Life Updates + Our Journey To Intergenerational Housing | From House To Home // 1970s Irish Bungalow

Think of your dream life as … a wall. A wall doesn’t just appear out of thin air. You have to build it, one brick at a time. And you need to focus on laying each brick instead of focusing on your non-existent wall. Not only so that your future wall will look and feel right because you’ve done the job right but because the PROCESS of building the wall that represents your life…*that* IS your life. Life is the journey. It’s all the little moments between the big moments. We all need reminding of this from time to time!

Renovating a house. Lads. It is such an absolute shit show haha, just like doing a degree or falling in love or having kids or writing books! There’s aaalways cost, there’s sleepless nights and tears, there’s disappointment … but so many millions of moments of joy, too.

Purpose. Enjoyment. Learning. Re-learning. Excitement. Satisfaction. Stress. Magic!

Building a life is all of that and SO much more!

If you are sitting, waiting for someone else to build YOUR life … if you are scrolling online watching other people build THEIR lives … this is your invitation to reach for that first brick. It might be a therapy call or a chat with an estranged family member. It might be accepting a party invite or it might be setting up a dating profile. Maybe it’s applying for a new job. Getting a personal trainer! Reading a book that might inspire you!

Or maybe you first need to reach for a hammer. Maybe you gotta knock some walls that just ain’t working for you! So you can build your life anew.

And you can. You absolutely fucking CAN.

I grew up my entire life with my parents, grandparents, and uncle in the same house. I can’t imagine life any other way, my grandma is my best friend, and it taught us all so much💕

This is so beautiful, watching your channel over the years has been so much fun ! Watching you film in the living room & Thomas constantly bouncing the baby or passing through with the baby is so cute 🥹🥹🥹

Your videos are my favourite. I watch them during my 8 month old's nap ☕ Commenting for the algorithm 😉

I missed Bilbo and Molly ♡

Furniture design gallery in Navan! There's a load of other family run furniture making companies on that road as well (beechmount home park – but not the sherlock place.). They custom-made our couch, and its so comfortable. Like I've slept on it all night and not felt a thing next morning. Most of those places can make adjustments to the height of the seat, or back, or whatever to it fits your sitting position. That road is the place to go if you know what you want in a couch.

Great to see your updates! Wow, I can't imagine how you're all getting along living through all the renovations, one after another! They are really disruptive and messy and so many decisions to make. I just got through about a year of home remodeling projects, one of which was a total remake of the main floor bathroom, and I'm still sorting things out a few months later. How sweet that you have found a way to live with your dad so you each have space to yourselves but can be there for each other. Best wishes to Papa Murphy with his health!

We got two amazing couches from EZ Living and tested out the couches in their showroom. We have green walls exactly like yours and have a deep blue velvet couch for guests (bit more snazzy and modern) and then a really comfy, chunky light grey couch which is our ultimate chill out spot and a nice contrast to the dark, sleek couch.

Newcomer to the multigenerational living situation.
My husband and I moved onto his parents property last year. The two of us plus our 2.5 year old live in a travel trailer on their land.
It’s both wonderful and awful at the same time. Small living has been an easy transition, and I don’t at all mind being in a trailer. However- I dearly miss the privacy, the solitude, and the independence that came with living on our own.
There’s also the dynamic of choosing which spouses parents.
I find that I often day dream about living near or with my own father versus my husbands, and am saddened my daughter hardly knows she even has another set of grandparents.
Love the cottage, and hang in there with the chaos of renovating. . . . It never truly ends. Just a rotation of what needs done the most ❤

When it comes to sofas, I would be all over gettin' a moss green one and a tree bark brown one.
Also, you're da is a man right up my street: "Just wants to retire and play playstation." Hardcore wee gamer here, and I love that. lol

Forest green, red, burnt orange or tan for couch colours for sure!!

Mostly a comment for the algorithm, but thanks for the realistic reno content! We have an old home as well (1912), and our renovations aren’t quite as ambitious, but it is still SO much work and SUCH a mess, especially with children in the mix and nap times and hazards to navigate. Such a joy to watch your progress!

Millenium Dad – I'm dead 😂YES THOMAS

Love these vlogs and the music 😍

We got our couch from Sofas by Design in Beechmont home park – couldn't recommend them more they were so good and everything was up to us they literally build the couches from scratch. Even if you don't go with them it's a great retail park to visit cause there's LOADS of furniture shops. It's up in Navan so not too far from Skerries 👍

I would totally watch a 2h video 💚

Could make a video about writing a children's book?🙏💞

So happy for your family! ❤

❤ loving the content.

Finline Furniture Long Mile Road showroom for your couch!!

nice to see you aftet such a long time

Could you give the dirt away and see if someone wants it ? That way it could be hauled away for free .