It's all good. I'm a female and my bedroom was small attic I shared with two brothers. Deadly hot in the summer, ice cold in the MN winter. Please people... sharing a smaller space and learning give and take will be good for the kids in the long run. And the memories this family are constantly making makes me jealous. Plus the shop nearby is just awesome for all the family just wish they had room for me.
When I do in-town moves, I just take full drawers out of dressers and put them in the car to move, then insert in the furniture at the new place. There's no need to box up clothes or the items, and have to take them out again.
Jude is getting so grown up! He is so sweet, as are all your children💕 the way you treat all of your children with such respect as individuals and cater to their needs shows how great you both are as parents, love from Ireland
We were a family of 8 living in 800 sq ft... people need to get over their Oversized American Ideas... thats a huge house for the majority of the population.
Jude is cute..when mom starts cooking he likes to linger in the kitchen and smell the nice smells...my brother always did that when our sweet mother was cooking...❤️. Thanks for reminding me of a happy memory. Little boys sure love their mother. ❤️😊
My in-laws were one of 11 and one of 12, and their families both lived in small farmhouses either as big or smaller than your ranch when they were growing up! I haven't heard a complaint about the size of the houses (though there's plenty of interesting stories). So many houses are oversized these days, a false value placed on square footage, instead of how square footage is actually used. I think you guys will do a great job with your house.
Wow, Mike's packing organization is impressive considering he still has the same boxes from your prior move and had the boxes organized so he could reuse boxes for the same purpose. Small living spaces are great. I think I read once that no matter what the size of the house, most families utilize the same 500-600 square feet on a regular basis. We live in a small house (although only parents with one child). We appreciate living small and it prevents us from accumulating too much stuff. Also, less to clean! Good luck with getting the house ready and the move. I hope you find time to vlog and share with us a bit during these next few weeks.
Susan Anderson I think you’re right...we just sold our big family house...we only lived in The kitchen/living room and our bedroom...we love this small home already...no wasted space...tiny backyard...no upstairs...so much easier when u r getting old...
First of all, I really like how honest Mike is. Admitting the obvious that the house is really small and you will be very close to one another. I like the adventure and can do spirit you have. I have lived in a house during renovations and it can be done. Sometimes you move things around a lot. Super excited to see what comes next.
I am in love with the newest direction of this channel, I think the creativity that will be involved in this whole adventure will make for some really interesting videos. Also, the music in the video makes me feel all the feels. ☺️
I just read your Insta story and am so disgusted that people could say such hateful things to you guy’s!! I had to jump on here to share some love! So grateful you are sharing this journey with us ~ You inspire me Megan & I pray for Gods peace on your minds & hearts that hateful words written to you guys would only make y’all stronger and more determined to continue walking life in love. #seriouslypeople #bekind #livelifeincolour Love from Australia!
I LOVED when you said to Elijah " check in with the Lord so that you can get warnings and feel the Spirit"..... that is what I tell my young kiddos! Being led by the Spirit of God in all things, you can't go wrong!❤️
my hair grew 3.5 inches during the shutdown. boy was I happy to get it cut short this past Monday. I happened to be in the right place at the right time to get it done without an appointment. took her 40 minutes to do the cut and wash. I was so happy I had no more hair falling in my eyes.
You guys will be fine in “the little house” you all lived in a 5th wheel and everyone survived. 😂 It may not always be comfortable but people all over the world, even in the USA would love to have a house that size (even with large families) I’m looking forward to seeing all the changes you all make! Hugs from Switzerland 🇨🇭
Very exciting. I’m preparing to retire, sell my house and relocate. I’m anxious but also excited. I’m enjoying watching your family as you make your big move.
Here is an idea. Put everything in the warehouse. Park the RV by the house. Live in the RV and give yourself a 3 month window to open up the rooms and get flooring down. After living in the RV for a few months the house will seem plenty big.
All I can say is, “you all are a little bit crazy, little bit saints, little bit miracle workers, great parents and great spouses to each other” !!!! Finding the energy is one thing but finding the time to do all you do is another, you guys are so efficient !!! I think the change, adaptations and inconveniences are great life lessons for kids...... these kids will be able to handle anything thrown at them in life !!!! You all are a true inspiration !!! Oh and tell Esther her art design is amazing !!!
I moved into a small apartment due to a divorce. I thought I would hate it! Guess what? My kids and I love it. It gives us more time to spend with each other. Keeps my expenses low. Saving for a small home. I will never live in a big house again! Love your videos.
This family is doing amazing! I’m so happy that you all are doing things that make you guys happy! DO IT. again and again. I’m sorry about the negativity, don’t let it stop ya! ❤️❤️sending love
I love ur vlog style I look forward to ur videos especially mikes update of “its evening now” “ok it’s the next day” I can literally watch ur videos all day lol. Hope the move goes well can’t wait to see more. I lived in a 2 bedroom house with 3 brothers and parents we eventually did loft conversions but while they were being done we were perfectly happy and renovating it while we lived in there was so cost effective and we could keep an eye on everything and it gone done really quick cause the guys didn’t wanna be intruding on us so they busted those rooms out quick.
You will be fine in your tiny house! We lost our home in hurricane Michael a year and a half ago. We have a family of 12. We moved into my parents tiny 3 bedroom home and have been living with them since and until our home is finished this fall. Most of our children are teenagers so they aren’t tiny. It’s been an adventure and crowded but we are truly blessed.
You could paint the plywood floors or put a clear coat over them for now, that way you’ll be able to walk on them comfortably with socks or clean and mop them without damaging the plywood etc. I’m excited for you guys to move in soon! I’m sure the kids will enjoy the freedom of being in town.
I know that you must be really busy and you have had family visiting so your video today was a real treat. All the best pulling the move all together! I loved Esther's colorful drawing!
Your family is going to rock living in a small house. Yous are all very very creative. Your values in education are done via hands on experiences ... this is just another educational journey. I cant wait to keep following along. Its gonna be great!!
You kids r such hard workers. ❤️ we just sold our nearly 3000 sq ft home, that we dearly loved, we bought a little patio home near our kids and grandkids...so they can look after us in our dotage 😄
Its almost funny... a family of 11 in an RV travelling the country is fine ... but people think its a problem to live in a small house ... hahaah number one ... this family is like cameleons... 2. They have have trolled with bigger punches... and number 3... who ya think you are to tell anyone how big their house should be
Hi guys. I love the essential oils!!! I have to say I think what you are doing for your family is exactly what you should be doing. I wish more people would understand that everyone has opinions and has the right to raise their family the way they want to. America is so hung up on materialism and I think it is so wonderful that you beat to your own drum. I stumbled across your page a few months ago and have fell in love with your family and how you guys parent. Never stop being you and do what brings you joy. You are truly an inspiration and I hope to be as kind and patient as you are with your children with my future children. Positive vibes your way.
We have lived in so many houses and renovated at the same time. With little kids. I don’t think I could have done it with thousands of people’s opinions though. Lol. You guys are brave to put yourselves out here for all the critique. Bless.
We hate living in debt. So we moved in a one bedroom home and saved money for 4 years and bought a new home. We had 4 small kids. We turned the dining room in to the kids room. It was amazing time. We spent a lot time outside. It was a favorite home. It taught are kids so much. The kids still talk about how much they loved it. Once we moved in a larger home they still wanted to be in the share room even though they had their own rooms.
“That’s partially true” lol I love it how you keep it real. Anyway, your family seems to adapt so well and I know you guys always make things work in whatever situation you’re in
Oh my lovelies....you are busy bees and these are exciting exciting times. Hugs....you just put a spring in my step...a smile in my heart !! Now onward Knorrps...onward !!!
Mike, you said the house has a smell, i hope it's not mold, have you had the house check for mold, painting may cover the smell temporarily, but it will not kill any mold spores hidden behind the walls or under the flooring,
Hi beautiful family, new to your vlog, found you through homeschooling, thank you for book recommendation "dumming us down" 🙏✌️💞🙏 sending love and gratitude, keep shining and sharing
I really would not worry about what other people think. If you all are happy that is all that matters! Love when you all have a vid up. Much love and prayer.
I love your style. We are in the process of buying our first home and we need some new furniture but cannot find anything we like. You have given me some inspiration and I will make this work!! Hope your move goes smoothly and the new shop does well!!
I like separate rooms. I understand wanting an open kitchen/dining, but I like the wall in the livingroom. It gives you more wall to decorate and arrange furniture. That hallway defines the common/guest area vs the private areas.
So happy that you take us along on your lives. So many people especially in the USA, I think, have gotten so used to large homes that they think anything smaller than 2500 SF is too little. Yet, most homes built in the 50s were around 1000SF and people made do. I remember my mom and I thought if someone had a 1200 SF home, it was big. Anyway, also wanted to say great job on your art, Esther - and Evie too! Jude, I’d have wanted that NASA shirt too!
Renovating and living in a home is hell. Ask me how i know. It is challenging to say the least then add 6 or 7 kids to that. And of course, double the time it will take and at 30% to your budget. Mark my words you will be rethinking living in a renovation. I truly wish you all the best.
In general I agree with you. But the Knorp’s are rather an exceptional family. Their children are not that young and seem to be very mature & well behaved. They seem to have a mindset of “we will do what our parents need us to do” and are attuned to sacrificing for the goal on the other end. Not that this whole thing is gonna go like clockwork without snags and without complaints. If the other large workshop/hangout space were not nearby that looks like they’re gonna be renting, I’d say they this would be an experiment in misery.
Plywood/unfinished floors aren’t too bad to live on. We did it for 2 years while we rebuilt our home after it flooded in 2011. We moved in as soon as the kitchen was done. We flooded in June 2011 and moved back in March 2012. We both still worked full time jobs & on the house at night during the cold winters in North Dakota! Good luck with your new adventure!❤️❤️
Moving and traveling for you guys is such a good way to hit the refresh button. The process seems daunting but you guys handle it with grace and patients.
Makes so much more sense to live in your new home even while renovating it! Why have rent and a mortgage at the same time. Also, you guys are so adaptable and will do fine!
I think the shed outside the kitchen door with a little bit of work would hold pantry items and the washer/dryer and would be a good use of space - I have done about 15 houses and I would not take out the weight bearing wall I think you just paint it and move in - if you go outwards on either side of the house with a monolithic roof using the same roof line if possible and when you add the 4-5 car garaging put a upstairs area attached to the house so bedrooms can go above with a bathroom or two and a DND/games room - I think that long term if the kitchen dinning area and lounge becomes the kitchen and dinning area only and you put a lounge as an extension off the existing kitchen window open that up into the lounge going into your beautiful back garden - if 2-3 of the older kids need to go into the RV not a problem they lived in it for a year - I see the two story garage with cedar shingles or something like that and put the same exterior product in some of the extensions to bring it together
Woopty wooes, love it Mike. You do great work and give me hope that I can still do it at some time in the future. I look forward to watching your journey.
I personally think you guys are setting an amazing example. A novel thought, pay for it as you go! Wow! Not going into debt because that’s what people say you need to do. 🤪 I cannot wait to follow along in the journey.
I am excited to see how you guys pull the little house together to make it work for your family. We do not need nearly as much space as we think we do. I have a 2700 sq ft home with 5 bedrooms for a family of 6. WE are looking to relocate to London where we will be down sizing SUBSTANTIALLY too. I think it'll work out just fine!
Hey! that house may besmaller but it is certainly bigger than when you were living in a RV:) you will be fine especially if you get to rent that other building too- maybe you could use the RV as an Annex for a couple of the older ones?
I love the timelapses ☺️ I am so excited to see you move and make the house your home. Also, from an european’s perspective, American houses always seem massive and oversized. Most Europeans live in smaller homes and we’re doing fine, so I think this will defenitely work. The location deels perfect for you guys 🥰
It's all good. I'm a female and my bedroom was small attic I shared with two brothers. Deadly hot in the summer, ice cold in the MN winter. Please people... sharing a smaller space and learning give and take will be good for the kids in the long run. And the memories this family are constantly making makes me jealous. Plus the shop nearby is just awesome for all the family just wish they had room for me.
When I do in-town moves, I just take full drawers out of dressers and put them in the car to move, then insert in the furniture at the new place. There's no need to box up clothes or the items, and have to take them out again.
that is such a good idea. gunna tell me friend to do that!
It’s how we roll when moving in town.
Egg boxes are great as well bc of the handles
great idea
Deana Challis brilliant!
Jude is getting so grown up! He is so sweet, as are all your children💕 the way you treat all of your children with such respect as individuals and cater to their needs shows how great you both are as parents, love from Ireland
We were a family of 8 living in 800 sq ft... people need to get over their Oversized American Ideas... thats a huge house for the majority of the population.
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I agree!
I agree!!
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Eve approaches life with such passion🌺🌻
Tell ‘em Mike 👏👏 Do what works for your family and don’t let people tell you how you should go about your business or put their stresses on you
Esther should make her design into a T-shirt! Beautiful!
Jude is cute..when mom starts cooking he likes to linger in the kitchen and smell the nice smells...my brother always did that when our sweet mother was cooking...❤️. Thanks for reminding me of a happy memory. Little boys sure love their mother. ❤️😊
You guys do more in a year than I have in a lifetime....
I admire your patience Mike, you truely are a good father to your family, to set a good example for your kids. Action speaks louder than voice.👏🏻👍🏼
My in-laws were one of 11 and one of 12, and their families both lived in small farmhouses either as big or smaller than your ranch when they were growing up! I haven't heard a complaint about the size of the houses (though there's plenty of interesting stories). So many houses are oversized these days, a false value placed on square footage, instead of how square footage is actually used. I think you guys will do a great job with your house.
I’m excited for you guys! Also excited we get to live vicariously through your change!
Wow, Mike's packing organization is impressive considering he still has the same boxes from your prior move and had the boxes organized so he could reuse boxes for the same purpose. Small living spaces are great. I think I read once that no matter what the size of the house, most families utilize the same 500-600 square feet on a regular basis. We live in a small house (although only parents with one child). We appreciate living small and it prevents us from accumulating too much stuff. Also, less to clean! Good luck with getting the house ready and the move. I hope you find time to vlog and share with us a bit during these next few weeks.
Susan Anderson I think you’re right...we just sold our big family house...we only lived in The kitchen/living room and our bedroom...we love this small home already...no wasted space...tiny backyard...no upstairs...so much easier when u r getting old...
First of all, I really like how honest Mike is. Admitting the obvious that the house is really small and you will be very close to one another. I like the adventure and can do spirit you have. I have lived in a house during renovations and it can be done. Sometimes you move things around a lot. Super excited to see what comes next.
I am in love with the newest direction of this channel, I think the creativity that will be involved in this whole adventure will make for some really interesting videos. Also, the music in the video makes me feel all the feels. ☺️
I just read your Insta story and am so disgusted that people could say such hateful things to you guy’s!! I had to jump on here to share some love! So grateful you are sharing this journey with us ~ You inspire me Megan & I pray for Gods peace on your minds & hearts that hateful words written to you guys would only make y’all stronger and more determined to continue walking life in love. #seriouslypeople #bekind #livelifeincolour Love from Australia!
I LOVED when you said to Elijah " check in with the Lord so that you can get warnings and feel the Spirit"..... that is what I tell my young kiddos! Being led by the Spirit of God in all things, you can't go wrong!❤️
my hair grew 3.5 inches during the shutdown. boy was I happy to get it cut short this past Monday. I happened to be in the right place at the right time to get it done without an appointment. took her 40 minutes to do the cut and wash. I was so happy I had no more hair falling in my eyes.
You guys will be fine in “the little house” you all lived in a 5th wheel and everyone survived. 😂 It may not always be comfortable but people all over the world, even in the USA would love to have a house that size (even with large families) I’m looking forward to seeing all the changes you all make! Hugs from Switzerland 🇨🇭
Exactly! Those comments make me laugh! People are so silly! They will be just fine for a short, or long, amount of time!
Very exciting. I’m preparing to retire, sell my house and relocate. I’m anxious but also excited. I’m enjoying watching your family as you make your big move.
Omg if any family can adapt to smaller spaces its you guys! Can't wait to see all the amazing changes that's about to happen!
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So true...😍
I can see how excited you are about moving! I just love your family’s videos. I’m so glad to watch as you move on with your life.
Things will be fine, seeing how you both and the family approach life, in general, and with that sense of adventure. Much love and blessings 💞
Here is an idea. Put everything in the warehouse. Park the RV by the house. Live in the RV and give yourself a 3 month window to open up the rooms and get flooring down. After living in the RV for a few months the house will seem plenty big.
Wow! What exiting times, so glad you guys don’t let conventionality get in the way of how the spirit moves you! 💕
Change energizes me too. I am very blah and unmotivated when in a rut. But give me a project, a trip, change of scenery and I’m moving!!
All I can say is, “you all are a little bit crazy, little bit saints, little bit miracle workers, great parents and great spouses to each other” !!!!
Finding the energy is one thing but finding the time to do all you do is another, you guys are so efficient !!!
I think the change, adaptations and inconveniences are great life lessons for kids...... these kids will be able to handle anything thrown at them in life !!!!
You all are a true inspiration !!!
Oh and tell Esther her art design is amazing !!!
Wow, I can't believe how much the kids are growing up. I am so enjoying watching them mature into young adults.
Mike is so funny. Loving cleaning up sawdust haha. Y’all are so fun to watch!
Love all the time lapses of packing, and seeing the transformation of the new house as you go along!
Mike cleaning up the wood shreddings kinda satisfying 😂
Dad: These guys are going on their trip
Elijah: On our favorite rocketship.
Ok well I find that funny, Im sorry 😂
You'll do fine Knorpps! I'm cheering you guys on!
Hope the move is quick, easy and full of joyful moments. Much love to you all and I hope you all have a blessed day.
Joy !!! Sending you all blessings and love from London, UK. Stay true and well. x
I moved into a small apartment due to a divorce. I thought I would hate it! Guess what? My kids and I love it. It gives us more time to spend with each other. Keeps my expenses low. Saving for a small home. I will never live in a big house again! Love your videos.
This family is doing amazing! I’m so happy that you all are doing things that make you guys happy! DO IT. again and again. I’m sorry about the negativity, don’t let it stop ya! ❤️❤️sending love
I love ur vlog style I look forward to ur videos especially mikes update of “its evening now” “ok it’s the next day” I can literally watch ur videos all day lol. Hope the move goes well can’t wait to see more. I lived in a 2 bedroom house with 3 brothers and parents we eventually did loft conversions but while they were being done we were perfectly happy and renovating it while we lived in there was so cost effective and we could keep an eye on everything and it gone done really quick cause the guys didn’t wanna be intruding on us so they busted those rooms out quick.
The new house will be great experience for you all! Bigger than the RV you all lived in so I'm sure you'll adjust and make it lovely and homey!!!
You will be fine in your tiny house! We lost our home in hurricane Michael a year and a half ago. We have a family of 12. We moved into my parents tiny 3 bedroom home and have been living with them since and until our home is finished this fall. Most of our children are teenagers so they aren’t tiny. It’s been an adventure and crowded but we are truly blessed.
so sorry to hear about your house but what a great attitude you have, inspirational!
I love the green furniture!!
The music in this vlog is so calming and sweet. Good luck Knorpss on moving out and moving in!!! Another adventure for you guys 💞🤗
I can’t wait to see the transformation! Keep sharing please😀
I’m one of 11 kids so everything you do makes sense to me! Lol I love your busy lives and thanks for sharing it! ❤️
So nice to see you all starting to get out of the horrible lockdown in the US.
You could paint the plywood floors or put a clear coat over them for now, that way you’ll be able to walk on them comfortably with socks or clean and mop them without damaging the plywood etc. I’m excited for you guys to move in soon! I’m sure the kids will enjoy the freedom of being in town.
I know that you must be really busy and you have had family visiting so your video today was a real treat. All the best pulling the move all together! I loved Esther's colorful drawing!
Your family is going to rock living in a small house. Yous are all very very creative. Your values in education are done via hands on experiences ... this is just another educational journey. I cant wait to keep following along. Its gonna be great!!
You kids r such hard workers. ❤️ we just sold our nearly 3000 sq ft home, that we dearly loved, we bought a little patio home near our kids and grandkids...so they can look after us in our dotage 😄
Its almost funny... a family of 11 in an RV travelling the country is fine ... but people think its a problem to live in a small house ... hahaah number one ... this family is like cameleons... 2. They have have trolled with bigger punches... and number 3... who ya think you are to tell anyone how big their house should be
Hi guys. I love the essential oils!!! I have to say I think what you are doing for your family is exactly what you should be doing. I wish more people would understand that everyone has opinions and has the right to raise their family the way they want to. America is so hung up on materialism and I think it is so wonderful that you beat to your own drum. I stumbled across your page a few months ago and have fell in love with your family and how you guys parent. Never stop being you and do what brings you joy. You are truly an inspiration and I hope to be as kind and patient as you are with your children with my future children. Positive vibes your way.
Megan I love that hair style on you, it suits you so well!
I’m so excited to follow your moving and renovation story! Your hair looks fab Megan 💙🇦🇺
You’re doing what you love, and love what you’re doing. BON CHANCE on the new exciting move.
Eve is definitely an artist in the making 😊 I hope she continues to draw and practice her skills
Lots of juggling. Mike is the Packing King. All will be well!! Xx
We have lived in so many houses and renovated at the same time. With little kids. I don’t think I could have done it with thousands of people’s opinions though. Lol. You guys are brave to put yourselves out here for all the critique. Bless.
I love what you guys are doing! You inspire me to be brave.
We hate living in debt. So we moved in a one bedroom home and saved money for 4 years and bought a new home. We had 4 small kids. We turned the dining room in to the kids room. It was amazing time. We spent a lot time outside. It was a favorite home. It taught are kids so much. The kids still talk about how much they loved it. Once we moved in a larger home they still wanted to be in the share room even though they had their own rooms.
“That’s partially true” lol I love it how you keep it real. Anyway, your family seems to adapt so well and I know you guys always make things work in whatever situation you’re in
Liz I love their honesty and transparency.
Esther has such good energy. Love her 💙
Oh my lovelies....you are busy bees and these are exciting exciting times. Hugs....you just put a spring in my step...a smile in my heart !! Now onward Knorrps...onward !!!
Mike, you said the house has a smell, i hope it's not mold, have you had the house check for mold, painting may cover the smell temporarily, but it will not kill any mold spores hidden behind the walls or under the flooring,
Esther really has an artistic talent, both hair and her art work! Cool!! Keep it up, Girl!
Mike needs one of those vacuum things on your rotator and saw. Would make your life a little easier. Cool projects. Tfs 😁
Hi beautiful family, new to your vlog, found you through homeschooling, thank you for book recommendation "dumming us down" 🙏✌️💞🙏 sending love and gratitude, keep shining and sharing
Good luck thinking of you all in your crazy season!
Wow! Can't wait to see what the new house will look like. I'm sure it will all turn out well! God speed!
I really would not worry about what other people think. If you all are happy that is all that matters! Love when you all have a vid up. Much love and prayer.
I love your style. We are in the process of buying our first home and we need some new furniture but cannot find anything we like. You have given me some inspiration and I will make this work!! Hope your move goes smoothly and the new shop does well!!
Your life; your decision. Just keep the end goal in sight and it’ll all go well. Hugs. Hard work ahead. ❤️
I'm so excited for you. This will be fun!
Well, I'm excited for ya'll. Cozy can be fun and its not like you haven't done tiny living before. I look forward to see what you do with your house.
I like separate rooms. I understand wanting an open kitchen/dining, but I like the wall in the livingroom. It gives you more wall to decorate and arrange furniture. That hallway defines the common/guest area vs the private areas.
The room to me seems like a mud room for how closed off it is. I say tear it down! Lol
Y'all have this, I have no doubt. Much love to y'all from Florida. ♥️🎈♥️🌞🌴😎☕
Love what you said about things that energise you. So true!
Tiny home is when Adventures begins
Moving out is so stressful,we have moved 3 times and it's the worst for me!!!I sent you courage!!❤️🧡💛
I think you all will adapt well. Your family is always up for the next adventure ❤️. I can’t wait to see how everything turns out in the end!
Eve your picture you made for Grandpa is super cute🐶
Looking forward to seeing how you makeover your little home, it's going to be adorable
I CANNOT handle how cute that yellow cabinet is. I LOVE IT!
I think the green one turned out great too-:)
So happy that you take us along on your lives. So many people especially in the USA, I think, have gotten so used to large homes that they think anything smaller than 2500 SF is too little. Yet, most homes built in the 50s were around 1000SF and people made do. I remember my mom and I thought if someone had a 1200 SF home, it was big. Anyway, also wanted to say great job on your art, Esther - and Evie too! Jude, I’d have wanted that NASA shirt too!
Can't wait to see the space you create 😀
That yellow cabinet is 👌 That would be a great display case for my blue and white Spode dishes, if only I didn’t live in Seattle!
Renovating and living in a home is hell. Ask me how i know. It is challenging to say the least then add 6 or 7 kids to that. And of course, double the time it will take and at 30% to your budget. Mark my words you will be rethinking living in a renovation. I truly wish you all the best.
In general I agree with you. But the Knorp’s are rather an exceptional family. Their children are not that young and seem to be very mature & well behaved. They seem to have a mindset of “we will do what our parents need us to do” and are attuned to sacrificing for the goal on the other end. Not that this whole thing is gonna go like clockwork without snags and without complaints. If the other large workshop/hangout space were not nearby that looks like they’re gonna be renting, I’d say they this would be an experiment in misery.
Plywood/unfinished floors aren’t too bad to live on. We did it for 2 years while we rebuilt our home after it flooded in 2011. We moved in as soon as the kitchen was done. We flooded in June 2011 and moved back in March 2012. We both still worked full time jobs & on the house at night during the cold winters in North Dakota!
Good luck with your new adventure!❤️❤️
Michelle Myers Are you in Minot? My parents’ basement flooded entirely, and my dad did all the work of fixing it up again.
TheVisga yes I live in Minot @ Eastwood Park. We’re still working on the house when we have funds available
Moving and traveling for you guys is such a good way to hit the refresh button. The process seems daunting but you guys handle it with grace and patients.
Makes so much more sense to live in your new home even while renovating it! Why have rent and a mortgage at the same time. Also, you guys are so adaptable and will do fine!
I think the shed outside the kitchen door with a little bit of work would hold pantry items and the washer/dryer and would be a good use of space - I have done about 15 houses and I would not take out the weight bearing wall I think you just paint it and move in - if you go outwards on either side of the house with a monolithic roof using the same roof line if possible and when you add the 4-5 car garaging put a upstairs area attached to the house so bedrooms can go above with a bathroom or two and a DND/games room - I think that long term if the kitchen dinning area and lounge becomes the kitchen and dinning area only and you put a lounge as an extension off the existing kitchen window open that up into the lounge going into your beautiful back garden - if 2-3 of the older kids need to go into the RV not a problem they lived in it for a year - I see the two story garage with cedar shingles or something like that and put the same exterior product in some of the extensions to bring it together
Woopty wooes, love it Mike. You do great work and give me hope that I can still do it at some time in the future. I look forward to watching your journey.
I personally think you guys are setting an amazing example. A novel thought, pay for it as you go! Wow! Not going into debt because that’s what people say you need to do. 🤪 I cannot wait to follow along in the journey.
I am excited to see how you guys pull the little house together to make it work for your family. We do not need nearly as much space as we think we do. I have a 2700 sq ft home with 5 bedrooms for a family of 6. WE are looking to relocate to London where we will be down sizing SUBSTANTIALLY too. I think it'll work out just fine!
So excited for you guys and can't wait to see the whole process for you all. :)
We lived in a schoolie/ school bus with three kids WHILE covering it into a home. Yes it was challenging, but still worth it for us!
Wishing you the best of luck with it all! So excited to see and follow the journey! Hi from Ireland 🇮🇪
Y'all are nuts I say! Nuts ❤
small is quaint and cozy... AND the kids aren't gonna be home foreever! This will be something you and Mike can grow old in! :)
Moving is a nightmare!!! Watching you do it, I had to breathe through an anxiety attack. Aaaaaaaah!
Hey! that house may besmaller but it is certainly bigger than when you were living in a RV:) you will be fine especially if you get to rent that other building too- maybe you could use the RV as an Annex for a couple of the older ones?
Asti T that sounds like a good idea but sometimes local codes will not allow you to do that.
Any house is bigger than an RV...you guys should be fine...
I love the timelapses ☺️ I am so excited to see you move and make the house your home. Also, from an european’s perspective, American houses always seem massive and oversized. Most Europeans live in smaller homes and we’re doing fine, so I think this will defenitely work. The location deels perfect for you guys 🥰
That storage area full of art and fun will make the difference