Help us at home and discover the Langhe 🏡🍷
The experience
Join our young family and live in the heart of the Langhe and Roero, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
We are looking for volunteers who can lend us a hand with household chores in exchange for a private room with a private bathroom, towels, and a shared dinner every evening.
Meet our friendly little dog and discover one of the most fascinating areas of Italy. 🍷🏡✨
What you offer
20 hours of help per week
Painting & Decorating:
Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.
Building & Repairing:
Help with a wide range of repairs or building.
Cleaning:
Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.
Gardening:
Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
What you get
2 days off per week
Private Room:
You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.
Dinner:
You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.
Free Laundry:
You can use our laundry room freely.
Bikes at your disposal:
You can use our bikes any time you want.
Use our equipped kitchen:
Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.
Fast Internet Access:
High-speed internet for you to work remotely
Dedicated Workspace:
Specific space for you to work remotely
Requirements
Beginner English
Between 18 and 35 years old
Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)
Travel insurance
What's not included
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
Program Details
My partner and I are happy to make friends and improve our language skills in exchange for domestic help with cleaning tasks and tidying the house.
My partner works from home. In the evenings we like to be all together to prepare dinner and chat.
Feel free to stay at home, go out, do whatever you prefer at the times you prefer. We have no fixed schedule requirements. We expect an autonomous and enterprising person.
We need a hand with: general cleaning of the house, tidying up the bedrooms and other rooms, putting laundry and clothes away in the wardrobes, care of the exterior garden, watering the plants, help with painting some areas of the house still to be finished, help with maintenance and repair of some areas of the house, repair and maintenance of furniture and household items, interior cleaning of the cars, garden cleaning, tidying the kitchen after dinner, ironing the laundry.
Specifically at this period we need :
- Strip a wardrobe to repaint it again
- Paint a wooden pergola
- Strip the varnish from the house shutters
In the evenings when we are together an informal English or other language lesson is requested (French, Spanish)
Activities & Shift
You can work whenever you want, at the times you choose.
The activities to do on demand are:
- general cleaning of the entire house
- tidying up the laundry and clothes
- washing the floors
- watering the plants
- taking care of the garden
- tidying the dishes from the dishwasher
- help with painting some areas of the house (optional)
- help with maintenance and repair of some areas of the house (optional)
- language lessons (preferably in the evening when we are both at home)
- Stripping a wardrobe
- Furniture restoration
- Ironing the laundry
- Cleaning the garden
- Tidying and cleaning after dinner
- Interior cleaning of cars
Rules
The use of common areas is free but full respect for the furniture and objects is required.
The kitchen can be used freely at any time, but it must always be left clean and tidy.
The use of the induction hob for cooking should be done with the utmost care and the use of a protective cloth to avoid scratching the glass.
We follow a Mediterranean diet with limited meat. But feel free to buy and eat meat-based foods you prefer.
Inside the house and in the garden you cannot smoke.
Maximum respect for pets.