Four walls and a roof

One of the first things people ask when talking about our adventure is "so, what's the house like?"

I take a deep breath and say, "ahh, well, there isn't actually a house there..."

My favourite reaction was from a work colleague who was imagining me in this huge mansion overlooking the fields of grape vines in the Adelaide hills. (Chinese Whispers definitely got that one wrong!).

I explain that there used to be a house on the property, but the owner divided the land and sold off the house part about a year ago, and we bought the farm part. There's a shed, and a cellar door tasting room and a kitchen...but not much else.

Along the way, we looked at many different options for housing. Gorgeous old Queenslanders that we could get stumped on the property. Converting the shed into a house. Buying a kit home and building it ourselves. Renting in town. Living in a caravan. Nothing really felt quite right.

Then I was tagged in a post on Facebook from Josh. And I got a few frantic text messages. He has found our home.

There was a company just south of Brisbane who had acquired a few second hand prefabricated "dongas" from a mine site. They had one bedroom, a bathroom/laundry and a kitchen/dining. They also came with TWO air conditioning units and a stove in the kitchen. I was sold.

We found these while we were still waiting for the property to settle, however the company only had one left and we needed to make the call. Buy it and risk not having a property to put it on or wait til we had the property and risk not having the house. We took a gamble and bought it, and I'm so glad we did!

It was delivered to the farm just last week and the stumps have been put in. We've met a great house stumper/all around legend who is going to hook it all up for us and it'll be waiting for us when we arrive in February.

It may not be that big or modern, but it's got four walls and a roof...and it's all ours.