both modern and sturdy.
I think the original owners of this small room would have been very impressed by your excellent work. Congrats! DA
I hope so!
Totally dig this! Keep going you’re doing great. 🎉
Looking at the old floor slabs, that'll easily cost much more trying to buy new ones if you were to build a new outdoor kitchen from scratch. Concrete slabs alone is expensive enough and I can't imagine what it would cost for big stone slabs like those. Beautiful work.