A Belarusian woman bought a hundred-year-old house near Brest — and now hides from mice

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The house Volha chose is located 18 km from Brest. The woman describes the state of the house in her videos with the words "for demolition". Along with the house, she also acquired a good piece of land — 25 ares in ownership and another 25 ares for rent.

Volha tells how this farmstead appeared in her life:

"My mom and I wanted a house in the village. It took us five minutes to get inspired and dive into databases. We were looking for an empty house from the state for 42 rubles, but found a farmstead for 25 thousand.

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At some point, the BMW with black nostrils and a languid gaze became a thing of the past. Now the family has a huge plot of land that hasn't been mowed for about five years, and a house that's scary to enter even during the day! But life is definitely more interesting now."

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Променяла свою БЭХУ на ХУТОР и не жалею Меня зовут Оля Полуян, я из Бреста. Веду блог о 100 летнем хуторе и трех декретах в-41 год * Подпишись - цель 10К✨

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The car Volha sold was a solid BMW X1 from 2021. The woman received it as a gift from her husband. She doesn't explicitly state in the video why she sold the car, but judging by the context, the money from the car went towards buying the house or its restoration.

In addition to the old house, there are two brick buildings from the 1990s-2000s on the plot. There are other advantages too.

"We don't have an obligation to complete the reconstruction within a year. And most importantly, we were looking for a place without neighbors behind the fence. Along the perimeter, there are mature trees — alder and birch," says the new owner of the house.

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Before getting involved in restoring an old house, Volha traveled all over Europe, gave birth to three children, and created three businesses, and also drastically changed careers — from an architect to a confectioner.

Volha isn't joking when she says it's scary to enter her new house. In one of her videos, she tells a story not for the faint of heart:

"We found two cellars and one attic, completely packed with old things, in our hundred-year-old house on the farmstead. Curiosity was bursting inside me about what was there. I haven't even thought about the cellar yet, and the attic issue fell through, because I lived in a similar house all my childhood, and from those years I have a terrible phobia.

I am afraid of mice. When I climbed into the attic and looked down under the stairs, there was a large, deep white bucket, and mice had apparently fallen into it for some time and couldn't get out. The whole way back I felt terribly nauseous, and I don't know how to overcome this fear and continue the work I started."

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With communications in that house, not everything is simple either. According to Volha, there is electricity in the house, and the roads to it are cleared — which is already good. But at the same time, water on the plot is only from a well, and there is no gas either. Volha plans to drill another well and install sewage in the house.

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_Обзор нашего хутора Подписывайся -цель 10К Дальше будут преображения, ведь весна уже на пороге

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The Belarusian woman warns readers what to be prepared for if you buy a hundred-year-old house in the village:

"Be prepared to work through all your childhood fears here — mice, darkness, cellars, attics. Second — prepare plenty of gloves and masks: dust, cobwebs, old insulation, mouse tunnels.

An old house is not vintage; it's something you shouldn't touch with bare hands. Sometimes it pulls out of you what you've been hiding since childhood."

Now the woman plans to restore the house. Among her plans is to remove the blue painted boards that currently cover the facade of the house and restore its old look.

pani.olka

_В наших планах снять все крашенные доски и восстановить первозданный вид «Беларускай Хаты» как 100 и 200 лет назад Конечно ждем весну, а пока посмотрели что нас ждет Думаем не все так плохо как показалось сразу и сруб «ЖИВОЙ»

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But first of all, everything unnecessary must be removed from the house. Recently, while cleaning there, Volha found old letters. What to do in such a case? The woman decided to burn them — she admits it was painful:

"Everyone says — what's there, trash, just throw it away. No one says that you will hold children's notebooks with neat handwriting, a dress someone kept for an outing, knitted hoods, and cheat sheets with texts about Marxism in your hands. And every thing looks at you like a small person.

I thought I would just need to take out the trash. It turned out — I had to burn someone's history with my own hands."

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