Brit Reacts to a SWEDISH Sommarstuga | ARE THEY REALLY LIKE THIS?

[@cynic7049]

There are between 500 000 and 600 000 "sommarstugor" (directly translates to summer cottages) in Sweden. Given that there are just over 10 millions of us that about one for each 16-20, so not everyone have one but most have access to one (through friends or relatives). The ones that are rented out is just a small % but given how many exists that are still a lot.

[@hakanfolkelind8187]

In the kitchen, there was an oven and the empty space is for an cast iron stove, not too hard or pricey to get. The small house to the side is the outhouse and keeping firewood.

[@dwaynesview]

Ahh a cast iron stove, I actually don’t know what you would use that for in modern times. I wonder how he renovated it.

[@erikaeriksson9840]

​@@dwaynesview I hope he puts a cast iron stove back. They make new ones that look exactly like the old ones and they are great both for cooking on and to heat the room with. Most of the old summerhouses has them.

[@drakakaka]

I have one and considered removing it. So I was curious if selling it could help covering the cost of fixing the empty hole afterwards? Prices for good ones are around 25000 SEK. Could be why it's missing.

@@dwaynesview If it's functional (chimney and all) it's perfect to use if for some reason the electric power goes out. It will cook your food and warm up the house. I would never get a house without one. 😂Combined with the fireplace (if functional) you are good to go and can always have a toasty warm cottage year around should you wish so.

[@tangfors]

@ Some summer cottages don't even have electricity. I don't think his had it, it didn't look like it anyway.

[@Gammaskalle]

There is a show called Everything for Sweden/Norway (Allt för sverige, Alt for Norge) They are so damn good. The reality show features Swedish/Norwegian Americans participating in challenges relating to Swedish/Norwegian history and culture, competing to win a reunion with their distant Swedish/Norwegian relatives.

[@dwaynesview]

Oh that sounds like a fun TV show, maybe I should check it out. I’d react to it but I don’t know if KZbin will allow me to post episodes.

[@thehoogard]

@@dwaynesview It's called "The Great Swedish Adventure" in America. Actually I've seen one other reactor react to the first season, which is available on youtube.

[@linusjohansson2171]

@@dwaynesview seen people post episodes fill all of the season, * Allt för sverige * it calls in sweden love see the american reactios to stuff :D

[@seriouspleasures]

They even won an Enmy.

[@Nevolet]

The earlier seasons episodes are on youtube so they are fine without copystrike. However some music may be able to turn down later on.

[@Damalatorian]

To be fair.. I thought less of the interior once seeing it on the outside.. sure alot of things to fix, but it seems relaxing. The oven part is where you burn the wood and cook. I feel priviliged that our sommarstuga had electricy and plumming but there are many who doesn't so you'll need wood and an outhose. We had our sommarstuga together with my grandparents and all my fathers 4 siblings, so we had 6 smaller bedrooms on the 2nd flor with beds for all the parents and their kids, 2,5 living room areas, kitchen and bathroom with shower.. also a tool shed and we made a dog stable(?).. We could at most be 23 people in it at once and used to celebrate Midsommar there alot. Sure it were REALLY tight living but true.. it wouldn't be a "sommarstuga" if you ask anybody.. more a sommarHOUSE, but at the time it were all I knew and it were painted just like that.. red and white.. so it were a sommarstuga for me and always will be my first thought when hearing the word.

[@sussie5463]

Yeah he just bought this little house and will renovate it. It’s an old very typical red ”torp”. I think similar to your thorp? A summer house in Sweden comes in all shapes though, big and small. But the key thing is that it is a secondary home mostly used in the summer or holidays. It is also very commen that owners rent it out during the summer if they aren’t using it themselves to get some extra income. A second home costs a lot of money!

[@quadtiggersson1222]

I am swedish and i can honestly say, Yep these summerhouses are very common here in Sweden. Its mostly for grandparents or a second house You have in summer which i both had growing up and still have. I visited my grandparents in a similar house like this during my childhood, its more bigger than in the video and nowdays my parents have taken it over, so i mostly visit there during christmas or summer. We have our own little bridge to a small lake and take a boat to the city whenever We feel like it. This is so common for me, so your reaction to it that You never seen it, i love it 😆❤️

[@dwaynesview]

They’re so cute, I wish I had a summers house in my family. It reminds me of the house in Hansel and Gretal. This one was pretty small. A little bridge to a small lake that sounds like a fairytale. What a nice memory to have as a child 😊

[@Mimer6]

It was just a house but then there were outbuildings. Where you stored firewood, tools and garage.

[@johnnorthtribe]

This house is probably 100 years old or so without any electricity. That "workplace" is a wood iron stove. You heat your food and boil water with the help of fire. You also warm your house in the same way with wood and fire.

[@dwaynesview]

That’s so cool, I wonder if he ended up renovating it. And whether he kept the old features of the house. I can’t believe all that land around it as well.

[@johnnorthtribe]

@@dwaynesview My aunt had/have this kind of summer cottage. I remember going there every summer with my brother and my mother as a kid. That summer cottage had at least electricity for lamps and so on. But the power was not strong enough for heating and cooking so we made food on the iron stove and, in need, heated the house with fire. There were no water tap inside the house either so we had to go out to a sort of home made water tap in the garden. The worst experience though was the outside shit house built in wood full of bugs. :)

[@indraallian6371]

OK heres a history lesson 😁 That house is what we call a "Torp" that was houses that the landowner let people live in in exchange of labour. Its probably at least 200 years old maybe more. The people living there were called "torpare" So they worked on the landowners fields (summer)and in the landowners forrest (winter) In exchange for living in the house and maybe a cow and a goat and a small peace of land to grow food on. They got some pay but it was not in money but in food. And that grey thing in the kitchen was where the firestove once was placed. This is from the north of sweden you see the mountains and the vast forrest. What you dont se is the mice and all the mosquitoes. He said he will get a cat. Smart move. Also he said that there will be a follow up video. Might be interesting to watch. 😎

[@dwaynesview]

It’s called a Torp, interesting. So the people that use to live there were basically workers. It was a house for the working class people working in the fields and Forrest. It looks beautiful but then you said mosquitoes and mice lol! I never knew mosquito’s could survive in colder climates.

[@johnnorthtribe]

@@dwaynesview You would not want to experience the mosquito plague in the north and middle of Sweden during summer time. :D

[@Thennix]

@@johnnorthtribe haha yeah those mosquitos can eat one up :D

[@RobertClaeson]

@@Thennix Whether there are many mosquitos depends entirely on the summer. They need lots of water to mature, so if it's a hot and dry summer there'll be fewer mosquitos if any at all. I've had fantastic summers trekking the mountains in the far north in t-shirt and shorts, with no mosquitos around.

[@indraallian6371]

@@dwaynesview Only in the summer of course 😎

[@stefanholzner8387]

The space in the chimney is an open fire area the second area is missing iron stove area. Torp house used to be given to soldiers in the old days. My granfather had one, nowadays sommer houses are really much more than this.

[@olsa76]

A summer cottage can look different, ranging from normal modern houses to small cottages without electricity or running water. This house is a normal residential building from probably 150-200 years ago? Someone seems to have built a kitchen in the 1920s-30s, but surely there is only cold water? The buildings nearby belong to the house, there is probably a wood shed and an outhouse, maybe a cow or two stood there once upon a time? There is a fireplace in the family room and the kitchen lacks a wood-burning cast iron stove. I hope he doesn't overrenovate the old house, as many do.

[@Templarofsteel88]

We have a summer house or rather a summer cottage in my family in Sweden. It is in the middle of the forest and the only way to get to it is either to walk through a forest or by rowboat over the lake. Totally off the grid, with no electricity or running water with an outhouse when nature calls. We even have a stream going at the side that we use to cool drinks if it has not dried out during the more hot days. Luckily we have a dug well that we get water from. Would not trade it for anything in the world

[@Bjowolf2]

Yes, "summer-STOws" directly translated word for word 😉

[@Love42se]

You should watch the norwegian group Ylvis with their song “Cabin”. It pretty much sums up these type of cottages 😅

[@katarinahaglund6338]

In these old houses the only heatingsystem and way of cooking is with fire you need wood. No running water inside. Most of these houses don't have an indoor loo you will go to a small building we call "utedass" outdoorloo. It's incredibly relaxing to spend some time like that.

[@dwaynesview]

We call them out houses but not many are around anymore in England. If there’s no running water, do you collect it from a fresh water source somewhere?

[@katarinahaglund6338]

Most of the time there is a well or a small stream of running water.

[@jespergranstrom5267]

@@dwaynesview i would say from my own experice having my family had/have a summercottage from my childhood, that we fill up a couple of waterjugs (50liter maybe )of clean tapwater at home and bring it with you

[@fridanygren4070]

You can definitely rent a summer house, the landowner where we have ours rent the other 2 houses on our headland via Airbnb

[@Gammaskalle]

I also heard England incorporated over 600 words into the english language from the vikings.

[@justmaria]

Wow that was a nice summer house, so much potential. Btw in the kitchen was a place for a Woodburn stove and that oven. To bake bread in that is incredibly good or pizza even pastry.

[@dwaynesview]

It was wasn’t it, it had great character. I would love that Woodburner. I can imagine pizza would be delicious cooked on that.

[@Sanniz]

That was a real living house back in the past for "torpare" (you could call it poor farmer). That place you asked about is for cooking. The old way. My experience of sommarstuga is much more simple and much smaller. We used to borrow one during Summer from my God Mother. That place had no electricity or rinning water. It was really small and I don't remember if we had "gasol" for cooking. But we did had a sauna that you heated up with wood. And the water was from a well. And the location high up on a Mountain in the Forrest, but not far from a big lake.

[@styrelsefksu4463]

Most Swedes used to live in the countryside until the late 1800 where there was a couple of years with really harsh and cold summers that was so cold that nothing grew and people where starving and as a result some people moved away from their farms to the cities Some of these summer cabins are old small farms that where inherited down threw the generations and kept in the same families and are a place where all the relatives go in the summer to get together and meet each other Some of them are located in remote areas like in the mountains or on an island with no electricity except solar power and no running water and a classic Swedish outhouse instead of a toilet because some people like a simple life like that of their ancestors on their vacation There are also more modern summer cabins that are more like a modern house, only smaller there are also typically dedicated cabin areas around a lake or along the sea coast with summer houses that are really expensive the ones to a a lake, the sea or close to a beach are the most expensive ones usually depending on the condition

[@smievil]

3:21 "vedspis" he says. might mean fire stove. some swedish houses has a fireplace that can heat up the house, by burning wood, and might have stove top on top of it, it looks different from the earlier fireplace. i think it's not too unusual for some houses to have one or some kind of hybrid system where you can heat the house with wood or electricity, not sure how functional some of those fireplaces are. 3:24 "en slags gammal ugn", a kind of old oven.

[@ulvsbane]

If you get away from the larger cities and the coast, you can find houses quite cheap.

[@mikaelwerner8146]

I think it should be easy for you and learn Swedish because all my english speaking friend have learn it very fast You are right many words are similar

[@_Wolfsbane_]

Yes the first one is a fireplace. The second where the oven was, the space behind where the oven was is for baking (the little hatch covers the baking oven). As for rotten timber, you can just replace separate timber (we did in our summer home). It's not too expensive. This seems to be an "enkelstuga" (kitchen, one living room on ground floor) with a livable attic.

[@hachimaki]

You should try searching for couples buying houses in Sweden, I've noticed there's quite a few channels on youtube that focuses around the subject of foreigners who've bought houses (some just like this one) in the middle of nowhere here in Sweden. Apparently they're considered very affordable, even though pretty much all of them need to be renovated, most likely the prices are so low because of their location (far away from towns/villages etc) and the time/money investment that's needed. As a brit you have the advantage of a much stronger currency, so I would still think this type of summer cottage would be pretty affordable for you if you have a decent income to start with. Most people tend to renovate on their own or with the help of family and friends rather then hiring a professional since Swedes love DIY (unless it's something to big to handle on your own or if it's something that needs to be done by a tradesman for insurance purposes).

[@igeekling]

Compared with prices on the property market in the UK. Prices here are unbelievable. Or as a once British born and bred friend put it. WTF! I can buy that house and put it on my credit card. Don't even need a mortgage. If you're looking at rundown summer houses far out from a population centre. We're talking cost to buy about the same as six months average rent payment in London.

[@mariaeriksson7433]

Have a guesthouse on my property that has an open stove (öppen spis)just like in the clip, you can rent it if you want and make a fire in it just like they did back in the day when there were no electric stoves😊 I also have water from a well with superior quality😊 Think you would like it

[@ThePeoxx69]

the area is for awood stove... and sommerhouses are rented..

[@birgitta287]

Tere is a fireplace in the living room, and there would have been a woddenstowe in the kitchen. Looks like someone took it. It can be replaced an buy an old one or a replica .

[@rosagardetoft4013]

This is the First part in a series of how he fixes the house up. And the beauty of Swedish summer, of course😊

[@dwaynesview]

I was trying really hard to understand him, even though I don’t speak the language 😂. I feel kind of invested now. I need to know what he does with the house.

[@hypnotherapy69]

the other building was a storeage/toolshed

[@friswing]

Yes, it is possible to rent cottages, some are very small, and therefore afordable, but then usually very simple, without kitchen and so on. Old cottages are usually far away in the forrest, and needs to be fixed a lot, like this house in the video, that would be comparably unexpensive to buy. If you can't afford it, it is very common to go camping, with a tent or trailer, like the one you saw in the video with his mother, and siblings I think it was.

[@dwaynesview]

Ok that’s good to know, I’m not much of a camper but I went camping as a kid. Wouldn’t mind renting out a cottage though. That would be cool.

[@viktorlindqvist5308]

Most summer houses will be more modern I'll say with a kitchen, proper oven + such, and not in such desperate need of renovations.

[@sshortcuts3994]

Summer cottages are as common in Finland as they are in Sweden

[@MrBern91]

0:55 That reasoning... It's exactly the same as I feel when I am hearing icelandic. xD There are also tendencies of this feeling when I am hearing german and dutch. :)

[@errik0o]

That house is easily over 100 years old. i hope he doesnt "destroy" it by renovating it to modern standars. many swedes think that kind of house should be preserved.

[@bellaftwww]

Reaction on the swedish hiphop collective Random Bastards, hoosting trainspotters, cleo, fridlyst and a whole bunch of other people

[@hypnotherapy69]

the title say "I regretted it instantly XD"

[@bilbovii3285]

It's a Pizza Oven where you bake pizzas that you thought were a oven. I mean, it kind of is, but you lit a fire in there and put in the pizza.

[@mariaeriksson7433]

Had to sell my seaside summershouse…so sad…

[@mariahultander2102]

He who did this video said he’d do a series of videos on renovations of the house. Got me curious. Could I have the link to this video? Like to see the end result. 😊

[@dwaynesview]

It should be in the bio 😊

[@veronicalidstrom5424]

All the little red houses around the house all belong to the same property and the land. It's not quite true you don't have to be middle or upper class to own one or have one in your family. In the old days because Swedes immigrated to USA there became so many empty houses so they were auctioned of for 1.skr so that they would get lived in and that's why so many people have great grandparents that bought and they always stayed in a family and past on from generation to generation. But according to British finances these cute little cottages are very cheap and there are quite a few British and Germans that also buy.

[@hakanfolkelind8187]

His first comment: I accidentally bought this house....

[@dwaynesview]

That’s what he said ahh cool lol! So he didn’t say, let’s take a tour?

[@Emmy-Linda]

@@dwaynesview Yes, he did. It was the second second thing he said :-)

[@smievil]

0:45 "jag råkade köpa det här huset" - i accidentally bought this house oh my, sounds rough

[@katta0706]

He bought a summer house and regret it it says

[@katta0706]

No the space are to firewood stove in the kitchen.

[@annicaesplund6613]

it's a country cottage.

[@erikstenviken2652]

Well, this is a really unmodern house. My parents summer house is more or less an ordinary house with everything modern you need including fiber internet ;)

[@dwaynesview]

Haha! Yeah this Summers House looks super old. Needs a good renovation and internet is essential 😂

[@kristerhegsund5752]

Why not use the CC-function? At least it gives you an idea of what is said.

[@daw7563]

Renting a sommarstuga is a thing. Google hyra sommarstuga.

ca: 600 000 med familj har tillgång till en sommarstuga

[@44reasons48]

Open fire place m8 :)

[@benisturning30]

Why are all your videos about Sweden?