It's not even cold! (-12°C) | Living in 300 year old house in Finland | Story 2
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- We are often asked if it is too tiresome to live like this, taking care of a big old house? We honestly don't think so. When we lived in the city, we were incredibly busy all the time but felt like the things we did, didn't really add any true value to our life. Now, all the effort we put in here, contributes in multiple ways to our well-being.
In the end, I will take you to a cross-country ski trip. A hobby I started when we moved to the countryside. Have you ever been skiing?
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:20 Is living here heavy work?
1:51 It's -12 degrees
3:49 Collecting firewood
6:13 Going skiing
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I live with my family on a 2 ha (~5 acre) homestead in Southern Finland. Our home is over 300-year old heritage house and we are learning the skills necessary to restore and maintain it. When we moved here from the city, we fell in love not only with the house but with the overgrown, wild remnants of a garden. We are building the garden up again and making it an edible, flowering garden with lots of space for wildlife.
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My mother's grandparents came to the U.S. from Finland - tho the name of the town escapes my memory right now (I will edit this as soon as I remember). I grew up in northern Minnesota where -30 to -50 degrees F are not uncommon overnight temperatures. I really want to visit your beautiful country, and perhaps someday I will...but for now I am glad I found your videos. You have a beautiful home and wonderful scenery. Thank you for inviting us along 😌
Hopefully you'll be able to visit Finland one day! 🇫🇮❤️
Connie my grandparents too, i grew up in Minnesota too, having some of the old Finnish ways and remember the cold nights, no school once it was about 25 below zero, missing them now that i live in a warmer state. are you or any of your family familar with a book by Martha Ukura Life in the Finnish woods, we are trying to find it and have had no success. thank you
One can have central heat if need be. Stay in the country where life is splendid, safe and healthy.... Lovely.
We do have electric radiators to help us out if it would get real cold for long period of time, but so far we have not needed them. Hopefully we'll manage this winter as well 🔥🔥🔥
7:13, absolute perfection.💜
Sending a big Hello from Newfoundland, Canada. I just stumbled across your channel and your house is absolutely beautiful. it's so funny how we have the same take on winter! although this year we've lucked out so far and have no snow yet!!! Newfoundland is much like Finland and if you don't take in winter and its wonderful freshness and get outside and enjoys what it offers, then it's going to be a long five/six months lol
Yes! Staying inside for the whole long winter is not an option😅. Hopefully you'll get snow soon too, everything is so much brighter with snow ❄️❄️ Greetings from Finland!
Hello! I'm from Lithuania, but for some unknown reason I like Finland very much since childhood, although I've never been to your wonderful land, but I hope I can visit soon. Thanks for your video, I really like it :) We in eastern Lithuania have a very similar climate to the southern part of Finland and this year we also have a lot of snow, but I really miss the cold, just a few days the temperature dropped below -10 degrees, so I also exercise by digging snow :)
Hi! Yes, I look a lot into Lithuanian garden plants for inspiration as we indeed have similar climate! So we share a fondness for each other's respective home countries 😁
I heat with firewood too. There is nothing like the warmth from a wood fire. I can't say I love winter chores. I've put sevearal bins for wood storage on my porch so I don't have to run out during a prolonged storm. I also had a wood storage bin built close to my woodstove. It's so lovely to live in the countryside, far from people and get to enjoy nature. Thank you so much for your channel and sharing your life with us. 🎿⛷
Yes, and hearing the sound of fire in the stove is so calming 😍🔥
The ubiquitous IKEA bag! ❤
What would life be without them 😅
I just found your videos, from here in California, and I really like your style and seeing the way you live in Finland. Finland is a country I haven’t been to. I look forward to seeing your garden, forest in the springtime!
I am longing for spring also! I always get a "spring madness" and come to life together with the nature. Love to show it to you!
I loved viewing you beautiful historic home. It reminded me of a visit several years ago to a farm house just outside of Helsinki. We were blown away by the peaceful idyllic surroundings and all the antiques and history. But the generous Finnish
hospitality was memorable. Looking forward to seeing your channel.
I'm glad to have you here! Happy holidays from Finland! 🎄
I love your house and your life style! People lived this way for many years before our modern cities existed. Given all the troubles we have in big cities today, maybe if more of us lived this simple-and rigorous-life we'd be a little happier and a little more kindly toward each other!
Yes! I've lived in really big cities before and I felt often a bit bored and filled up my spare time with things like eating cakes in cafés together with my friends, which is nice but not too healthy in long run. 😅
Hello from Wyoming! It gets cold here too! I love it! I hope to visit your beautiful country some day.
Hello from Michigan USA! You are pretty brave skiing alone!! My husband is from Finland!!! ❤️
Greetings back to you both! I think everyone goes skiing mostly alone here 😅 sometimes I get a friend to come along.
-12 Celsius = 10* degrees for us & that is cold!
Hello from Virginia USA I love the home you have. I have always lived next to nature an in the country Born and raised in the Appalachian mountains
Hello from Twain Harte, Northern California. We have pretty rough winters here as well and most of us are on wood heat alone as our cabins are older. We have had to start switching our electrical over to solar with California laws so at least our power has been cheaper. We are at 4272 feet in elevation so our snow levels usually are around 5-6 feet with a good snow, but I have family higher in California and their snow loads are around 12 feet during one snow. It’s wonderful work to live in the mountains, I do miss our farm sometimes, but as it will soon be just my husband and I we have down sized to our cabin. Love your videos and can’t wait to keep watching!
I just found your channel. Your home and the area you live are so beautiful! Please make lots more videos!
Thank you, will do! 🙏😍
so happy i found you and will keep folloiwing your healthy lifestyle in beautiful Finland.
Thank you very much for sharing us this insight into your life in Finland. I am enormously impressed by this snowy landscape. When I see these snowy landscapes in the sunset, an air of warmth and inner peace surrounds me. Unfortunately, I have never seen that much snow in reality, because here in Westphalia there is barely or none snow in the winter, but I love the coldness and the snow in the winter so much. I think the winter is the most beautiful season. I love watching your videos and I am looking forward to see further videos. Please keep it up!
This time of year (January and February) we get these amazing pink sunsets and they are so beautiful against an all white landscape. 😍 I hope to get one on video so I can show it to you!
Loved the deer running, while you were skiing at the end. Taking care of an old home is working within itself. My home is not as old as yours (only 51 years old) but still, she still will need more work to try and fix it. Thank you for sharing a lovely part of your life with all of us. Blessings from Tampa, Florida; U.S.A. 😇🥰
Greetings to you! Everyone who take care of their houses so that the buildings can last lifetimes instead of 20 years is a hero!
I adore your channel, thank you for sharing your life! I follow the same lifestyle.
So many people are opting for this type of lifestyle, a lot of people are seeking to live a bit more primitive. ❤️
This looks so charming! It must be really hard to live in this intense cold, but watching from India, it looks like a wonderland! Of course one grows used to one's environment, like we to our scorching summer heat. Merry Christmas and happy new year! :)
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Yes, it doesn't feel so cold even! I used to live for many years in Central America and getting used to hot weather went pretty quickly. Greetings to India! 🥰
It's funny how quickly you get used to the different temperatures. Thailand is a popular winter holiday destination for Finns, it's quite a change when you travel from freezing -20C weather to humid +30C but after a couple of days it feels ok, both ways.
I am glad that I found your video, never seen it before. Very enjoyable because you have such a pleasant voice. I love snow, but being in my mid 70's I don't think I would be able to adapt to such temperatures. You always seem to be busy, as you say you work up body warmth while working. I wish you a very pleasant holiday, and I will be looking into your other videos. Good bye for now from Germany and best wishes.
Thank you and greetings back to Germany! My mom has lived in Finland for almost all her life and she is still not adapted to cold 🥶😅 so yes, it might take a while. 🤭
Thank you for sharing your home and way of life with us! I don't know much about Finland and I'm happy to learn more. The end of your video was very Ghibli-esque, with the music, soft colors, train and then the deer. Beautiful country!
🙏🙏🙏 thank you!
Terve! I love watching your videos, can't wait to see more. So cool to have some in Finnish too! Kiitos 😊
Ole hyvä! Yes, Finnish is probably not a language you hear a lot outside Finland's borders 😁
Thank you so much for sharing your life journey with us.
This is the second video I have seen of yours. Such a treat to see how you live. Very calming to watch. I am just learning how to edit film so I am now just realising how long it takes to even make a short film. From Brighton in England.
I know! It takes for ever to edit😅 but I am taking this as a learning process and for every video it'll be easier.
Hello Nina,
I just found your videos and would like to thank you for sharing. I’m german, my husband is english and we bought a property in the italian alps half a year ago. Our buildings are the same age as your beautiful home and it’s very interesting to see the differences and similarities. We hope to start renovations this summer, the long term goal is to live there permanently, but that might take a long time… So for now we’re working our regular jobs in the south of germany, but our hearts are on that mountain in Italy. Sending best wishes!
Antje
Ooh, sounds idyllic! I never been to Alps in summer season but never during summer. I imagine the landscape to be breathtaking!
Beautiful! Hello from the USA. 🇺🇸
Winters are so beautiful when it's snow. 🤍🤍🌨️🤍🤍 I warm My house also only with Wood.
Yes, with snow in the ground, winters don't feel dark at all! Love it when it's all white everywhere ❄️😍
Wow, you are living my dream!
Hi
Really enjoying your videos, just joined your channel.
I live in Wales in the UK .
The countryside where you live is very beautiful.
Thank you for showing us all your life, really interesting
Greetings to you! I wish I could visit English countryside gardens at some point, love them!
@@ninasointu
She lives in Wales - not it England.
Beautiful video anyway. Kiitos!
I think your life looks very interesting and purposeful! I live in Minnesota so I can relate to your climate.
I love the stone barn, wonderful doors:)
Unfortunately we have no snow🙁 I love snow and the atmosphere that goes with it - Greetings from North Germany
Hello from Norfolk UK, I’m loving the videos, what an amazing lifestyle x
I was born in a big city and my whole life I dream of living in the country side, your living a much more natural life connected to the earth and animals, a city will drive you nuts, I’m living my dream through you for now
I've also lived for years in big cities around the world, and once our kid was born, we got a feeling of needing to be closer to nature. So for this and few more reasons, we decided to make the move and haven't regretted it at all!
Beautiful video and accompanying music.
Thank you! 🙏
A pleasant place to live. I enjoyed watching this episode ❤
Thank you!
Hello Nina! I live in the US, state of South Dakota. i just finished shoveling 18-inches of new snowfall! We are at 8-degrees F today. I really am intrigued by your barn. Do you think it is as old as your house? The metal window coverings are quite ornate looking. The stone reminds me of the pink quartz stone that is found where I live. The door you entered the barn from is beautiful wood! I look forward to more of your videos. I think I could easily spend an entire day talking with you about your home and life - you have an excellent view of life and the part you play in it. Thank you!
Thank you for your message! The barn is build in 1896 if I remember correctly, and is this much younger than the house. That is one of the big projects we will take on this year, so there will be more videos coming about it!
We have enjoyed watching your videos. We hope you continue to create more. Thank you for sharing with us.
From, Jennifer, Ohio, U.S.A.
Thank you for your comment and encouragement! I will definitely create more. 😁
I love you showing your outdoor activities, it’s so much like where we live with all the snow and cold and I love how you embrace it. 💙❄️
Winters are wonderful! ❄️😍
Greetings from Philadelphia!
Oh wow! Who was your company at the end of the video? Were they deer?
Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful glimpses into your world. I find them very interesting to watch. 😊
Yes, they were white-tailed deers! A lot of them here on the region, real pests for gardeners and farmers. 🙈
@@ninasointu They look so pretty though! 🙈
Your ducks are adorable!
winter here in my city are same as in Finland, -12 Celsius is a warm day LOL
I thought the ducks on the path was cute. I hope I see the video you post about how ducks can be garden helpers. I always wanted some laying hens and I like ducks, and other birds too. I used to want a duck.
Beautiful videography!! I hope you continue to create and post your work!!
Thank you, Nina. This was beautiful. You look like my daughter. She has visited Norway a few times, and she loved it. Norway must be similar to Finland.
Thank you, so sweet of you! We do have similarities with Norwegians but the topography and landscape of our countries is nothing like. Norway is very mountaneous and Finland is mostly very flat. 😅😅
@@ninasointu Thank you for the interesting information!
So beautiful, this gives me such feeling of peace and awe ❤ Thank you for making these videos ❤
Nina, I absolutely love that you are enjoying your old home and hard work. It feels good doesn't it? I wish I was younger so I could join you! Ski trip sounds like fun! Greetings from Washington State, USA.
Yes! This is the reason we wanted to move, to be able to create and work at our little piece of land.😍
I enjoyed snowshoeing, but never skied, cross country or down hill. Snowshoeing is even quieter than skiing and uses some of the same muscles, I think. I carried a long, strong walking stick which came in handy on the occasions when I was breaking a trail in deep snow. When I fell over - only when the depth of the snow was three or four feet - I used the stick to find solid, frozen grown, then with the aid of the walking stick pushed myself up, out of the deep snow and back to an upright stance on my snowshoes. I loved it. Your life and your videos tell so much of your understanding of life. Thank you for sharing your experiences. Finland is beautiful!
I've gone showshoeing a lot as well! Love it! Last year I took my best friend with me, and was gonna take her to a manor house nearby. But as we were about to cross over a ditch that seemed completely frozen, the ice broke and I fell in hip deep in icy water. Then I just had to hike back all wet. Now I know not to cross that ditch anymore like that 😂😂😂
What a beautiful country you live in- you are very lucky and blessed- I’m Jackie and I live in Maine USA
Thank you for sharing 🙂.
Lovely moment with you 😊
Thank you for womderful video
What an incredible place to live - both inside and out! Have a fabulous new year!
Love the photography and love of old house. Mine is only 120 but living in garage apartment while gathering strength after battling Myasthenia gravis. Just was -9 F or -22 C last week, inside was 48oF but layered cotton, wool, windproof layer ,alpaca socks and refrained from showering and was fine. Before MG cross country skied every snow fall. May I suggest when you are going downhill you sl bend knees and let your body be soft and sl snowplow to gather control. Soft body is so important to minimize injury when you do fall. I only fell going up steeper hills but because I waited too long to stairstep sideways.
I hope you're able to get some strength and energy back after such a heavy disease. ❤️ Thank you for your tips! I will definitely be focusing on being more soft on skies! I've been snowboarding all my life and for some reason, having feet stuck on two separate pieces of equipment tosses me off balance right away. 🤣
@@ninasointu unfortunately myasthenia gravis doesn't go away.have a rare presentation so only med to ease the weakness. Means lost all I planned including exploring Finland as 1/4. Your videos ease the sting
So interesting! I look forward to hearing more about your unique home!
What a beautiful place and so peaceful. New to your channel,it just popped up. I enjoy watching them. Thank you for letting us in to your home. I'm in Georgia so we don't get snow ❄️ and I surely miss it .
Beautiful harmony ❤
Another hello from Newfoundland Canada; loved your ski journey and seeing the train.
I love your videos. I would love to see the town too. ❤
So glad you’re channel popped up on my suggested videos!!!
I’m so curious about life in northern countries!
Thank You for sharing your life here!!!
I wish we had snow ❄️ here!
Hello from USA
I just discovered your videos !
Thank you for sharing your beautiful home with us ❤️
Hello from California! My wife and myself love your videos. Please continue making them.
Thank you for this calm, beautiful and peaceful movie. Enjoying to see the glimpses you share of your life.
I am at home in Finland too but spending a lot of time away from home for work. Missing to be home to feel the cold fresh winter air, the short days, the light and to treasure the little gains in daylight day after day at this time of the year. Missing the smell of the fireplace too
Looks beautiful!
Winters are really beautiful ❄️❄️
Hello Nina - Sending wishes for a very happy and healthy 2023 from a small island off of Nova Scotia, Canada. We also live in a heritage home that was built by one of the first settlers to this island in 1790. People first came to this island in 1783 when they left the United States following the American Revolution as they remained loyal to the British Crown and so came and settled here. I very much enjoyed all of your videos and your life is wonderful. I look forward to more videos from you and about your area - a further exploration of the village (Fiskers) would be wonderful. One of my best friends is from Finland and also our dog came here from Finland (from my friend) - I hope someday to be able to visit your country!
Hi there! What a great history your home has 😍 and that your dog is from Finland, pretty cool too 😁🐕🇫🇮
I loved this video SO much Nina! I just found your channel and I must say I can't wait to see your next video. Happy New Year from Barcelona!
Happy New Year to you too! ❤️
Merry Christmas 🎄 from Michigan ❤️
Merry Christmas to you too! ❄️☃️
Omg the snow is half way up your 🏠
You’re so sweet! I could listen to you for hours! What a blessed place you live in. I’m sure all the hard work is worth it for the peace you have. Brilliant
Hello for Florida, USA
Yes, I rathet work with something that we can call our own, than going to gym to work out. 😅
All that work is good for us, why our grandparents didn’t have a lot of the issues we have today. We’re too far removed from toil of life makes for different kind of people.
Indeed! A bit of movement is good for the body.
Snow is attractive
Yes, snow turns the landscape into a fantasyland 😁❄️❄️
I have the same workout every day. funny
🤭 the best workout ever!
Zorro! Hey budddyy 🤗🐓
I would love to live like this!
Just on samat puuhat täällä 😁 Valtava merkitys on tuolla lumen kolaamisella talon ja kanalan ympärille! Ihanaa Joulua sinne Fiskarsiin 🎅🎄 Mirja
Jep, se on ihmeellistä miten paljon lumi eristää! Sillä saa ainakin asteen lämpimämmäksi talon eikä lattia vedä juuri ollenkaan. Ihanaa joulua teillekin sinne! Hienon kuusen löysitte!🎄 -Nina
@@ninasointu 😁😁 Kuusta en menis kehumaan..🎄🎄😄
Brrrr. Cold!
Just subscribed. Enjoyed your vlog. I sm ftom Colorado, USA
Greetings to you! 👋😁
nice
We heat our house with wood also. No need for going to the gym with this lifestyle
Indeed, you get a lot of heavy lifting done just by warming up the house. 😅😅
I used to cross country ski and fall going downhill a lot!
Yes, I've been snowboarding for years, and still somehow cross-country skiing gets me off balance. What a fun sport 😜
We live in Wisconsin, some of the coldest winters in the US. We had some -15 degree weather but with windchill it felt like -40.
Yes, wind makes everything worse! 🥶
yeah, it isn't. Thriving just at -20 °C and below ^^ Last winter we got -40 °C in pohjois karjala, really enjoyed it =)
Right! I have rarely felt cold, even there has been really cold periods during winters. You just keep on moving and have the right clothes on. 😁
love from india
Greetings to India!
I have been to your beautiful country several times as my husband’s family is from Narpes, however I was only there in the summertime. How long do you have daylight during the winter in Fiskar?
In Southern Finland, the sun goes up at 9:30am and down again at 3:30pm. Days are short😅
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5:46 I liked the video, the winter there is amazing! Just wanted to ask - you said avg consumption of such household is 6000 kW, is that per month? Or for the whole winter season? Thanks!
With the new figures we got for the 2022, our full year energy consumption is around 7200kW. Previously for the full year it's been around 10 000kW and winter taking the biggest chunk of it. 🥶
@@ninasointu thanks! I figured 6MW is quite a lot for one month 😃 Just curious- do you still have to use electric heaters and boiler along with heating up with firewood?
What on earth did we do before the IKEA bag? Our poor ancestors.... 🙃☺
P.s. I really enjoy your videos! Happy New Year from Ireland! 🤗
Right! How could they survive!?! 🤭🤣
You said you had a day off. What kind of work do you do, outside the home. I am retired.
I'm a business owner and a consultant, I help other companies with their communication and marketing strategies and efforts.
I think most people have no idea how hard people used to work just to keep things running. Most of us are very soft and wouldn't last a day in such a life. By the way, does your husband do any of this hard physical work?
Yes, just to clothes made for the whole family required a million steps and grow your own food another zillion steps. 😅 Yes, he does a lot, but I haven't been able to get any of it on video, especially now in winter when he gets off of work, it's already pitch dark and it makes no sense to film then.
The landscape is stunning. Very similar to Canada, where I live. As are the temperatures. Unfortunately, I do not have a wood-burning stove. But wish that I had.
I noticed that your name is Sointu. I have a book with the word Sointula in the title and wonder what it means. It is partially the history of the Finns in Canada, specifically on and near Vancouver Island.
If I may be so bold as to ask a favour: we are searching for a Finnish woman by the name of Emmi La. She had a nice little youtube channel, but has disappeared and we are wondering what has happened to her. She lived and worked in Helsinki. What would be the best way of searching for her?
Our last name, Sointu, meand directly translated "chord" or "harmony". What comes to the person behind CZcams channel, I'm afraid I canno't tell you anything else than what can be found if you google "Emmi La youtube".
@@ninasointu Thank you. I now have a notion what the word 'Sointula' could possibly mean.
I will try your suggestion re Emmi La.
@@elisekuby2009 Sointula means a place or house of Sointu (chord, harmony).
@@timoterava7108 Thank you. That is a lovely name.
hello from Florida. Does your husband help with chores?
Yes, he does a lot. Unfortunately, in wintertime he usually does his chores when it is already dark 🤣 and I can't get it filmed as well.
Which city ?
We're living a walking distance away from Fiskars (www.fiskarsvillage.fi). 😁👍
what about wild animals? Are there bears in your area?
No bears, but we do have a lot of deer, moose, wolf, fox, lynx, racoon dog and other smaller animals like rabbits and such in the area.