Building Quinta do Ourives

Converting a shipping container

As Lowie always wanted to sleep in a converted shipping container, we bought one from English people just living nearby. Making plans, watching a lot of YouTube movies and ordering wood and material. Ready…, Set…, GO! We started the converting process and I think this is wat Lowie loves doing the most. Shaping, creating and

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Smooth construction process….

We are now at the end of October and all the construction works go very smooth. The site manager does a very good job together with the engineer. Every Wednesday, we have a meeting on site to discuss the ongoing works and take the next decisions. You can check the process yourself based on the

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Kids checking the place

As we moved to the Algarve at the beginning of September 2020, our kids checked the building site for the first time. They were excited but could not yet imagine how it would become. Now, they just wanna have fun on the building site 😉

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Digging for water (224 meter!)

As we want to be off grid as possible with our B&B, we contracted a company to make a borehole. Normally they have to dig about 100 meter to get water but at a certain moment, we got a phone call from Oli (Belgian friend of us living in the Algarve who does the follow

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Happy with EuroAlicerce

As from the moment our builder EuroAlicerce started, we noted that we were very happy having chosen them as a constructor. Very well organized, new material and truck, a tight scheme and of course Pedro and Jorge. Pedro is our engineer and Jorge is the site manager. These guys are amazing! We are only 3

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Yes, our building license!

The licensing process went very fast, we got additional questions in January and February and all of a sudden…. no news, no questions anymore and no approval…. We called our architect, but he didn’t have any update from the town hall, we called our lawyer but we couldn’t reach her…. Hence, off to Portugal 😉

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Architectural Plans

After a very intense designing period of 4 months (poor architect John Wilson 😉 ), the plans for the new quinta are ready to be filed at the Camara. Hopefully they won’t need much time to approve the plans as we want to start as soon as possible. But here in Portugal…. you never know…

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Purchase of Quinta

After a long proces of a few years, we were finally able to sign the deed of the purchase of our quinta in September 2018. Now, we can speed up with the plans and building license together with our architect John Wilson from Bespoke Archtitects. Hopefully, we can start building in January 2019 in order

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