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The site that Guto and Loren chose to restart life in the interior of Minas underwent a silent and accumulated transformation: each small work done day after day resulted in a rural refuge with a lake, expanded kitchen, themed rooms, and complete structure to receive visitors as soon as access via the highway is released.
There are days at the site when it seems like nothing has changed. The work routine is so intense and constant that those within the transformation can hardly see how much has already been done. It was only when Loren separated the before and after photos, records of the property’s original state compared to what exists today, that the couple stopped, looked, and realized the real extent of what they had built with their own hands in recent months. The change was so great that they themselves were surprised.
The site is located in the interior of Minas Gerais, and the couple’s project has always been to transform it into a rural refuge capable of receiving visitors with comfort, an authentic countryside life experience, and direct contact with nature. Today the structure is practically ready: expanded kitchen with stones on the windows and natural light, themed rooms in the decoration phase, love lake with a project of plaques and motivational phrases, a memorial for the family’s first animal, and a garden that already produces avocado, mango, and other foods harvested from the land itself. What remains is a bureaucratic detail with real weight: the release of access via the highway, without which the doors cannot yet be opened to the public.
The kitchen that became the heart of the house
Of the ongoing works on the site, the kitchen expansion is the one that most changes the sense of scale of the space. The builders took advantage of a day of heavy rain, when external work was unfeasible, to lay the stones for the windows and advance the internal finishing. The result was an opening of natural light that completely transformed the environment: the brightness that entered through the new laundry window and the expanded openings made the kitchen feel like a different place.
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The project includes large tables, one round and one rectangular, as well as a wood stove, which is being negotiated with partners who have contacted them during the construction. The decoration has not yet been defined: Guto and Loren are calling an architect to do this work, with a preference for demolition wood furniture or more rustic pieces that match the spirit of the site. Anyone who wants to contribute with a decoration project has been invited by the couple to design a proposal and send it via the email provided on the channel.
The lake of love and the details that transform a site into a destination
Every rural refuge has an emotional anchor point, the place people remember after they leave and that appears in the photos they post. At Guto and Loren’s site, this place is becoming the lake of love. Still without the signs and motivational phrases the couple plans to install, the space already draws attention for its natural beauty and the care for the surroundings.
The idea is to transform the lake into a must-stop within the property, with its own visual identity and small signs that give name and personality to each area of the site, such as the little shop, playground, and stalls. These are details that may seem small individually, but together they create the difference between a place people visit once and a place they want to return to.
The Thor memorial and the human side of life in the countryside
In the midst of all the construction activity, purchases, and planning, the video captured a moment that stopped everything: the arrival of a package from Joinville with three 3D resin sculptures of Thor, the couple’s first animal on the farm.
The emotion was immediate and genuine, Loren opened the box and they both stayed silent for a moment, looking at the miniatures of the dog that was part of the beginning of this story and is no longer present.
Guto had already set aside a 10×10 metal post cut to the appropriate height to serve as a support. On the same day, he anchored the post in the ground, concreted the base, and set up the memorial at the place where Thor was buried. The brown statue was reserved for the outdoor space, near the ground; the white one will go inside the house when the decoration is ready.
A stainless steel plaque with a phrase is still being considered to complete the monument. For the couple, creating this space was not just a tribute, it was a way to process the loss amidst the hustle of building something big from scratch.
The Trailer, the Emus, and the Day-to-Day Stories
Those who follow the channel know that the farm is not just about construction and renovation, it is life happening in real-time, with all the unforeseen events, improvised solutions, and discoveries that are part of rural routine. This week, one of these episodes involved the trailer attached to the Uno: because the car is low, the hitch was at an angle that affected leveling.
The cheapest solution found was to take the set to a workshop in Itajubá to weld a plate and raise the ball by about 7 or 8 centimeters, much more economical than the extender found online for R$ 900.
The video also shared a historical tale that Guto shared with subscribers: the so-called Great Emu War, a real episode in 1932 when the Australian government sent soldiers with machine guns to control an invasion of emus that was devastating farmers’ crops.
The operation failed, the birds ran at over 50 km/h, changed direction quickly, and simply were not shot down in sufficient numbers to solve the problem. The government withdrew the troops and the case went down in history as the only war a country lost to birds. On the farm, the couple’s emus watched the story with total indifference.
Before and after: what photos reveal that day-to-day life hides
The final part of the video was dedicated to the before and after images that Loren gathered and edited to show the transformation of the site over time. The result was more impactful than the couple expected, not because the individual changes are surprising, but because seen together they reveal a work of breath that happened so gradually that those inside it barely noticed how much it advanced.
It’s a lesson that goes beyond the site: when you work every day in the same direction, the perception of progress becomes blurred by routine. The photos act as a mirror that time cannot distort, they show what was really done, regardless of the feeling of those who were there. The couple left an open invitation for subscribers to comment on what they thought of the transformation, and promised a special inauguration video as soon as the highway access is released and the site’s doors can finally be opened to the public.
Have you ever dreamed of transforming a site from scratch like Guto and Loren are doing? What caught your attention the most in the before and after photos? Leave it in the comments, and if you’ve been through a big renovation like this, share how it felt to see the result after so much work.
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