Man spends £10k transforming a static caravan into a log cabin in just four months

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A man spent £10k transforming a static caravan into a log cabin in just four months.  Benn Berkeley, 38, lost all his work prospects as a freelance film-maker in 2020 due to the pandemic.  At the time, he was living in a house share spending £500-a-month on rent but realised he wanted a different lifestyle.  In August 2020, his brother took over a farm which had a static caravan on and asked Benn if he wanted it.  Benn leaped at the opportunity despite admitting it was a "fixer-upper" and started working on gutting out the caravan in September 2020.  Since then, he had transformed it into a off-grid log cabin in four months - spending £10k on the renovation.  Benn said he did everything apart from the electrics and plumbing himself after learning everything on YouTube.

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00:00It's taken 35 years and a global pandemic for me to realise a really important lesson

00:06in life. I used to work a lot because that's what I was taught to do. You need to work

00:12to earn money to pay your bills and if you're not doing that you're not successful. It wasn't

00:17until the global pandemic where I lost all my work that I needed to reduce my outgoings.

00:23So we decided to do up this static home. Since then, a lot has changed. Our outgoings

00:31have reduced dramatically, which means we don't have as many bills to pay. That means

00:38we don't have to work as much. Because we don't have to work as much, we've got more

00:41time. Because we've got more time, we can do more things that we really want to do,

00:48which means we're less stressed, healthier and happier for it. And in my mind, the simple

00:56life is the best life.

00:59This was once a static caravan which we converted into an almost off-grid cabin in the UK. I

01:06know a lot of you had questions about how we did the cabin and what it looks like when

01:10it's finished and I'm pleased to announce that we've just done a full tour of the cabin,

01:15a video on our YouTube channel. So if you're interested, you can just head over to the

01:19TikTok bio and see the full video on YouTube.

01:23This video, I wanted to show you exactly how the cabin has turned out. It's still a labour

01:28of love and there's still lots to be done. I think there always will be lots to be done.

01:33Now when I say the cabin is very nearly off-grid, this channel is called Off Grid Path and it's

01:37the part... The cabin is 44 foot long, that's about 13 metres or so. And it's about 10 foot

01:44wide which is about 3 metres. So it's quite long, very long for what it is.

03:14So it's quite long, very long for what it is. So it's quite long, very long for what it is.

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