Building Houses in Costa Rica

DIY Drawers and Doors – Classing Up the Joint One Room at a Time

This post shows the drawers and doors we made to help beautify, organize and help put this long project to ...
natural house

Cost to Build and Decorate a House in Limon Costa Rica

Working hours are longer but my dream home on this incredible property in Limon Costa Rica is almost complete. There has ...
beautiful wood house

Creating the Kitchen, Finishing the Bathrooms and Keeping the Bugs Out

We are saving money by using a few Tico tricks, a bit of American ingenuity and improvising.We are currently working ...
varnished wood difference

Varnish in Humid Conditions, the Trap Door and Using Galvanized Steel

This post includes information on the product we chose to varnish with in our humid environment, how we built a ...
Wood deck stairs

Stair Building, Taming the Rain and Our Dirty Little Secret

Making the bridge from downstairs to upstairs, installing the gutter system and the back side of our house. Step by ...
squares of colored wood

Waste Not, Want Not – Making the Most of our Wood and Rental Equipment

Our house building project officially began in March of 2012 when we bought enough electrical cable to make it up ...
Handmade Rock Bar

Two Types of Bars, Wood Walls and Natural Supports

Our cottage in the woods - Building a two-story house on our farm in Limon Costa Rica. We have pictures ...
Wood House Costa Rica

Why We Chose a Painted Metal Roof, Using Bamboo Poles & Water Problem

Why we chose painted metal roofing, how we used bamboo to help with building, and combating water stains from the incessant ...
Wood House Skeleton

Building Project Costa Rica – Part 4 – Tools & Torque

Our Building Project - Images of the progress since the last post (permission to project start), how very important a ...
First Days Progress

Building Costa Rica – Permission to Project Start

Building Costa Rica - Obtaining Permission to Project Start Part 3 The waiting is over. We are finally starting our ...
Wood Drying

Building Costa Rica – Building with Wood

Why are we Building with Wood? Part 2 Building Costa Rica. We chose to build our home with both wood and ...
Getting Gravel from Truck

House Building Costa Rica | Road & Septic Cost

House Building Costa Rica Part 1. After buying the farm we needed to build our house. See Part 2 or Part ...
Farm in Siquirres

Buying a Farm or Property in Costa Rica? Things to Think About

Things to think about before you buy a farm in Costa Rica Not everyone comes to Costa Rica with a ...

DIY Beehive Stingless Bees

DIY Beehive for Stingless Bees We have been wanting to practice bee keeping for a long time. In the U.S ...
DIY over stove

DIY Outdoor Wood Stove, Oven, Cooker, Grill and Smoker

How to build your own DIY Outdoor Wood Stove,Oven, Cooker, Grill and Smoker. Materials list and step by step photos ...

Buy it or Make it?

Buy it or Make it? Do we have to buy everything or can we just make it ourselves? Barry and ...
Building Guest Cabin

Construction Project in Costa Rica – Building the Guest Cabins.

Construction Project number two is going well This is phase 2 of our building guest cabins project down here. It ...

Cabin completion? Check – Building in Costa Rica (Video)

Building our first wood cabin in the country. Oh yeah, the cabin is finally completed. We have moved in and ...
Brown and White Calf

A cow and a truck – A love story with updates

 A cow and a truck, a love story - Updates on our move to Costa Rica I have so much ...
New Road to Farm

Does the road mean progress? Well I do believe it does, I do believe it does.

Building in Costa Rica. Our all wood cabin and our new gravel road. This is our new road and our ...
Natural Water Slide Costa Rica

Swimming with Birds & Monkeys & Building the Cabin

Swimming with birds & monkeys & Building the cabin in Costa Rica Enjoying Nature in Costa Rica while building the cabin, our video ...

New Apartment in Costa Rica

Our New Apartment in Costa Rica and getting permission to cut a few trees. We moved to an apartment this ...
Costa Rica License Plate

First Days on our Costa Rica Farm, Starting the Cabin Construction and Machete Sharpening

Our first days living on a Costa Rica farm. We were staying on a friends farm and learning everything including Spanish ...

Falling through the floor of your dreams

Falling through the Floor Our last blog post included some video discussing how well our residency application/meeting went but not ...
Love Shack

End of July The Starplate Loveshack

End of July Building the Starplate Loveshack It is the end of July 2009 and this is our loveshack that ...