Renovating an Old Swedish School | Our First week as Swedish Homeowners (part 1)
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Over the next view coming years we will be renovating an old Swedish school that we bought.
The building is beautiful, full of character and over a hundred years old.
We want to restore this abandoned building in a way that keeps all the historical details and we will mainly be using old building materials to do that.
Besides the school there is also an old barn that needs a lot of work and a bit of land too so let's get started because there is a lot to do!
This is part one of our first week as Swedish homeowners.
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Välkommen till Sverige 😊
Tack så mycket😄
You are very brave facing all the problems in the house❤
Hi Julia, well thank you... al though it could also be just insanity😂
What a beautiful building, I am looking forward to seeing what you are going to do with it.
Hi Deborah, I can't wait to actually start the renovation work and I am curious about how things are going to turn out too!
We actually just bough a bunch of stuff, building materials and also some fun things like furniture and vintage kitchen cabinets and we are so, so excited to go back as quickly as possible to get started (we are back in the Netherlands right now).
A thrift store at home, the dream!
The bench will be perfect for taking little naps each next to him (cushions and pillows to come!).
The yt algorithm led me to your channel, I think, because I am following another renovation project of an old Swedish school (Moaboa), and it seems that she lives less than an hour from you! I am sure you would have plenty of things to share!
NB: ladders are treacherous and the physics of ladders is out from our understanding!
Hi Vanessa, starting a thrift-store in the house is definitely going to be a lot of fun and I actually also know the channel Moaboa because I am also subscribed to her channel. I was actually thinking about writing her a message.
@@EvasHomeVintageDIY If I had a thrift store at my house, I'm afraid to not be able to sell things I love which would be a bit problematic from a business point of view ;)
I love to follow your adventure. And I think you should put the hanger in the hallway😊
Hi Gitte, thank you for the sweet comment and I am happy you are here to come along in the adventure with us.
Hi Eva. Here’s a helpful hint for you if you don’t know it already. When you said your water was fed from a spring my memories went back to 1957 when we moved from a suburb in New Jersey to an isolated country home in Vermont. Our water was fed from a spring as well, but nobody warned us that in the winter we had to leave the faucet cracked open a little bit so that the water will drip out and prevent the pipes from freezing. So that first winter my father had to go out and bust holes through the ice in the brook and the little reservoir and carry buckets of water to the house so we could have water to drink, cook, and bathe in. Not fun.!!
Hi Lynn, yes we are definitely going to need to figure out all kinds of 'anti frost' solutions, not just for the pipes but also for the water pumps because there is a graveyard of pumps already sitting there because people bought them and then they froze and broke. (I think we have 6 broken pumps in the pump-house and one exploded too;) So you are right about that being a potential problem. I love to hear your stories though about stuff like that from the past!
The plank with The hooks, is a shelf with The hooks henging under. Most likely it was hanging out in The korridor. The shelf is needed for hats, gloves and scarfs😉
Yes it definitely is and I love it! It must have come from a big green hallway that we have because that space and the smallest class room are the only spaces that have that color of paint that the shelf has too. Maybe we should actually hang it back into the hallway although i also really want to have it in my space. Bringing original things back to where they came from though might be even more fun.
@@EvasHomeVintageDIYsince it was a school the kods hanged their outdoor clothes there.
I love the colours in the rooms. So bright, fresh and relaxing. Also somehow has a vintage look while also looking modern
Yes i agree, i think it feels more modern because it does not have an antique style but its very simple and all of the windows are amazing!
As soon as you said you hired a man called Eddie I busted out laughing, thinking that sounded really, really sketchy and then Rogier basically said the same thing! Of course I know you did the right thing and are very grateful for his help. ;)
Yes we love Eddy haha
So so happy to see you shine ✨ the building looks amazing and can’t wait to see it all coming together 🤗
I am so happy about everything too, you guys need to come visit!
So very happy for you both. Excited to go on this adventure with you. Thank you for inviting us along.😻
Hi Erica, your welcome. It's so nice to have you here!
Ooo I love that they're the old skeleton keys!!
Ah is that how keys like that are called? i never knew that!
@@EvasHomeVintageDIY I love anything truly old like that! So pleased for you both to have found your happy place!
Had to watch again! After seeing Rogier's dump finds it occurs to me that now we will want to see Rogier do "trash to treasure" videos too! lol
Yes I would love that too! he is probably going to be a part of my videos a lot more in the future because we are going to do a lot more projects together in Sweden then we ever did over here in the Netherlands and little Rogier thrift hauls would be a really fun thing to do too! He first wants to film the toilet of curiosities though before doing anything like that he said yesterday.
I just found your channel, it is fun and entertaining! Living in the forest seems magical, thank you for taking us along. Just a hint. When using the wheelbarrow, before loading it, point it in the direction you will be going so you wont have to turn it around or back up when it is full.
Hi, thank you for your comment, it does feel like a magical place and i am so happy to share everything. As for the wheelbarrow I tried it both ways and for me pulling somehow worked better because I have some pain in my elbow so it probably looked a bit award but it felt better to do it that way....
Thank you for sharing all the wonderful details of your journey with us. I really enjoyed the conversation between you and Rogier on the little sofa and I appreciate your openness! It's the best of two worlds that we can still see you work on the farmhouse and now the schoolhouse too.
Your welcome, it was nice to sit down and talk for a bit. We need to do that more often because I just don't get to updating about all kinds of things when I am in the middle of a DIY video. I think that there are lots more things that we should share a bit more about in the next coming months.
Lovely looking property.
I think so too. It 's a lovely place to be and we feel so lucky that we were be able to buy it.
You guys are so great together!!
Thank you;)
Helpful hint. You said your water is spring fed? Well in the winter time you might want to leave the tap open a tiny bit so that it drips because otherwise it could freeze. When we moved to Vermont in 1957 we had spring fed water and the first winter we were there nobody told us about this. Our pipes froze solid so we had to bust holes in the little brook annd reservoir and haul buckets of water into the house for drinking cooking and bathing, and I was only eight years old at the !
Great point!
Love it! You guys are so cute!
Thank you!! 😊
I was wondering what’s the purpose of you guys investing in such a huge property? Are you aiming to turn it into an air bnb or something like that? Just curious 😊
Hi Sherry, yes we are starting a bnb and we also want some space for family and friends to come stay over and...
We do like to have space in general because we are both people who also need time alone so we will have spaces for us together but we will also both take one class room (we have 2 really big class rooms) as our personal space and then the middle of the house is going to be turned into a big kitchen/living space for the both of us together, so a shared space.
We are also planing to start a little second hand shop in the house.
The barn will be turned into a work-space for building things, a wood-shop.
@@EvasHomeVintageDIY oh that’s great to know, Eva. Wishing all the best and can’t to see the progress in the future 👍🤗
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Are you also renovating a farmhouse? I am confused.
Hi, yes we have a farmhouse in the Netherlands that we are going to sell because we are Immigrating to Sweden and there are some things that need to be finished because Rogier never had the time to completely finish the renovation he started when he bought it. Now that I am living there too because I let go of my house in Amsterdam I have started to finish the inside (mainly the second floor) And very soon Rogier will start to work part-time instead of full-time and then we will have time to fix some very important things on the outside (like rotting windows and things). When the important things are finished we will sell it and hopefully for enough money to keep us going for those first years in Sweden. I hope this makes sense.
@@EvasHomeVintageDIYso much to do! Will you have time to learn Swedish and involve in the community as well?