I have to say your wife is such a natural infront of the camera and she is so sweet and beautiful! Can't wait to see the progress!

"TBH we just put our old stuff on the sidewalk for people to take it" I love the honesty of a child. LOL

I am so happy for you to see where the journey in Taupō begins! A small lake community. How dreamy! And....a warm fire, family together time, and a sweet little mate! And not one but TWO separate spaces to generate income to fund all your DIY! You can be the Ben & Erin Napier of New Zealand! I'm over the moon for y'all!

In Canada, we would call that a wood burning stove. They were used to cook on for generations before modern stoves/ovens came around

Don't forget to stand your fridge for 24 hrs before plugging it in!

Glad to see you bought a house and you can do the reno. Good luck guys I love this family

Can't wait to see all the progress on the house. Congratulations on your new home!

In the USA, we also hand down furniture to family that needs it or that is starting out.

I can’t wait to see random new pieces of furniture being added in the house. It’ll kind of be like a scavenger hunt, “can you spot the new piece of furniture?😅” Love you guys ❤️

When we want furniture to be gone, we put it at the side of the road, too. Your hardware store looks like The Home Depot...

Thank you for sharing the beginning of you new adventure with us.

I am so sorry for the loss of your Mum! Prayers for you all!

Congratulations and best of luck in your new home! Can't wait to go on the journey with you while renovating your home. A lot of work, but a very exciting new chapter in your life. You will do great!

Keep a kettle going on the wood stove when you’re using it. Wood stoves REALLY dry out the air, and the kettle will held add moisture back in.

What a terrific house. So much potential. I did quite a lot of work on my house and property many years ago on my house that was also built in the 70's. My son was very young like your son is Sam and he couldn't help me much. Now my son is 22 and whenever I need anything done I just call him up and we get it done in no time at all. I rarely do anything without him. Lesson #1: teach your son how to use his hands to build and repair things around the house. It will definitely pay off for him and (you) later. LOL...💔💔💔💔💔 Really lovin your new channel Sam. NZ is pretty much a mystery to most Americans. But it looks like day to day life there is pretty much the same as it is here.😁😁😁

I love DIY. We have been “do it yourselfers” for over 50 years--we are 75 and 76 and still doing things ourselves. Looking forward to your home improvements. Good luck. A lot on your plate.

As long as your house is safe, clean and free of asbestos and mold, we can all live in those houses

I like this place. Should be nice once renovations are done.

U.S resident here! I would LOVE to see a renovation series! Also, you should check out some Mr.Kate videos for GREAT DIY advice and inspiration!!

Place is gonna look awesome when its all done, right at the end was Lake Taupo which is actually similar to Yellowstone in the US, the last time it erupted was 186 AD.

I notice you use the word "shift" , we use "move"....fun facts....I love watching and learning. You guys are Awesome!

I can't get over how much Mom and Daughter, and Dad and Son look alike, you got two mini-mes!

Congratulations on your new home!! I'm looking forward to going along on your renovation journey with you.

New Zealand looks amazing!

I visited Taupo when I was in NZ in 2019. Absolutely beautiful and had fun fishing on the river and going to the hot springs. Good luck with your move!

Can't wait to see the renovation

OMG! I'd never cover those gorgeous hardwoods, just put a big fluffy floor rug down that you can roll up and store in the attic in the summer! In the States we kill for hardwoods, never want carpet.

That wardrobe is very nice. Nicer than any British wardrobe I have seen on KZfaq. Love all the wood in the house.

You guys are awesome the wife is definitely camera friendly lol 😂 good luck on all the renovations can’t wait to see the finished product

Congratulations on your new home. Your daughter is such a little grown up. They are beautiful your kids.

Nadine you should definitely get into real estate sales as a side hustle. You're a natural at showing a house! 👏

One thing I think you should keep in mind. Necessity is the Mother of invention, but when things get tough Desperation is the father. I’ve been saying that for years. It may sound a little strange, but desperation can get you to do things you’d not otherwise try. Combine Necessity and desperation, and you can come up with some Great stuff.

Thanks for inviting us into your new home and being our New Zealand Family!

I'm exhausted just watching and listening. Looking forward to the DIYs

It will be quite interesting to see your progress in the new home. You should watch the channel called "Good Simple Living" as they are a young family who sold most everything and moved from Washington state into a small camping trailer while they built a small home in their barn in northern Idaho. After they finished it (a small 2 bedroom home), they started building their forever dream home. They have done almost everything by themselves (Jeremy & Melissa). They built their home while homesteading and homeschooling their four children. They are a wonderful Christian family and I think you would enjoy watching their videos. It has been a year now since you started your adventure, so I'm excited to see what takes place as you begin your remodel.

I like the wall paper and kitchen. I wouldn't renovate so much.

After working for 911 emergency for 22 years in a very big US city my husband and I are doing the same thing! Just sold our home and waiting to close. We will be living on an acre and a half by a beautiful lake in Texas.

My grandparents custom made house had included a bathroom that could only be entered from the outside. It was perfect after a long hard day of work where grandfather got dirty. He was able to shower and change into clean clothes. There was a laundry chute from the bathroom to the laundry room. He did not need to touch the dirty clothes after he had showered and changed into clean clothes.

Even though I'm a year late, my family and I wish you joy in your new home.🇨🇦🤠

Dry wall or sheetrock. In a bathroom or where it's wet, blue board that doesn't allow moisture or mold in. GOOD LUCK! You will be brilliant in your rehab.

Love the house! Love the basement ('outdoor' bathroom)! Sam came out of the closet on KZfaq! Priceless!

Congrats on New House!!! Jibing sounds like Drywall to me.

Your daughter dances to food like I do lol that's when you know it's good . Love your family ♥️

Congrats on the house a few months late! Ready to see all the changes!

Love the house you bought and can't wait to see the renovation videos. I've been doing renovation in my house here in the USA, Minnesota.

Just like I seen earlier, always make sure to keep a pan or kettle on that wood stove for the moisture in the air. My youngest son had croup at the age of five from the dry heat!!

Here in the US we put unwanted or old furniture on the street too or donate to local thrift stores. As the saying goes, "One's junk is another one's treasures!!" 😊

Don't y'all forget to set the kitchen up real nice so Atlanta has everything she needs for her show.!

I grew up thinking everyone did their own reno/building work. Meeting people who hired people to do such work was amazing to me. :) My folks could easily have afforded to hire things done but they just didn't. Dad was a Jack of all trades. (I thought that phrase was his alone for years - his name was Jack.) but in fact he was a home builder in the years after WWII so like the shoemaker's children who went without shoes, we often had a long list of things needing to be done, which was always pushed aside in favor of Dad's work or the emergency stuff that came up. When it came time to build a new home, they hired it done - it was a "turn-key" job. The house was fully built, decorated and furnished before we moved in. My husband has good general house-maintenance skills and has taught our son to be the same, so until he had to have triple by-pass surgery a few years ago, we never hired jobs done. I think DIY is fairly common in the states, depending on where one lives and what what does. I've been fascinated by your cost of living videos. For instance, that wardrobe you purchased would have cost about $80-100 US. How does one afford to save for a home purchase with the cost of living in the cities? Around the US, the cost of living is definitely higher in the cities for things like housing, but the price of a car is the price of a car, same with groceries, for the most part. Our son and his wife lived here in our home town until January when they sold their house and moved to Denver, CO. They're paying $1500 a month rental on a 2 bedroom, 2 bath apartment. We're getting ready to put a small addition on our house to add a 2nd bathroom and to add space to our formerly converted back porch area/family room so we can have a 4th bedroom and small sitting area, making that space a guest suite. We're planning to spend about $12-13k to do it. Realistically speaking, we'll probably spend at least another grand getting it finished. The cost of building materials is going up almost daily here in the States, so it could end up being substantially more, til all is said and done. Zoning and building permits just cost $560, compared to 12 years ago when we did a much bigger renovation and the permits cost not quite $100. Crazy. It was almost enough to make us stop the project! ;-) I look forward to watching y'all getting on with your many projects. Just remember that home renovations usually cost 50% more than you think they will!

Love older homes...character!!!

THE HOME WE LIVE IN NOW WHAT A TOTAL RE-MODEL AS WELL, IT ALSO HAD NOT BEEN TOUCHED SINCE THE 70'S. WE HAD RED SHAGGY CARPET IN OUR BEDROOM FOR 7 YEARS. LOL

I love the kitchen because it's so south Pacific to me! Idk why, it's so cute. It's such a cool unique home! I'm so excited to see how it turns out!

Would love to see how you guys renovate your home! We've been doing a major reconstruction on our property for the past 2 years and are finally getting ready to start the drywall and floors!

Beautiful home and amazing lake! I can see why you would want to live and raise your family there.

You got the history of the house wrong :) My grandfather from Croatia (not Germany) built this house, I grew up in it during holidays and Christmas! Great to see it again!

By watching your very lovely family I never realized how much in common America has with NZ. Thanks for sharing with us.

Don't know if you are already aware, but the McDonalds in downtown Taupo has an Douglas DC-3 airliner that you can go in.

Fantastic! Congratulations! I’m looking forward to following your renovations. I adore your family! I’m over 50, but please adopt me.

I have made efforts to try hard to fill my house with what I only need, that I will actually use, and love. You will have so much fun with the renovations and it will be a great feeling when it is all completed.

Like they say what is 1 person's trash is another's treasures

Those kitchen tiles are now considered retro and back in style. Lol!

You broke every rule about transporting a fridge but l hope it's still working fine👍. Great video

We have really cold winters and lots of snow but we still have wood and tile flooring So much cleaner than carpet

Loved the tour. I grew up in a house that my father built at age 25. It was only 1,000 square feet. I had 5 sister and we shared one room. My mother had 13 brothers and sisters and we had 89 cousins living in the same town. Every weekend our house was the meeting place. Card games, adults dancing, and kids laying on the floor exhausted by the end of the night. I loved the closeness we shared and the fun that we had at bedtime. My parents worked very hard and we were blessed. We didn't have much but always had food and shelter for those who needed it. My parents taught us how to respect everyone equally and to help others in need. Your children behave like we did and it proves that you have done a great job raising them. Love your channel. Wish you happiness and love in your new home!

Wow you are all such an inspiration. What a lovely family. Hard work.. perseverance. You're very American

Most of us started this way too. No need for embarrassment. You will do fine.

SEE this is the way all children should be able to live life.

My husband & I love going to Taupo for most of our holidays. He loves to mountain bike. Lots to do in Taupo & Beautiful lake. We live in Hamilton which is 2 hours away. Great move for your family to move to Taupo.

Our house is old (almost 100), and we've renovated nearly every room. Our biggest surprise when we moved in was a fully working toilet in our dining room! Just the toilet - no walls, sink, etc. The sellers had hollowed out a large cabinet, removed the back, added wheels and basically "rolled" the cabinet over the toilet when not in use! They did not disclose this when selling or I would have backed out of the sale! It was a shock to find, to be sure. I told my fiancé he had 3 days to get it out of my dining room :) I can't tell you how much bleach I used in the following days.... Anyway, hope all your reno surprises are GOOD ones!

I definitely would not put carpet in the bedrooms. Hardwood floors are a big selling point in America. Buy large rugs to put under the beds. The rug needs to be large enough to form a generous border around the sides and foot of the bed. We have a free standing wood burning stove much like yours. It is in the area of our house that looks much like yours and it keeps our heating bill down in the winter. I am looking forward to your DIY renovations.

I love yall I wanna c NZ first hand

Personal opinion..i would just buy area rugs for the bedrooms and lounge that way you can still see the beautiful wood flooring,but you also have the warmth that you want.

I might have to vacation to New Zealand Wow it looks amazing. Cool looking house. I’ve wondered how other families from other countries live. Not to much different then the USA. Those views are so amazing

You definitely have some work to get done. A bit of advice as I have been there. Sounds like you have a plan, but don't push yourselves to get it done. Take one project or room at a time, get it done and move on to the next one. You seem to be a great team that works well together so it should be a fun (?) learning experience for you all. Perhaps Atlanta could do some research and help with input on the kitchen plan. Definitely a challenge but try to make it a family fun thing too. Maybe paint some funny things on the walls before painting them. Looking forward to seeing your "new " home take shape. One thing that you didn't show us is the outside area. Only saw the laundry line. Do you have enough space for a proper garden? Fresh vegetables are always good. Many Blessings. Anxious for the next NZ Family Episode.

We built our first home, second home and now current home. We also flipped homes for years and have rental homes so, I found a great trick for removing wall paper. In place of special chemicals to do the job, you use the tool to punch holes in paper then spray with 1/3 Snuggle fabric softener and 2/3 water rum in then use puddy knife to scrape off. If brown paper remains repeat. It smells great and works great as well. Now we are older and need to downsize to smaller home, sad but when we built our current home we planned on grand-children but my only Son passed at age 16 so the house is so large for two older people to care for. It is so nice to see such a happy young family. God bless you all and good luck with all the stress ..

Thank you for allowing us into your home for the day!

I'm always glad when someone gets a new home,, have they ever talked about what the father ( or mother) does for a living??

Congratulations 🎉 on your new home!! I’m sure y’all will make it beautiful and completely your own!! 🥳🤠!!

I have been to that town when I was in New Zealand about 28 yrs ago.We partied at the Mexican restaurant in town the whole tour group.

Nice spacious house! Looking forward to your upcoming renovation projects! DIY Down Under! 😊 -Rob in Tennessee USA

If you renovate the garage you should stick with the rustic aluminum/ dark wood, open beam, loose string of bulbs theme

Congratulations on your new house!!!! I hope you enjoy it very much. The house looks very nice!!!

But there would be an inside door along with it. Very generous of the builder to provide it to strangers.

Sheetrock, drywall, sometimes gypsum.

My cousin here in Michigan married a wonderful guy from Taupo and they live here now. Small world!

I love the wood floors

I am so happy for you all yes the Walling and ceiling is called sheet rock here in the USA I really love your new home it will be a grand place to live when you finish doing all you are talking about good luck guys that is one of the jobs I hate it’s hard to do if you’re living in it because you’re moving stuff constantly but on the other hand it’s not always feasible to be paying for two places to live either you have a beautiful family and I’m very happy for you congratulations

I think the oven is really cool

I just checked out the average temps for Taupo. Your July winters have about the temps we have in South Central Pennsylvania in our late spring (now). Your January summers are about the same late spring temps. We usually have frigid January winters, with temps averaging just above or below zero (F) for weeks at a time. Our July summers can be stifling at averaging 90 plus (F) for weeks at a time as well. To see Atlanta running around in shorts and barefoot in late April (our October) is eye opening, because in October it is sweatshirt or jacket, long pants and socks/shoes. Oh, and congratulations on your new house, it looks like a beautiful area.

So happy for you, such an amazing family, can't wait to see all the work you do to make it your own, this is gonna be fun..

Its hard saving a video a day to catch up on lol well all you guys know our NZ family is awesome

I think your house is beautiful! It looks large and very bright-can’t wait to see the move-in and renovation.

Drywall (gypsum board) is used in North American construction as a faster alternative to plaster and wood. Drywall is made of gypsum (calcium sulfate dihydrate), paper, and additives such as mica, clay, and resin So I think your GIB is a nickname for Gypsum board.

Yes please, take us along on the reno project!

CONGRADULATION ON YOUR NEW IN SMALL TOWN HOME =HAPPY FOR YOU BEST OF LUCK

So happy you escaped the Big Smoke down to Taupo! I've been to Taupo many times; it's a lovely place. How I miss my NZ!

My brother lives in Wellington. I think that’s roughly 7 or 8 hours from you guys. Great work. Stay healthy.

I know this later in the year but I love watching you guys ...

God Bless you ALL on your next move..Watch you guys & love your page..usa

I love love the garage. The possibilities are endless. Omg.. I'm so excited for y'all (Southern for you all) lol..