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Hello wonderful people,
I’m Ami, an architect and single mom, living in Bocșa with my 4-year-old son, Mihai, our 4 dogs, 2 cats, an Emu, and a small flock of chickens and ducks. We have a large house, a generous garden, and many creative ideas waiting to become real with the right hands, energy, and imagination.
Our home is an ongoing project — a place where practical work, creativity, family life, animals, and nature all meet. I’m especially looking for volunteers who enjoy making things better, more beautiful, more functional, and more alive.
The main project I would love help with is Mihai’s room. I have a detailed design for a playful, whimsical children’s room, but I am missing someone with good carpentry skills to help bring it to life. The dream is to create custom furniture that feels imaginative, warm, and a little magical — something made with care, not just assembled from a shop. So, if you have experience with woodwork, furniture-making, building, finishing, or creative problem-solving, this would be a very meaningful project for us.
The second big project is our garden. I would love to transform it into an artful, inspiring outdoor space, using both plants and painted/decorative elements. This could include painting walls or objects, creating small artistic corners, helping plan or plant decorative areas, arranging outdoor spaces, and also doing normal garden maintenance such as pruning trees, trimming, clearing, planting, watering, and general care. There is plenty of room for both practical work and artistic ideas.
Besides these larger projects, help around the home may include general maintenance, small repairs, organizing spaces, animal care, gardening, cooking together from time to time, or simply helping life run more smoothly in a busy and lively household.
Volunteers with children are very welcome here. Since Mihai is still small and very social, we are happy to host families or single parents traveling with kids, as long as everyone is comfortable with a lively home, animals, shared spaces, and a relaxed family rhythm. Children can enjoy the garden, the animals, nature nearby, and hopefully also the company of Mihai. I believe traveling with children can be a beautiful exchange for everyone, and I would be happy for our home to be a warm and friendly stop for families on the road.
In exchange, we offer free accommodation and you are welcome to join our meals. You will also have access to the common spaces: kitchen, garden, bathroom, and lounge areas. You are free to follow your own rhythm when needed, especially if our daily schedule or diet does not fully suit you.
We can offer either a room inside the house with us, or a separate garden-facing room for more privacy. We currently have one shared bathroom and one kitchen/cooking space, but there is plenty of room to relax, work, read, or simply enjoy the garden.
Bocșa is a small town with a river nearby, forests close around us, and quiet places to explore. We can lend you bikes to visit the town and the surrounding nature. Sometimes we go mushroom picking, walk in the forest, or take the dogs out for a longer adventure — you are very welcome to join us when we do.
I work mostly from home as an architect, although sometimes I have field work and can be away for the day. Mihai is active, curious, outgoing, and loves being around kind people. We also have friends nearby who visit us, and we enjoy shared meals, burgers, grills, pizza, and relaxed evenings together.
So, if you like animals, children, creative projects, gardens, woodwork, art, old houses, and the idea of helping a home slowly become more beautiful, please write to me and check our availability.
Thank you for taking the time to read our profile.
Ami
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Interests
Sustainability
Pets
Self development
Drawing & painting
Plant care
Gardening
Cooking & food
DIY & crafts
Architecture
Animals
Winter sports
Water sports
Outdoor activities
Cycling
Beach
Mountain
Sailing / Boating
Yoga / Wellness
Camping
Nature
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We open our lifestyle, and cuisine for you... we enjoy people and appreciate a good conversation, forest walks and good meals together.
I have experience both as a host and as a volunteer, with both good and difficult moments, so I truly understand how important it is to feel welcomed, useful, respected, and also free to have your own space. For me, Workaway is not just about help — it is about good chemistry, trust, exchange, and creating something meaningful together.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
Our projects are:
- Our main project is Mihai’s room. I have a detailed design for a playful, whimsical children’s room, and I would love help from someone skilled in carpentry or furniture-making to bring the custom pieces to life.
- a tree house for our son Mihai, work on this consist in basic carpentry, painting and other creative stuff
- cleaning our garage, this a overdue task ... as we have an catamaran there (an unfinished project, sitting and collecting dust, and lots of construction materials left in disappointment)
- normal house maintenance like cleaning, cooking, grass/cutting, feeding the chickens and making sure the dogs and cats have fresh water and food.
- I would also really appreciate someone with electricity skills, as we lack grounding in our house.
We need help anywhere you feel you can contribute, as we highly value initiative and independence.
We require 3-5h /day 5 days a week.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Romanian: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
Getting better at enghlish is always welcomed!
Accommodation
We offer one large bedroom in the same house with us, or another large room (usually used as an art room ), facing the garden, separated from the house if more privacy is needed. We only have one shared bathroom, and one cooking space, but plenty of lounge space.
Internet is really good.
What else ...
Our area is rich in the natural landscape, like forests lakes, old mine galleries. Our guests are welcomed to enjoy a day by the lake or hitchhiking on the trails in the forest. Alternatives outside our town involve travelling to bigger cities like Resita or Timisoara… for anything a big city has to offer.
Bocsa, our town, is accessible by bus, car or bike… our closest big city is Resita, or Timisoara, if volunteers reach these two cities then we can pick them up by car. Timisoara is a local travel hub, with the airport and all the fancy services… from there to Resita the 100km are easy to manage…
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have really good internet connection, for those who need to work online.
Space for parking camper vans
Our front yard, although narrow, has space to accommodate a van, or a motor home that is not too tall, otherwise, in front of our home there is plenty space, shaded by 2 huge walnut trees ... and our area is pretty safe, we always leave our car unlocked.
Can possibly accept pets
Pets are welcomed also! But keep in mind we have 4 dogs, two of which are a bit territorial at first, and free chickens roaming freely in the garden. We don't appreciate anyone's dog who can accidentally kill our chickens (sadly it has happened) or dogs that are unfriendly to Mihai or our cats. Also we prefer not to keep animals in the home, but are not strict about this... and our cats often enter the home, but at night we take them out.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
My animals / pets
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From the first moment, Ami proved to be a very welcoming and open host. I appreciated her positive attitude and energy, the fact that she is an easy-going person, as well as her sense of humor.
Also, we had some deep and interesting conversations… read more
He was attentive, caring, and very considerate of the household… read more
I stayed for about a month, and every day was filled with kindness.
Ami always looked out for me, Mihai invited me to join in on fun activities and made me feel truly welcome, and the cats who visited my room every day.... brought so much… read more
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From the first moment, Ami proved to be a very welcoming and open host. I appreciated her positive attitude and energy, the fact that she is an easy-going person, as well as her sense of humor.
Also, we had some deep and interesting conversations… read more
He was attentive, caring, and very considerate of the household… read more
I stayed for about a month, and every day was filled with kindness.
Ami always looked out for me, Mihai invited me to join in on fun activities and made me feel truly welcome, and the cats who visited my room every day.... brought so much… read more
Benj and I spent around two weeks in Bocsa and Dognecea as the first volunteers in the village project of Dognecea. Both the people of Dognecea and Ami and Marti welcomed us extremely heartly; and we had a very… read more
In their short time here they helped us create the local library from a pile of old dusty books. They did everything in a positive and helpful way, also… read more
The work was easy and I felt encouraged to share and even apply my ideas in their projects at Dognecea. I was also introduced to great people from this nice village that I really hope to see them… read more
They were able to host us at the last minute when our original host cancelled.
Not only did they pick us up from the train station, but cared for us, fed us, told us so many stories and taught us about Romanian culture... but were also just really interesting and kind people.… read more
her young dog Yung is verry energetic and needs little training, but verry smart and atentive, eager to please his hummans around him
Yang, my dog, has such a good opportunity to learn some skills from the dogs and to stay around cats without making troubles, and treat them like a friend.
I was amazed to go in the forest with them and their friends and 5 precious dogs, and… read more
We talked a lot, and shared our cultures, food and jokes. Mariana made cooking look soo easy :) and Matias was always looking to improve our place, we are now very happy to bee theirs friends!
Thank you! Our home is always open for you guys!
