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Wow! So impressive and a great example of going against our culture’s “get it fast and go in debt” way of building a home. You motivate me to take my time, learn, and ask for help instead of those quick buys! You’re my hero

@chronic2023

5 ай бұрын

Yes, it's impressive but a lot of Swedes are actually handy at doing a lot of the work themselves on houses to cut costs. Not all, however. My son-in-law isn't handy at all and has to hire someone for everything except changing a lightbulb. There's a British/Dutch girl who is doing something similar in Sweden and has a KZread channel: Roaming Wild Rose. Since you are female (me too) you might be interested in a female perspective as well. 😊

@jenniferdaniel6952

5 ай бұрын

Great minds think alike cause I already follow her 😍 so calming too! Thanks for the idea cause if I didn’t know her channel, I would have loved the recommendation

My husband and I live in a log home built in 1853. One great tip I would give you which is esthetically pleasing and is an amazing safety feature is to thread your electrical wiring through 1/2 inch electrical steel conduit pipe . This allows you to be able to transport power anywhere along your walls and has an industrial vibe. We painted ours black. Happy to send u pictures if you would like a visual.

You’ve done such a beautiful job creating a forever home. So warm, so comforting, so focused on what matters as we pass through this life. Just wonderful. A soon, a tiny roommate to fill your hearts. It doesn’t get better than that. Much love to you two, and your miniature version soon to be. ❤

Wow great job Kalle, this is such a change. You made this cabin a real home!! Greetings from a Canadian cabin 😊❤

It's a real pleasure to watch how you make your dreams come true 😊❤️

Seeing the progression has been such a treat! I specifically remember the kitchen remodel so vividly, time has flown!

Do your preserve food from your garden in the summer? If you learned how to dry and ‘can’ your own food that you grow in your garden you could contribute a lot to your monthly food budget, and when you can it yourself you know exactly what goes into it. When we were a young family with four children in northern Canada, we would can hundreds of jars a year. We canned fruits and vegetables ( some of which we bought from other people when they were in season and they were things we didn’t grow at all or not enough of), but we also canned fish, homemade soups and pasta sauces, salsas, pickles and relishes, and while we didn’t it is possible to can meat. Where you would run into trouble is that with no heat and running water, cans would freeze, which would obviously be a problem! However, you could easily dehydrate a lot of fruits, vegetables ,soups,stews and even meat to help get you through those long winter months ! Something for you to think about going forward, especially as you have a family and more mouths to feed. It also brings a sense of joy to know that you are producing and preserving for the physical needs of your . I am very much enjoying watching your Utube channel, and admire your perseverance. We have best friends who lived with 5 children in northern Canada with almost no insulation and heated by wood stoves. As they had running water all winter they had to set an alarm to get up multiple times throughout the night to ‘stoke ‘ the stoves to prevent the water from freezing. Many times when we visited them in the winter both of our families would sleep on mats in the kitchen where the heat was as the bedrooms and living room was freezing. I have to admit, I don’t miss doing that at all!!

Hi Kalle, Excellent changes to your main cabin and other beautiful buildings on your property! Congratulations on all of the new comforts you and your friends have completed! As you mentioned, as the years go by, we all have different goals and priorities! I know, you are looking forward to adding running water to your cabin and I wish you the very best of luck with your upcoming projects! Most of all, wishing Christine an easy delivery with a healthy baby for you both!

What you have done in just 5 years is truly MAGNIFICENT!

What a difference before and after! Such a beautiful place and home! Your safe haven, under the northern lights😊 🌲🌲

i would recomend you getting a tractor not even a new one just a old massey ferguson tea 21 just a small and reliable or even a volvo 425 krabat might be more common in sweden you could run a small generator in case electrity goes out pull a trailer to pull stuff like the oven you got make it gasoline so it can start during the winter

Kale, been following your journey for about 3 years. You've done an amazing job and congrats to you both on the impending arrival of your baby. My young family and I just bought our dream homestead in the Wild West of Ireland. I hope to replicate a fraction if what you've done!

Bed sky = canopy...very cosy. Amazing transformations. You work so hard that sauna must feel wonderful at the end of the day. You also have amazing friends, nut that does not surprise me. I grew up in an isolated sommunity in northern Manitoba, Canada and, living up there, friends really had to rely on each other. Those communities are very special, particularly the people.

We call those cable rolls, spools in English. Love the cabin

It turned out very beautiful. While still being in a rustic style. Love it! ❤

Very nice job Kalle! I greatly admire what you have done! Excellent work! You Scandinavians are sure obsessed with coziness! But I guess your winters make that a strong value and necessity! As much as you have struggled with your project, I am sure you have learned tons! And it is your creation now, not just a cabin you bought! I think what you are doing in life is so much more meaningful than what is seen in the lives of people who work in business, say, and buy everything they need. Buy endlessly, in fact! You often make what you need. That is a demonstration of resourcefulness as opposed to the helpless emptiness seen in lives of so many money hungry worker/consumers! You rock!

Wow it's absolutely amazing to see how it all began! ☺This will be such good memories for you and your family later on and even now it's amazing to see the before and after 🏡🌲✨

Great job Kalle! It was so nice to see what your cabin once was and what it has become! Thank you!

everyones priorities are different, for myself, I would have preferred running water and a bathroom. You have done an amazing job with the place, I am always surprised how much stuff is left behind from previous owners

I do agree the couch is the heart of our home. Like you, I never had that. I am now 51 and my daughter is 9 and the couch is our cozy place. We watch shows and movies on Netflix we both like and have snack parties or read or nap together, play card ad board games, always with so many blankets and pillows and the occasional cat. You’ve done a beautiful job, I’m happy for you and Christine. I look forward to watching your journey continue.

I have a friend from North Dakota in the US. we both live in Arkansas, the south, while on a visit with her to see her family, there was a sauna which we were invited to use, we gracefully said no thank you, where we're from all you have to do is step outside in July, and you will be in a sauna....

It was so beautiful in 2017, and you’ve really taken it to the next level over the years! What a lovely home!

Another fine video Kalle. You should be proud of all you have accomplished -- and so well -- in 5 years. Congratulations!

In the kitchen their called cable reels and ‘mouses’ made me smile way better than mice. The house is very beautiful well done

Beautiful cabin! You have done a lot of work to not only make is functional but very nice. I have renovated homes and it is costly and takes time. It's not for the faint of heart. I can see why you wanted the TV screen. It was like a reward for the work you had done up to that point. I know a family who lived in a beautiful cabin in the forest in Maine, USA. They had no running water or electricity. They had an outhouse to use the bathroom and heated water on a wood stove for their baths. They loved it! The woman gave birth to three children in their cabin. It was a great life for them. They were a wonderful family and lived happily there.

What a cool video. ❤ I always wondered what the cabin looked like when you got. The first video I saw on your channel was the one where you were building the table out of the kitchen floor. Have been subscribed ever since. 😊 We are starting to restore a 110 year old farmhouse this spring. Your videos are always very inspiring. Thanks for your great content. 🙂

Beautiful job over these last few years I've been watching you! Such a treat to see it documented. Without knowing if anyone else has mentioned this or not, but...regarding mice, one of the best deterrents is to have a cat (or cats). I don't know if Tuss and Nala have too strong a prey drive to tolerate cats, but that will definitely solve the mouse problem and also provide some lovely companionship (and foot/bed warmers as well!) Where we live here in Hawaii (vastly different than Sweden!) rats and mice are a huge problem, and our small dog's presence did nothing to deter them, but having a couple of the local semi-feral cats "adopt" us has worked a treat. They catch numerous rats and mice from our property every week and keep them out of the house. Anyways! Cheers, and best to you and Christine!

Your homestead is beautiful, so well done!! ...hiking 7h for grocery shopping, waking up with burning socks, 'showering' in the snow - that's some hard core cabin committment ❤

What a beautiful cosy home you have created through ingenuity, creativity and hard Labour. As you say running water and a bathroom will complete this wonderful home, especially with a young child

Beautiful Cabin. So cosy and warm. You are very talented in many ways. A wonderful home for a family. Thank you for showing us your achievement.

You did an amazing job. It looks so warm and inviting.

Wonderful walkthrough Kalle. You’ve worked your magic on the cabin and really made it an amazing home and place to live.

Hi Kalle, That was an amazing tour! I loved how you had footage from back in the days. 😃 I have a few questions: 1. Where do you store vegetables? I haven't seen any in the kitchen. 2. Do you have very little stuff? No stuff for when you have guests over, e.g., raclette, board games, play station, alcohol, etc.? Or big winter equipment, winter jackets, etc.? I saw the movie theater, the computer, a few books, a guitar, and the sauna as possible activities. 3. Are you planning to insulate the walls? 4. and most importantly, where will the baby stuff go and when the baby gets older, will they have their own room?

The work you’ve done is so beautiful! 😍 It’s been such a pleasure to see the transition and all your work turned out. The cable roll things in the kitchen are called ‘spools’

I 100% agree about the heart of the home. The kitchen is not the heart of mine either. It’s a beautiful, highly functional utilitarian space. But the heart of our home is our living room. Where we relax and watch movies, play games, entertain friends, light a fire and just take time to slow down. I love that others feel the same way:) You’ve done such a beautiful job. What a special play you’ve created. Thank you for sharing it.

Now make lots of precious memories with your beautiful family and enjoy it

Your home is so lovely and cozy! I think it was such a smart idea to open up the mudroom entry area and increase the ceiling height! I don’t think I could live there without that breathing room of tall ceiling to tolerate the shorter areas.

I'm very impressed with what you have done Kalle...you've turned this rustic cabin into quite a nice and cozy home. :)

I've been following you for a while now but it's so nice and impressive to see the before/after like this! Congrats on the amazing work you've put in making this house your home! 🎉❤

Wow. That cabin has come a long way thanks to your (and your family's and friends') hard work. It all looks so cozy. I love the cable reel cornercabinets in the kitchen and the media room.

+1 on the sauna. Bought a cabin in the Swedish mountains 8y ago without running water and finally got a sauna 1y ago. Bloody best thing Ive done. Complete game changer for us in the without running water-gang. Love it

Love the renovations you have done and keeping everything as organic and reusing pieces for other purposes! 🙌🏻

In the kitchen they’re wire spools for commercial electrical wire. 😊 this is lovely.

Such a great video Kalle! So fun to see the difference between then and now.

The white ceiling is really gorgeous. You did a great job, congrats !! Love from France.

I see so much dedication and joy in your home. If the sitting room is the heart of the house, maybe the kitchen is the stomach. : - }

very cool, nice work! my grandparents built our summer home when I was little in the north of Russia, I remember adding hay in between the boards for insulation :) and my grandpa expanding and adding on another room, it is A LOT of work but very rewarding and fun!

What an amazing transformation. I love what you’ve created. I hope you will all be super happy always xx

This might be my favourite video yet! You've put in so much work, and the cabin looks amazing - I've been following the channel since about when Christine moved in, and even since then the difference is incredible. What a beautiful home!

What an amazing journey Kalle!! 🌷🎉🕊 really really well done and congratulations 🎊 congratulations to you both blessings for the next exciting era 🎉

Merry Christmas ♥ dear Christine and Kalle and thank you for bringing over your lovely life experiences into our homes ♥

Wow, I started watching your videos almost from the beginning, 2018 or so? And it doesn't feel like that long ago but seeing the comparison shows just how much you've accomplished. I hope you still feel like you have the simplicity you were seeking. It's been a joy to watch your journey. All the best to you and your growing family in 2024!

just wow! I can't get over how beautifully you renovated the cabin. I can't find words to express my admiration. Just beautiful!❤

It’s not just a bit cozier, it’s SUPER cozy! I’m jealous!

Your hard work is amazing....what a difference! Thank you so much for sharing. It is beginning to look cozy and comfortable. Must have been a great learning experience. What a blessing that you had some help. Blessings to you!

You've done tremendous work on your cabin with all of the renovations and cozy touches. Love your sauna, your movie area, the open stairway, kitchen and living room. So much fresher and full of light! Have a Merry Christmas and World Peace in 2024. 🎄☃🎅🌍☮

Good on you Kalle, I have been following your journey from the beginning and it was amazing to watch this ‘recap’. We have gotten so many ideas and tips from you - both in terms of construction ideas and in terms of lifestyle. You and Christine are role models for a better future and we thank you for that, and for being such a great couple and really nice people. Take care, happy Christmas and we all look forward to a productive, positive 2024. Catch you later.

What a magical journey! Thank you for taking us along for the ride! In many ways, it's the perfect way to close out the year and renew our hope for the new year! I ordered your digital book a while ago and this has inspired me to go through it again! Thank you for your artistry and kind spirit!

What an amazing transformation, not only your house but in you too! I think both you and the house needed each other. The house needed you to get it back to its former glory, and you needed the house to find that inner happiness that you really deserved. So so glad you recorded that first day, it’s like you knew it would be a big journey Merry Christmas to you and your family Kalle. Have a great time!

Please never give up on KZread! I adore your videos guys! Both yours and Christina's!!! Bless your baby toooooo

What a beautiful scenery you guys should be very proud of what you’ve done I could only imagine the time that it took like you said to do all this, but just think when the little ones come, you have all those to explain to them and show them what daddy did and mommy did. Congratulationsand merry Christmas❤🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

You’ve worked so hard! I’ve been here for the journey and my prayer is that you have all the happiness to the fullest ❤Merry Christmas 🎄

It’s absolutely beautiful. I love what you’ve done with it.

The cabin is looking very cosy. I think my first priority would be a bathroom inside the house. You are much braver than me going outside to use the bathroom at night.

I always look forward to your videos. Inspirational and allows me to feel as though I am in nature when I have to be sitting behind my desk. Thank you for brining some outside spirit indoors for me.

Cheers! Good build! Stay warm!

Beautiful girls! Thank you for helping them!

So many things you’ve been hiding from us, Kalle! The kitchen and your fabulous bedroom, just to name my favorite things. Merry Christmas to you and Christine too! I’m so enjoying your journey. So worthwhile. 😊

Hi Kalle and Christine.and soon a little one, Your bedroom looks so nice!!! I think the cover over your bed is called a ,'canopy' and the ones at the end of your bed are called drapes or curtains in English. At least that's what I call them😁🤪😁🥰 Your entire home is lovely!!! Take care and thank you for sharing no💙💚❤️

Well done Kalle! I’ve loved watching your journey ❤

@KalleFlodin

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for being a part of it 🙏❤️

Beautiful. What an enchanting place.

Knowing you did all the work, there is something special about that. It's something you can't buy. Beautiful and well done 🌻✨️

I hope that you appreciate all the progress you made since 2017... A lot! You should be proud of your self and I am sure you will continue to make your house more and more confortable, with time! Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year to both of you and to no 3 on the way! Thank you for sharing your adventures! 💖👌🎄🥰💫

Incredible. Absolutely magical.

What a treat! Absolutely wonderful video. Thank you and Merry Christmas!

We put a loveseat (couch) in the kitchen so we could hang out and cook together. Two great things combined 😊 Your cabin is beautiful

You have done wonders! Great job! It is beautiful 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Wow Kalle you have created a magical home I have so loved watching your transformation of this beautiful home and property, so excited for your new addition to your family.Thank you so much for sharing this journey with all of us. Happy Holidays.

Love your home! I have a wood burner too, and it heats my whole house here in Omaha, Nebraska. I want to tell you how I clean the glass with no chemicals and for free, except for one newspaper. You dip a sheet of paper in a bowl of water, not soaking it, just a bit damp. Then you put the wet side onto some cold ashes from the wood burner and rub it on the glass inside. It takes all the black right off in seconds! If it's really dirty I do it twice. If the paper gets too soggy grab another sheet.

You might want to add a railing going up the stairs to child-proof it and protect them from falling over the side😊

What an amazing sense of accomplishment you must feel. Your home is so nice, and cozy. The improvements you have made look really nice! You are gonna have many stories to tell your son some day. Wishing you and Christine the merriest, cozy Christmas ❤ Really enjoy your content and video graphs Kalle.

Love your taste in decorating

Plz upload regular vlogs. We really enjoy your videos 💕💕

This is gorgeous. Thank you for the tour!!

I've enjoyed your channel, your creativity, the forest and your lovely filming. Thank you for sharing your life. Your refrigerator/Freezer looks as if the hinges for the doors are on the sink side of the appliance. Many refrigerators have made provision to switch the hinges in case of need. If yours were switched, it would be easier to get stuff out and put it on the counter beside the fridge. I hope yours can do that.

This was a great video. It is amazing what you have done with the cabin. I wish you and Christine a Merry Christmas and may 2024 bring you both all the blessings you deserve!

You've come a long way, Kalle. The house looks fantastic, and you should be proud of your work... but don't stop. Keep going, and keep bringing us along. Peace to you from Alaska.

Have you considered an eco fan for your wood burning stove? It sits on top and is uses heat to operate and pushes the warm air away from the fire place out into the room. It made all the difference with our wood stove. Instead of just heating the living room it heats nearly the whole house. Beautiful home you've created for your family.

I would paint the kitchen ceiling white too. And get an induction cooktop for everyday use.

You should be very proud of your accomplishments Kalle. Your cabin is quite cozy and rustic. Great job!

The before and afters are wonderful so cosy, painting the ceiling in the living room made a huge difference, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.😊

The shelf in the kitchen is made from ca le spools. The round knobs used to attach the flooring are called pegs in english

This video is like an early Christmas present. So exciting. Thanks for taking us along the journey!

Huge difference from then to now, have you ever considered painting the couch white or even green like the door Christine painted up stairs? I think it would great painted. 😊

Wow. Looks so cozy now. ❤

Such a goog job you've done ! It's really beautifull ! You can be proud of you !👏

What an impressive remaking of the cabin. It was rustic before, but now it's cozy, more functionable and liveable. Great job on the sauna too.

I watched you from the 1st. Video! You've created such a fine home and have given alot of people inspiration to follow thier dreams! Skol! 🍻

Yeah it looks a lot better now, love the snow ❤❤