Berries & Barnacles

Building Your Own Campsite

How to build your own campsite on vacant land — *Our simple camping set up.*

Probably the hardest part about buying a piece of vacant land, when you don’t have a ton of money, is figuring out what you’re going to do with it.

We bought our land with visions of watching the sunset over the ocean, friends gathered round, kids cycling back from the beach. All of which centred around a building. Not a huge, fancy building, but one that could easily sleep 6 to 8 people, had some indoor plumbing and solar panels for electricity.

Back to reality… and a piece of property that was only roughly cleared with a muddy driveway that was built to serve as a turn around point for the neighbouring property. And no money to build with.

However, we didn’t need a cottage to have friends gather and enjoy the sunset. All we needed was a campsite!

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Why you need to do research for creative writing to build setting, accuracy and craft

I set out to write this blog post, in part because I was planning to write a novel about a historical event. Yet, beyond having a vague awareness of the existence of museum and newspaper archives, I really wasn’t sure what type of research I needed to do for my creative writing project.

A Simple Outdoor Toilet Design

We had never built anything larger than an Ikea bookcase when we bought a piece of vacant land. And our plan to eventually build our own cottage seemed like an impossible task. We didn’t know anything about framing, siding, roofs or foundations. The learning curve was huge.