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Delivery drivers in the U.S. never enter your house. They leave your packages outside on the porch next to the front door
And then the porch pirates come and take them while being recorded on ring cameras XD
If you live in an apartment building and thereâs access to The vestibule of the building they will leave packages there instead of outdoors. It can reduce some piracy at least drive-bys canât see that there are packages without stopping at every building and looking inside And if the vestibule has limited access to residents and delivery personnel only that can cut down piracy even more. Then itâs just down to your actual neighbors within the building. And if thereâs a camera there thatâs pretty risky.
@@trevor3013 That's why I have all my orders (except for food) delivered to work. Been victimized by porch pirates a couple of times. Been tempted to go all Mark Rober on them, but will still get my actual deliveries sent to my job.
Unless it's a HUGE package. Then they might help you take it inside
@@crowttubebot3075 if I ever am expecting a package I'm waiting at my door until it says delivered.
Porches serve a real purpose in the South. They provide lots of shade to help keep your home cooler. On many porches here in the South we also have outdoor ceiling fans.
In america we have foyers which is what the front door opens up into. Itâs not a hallway, but rather a small room which acts as a central hub to the rest of the house, giving all the rooms privacy like you want, without the cramped feeling of a hallway. All the houses Iâve been in america have foyers and theyâre very nice.
My old house did, but the home I grew up in didn't and the house I built and now live in we have a mudroom coming in off the carport but no foyer in the front the front opens up into the main living area.
They don't ALL have this, of course, but I definitely prefer a house with one.
Many CA houses do not have a foyer. I think from travels the weather makes a foyer not just desirable, but quite necessary, particularly if the garage isn't attached. Currently, I'm in WA and during the winter almost everyone enters through the garage, despite quite protected, though not glassed in or enclosed porches.
The popularity of granite countertops has waned a bit in the U.S. for several practical reasons. There are other high-end materials that are more expensive AND more durable as well as practical. The American built home of the last 60 yrs. usually has a hallway just off the "entryway". There may often be a closet in this entryway for coats and jackets. Next to the entryway, off to the side, would be a hallway leading to linen cabinets and a hall closet as well as the bedrooms, bathrooms and den if this is a single story home.
In the US, the square footage is well documented because that is how houses are taxed. I've only ever seen cabinets over the bed in RV's.
Maybe in some places, but in my area, property is taxed on what the current market value of it is. If you live in the metro area of someplace like Seattle, valuations are often over inflated BS. Our most recent one was at least 20% more than we could sell it for. We have a friend who is a realtor, and she showed us the current, REAL value.
And water beds in the 80s had it kinda
@@fridaylong2812 Same in SF but when homes are being marketed for sale you almost always find comparative values given as price/sq ft
@@fridaylong2812 True, but market value is mostly based on the square footage of the house (IE, in a certain neighborhood most houses are worth 40 or 70 or 100 or 200 dollars a square foot).
I've never heard someone complain about granite countertops. Granite is stone, and it's not cheap and it's not cheap-looking. Granite is a huge upgrade to the cheap countertops that used to be more common in American homes.
Probably because they're young and granite has been around for over 20 years now. Now white kitchens with white quartz countertops are in style. Or marble or concrete. The dark granite is out.
Actually, I am redoing my kitchen and in researching what material to get for the countertops, I have seen references to granite as being "90s" (i.e a bit dated). I find them attractive but they do have a need to be resealed from time to time. The "latest" thing seems to be quartz.
@@BTinSF I remember the 90's. Nobody had granite. They had formica, corian, and even tile countertops. Granite countertops were not a thing in like 95% of homes in the 90's. It didn't really take off until the early 2000's. And granite isn't going out of style. Granite is a natural stone slab. It's unique. It's simply cut and polished. It's very appealing for this reason. Quartz has become more popular, but that doesn't mean granite is out of style. Quartz countertops are made by crushing natural quartz minerals and mixing it with a resin and adding in fleks and swirls to mimic the look of a natural stone like granite or marble. In other words, it's fake. It's like faux granite or faux marble. It's a good option because it looks nice and the upkeep is easier as it's not porous. But the "real thing" like granite or marble will always be sought after.
@@BTinSF If you had granite in the 90s you were high class. Lol. Then in the 2000s everyone got it. I remember doing real estate marketing back around 2004 and granite countertops in the newly built McMansion homes was a big selling point. But you are right about the resealing, it means that most people didn't take care of them correctly, so I can see being a teen in 2020 and thinking they're gross. Nobody wants their parents' style or what they grew up on. That's why everything comes back around every 30 years.
@@barnabydodd8956 Marble will be sought after but people don't want the upkeep of granite, so unless you can get single slab they'll choose another material. But put yourself in the mind of the genZ. Nobody wants the style their parents had. Especially if they didn't take care of their granite, I can see how they think it would be gross. I had a 1990s kitchen when I bought my house 8 years ago and chose quartz even though granite was still fairly common. I knew it was on its way out.
Home construction in the U.S. has a lot to do with which climate zone it's built in. As well as the technology available at the time of construction.
Then there are the ever changing trends in options and design. And of course, affordability.
I love my granite countertops! They're beautiful! Beats the hell out of formica, or some other cheap looking plastic!
I agree! I think Eric and Grace have yet to see some of the more neutral, less sparkly color choices, is all
Granite and other stone countertops are a reaction to Formica.
Quartz and Mexican tiles are nice.
Most of the time in the US, the washer/dryer is in a separate room. But when we renovated my mothers house, we put a stack laundry in the bathroom so it would be easier for her and it is quite convenient.
In warm weather areas such as California, it is not unusual for the washer, dryer, and hot water heater to be in the garage, especially in older tract houses (1950s through 1970s).
I have Brazilian blue granite counters and white cabinets and itâs lovely. I have no idea what they are talking about
One thing they didn't mention is that in a lot of cases, a condo is larger than an apartment.
And not all condos are apartments. My mom's condo is a townhouse.
@@themourningstar338 I live in what's called a "townhouse" and it's also a "condo" because I own it. What makes it a "townhouse" seems to be the fact it has 2 floors but I've never been sure of the definition; just that the developer called it that.
I also don't think it's true that condos are larger than apartments. In San Francisco, what makes for larger spaces is age: Older apartments/condos tend to be larger because in recent decades building costs per square foot have escalated so. A unit, whether condo or rented apartment, in a pre-war (WW II) building is very likely to be substantially more square feet than a modern one. And a condo or rented "flat" (usually one entire floor) in a converted 3-floor Victorian, which is a common thing here, is probably going to be the biggest of all.
@@BTinSF Yeah, my mom's condo also has 2 floors. Each building has 4 townhouses connected together in a row, with the garages running perpendicular at the one end. She owns hers, otherwise I guess it would just be... a rental townhouse? đ€·ââ I don't know lol. In the video what the guy called a townhouse are what I would call a rowhouse. But it's all a little fuzzy in the US with all of the regional differences in terminology and building styles.
I totally agree that condos aren't automatically bigger than apartments, that seems a bit silly. As you've said, it can vary dramatically depending on the building or development, available space, real estate prices etc. There's a ton of different factors that effect size.
@@killashee7742 In San Francisco, what developers call "townhouses" like mine are often stacked in large buildings and can form the pediments of high rise buildings. In my case, there are 2 commercial floors in the building with 4 floors of stacked 2-floor "townhouses" above that in a 6 floor pediment to what is a 13 floor condo building in total, taking up an entire city block.
@@BTinSF That's very interesting. I would never ever think of a condo in a large building like that as a townhouse. To me that would just simply be a 2 floor condo in a high rise.
The granite countertop issue with those 2 was a bit weird. They look very nice. My house is brick with wood stud walls. We have butcher block counters btw.
I have butcher block also but I prefer granite countertops most of them are luxurious and timeless, these two must like that awful tile counterâs with the seams in them.đ
I have quartz countertops that look like Carrera marble. Quartz is more durable and they donât have to be sealed once a year like butcher block granite and marble. I love granite and drool over marble, but it was cheaper for me to have quartz.
Granite actually has a use. Itâs for baking so you can make pastry .
Not everyone likes granite countertops. Fashions come and go, like avacado colored kitchen appliances from the 1970's or therabouts.
I have quartz type and perfectly happy with it. My old place had the cheap plastic looking one that looked so dated. Current home has a light grey ice stone pattern with white cabinets, and it's very durable and easy to maintain. I'm not a fan of the glossy look.
The hallway entry in the floor plan is the result of when the home was built. Where I grew up, there were many older homes, in fact my grandmother lived in an old Colonial where the stairway in the front hall was curved. The rooms were sectioned off because that's how homes were built at the time, due in some part for the need to heat rooms separately in the cold of winter.
Love my granite and Caesarstone counter tops. They're beautiful, solid, and easy to keep clean. Mine are white in the bathrooms and laundry room, and are light grey with small flexes of black, tan, and darker grey in the kitchen. That allows options for warming the kitchen with one of those colors of paint on the walls. Also as mentioned by another commenter, a foyer as you enter a front door is great. It gives you a place to remove your dirty shoes and wet coats and to hang the coats on a peg on a hall tree before heading upstairs or down the hallway to another room. I'm also a big fan of walk-in closets and a bathroom with a bathtub and separate shower stall.
A lot of people in the states have foyers at the entryway. There are also mud rooms. It depends on the house.
Best wishes to those in Jersey! So sorry to hear about the incident and the lives lost.
The thing with hallways is many older houses have them. But most people find that they feel cramped so when they remodel they remove them for an open floor plan. Even if they don't increase the overall square footage of the house an open floor plan makes it seem like the rooms are bigger
I like older houses with hallways and separate rooms. I can't stand open floor plans.
It's like my home. Previous owners removed part of the wall so the dining room, living room, and kitchen is just one big open area. Makes the house feel roomier than it is.
Entertaining on the front porch became an American thing precisely because it was a way to be friendly with your neighbors and be engaged with them.
It is also a way of entertaining without having to open up a possible messy house if all you are doing is catching up for 30 mins or so. Also good for dealing with solicitors without having them come inside.
As for hallways, some of our houses do have entryways or âfoyersâ(small room-like halls separating front doors from the rest of the house), and âmud-roomsâ separating the back doors from the rest of the house.
As far as granite counter-tops, nearly all granite has a crystalline structure inside of it, so yes, it will shine when light reflects off of it. Thatâs just the nature of granite.
You were right about wood/brick buildings in earthquakes. Unreinforced (most) masonry buildings are very very dangerous in earthquakes.
We lived in a tornado zone for a while as kids. My dad was in the USNCBs, Navy construction battalion, and he said he would never have a brick house back then. He said boards will over-lap and leave spaces, but brick house crumble and fill the spaces.
I used to live in San Francisco and brick buildings were extraordinarily rare and the few that I saw were partially destroyed and the brick was then reinforced and kept as a decorative element outside the building. Seriously you canât make shit like this up. I knew somebody who was born and raised in San Francisco and when they came to Chicago and saw all the brick buildings it really freaked him out. He just felt like the entire city was going to fall on him at any given moment.
The other thing to keep in mind is you will see a lot of brick and Masonary buildings in older eastern cities. Not as much in newer builds and particularly in rural and prairie areas since it would have been a very expensive building material and only the very wealthy would use it to build their homes. Most people used the readily available wood. On the contrary to that word is actually very difficult to come by in the UK since there just arenât that many trees. As a result most buildings are built out of stone or brick. These wouldâve been materials that wouldâve been easily available for building for a great deal of British history.
On the topic of laundry rooms in American homes. It should be noted that the inclusion of a separate laundry room in American homes as a standard room really only became popular in maybe the 90s it couldâve been as early as the 80s but prior to that laundry rooms were generally put in the basement and werenât really laundry rooms per se. It was just that the basement was there and it was a place you could put the washer and dryer. I grew up in a house that was built in the mid 60s and we did not have a laundry room and it was not even something that was offered and these were pretty modern homes at the time. As for laundry rooms within apartments yes they do exist; modern apartments will have a small closet like room to contain the washer and dryer if a washer and dryer is part of the equipment in the apartment. It is also very common for apartment buildings to have a shared laundry room for all the residents that is coin or card operated. Thatâs still better than having to drag your laundry down the block to the laundry mat. I have still never seen a washing machine in a kitchen in any house or apartment in the US.
@@pjschmid2251 For many years after the Chicago Fire wooden buildings were against the building code. I expect that is changed now.I think they probably have treatments for wood to make it fire resistant.
@@jmcg6189 I doubt that that has changed. I was born in Chicago and have lived in the Chicago area most of my life. I remember my dad cursing the fact that you had to use rigid conduit for any kind of electrical wiring (there was this semi flexible metal wiring material that you could use but it was still encased in metal). That flexible PBX stuff is illegal in most of cook county (that of course is because of rats not because of the Chicago fire directly but it still ties back to the fear of fire). The only wooden structures I remember seeing in Chicago or pre-1871. I have not seen any new building going up that is wood itâs still all brick. Unless of course itâs steel and glass but itâs still not wood.
US homes are built a lot out of wood due to the abundance & cost. Actually here in the heat of Texas we use mainly brick. Thick adobe block is even better to absorb the heat. But with the new materials, it really doesn't matter much. Wood is probably best in earthquake prone areas.
Yeah, wood is cheap and using 2x6 framing with good foam insulation has a superior heat resistance "r value" to stone. Wooden walls are easy to repair, remodel, run wiring and utilities through. As you stated it can have great earthquake resistance. I think also we don't build houses to last 200, 300, 400, etc years. Many people want modern houses with modern architectures. We're okay with knocking down a house and replacing it after a century.
As a builder it always amuses me that people think the veneer on the outside of the house is what the house is made of. All houses in the UK and the United States are made from wood framing. The brick or the siding or the stucco you see from the street is simply a facade that is applied after the home is built. Obviously masonry products are more expensive, so you see them less. Also in the states brick is somewhat boring if the entire house is made of it and it is sometimes used in conjunction with siding for a more nuanced look. But it when it comes to earthquakes or hurricanes, a brick home is no more structurally sound than a home with siding on it. That brick you're looking at is simply something that's stacked in front of the home after it is built. As a matter of fact (although it would be extreme) if you wanted to you could remove the brick and put siding up at a later date. Now obviously very old homes in the UK and the United States made of brick are sometimes only made of brick. I am referring to modern construction techniques
@@mert4787 Many UK homes have an inner wall made of a cheaper version of cement block or what they call breeze block. This also make remodeling somewhat difficult. I would assume the interior walls are wood frame as you say but I'm not sure about those.
For what itâs worth, the houses which are being constructed today, are crap. In a fire, houses constructed today burn down faster due to the cheap materials and quick building. Compare to a home built in the 1890âs- look at the inner construction of the supporting walls; absolutely solid. It is better to try to preserve older homes which have better base construction such as âreal brick and/or masonry.â
More open floor plan allows better air circulation, we don't use radiators like you do. Hallways and other room divisions create pockets of cold or hot usually.
I think they were confused on the countertops. I have never seen a granite countertop that glitters. I believe he was referring to quartz countertops and just didn't know the difference.
Some granite countertops do have sparkles in them. Little metallic flakes. Saw them before and hated it. Hate shinny counter tops.
One obvious difference that wasn't mentioned is that in many parts of the US most houses have air conditioning, while this is extremely rare in the UK.
In the US, older buildings typically do not have air conditioning. So I think thatâs more of an age of the building thing. Things are much older in the UK.
@@FirstNameLastName-wt5to It really depends on what area of the country you're in. In many southern states, it's very uncomfortable in the summer without air conditioning, and people in older buildings will use window air conditioners, or mini split systems.
@@gotham61 When I say a building has air conditioning, Iâm talking about central air built into the house. Anyone can buy a window unit so thatâs personal preference and environment.
@@FirstNameLastName-wt5to Try buying a window air conditioner in the UK. They basically don't exist.
@@gotham61 They exist online.
Wood frame homes are also a lot easier to remodel. And we like to tear down walls and remake things.
It's weird they didn't address mudroom or arctic entries. Mudrooms do not need to be separate from the interior of the house to serve their function. A place to remove outerwear that could be muddy, wet, or dirty in some way so not to track it into the rest of the house. Arctic entry has to be separate, needs to have another door leading into the house after the exterior door. This is to help retain heat inside the house. They can then act as additional storage space. Pretty common to have a chest freezer in the arctic entry, as well as all of your outerwear kept in that space.
It just means they are not familiar with it.
Building code requires a closet in a room to be considered a bedroom.
My parents house was in Massachusetts and had a front hallway and a mud room in the back.The best thing I liked about the hallway was that the walls were a barrier from the winter cold, rather than having the living room open to the weather when ever anybody opened the front door. The mud room in the back was a great place to put on and take off your winter coat,boots or whatever..
I lived in an apartment complex once that had the washer and dryer in the kitchen. My brother had a hallway right off his front door, but that was base housing on a military base.
" the stupid granite counter tops".... I went with stainless steel counter tops. Food goes from oven to counter with no problem and easy to keep clean.
Yep, as mentioned earlier, old American homes have hallways. The one I grew up in and the one I live in now both have them. It's actually rather strange that this guy finds them unfamiliar in the States.
Older homes usually have an entry vestibule, not a hallway. There is a closet to put the outerwear and a small rug for shoes/boots. In my house, I also have a small dresser and mirror--where the keys are kept, charger for the cell phone, all for prepping on the way OUT of the house.
100% right on the word vs brick conversation. Wood is also a lot easier for home owners to work on themselves.
Wood homes are better in earthquakes because they can flex and move. In Florida, the hurricane capital of the world, most homes here are made of cinder blocks and some wood. By the way, brick homes can be safer until they are not. Once a brick home is badly damaged in a storm, the home becomes a larger threat to those inside it.
While all of this is true it had very little bearing on why US homes are mostly wood frames. It was just cheaper and much faster to produce for the post WW2 housing boom.
In the US apartment buildings will have a community washing machine room. Which can be difficult as you have to share with your neighbors.
My building has both--I have a closet with hookups/venting for a washer and dryer in my condo "townhouse" and there is a laundry room on each floor of the building as well. After living there for a decade or so, I realized I'd rather have the closet space for other things than my own washer/dryer and I got rid of my machines and now use the laundry room down the hall. Maybe it's because we have so many machines, but I don't find it at all difficult and the walk down the hall to the machines probably isn't much farther than from a second floor bedroom to a basement laundry area of a large suburban home.
I live in HUD low income senior Apartment complex. Large Midwestern
Metropolitan area. 4 wings 150 apartments. There is one coin operated laundry room. 6 washers and 6 dryers. Only "apartments" I've ever seen in the US with a washer/dryer set us in each unit is pricey real estate areas where rents are in the thousands of dollars a month. Typical furnished 1bedroom average is $950 here. Condos are like to have separate laundry as well
@@Og-Judy That's pretty ridiculous. We have about 2 washers and 2 dryers for 12 apartments in the common laundry rooms. But yeah, apartments rent for around $3500/month (not me--I own mine purchased 41 years ago at 1982 prices).
When I visited my friends in Poole, Dorset, for a week, some of the differences I noticed pretty soon afterwards was: the clothes washer was in the kitchen, the electrical power was 220 vs 110 in the States ( except for the clothes dryer and heat pump), the electrical plugs there mostly turned on and off by a switch, they did not have AC and screens in their windows, most of the refrigerators are smaller than the average US refrigerator, most of the water taps had separate hot and cold spigots and most of the homes or flats there had flat, white radiators in each room for heat.
Wow-granite counter tops was a trend 15-20 years ago. HGTV loved them.
I just watched one of your tornado vlogs. By coincidence we have storms predicted for this week, with possible tornadoes tomorrow and the next day. We live on top of a mountain and last year an apparent tornado went over our house about treetop high, and twisted the top off two large trees in our front yard.
On the hallway piece.
Our town in NEW Jersey, has homes on the block I grew up on, that have entrances that are exactly like the drawing in the video. They were constructed in 1900.
The explanation that was given, is that in the days before central heating, only a few heating stoves were placed in different locations.
The rooms have an opening to pass from living to dining room.
The stove would heat both rooms.
The hallway separated the heated area from the rest of the house.
Also, these are open stairwells.
The heat would simply rise upstairs.
Almost all of the older, bigger homes over here have entry halls, or entry ways.
Mrs. B said "It'll blow down (wood structures vs. Brick/stone)"
That's the 3 little pigs story line...lol
In America we do have the "hallway" when you walk into a lot of homes. We called it an entryway or foyer. I've only lived in one house that didn't have one (it opened directly into the livingroom, but it still had tile flooring to indicate the entryway). I believe that it is a lot of newer American houses that don't have them (the last 30 years when open floorplans have becomemore popular).
I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this yet, but you can get a washer/dryer stacked set that will fit in a bathroom without taking up too much room, which is nice because it can share the plumbing hookups with the existing plumbing without too much trouble. ... also, rooms not seen in UK- mudroom: an entry way room to the house that provides shelter from storms and a place to put messy equipment that you don't want to leave outside, or you want to have dry, but don't want to take into the main house area.
The biggest difference between an apartment and a condominium is that you rent an apartment but you own a condo' the same as you can own a house.
Maybe just in old tv shows, but I noticed that there are my many full size refrigerators. There always seems to be the little apartment size fridges.
Very few houses are made from stone or brick, a great majority are wood framed, but many have decorative out side brick or stone , and now are sided with a products that looks like wood but is actually made out High tech concrete board. Historically they could be sided with a plastic or metal siding that mocked wood.
I think part of the "hallway" is related to regions that have more mud or snow problems. Don't want that to go everywhere else.
I am British and I love hallways. You can hang up your coats and change your shoes in them. It also keeps the heat in the living room. It is also private and stops callers looking into your living room.
When he referred to granite being stupid because of the reflective flakes, he showed his own ignorance. The reflective flakes come from engineered products in most cases. It's typically known as Corian, but there are other engineered hard surface materials to mimic stone or granite surfaces. Microwaves can be used for cooking full meals but not always the variety claimed in the cookbooks. Potatoes are pretty good in microwave cooking, but mostly for speed, the texture suffers a little. But it can be used for more than hot water, reheating leftovers or microwave specific foods.
Eh, when done well, I like granite counter tops
in the more nicer homes you do have a foyer to enter through that offers some privacy.
We have an instant hot water dispenser in the kitchen sink area to make tea
I've only seen one of those at my work. And I have only been there for two years. It's super hot straight away.
The frames of American houses are made of wood, the walls mostly made of stucco. I like granite countertops! They match my cabinets!
Not every American home has a separate laundry room, even big ones. My house is probably medium in size, and we have a laundry room, but I have a friend with a house twice the size but they don't have a laundry room. Instead, their washer/dryer is in a closet off the main hallway. So you open the closet doors to access the washer/dryer. I've seen this setup in a few homes actually.
The reason we build out of wood is that we have an abundance of wood. You use stone is you have an abundance of stone. In hurricane areas like Florida, they make homes out of cement, covered with wood. In our mountaious areas we use stone.
Homes built along the coasts in Florida are engineered to withstand 150-180 mph winds and many of these homes are built with wood.
I live in the Midwest and have had both a utility room for laundry and a space in the bathroom for stackable washer and dryer. Also I've had bedrooms with closets and with an armoire
Open concept floorplans are the rage these days
Porches are also a sort of pre-entrance to the home. That is where packages and sales people stand. You don't under most circumstances, ever let them into the home.
We have both a laundry room and washer and dryer, but I still air dry most of our clothes because drying clothes wears down the fabric more
The construction is more about weather. In cold climates houses are generally made of brick. In the west homes are made of stucco covered wood.. Americans also prefer "open" floor plans. We don't like interior walls separating rooms. Personally I prefer an entirely open plan where it's one giant open floor plan.
We have foyers that you walk into from the front door. Basically itâs a room that separates the entrance to the rest of your house. Some are very grand and others are not.
I have a washer & dryer in my bathroom. It is very convenient.
I have a theory about wood frame construction in the USA. Wood is one of our renewable resources, and lumber companies actively replant forests with fast growing trees. Wood construction, in a fire, allows the occupants longer time to escape, because the structure will remain standing until only 30% of the wood is left. Masonry crumbles rapidly, and steel buckles. Wood frame homes are very strong, but do require maintenance (painting, etc.) and admittedly may not stand for many hundreds of years using modern construction. In Europe (not certain about Britain), WWII decimated many forests and may have been a factor in concrete, brick, and stone construction. All this I learned through a distant cousin who works in the concrete industry in the Netherlands.
Some appartments in the states have washers and dryer in the master bathroom.
Townhouse is a common term in the U.S. but on the East Coast rowhouse tends to be a common term for the same thing. Also the term townhouse has more a more positive connotation than rowhouse, even though many urban rowhouse neighborhoods aren't that bad.
I actually hate when the front door opens dirrctly into a room. I don't necessarily want a hallway, but the houses I've lived in here in the US always open into a foyer. Which is about the size of a room (usually open to the second story), but has the stairs, a coat closet, and we'd have like a credenza with a lamp and a mirror. It gives the separation for privacy without feeling so claustrophobic.
The house my husband, son and I live in is about 1140 sq. ft. We have a half bath upstairs and a full bathroom on the main floor. Our washer and dryer are in the bathroom on the 1st floor. I don't use my microwave to heat water for my tea. I bring the water to a boil in my tea kettle and then pour it over my tea bags. Hallways used to separate the bedrooms are okay, other than that they seem a waste of space. I enjoy sitting on my front porch swing and chatting with my neighbors. Family picnics and gatherings we enjoy our backyard.
Along with front porches most hoses in the US also have either a patio or deck in the back yard
I don't have patio deck or pool in the backyard. I do see pools in California houses but not every house has pools.
I live on the east coast most homes have patios or decks in the back yard some have pools too
Most homes built in the United States before the 1980s have hallways like that when you enter.
In older homes, specifically the style called a New Englander has the private hallway with the hall on one side and stairs on the outside wallâŠ
A lot of houses in America are actually built out of wood for weather purposes. Itâs easy to heat and cool, and most of us canât air dry our clothes 80% of the year because itâs too cold outside.
Americans have porches and patios. Some have both. My family always have had patios but my grandmother had a huge porch and huge backyard
6:30 um someone should tell the dude that uk measures like that too
Itâs important to note the house sizes in the USA only grew giant with newer building in the 1980s.
I grew up in San Francisco and have lived in the Bay Area most of my life (born in Massachusetts), and have never had or lived in a house with a separate Laundry Room, all of houses I have lived in the washer and dryer were simply placed in the garage. But, I also lived in older built houses (1970's to the 1980's), I think the 'laundry room' became more common in the 2000's
Most of the houses I've lived (Ohio) in we've primarily keep our washer and dryer in the basement.
Thereâs a good reason for front porches in the southern United States. Prior to air conditioning people would open front and back doors to create a breezeway. Same reason ceilings were higher. The front porch became a sitting area which was much cooler. I used to love having my grandparents friends and family drop by.
And that's the same reason a lot of porches have ceiling fans too.
I live in Wisconsin and formerly in northern Illinois. Front porches and even wrap-around porches are pretty common. Less so for more modern houses such as ranch style.
The other formerly common thing for farmhouses or well-to-do families in the 1800s and early 1900s were summer kitchens.
I love that many UK homes have hallways with doors on the rooms.
IMHO, hallways are wasted space and should be eliminated or reduced as much as possible.
The hallway is there to aid in keeping rooms closed off for heating reasons. This is especially true from times when fireplaces were the main heat source. My house was built in 1870 and has a main entrance Foyer with french doors leading to the hallway each room has a door off of that hallway save the kitchen that has a rear mudroom entrance. The house is entirely wood with no nails used in the roof structure. Its all mortis and tenon built.
American homes on the coasts are made mostly of wood for affordability and speed of construction. Its also harder to insulate masonry buildings. You can pack between studs with insulation where as for brick, you need to add additional studs inside the wall. True masonry buildings have walls that are 11 to 12 inches vs 5 or 6 inches for wood
In Baltimore, MD, we call townhouses "row houses" or "row homes".
Here in Texas we have what we call a "Mud room" where you take off your shoes and coats before stepping into usually the living room.
Step into laundry room or kitchen from mudroom.
This is how to make a British mug of tea without using an electric kettle, Grab a saucepan put 2 mugs on water into the saucepan, put the saucepan onto the stove, put 1 teabag into each mug, wait for the water to boil, once the water has boiled, put the water into each mug, leave it too brew for 3 to 5 minutes, then throw the teabag into the trash, put a little milk and 1 and quarter sugars in (that's if you take sugar), give a little stir and your British tea is ready, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
We also have mud rooms or mud porch here in US a small roomyou access from outside that you enter to avoid tracking things in the house mud dirt shoes boots etc some have sink or very few might have a shower but most is just a small room that you hang your coats umbrellas boots etc then you enter the house
When I grew up we hanged up our clothes on the clothes lines. In the 50, 60s and before the 50s, many homes in America had poles with lines in yards to dry clothes. It was later when dryers became more common that it was not used like it used to be. I do hang my rugs and some clothes on a clothes rack âdrying rackâ I still do not have a dish washer. I live in a Victorian era home, we just never put one in.
Grew up in the same era.
They were called clothes lines and clothes pins.
Nothing like the smell of clothes hung out to dry this time of year.
Temperature near freezing.
Porches, more midwest homes have porches, it fits the aesthetic and they have larger property/land than suburbs or cities. In the suburbs we have driveways which lead up to the garage and the front door(s), the side yards are gated and our small porches may house only a bistro set (table and two chairs). The backyard is where we garden, fountains, BBQ, fire pits etc. just like in the UK
Houses in Florida are made of concrete blocks due to hurricanes.
It's very unusual in the US to have your washing machine exposed in the kitchen. If you do have it in the kitchen, it's likely behind a door in its own closet and either side by side or stacked with a dryer.
The handle on a mug does not get hot in the microwave. I have a stove top kettle, but electric kettles are not terribly common in the USA.
Dishwashers are really common in the USA, as are garbage disposals.
Pass on hallways, I like open floorplans where you can see and socialize more easily. Not all granite countertops have glitter in them.
24:20 .. We donât need for heat to stay in one room in the US as we have central heat and air conditioning units that heat/cool every room evenly and will stay at the same temperature you choose on your thermostat
I donât know how things are now, but when I visited my friendâs Brit in-laws, in Man Hester, they had a tiny refrigerator, and pretty much went food shopping every day. The also had a dining room table that could seat about 10, but it folded away into a cabinet; they put it up just before dining, then folded it away immediately thereafter. Great use of space!
When I lived in San Francisco, an apartment was in a larger building or fourplex like building. A flat was in a building where your apartment encompasses them whole floor.
Granite countertops are nice. That was just their own personal thing âș
Washing machine in the bathroom makes sense plumbing wise.
I think sometimes the reason for those central hallway walls, is that often Those walls support part of the weight of the upper house and roof. Often when people remodel, If it is not a weight-bearing wall, all or part of the wall can be removed. I think what Millie mentioned was correct, in the past our ancestors had to be much more conservative about heating. They may have only been able to afford to heat one common room in the home, and so likely kept that door closed during the day. Rooms were only heated when people were actually using them, unless you were some type of nobility or tycoon.
I know that when I was a child, and even more so when my parents and grandparents grew up, bedrooms were not heated. The common room may have been heated by wood or coal etc. (In our case, our combined kitchen/living room was heated by wood. We lived on a farm on the edge of a woods, so we had an endless supply of wood. Still, it took a lot of work to fell the trees, cut the pieces to just the right size, load trailers and drive them up to the house, then carry and neatly stack them. We were conservative with our wood usage, and often also cooked over the wood fire.)
I knew my great-great grandmother, 3 great grandparents and my 4 grandparents very well, and stayed with them often as a child. In wintertime when you went to bed you layered up well & often pre-warmed the bed or took a hot water bottle with you, if you lacked a person to cuddle with.
And I think that American guy might be confused about his stone countertops. Many different stone types can be used besides granite (ever hear of marble?). Really, in the history of homes, stone countertops are a very recent (like last 30 years) and mostly Yuppie phenomena. There are some practical uses for stone countertops. I have known pastry snd candy makers who prefer specific types of stone. If it is sparkly it must have a crystalline structure, and most likely it is Quartz that annoys him rather than Granite.
The Cup thing all depends on the cup
We have both types of entryways. Entry halls used to be a sort of status symbol, often being small suites with the first area being a "wet" area with tile or terrazzo floors so that people could leave umbrellas and take off coats without getting water on wood or carpeted floors.
Terrazzo is a composite material, poured in place or precast, which is used for floor and wall treatments. It consists of chips of marble, quartz, granite, glass, or other suitable material, poured with a cementitious binder, polymeric, or a combination of both - Wikipedia.
Wealthier homes would have a guest parlor off of the main entry so that callers could wait while a servant fetched the person they were visiting. The entire visit would often be conducted in this room, with the outsider never entering the main part of the house.
We like the big open feel
Iced sweet tea is so much better than hot tea. But I'm drinking a cup of coffee so I'm plenty warm.
Those UK brick homes, unless they are really old, still have wooden framing behind the brick facade. US houses that incorporate brick veneer have wooden framing. It is very strong. Terra cotta brick by itself has almost no structural support. Over time it bricks can fall out due to erosion of the mortar or brick breaking down from freezing and thawing. You need some kind of support for the structure and this is often wood or steel framing. There are some very old homes constructed of purely heavy stone (granite, etc.) but that is building tech that is long gone because it's not safe. Wood framing is very strong and will last hundreds of years if not exposed to termites, water, etc.
Hallways are horrible for front door area. A larger room is always better. Delivery persons never step into the house in the US. They always remain on the front step or porch. Entering a private home is a huge no-no here.
Hallways for Door way sounds cool for when it's raining. The roof usually has dripping water.
Is there no Natural Stone? That is what the Granite is! The counter top is made from the actual Stone. The "sparkles" are part of that Natural Stone!
We moved to my in laws houseâŠitâs has farm land we have about 300 acresâŠpart farm land and part woodsâŠthe house was built in the 1950sâŠthe original house had 3 bedrooms 1 bath living room dining room and kitchen, small front porch and a bigger side porch⊠about 35 years ago my in-laws built a really big family-get together roomâŠitâs big enough for 2 full length couches a love seat and 2 recliners and a big desk.
My house growing up in the us was a âsplit entryâ house. So you enter the house and have a small area to keep shoes/jackets/etc and you had two sets of stairs one leading to the upstairs main area with the kitchen, bedrooms, and living room. And one leading to the basement with a second living room and fireplace, the laundry room, guest bedroom, and home office
That style of house is called a Split Level House.
@@salyluz6535 âsplit entryâ âsplit levelâ it means the same thing
@@tbarnes10We have builders in our family, and I have never heard of a split entry house. Perhaps that is regional dialect.
A hallway upon entering a house would feel clostrophobic