American Reacts to How British Bedrooms Are Different
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As an American I only know what bedrooms are like in the United States. Today I am very interested in learning the differences between British bedrooms and American bedrooms. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Hot water bottles are good for aches and pains and period cramps
Tyler, a duvet is NOT a blanket ! Think of it as more like a quilt or what americans call a 'comforter'. This is placed on the bed inside a removable/washable duvet cover (like a super large pillow case)
There's a massive difference between a duvet and blanket. A blanket is thin and you may need several of them to keep you warm. A duvet/quilt can have various different tog ratings. They are thick and insulating to keep you warm. They keep the warmth in the bed and the cold out.
Most of these differences such as bed size and not having built in closets are either down to UK houses being much older and smaller than US ones so there simply isn't the space for them or they are not designed in a way you can incorporate new things easily.
Or,
Things like using duvets/quilts, hot water bottles, not having ceiling fans or a/c is simply because we live in a colder climate where our houses and thus our beds can get very cold in winter so unless you fancy shivering under a couple of blankets all night long and being kept awake by the cold, a duvet/quilt and a hot water bottle or electric blanket are essentials for many people here on the UK. Especially in winter.
Also blankets are woven, originally from wool and several are needed in the winter. Duvets are basically bags of feathers or other filling and much lighter. We copied them from our European cousins. Tyler doesn't have the common sense to realise these things!
Continental quilt was the name given to what people now call douvets when they were first introduced in the UK. Most of us didn't have them until the early 1980s. Before that it was sheets and blankets. People started to buy them after travelling to other parts of Europe and experiencing them there. I went to Austria in about 1965 and it was the first time I had ever seen one.
@@weejackrussell I got one from Habitat in 1976 when I first got married
As a Canadian I am shocked to find out Americans don't use hot water bottles! Every one here has used one.
I think Tyler thinks his personal experience (or inexperience) is that of all Americans.
How can a duvet look like a blanket? Tyler needs help everyone!
Think he is beyond help
My wife loves her 18.5 tog duvet. It nothing like a blanket
I had a TV in my bedroom when I was 8 years old. I'm 48 and British... This is just her.
Back in early 1990's, wife and I had tv mounted on wall in bedroom. Likewise, 2 teenage sons had tv in their (separate bedrooms). This lady is assuming (wrongly) that her own experience is typical of the rest of the 65 million residents of the UK
I don't know for sure, but I would imagine a high percentage of Brits do have TVs in their bedrooms. Personally I'm with her, I would hate to have a TV in the bedroom unless I was confined to the bedroom on health issues. TVs should be for the living room only in my opinion, but I know a lot will disagree with me.
Children in the U.K. have TVs in their rooms. Adults do not.
@@mikesullivan445 So when these children turn into adults, they take their TVs out of their bedrooms?
Every time Tyler said "us Americans", I shouted "We. We Americans".
God, I'm so British...
Some British folk say it as well, drives me mad !
I bought the whole family a water bottle each for Christmas once. Electricity prices soared that year. My family had never been more thankful.
Why do we not have ceiling fans? Why do we not have a/c? British people try to explain it time after time to Americans but they still don't understand.
So here it is put simply that anyone can understand.
It is now the 10th of MAY and I've only just gone TWO full days without having to put the heating on in my house!
It is not unusual to have to put the heating on even on the ocassional summer day in the UK. You can have a summer day where it does nothing but rain torrentially the entire day and the gravel outside the front of my house looks like a swimming pool.
You quite literally here in the UK can get four seasons in a day.
The last couple of nights was the first time this year that I did not have a hot water bottle ☘☘☘☘☘
I use my hot water bottle when its "that time of the month" the warmth takes the edge off the cramps :) and it doesn't get as hot as long even in summer so we don't have ceiling fans but I do have a pedestal fan as it makes it a comfy temperature , and I don't have a tv in the bedroom :)
The UK is on the same latitude as Newfoundland and Labrador: hot water bottle (or electric blanket) essential not so for ceiling fan. As a teenager I loved moving the furniture around to make the room look and feel different, it's not so easy to do with fitted wardrobes/closets. A hottie (hot water bottle) is great for aching muscles but their manufacturers warn us to NEVER use BOILING water just very hot water.
Tyler, a blanket is a single layer. A duvet is a quilted sleeve (so 2 layers sewn together) filled with natural or synthetic filling which is protected by a removeable/washable "pillow slip" type cover. It is lighter than a blanket, but warmer because of the layers.
Throughout Europe, stand-alone wardrobes and chests of drawers are probably to be found in 90 percent of houses built before 1980, and roughly 70 percent of newer houses. A dresser, as US people call it, is in Britain a big piece of furniture found in older houses, in the dining room. It displays the "best" china, and has drawers/cupboards for table linen, the best silver, decanters, crystal, etc.
I was going to replay and say that built-ins would be increasingly common in buildings younger that 50 years, so your figure matches up quite well to my guess, I've moved around a few times, but I'm pretty sure I've never lived in a building built post-1950, and I've never had a built-in.
But I have been in homes built in the 80s and 90s in newer towns/boroughs and I have seen them there.
European bedrooms only need to have a door and a window. Unlike in the US some states also must include built-in closets.
The hot water bottle is ancient. It used to be made from stone/clay and metal in bottle form, nowadays it is made from plastics. The stone/clay and metal ones had a crocheted 'sock' around them to not directly burn on the bottle.
Duvet is fuller than a blanket. A duvet always needs a coversheet, the coversheet comes with pillow cover.
In 99% of the homes in Europe you won't find ceiling fans (standard) anywhere within the rooms of a home.
We put open a windows.
Some British houses have built in Wardrobes.
They're talking about ensuite wardrobes, not fitted wardrobes.
I have built into the wall, room/ closet over the stairs
True, but they are rare.
If 5% of UK bedrooms had a built in wardrobe(as apposed to a fitted wardrobe), I would be surprised. I'm pretty sure about 90% or more of US bedrooms have them.
Not sure about the US but in Canada you can't legally call a room a bedroom if it doesn't have a closet.
I have a massive built in closet in my bedroom in UK I thought that was normal
a duvet is NOT a blanket !
the hot pan was not under the bed, it was passed between the sheets right before people went to bed, also to take the damp out of them.
I use a top sheet so the duvet cover doesn't need to be washed so often, I just change the sheets every week and the duvet cover once a month or so.
Me too ... as I can't do the covers anymore, very good idea, My duvet has its own cover, all in one.
To answer all your questions on the differences between the UK and USA look at a map of the World and note where both Countries are relative to one another. The UK is further North, more like in the same latitude as Canada. This is why we don't usually need A/C ; fans, bug screens etc in the summer as we often only have high temperatures for a few days a year. It's also why we all have hot water bottles,duvets etc as the temperatures in winter are pretty dire as well.
hot water bottle = heater you can cuddle
Walk-in wardrobes (a room where clothes are hung and stored) are rare in the UK but fitted wardrobes (asopposed to the freestanding ones) are quite common, especially in the master bedroom.
Only in newer homes. I would say 80% to 90% of homes have stand alone wardrobes. And BTW Tyler, "dressers" in the UK are for plates and other dishes and are usually found in the dining room.
I have always lived in council or ex council houses, they as standard have come with built in wardrobes, in all bedrooms, old builds, pre 1980's have also had a small walk in wardrobe in the "Master" bedroom.
I can t get over that a lot of the people have the head of their bed right up against the windows , i could never sleep like that i have my bed facing the windows.
So inconvenient having bedhead against a window. Awkward closing curtains, opening windows etc
A recent study made for the building trade in North America, the UK, and Australia, showed that 65 percent of people have their beds side-on to the room's main window. 25 percent have it facing the window, and just 8 percent back to the window. Apparently, 2 percent have bedrooms without a window, though half of those have skylights.
I thought that till I lived somwhere where it was the only option. I got used to it pretty quickly. My preference is to have the bed against the wall still.
@@Lily_The_Pink972Central heating radiators are often positioned beneath windows in the UK so a bedhead could be blocking the main source of heat to the room (to allow greater wallspace elsewhere for furniture. Then there's the likelihood of draughts on the neck from the window. Sometimes in our small bedrooms it might be the only option.
@@MrBulky992 Exactly.
I don't know anyone with a built in closet, we all have wardrobes.
Everyone in our house has their own hot water bottle. They are good for back or stomach aches, too. We put ours in the fridge in the summer, so they are nice and cold on our feet.
Great video, keep it up xx
I'm British, and never thought to use a hot water bottle for cooling, thanks, I might try that.
haven't had a hwb since I was a kid... but putting it in the fridge in summer is a pro tip!
Hot water bottles are very common .you can buy lovely silky soft furry covers to put over the bottles because when you first fill them they are very hot .
I have a wheat bag scented with lavendar that is heated up in the microwave .
You are NOT supposed to use freshly boiled water just very hot .
If you screw the lid in properly it should never leak .
When I first got my home and I was very short of money I heated large flat stones in a warm oven and placed these in my bed to warm it .
It works really well .
We also have slippers that can be heated up in the microwave that gradually cool down
I've literally never heard of anyone I know using a hot water bottle. In fact the last time I even heard one mentioned was over 30 years ago.
@@c_n_b You must live in the south in that case.
During the War we had oven shelves which were wrapped in a sheet, in the bed in winter. Ice would be on the inside of the windows. Hot water bottles for our cold feet. Filled with hot not boiling, water and screwed very tightly so no leaks.
@@c_n_breally ? They’re used very often still, for aches and pains , to warm up etc. I work in a store that sells loads of them over the winter
I have had my sprung mattress for 40 years. Despite the advice one reads, I have never changed it as it is comfortable and has never sagged and I wake up reasonably supple as compared to the stiffness I have had on some modern foam mattresses.
A duvet is more of a fabric bag with a cotton/silk/feather filling, whereas a blanket is just a sheet of fluffy fabric.
"I feel like I personally am a little unsophisticated" - the most accurate thing Tyler Rumple has ever said on this channel and I feel it sums him up perfectly!
We don't use the term 'closet'. Often wardrobes are free stnding pieces of furniture, but in many cases the wardrobe is 'built in' ie fixed closets floor to ceiling against one wall- but unless you are in the grandest of houses we never have a 'walk-in' closet like a small room off the bedroom. We just don't have the space for it.
American beds are always going to be bigger, as the rooms are bigger. Single beds are 3ft wide (though you can get even smaller ones at 2'6")
The girl from the UK is clearly out of touch. Lots of people have TVs in their bedroom. I wouldn't, but even kids often do these days.
I know what I like in your wardrobe
I just had four ceiling fans installed in my house this spring (in addition to the mosquito screens on my windows. They are not standard, but also not unheard of. Until about ten/fifteen years ago, we really did not need them in Germany, but with global warming, it is really hot for longer periods than we are used to. They are readily available and, as said, many use them…
Tyler you really need to see British houses. We are a tiny country. Our roads and homes have to conform to the space we have. Average Brits can live in homes built centuries ago or in the 19th/20th century, when homes didn't build in wardrobes. It is common to have free-standing wardrobes. Dressers in the UK are for crockery. ( look up Welsh dressers) Hot water bottles are amazing and not only keep you warm for hours, but can be incredible when you are pain. They are cheap and you boil a kettle to fill them. When we make a drink we just boil enough water in the kettle to make that drink. We have many forms of beds. Duvets are not blankets, they are quilts, filled, to varying warmths. I have to have a 15 Tog quilt for winter, and if it's really cold, put a blanket on top. A blanket here is what you call a throw. I think you Americans do whatever is easy, not what is practical. Incidentally that is why you have such a bad record helping decrease climate change.👵🏴🌹
We don't have ceiling fans, We just die in sweat. We are just a tougher breed 💯💪😉🤣
😁😁
If the weather were hot enough in the UK for a ceiling fan, you would be sleeping naked without bedclothes and windows open to keep cool: a ceiling fan would not be required in the UK.
I equate fans with noise. Horrid to have noise and droughts when you are trying to sleep.
A closet is a wardrobe (a free standing piece of furniture). All pieces of furniture are stand alone items. I guess if you are rich/er you'd have "built in" wardrobes and drawers as my parents had specially made in the 50's by a cabinet maker.
When I was a kid (in the 50's) I had a stone hot water bottle, better than freezing! In Victorian times you'd have a brass bed pan and fill it with hot coals.
We've done away with blankets and have a duvet, a much higher tog value one for winter (when your bedroom dips below 48 degrees) and a low tog value one for "summer" - summer in England comes in bits so on chilly nights one can always chuck a throw on, simple.
I would put a little bit of cold water in the bottle first then the hot water and make sure you get the air out of it .
My dad used to do our h w bottles for us when we were kids in the 60s
Built in wardrobes are not uncommon in the UK but it’s definitely more common to have a standalone.
You’re definitely not supposed to put boiling water in hot water bottles. It normally states that on a safety tag and also, they’re not strictly for the bedroom. I’m currently sat on my sofa watching this video with a hot water bottle just to be cosy.
TV’s in bedrooms are also not uncommon 😂
Usually only have built in wardrobes in the master bedroom tho
Fitted bedsheet, topsheet, wool or synthetic wool blankets, UK duvet is called a doona in Australia. The doona is filled with synthetic or natural fibres and around 2 inches thick with an external cover
Having a wardrobe/closet built into the wall is a very new idea. New houses in UK & Australia have them. But older houses, bedrooms are just an empty room, you add a piece of furniture as a wardrobe/closet. Renovations of older houses may add a build in closet.
I use a Hot water bottle on my stomach when I have a stomach ache and it eases the pain
My very ordinarily 1970 English house has built-in wardrobes in all four bedrooms. The smallest bedroom has by a very long way the biggest wardrobe perfect for a very fashion conscious teenage girl. The main bedroom has two, and the other two rooms each have one. As there are only two of us in the house we keep our current clothes in the main bedroom. My out of season clothes live in the big wardrobe with lots of other stuff like framed pictures and baggage, and the room itself is my study with computer and book-case (this house has book cases in three of the bedrooms as well as the dining room and lounge, the books are really out of hand). But I don't think built-in wardrobes are unusual in newer houses.
A duvet is nothing like a blanket. The duvet is several inches thick, quite light and very comfortable covered with washable, changeable cotton cover, a bit like a large pillowcase. Duvets are available in different weights for different seasons. If it gets too hot, we can adjust our windows. We use our bedrooms to get away from the pressures of the world, including the TV. My wife and I have other ways of entertaining ourselves in the bedroom, we don't need a TV (we do have one, but it is rarely on - way too distracting).
I live in Australia and have never had a ceiling fan or a TV in my bedroom. A lot of people have one or both. Whatever takes your fancy.
Duvet are basically large material bags that contain a stuffing similar to what is found inside pillows and cushions. It can be natural or synthetic.
We then cover the duvet and pillows in a cover typicaly designed in many colours paterns or pictures. We frequently wash the duvet cover and pillow covers in a washing machiene.
The matress is covered by a matress ptotector and then a fitted sheet.
We sleep on top of the fitted sheet and below the duvet and duvet cover. We can then add blankets on top of the duvet and cover.
The uk has a colder climate so the use of hot water bottles can be needed in winter. Microwaving rice in a socknor designed cover is the modern version of a hot water bottle. There is also electic blankets in the uk.
Uk houses are smaller so many rooms do not have the space to have built in closets so we have wardrobes. Some houses and bedrooms do have built in wardrobes. We also have chest of drawers which is what we call your dressers. When you move house you take the free standing wardrobes with you. Hence they can be very old and a hierloom.
Narnia is a series of 7 books one of which is called 'The Lion, The witch and the Wardrobe.' They are written by C.S. Lewis and are part of a uk childhood.
In the summer we use plug in fans when it gets too hot or open the window.
20:21 we had TVs in the bedrooms as well. Depends how big the house is, can the family afford multiple TVs, some parents don't want kids having TV sets in their rooms.
We call it a wardrobe not closet. Closet was an old description for a room where a Toilet is housed, water closet it was called
That's why it was called a W.C. Stands for water closet.
In UK they do not heat homes at night so hot water bottle kept on tummy or back keeps you warm all night.Every house has one.
We don't. The house stays nice and warm even in winter because of the cavity wall insulation, and the timer on the central heating switches it on about an hour before we get up.
Duvets in UK, doona in Australia..often stuffed with wool or feathers/down... so it has a cover, as you can wash that more often for hygiene.
Our summers are not as hot as yours. So we don't need fans.
Tyler think of a pillow ... a duvet is similar ...ir think two blankets ,with an insulation type filler ..for warmth .
And it varies in hones to have ceiling fans or not .
Over head fan's are sort of common in Australia, A/C is sort of common as well. Some people have small or tall pedestal fans
The temperatures where I live are fairly cool for example it is may and the temperature has been around 4 or 5 degrees sometimes rising to 10 or 12 but at night dropping down to just around freezing point .it is very damp cold grey wet and windy .summer temperature is generally around 25 degrees and summer is fairly brief july and august are sticky and humid .we dont need ceiling fans it rarely gets hot enough
Before central. Heating these were used to keep warm
I live in the UK and i've got ceiling fans in the bedrooms, but only because I put them in myself. It didn't cost much to buy them but it wasn't very easy to fit them as I had to put some extra timber in the loft between the beams just above the plasterboard ceiling, so that there was something to screw them into that would hold their weight. So yeah I would say it's definately not a standard thing to have ceiling fans in your house over here, but some people have them because you can easily buy them, and it's a very nice thing to have on those warm and stuffy summer nights I must say!
My son forgot to do the lid on my hot water bottle and I had burns all over my legs.
When I was a kid mum used glass pop bottles wrapped in a towel and I’ve got a big scar on my leg where I got a burn
In Australia the US closet is called a walk-in wardrobe, UK closet is called a wardrobe here. We have both depending on the age of your house
Some modern houses ( past 70 years) have fitted closets in bedrooms. New builds have built in closets. Houses before the 1960s have wooden , freestanding wardrobes
A lot of people have tvs in the bedroom in the UK.
Don't have a ceiling fan but couldn't do without an air-con in the bedroom - warming in winter and cooling in the summer. Don't know anyone who hasn't got a TV in their bedroom. Blankets are one layer of woollen fabric and we used to need 2 or 3 in winter.. Most British and European people have duvets now. They are made like a huge pillow and filled with down or feathers from birds or filled with polyester fibre and then quilted to keep the stuffing evenly distributed. When being used they are put into a cotton cover. Much lighter than old fashioned woollen blankets and also much warmer. We have a 4.5 tog rating for summer and 9 tog rating for spring/autumn and they clip together for winter. American blankets seem to be like our old-fashioned ones but not necessarily made of wool but only 1 layer or 2 machined together. We don't have wardrobes but fitted wardrobes along one wall and floor to ceiling; part for hanging clothes, part for drawers or shelves and top part for storing less used items.
I haven't used a hotwater bottle since the 1970s. Prior to that date, many houses had no heating in bedrooms. Central heating was not standard and some houses had no electric sockets in bedrooms, ruling out electric heaters, electric blankets, even bedside lamps and mains-powered electric clocks. I speak from experience. In the winter, one could see one's breath as the air from the mouth became steam as you breathed out and, in the morning, the insides of the panes on the window could well be covered in ice. It was sometimes necessary to remove overcoats from the wardrobe and use them as additional blankets on cold nights. Bedding was sheets, blankets and thick eiderdowns. Blankets would be tightly tucked under the mattress on all sides. Duvets were newfangled and too draughty. The hotwater bottle was essential to remove the icy chill of the sheets on going to bed.
I use mine most days 😅
I am in my 60's myself and my daughters families all have water bottles.
We use them to relieve muscle joint problems. As said women use them for period pain
I prefer to have the bed nice and warm and cosy as opposed to having the room warn and having to throw off the duvet. But then that's just me.
I havn't used my hot water bottle in years. They were used mainly in the days before central heating.
In our old house we had some stand alone units ....but in living room , where ceiling was 15 ft ,floor to ceiling , we had built in cupboards ..
But in bedroom ,we had wardrobes and bedside tables ...then a set of drawers , for smalls etc...
Its not so much different ... anyone would think it was live saving surgery .. sheesh .
I haven't even thought about the existence of ceiling fans for at least 3 years now xD
In Australia, not all houses have walk-in-robes some have wardrobes. In some houses you can have a walk-in-robe in the master bedroom and wardrobes in the other bedrooms.
Hot water bottles are also good if a young lady who has a pain in the tummy, it helps with the pain
"Has anyone ever been burned" by hot water bottles?
Whooooh!, yeah!!
One of the things your parents tell you at an early age is to not over-fill it, and to make sure you push the air out so it's just water....
The air will expand, ballooning it, and it won't take much pressure (rolling on top of it) to pop it and cover yourself in 60°C water!
Also, I've always had a TV in my room... well, since I was a teenager
I do have built in wardrobes (1978 house), duvets are so cosy like a padded quilt. I have a top sheet and an all in one comforter duvet which doesn't need changing.They were called Continental Quilts when they first were available. I haven't used a hot water bottle since we didn't have central heating in the70s but we did have electric blankets then. You can get microwaveable hw bottles now. It does get too hot these days down South of UK and our brick houses keep the heat in ... we do have fans. I have always had a tv in my bedroom, I watch You tube.
Remember how little unused space there would be, and how old the buildings would be in Britain compared to the U.S.. Built-in closets would be a luxury. Many of these old houses would also have been built before modern central heating, and would depend on wood stoves for heat. People would leave the relative comfort of the fireplace on the main floor, and go upstairs to the colder bedrooms, where hot water bottles would provide a cheap alternative to trying to keep the whole house heated during the night. That's my guess anyway. A duvet is a similar thickness to a sleeping bag.
A walk in Wardrobe are mainly in new build homes but usually only in the master bedroom and usually only richer people have one, you can get wardrobes built to the side of a room so it looks like they were always there built in but it takes space etc so most people have a wardrobe which is hanging space (some have shelves or drawers) and a chest of drawers where non hanging items would be folded it all depends on space in rooms as our houses are generally a lot smaller
A hot water bottle is to keep warm as it can save money on heating, putting them in bed before you sleep means your bed would be warm when very cold but most women use them for period pains as they relieve cramps when placed on stomach or back
When I was young we had no aircon (still don't), we had no central heating. The only heating in the house was a coal fire in the living room, so no heating in the rest of the ground floor and no heating in the upper floor where the bedroom were. In fact it would be fairly common for, on the coldest night, ice to form on the inside of the windows. So, . . . . . . hot water bottles.
I was brought up in a similar house in the 1950s. The only heating in the house was a coal fire in the living room although the bedrooms and "front room" had a grate for a coal fire. They were rarely lit because of the cost. The only time a fire was lit in the bedroom grate was when my sister were ill as children.
We had a tiny built it closet in the front bedroom so either a hot water bottle or-the metal shelf from the cast iron range wrapped up in a sheet.
We had to keep our coal in the cellar as there was nowhere else to keep it and we got 1 ton per month as my father was a miner.
Finally we had to use an outside toilet at the end of the common yard (it was fully paved} even in midwinter with snow on the ground.
We use top sheets too, nut usually as an alternative to the duvet for hotter nights.
My house here in Australia has a walk in wardrobe in the main bedroom but the other bedrooms have wardrobes
From the UK and now in Canada, where we have built in closets. But we also have a stand alone wardrobe where we keep extra blankets and comforters. When I think about it, a stand alone is a lot more efficient space wise as its walls are often less than an inch thick. A built in on the other hand , has walls about four inches thick!
What's in a bedroom has changed a lot since when I first remember - the 1950s. Back then we didn't have central heating, and bedrooms could be very cold, so you would at least have a top sheet, a bottom sheet, several good quality blankets, and an 'eiderdown'. ( I think Americans would call this a 'comforter'. Originally it would be filled with feathers from a northern species of duck called an 'eider'.) You would often have a hot-water bottle.
But our bedrooms have got warmer, first with central heating, then with double glazing. Under European influence we started to use quilts we now call 'duvets'. Now we rarely have top sheets; hygiene is preserved by regularly changing the duvet cover. (Duvets have different 'Tog' values, according to how dense they are. Many families have a winter set and a summer set.)
We still don't usually have ceiling fans or air-conditioning units, although these are found in shops. Global warming may force the use of these in the South of England, but most of the UK is rarely sultry enough.
Only really posh people have walk-in closets. UK houses are smaller because of the price of land. Bigger clothes usually go in a a 'wardrobe"; smaller items might go in a 'chest of drawers".
A dresser - particularly in Wales - would be to show off your beautiful china.
I had a wash stand when I lived in my parents home. We never had a bath room.
Living in a 17th C house I had to provide stand-alone wardrobes.
Hot water bottles are brilliant ,
Bedrooms used to be so cold (especially dorms in private schools) you had to break the ice before your morning wash.
Blanket = usually a thin or thick material for warmth
comforter= two pieces of fabric sewn together and filled with synthetic or sometimes natural material
Duvet = like a comforter two pieces of fabric sewn together and filled with natural materials (most often down) or anti-allergetic synthetic materials.They are most often quilted to stop filling from bunching up or moving around too much. This is then slipped in another in another set of sewn together fabric called a duvet cover much like you do with pillows and pillow cases. This allows the cover to be changed out and washed for hygenic reasons as well as design aesthetics. From my experience duvets are much warmer than comforters and blankets.
In UK it is common to not use a top/flat sheet and just use the bottom fitted sheet and the covered duvet. Whereas US uses both then a comforter, blanket(s) or duvet. Hope that cleared that up for you.
The hot water bottles are used elsewhere in the world too. I know Canadians also use them but it is getting much harder to find which is a shame as they are great for cramps, ear aches and warmth. They last much longer than something like heated beans or rice and is more economical than a electric blanket. You can burn yourself if you don't wrap the bottle properly but the covers available usually prevent this.
As a side note as a Canadian I was fortunate to live in the UK for a few years and most bedrooms did not have a built in closet but used the wardrobes instead. You could also buy additional clothing racks to hang clothing. The newer housing now becoming more common for these built in closets but something not really mentioned well here is that the overall size of the bedrooms tend to be much smaller and often in the smaller rooms the ceiling is slanted because of the roof lines.
A lady in our local bank was called Julie Wardrobe. Made me smile at the time, the branch is shut now.
9:36 not normally as long as you are careful filling it and seal it properly. If it won't seal or leaks or is damaged, you replace it. These are less common than they used to be- they got invented before central heating, wall insulation and double glazing were a thing.
These are hugely common with all people I know.
not just the UK. In Germany, you hardly ever see built-in closets. People buy wardrobes. That way you are free as how to arrange the rest of the furniture in a room. Like, I’ve seen American bedrooms in which the beds block the windows, which to us is a complete no-go, simply because the closets block an entire wall for other furniture placing…We also have hot-water bottles in Germany. Have not used one in years, but for kids and people who are cold in bed until everything is warmed up, they are perfect.
I have a hot water bottle my room is usually around 4 degrees .I have single brick victorian huge house with no cavity walls and high ceilings it's freezing most of the year .I'm still using an electric blanket in May
Dyne in norway is a quilt with insulation, thiker in winter, then you put it inside a cover. Warm and cozy.
Some people in the UK have ceiling fans. It doesn't get hot enough usually for one. Also some ceilings are too low.
A standard bed in the UK is three feet wide. Double beds are 4'6", and King size 5.3". Hot water bottles date from the days we had no central heating. They used to be clay vessels or warming pans.
Tyler. Generally, UK houses are smaller, there is less ground here per person than in the US, smaller houses mean taking cheaper measures such as using wardrobes instead of a built in closet. Here in the UK we refer to a dresser as a large wooden furniture item that usually comes from a farmhouse kitchen holding the crockery with the best on display on a shelf.
Blankets, one or more were used until we started using continental quilts, or duvets. A fitted sheet, a duvet in a fitted cover and a pillowcase, or two, are all you need to quickly make a bed, i.e. ruffle up the pillows, shake up the duvet and relay it, done.
Hot water bottles are a thing of the past, we have warmer bedrooms now with central heating. They can leak and the last thing you want is a wet bed! If you need one then I use a modern version, a bag filled with a material such as rice or grain. Then you microwave it, no water, safer and stays hotter/warmer longer. You may not have used hot water bottles but I bet your grandparents did!
Only a few days of the year is it hot enough to have ac or a ceiling fan, just open the window and let the air in, no screen, don’t get too many bugs.
Wardrobes are far more common in the UK than built in closets, because our houses are often smaller, though some larger & newer houses may have them, or others use a spare bedroom as a closet. Hot water bottles used to be ceramic, now they are rubber, to warm the bed, not just your feet. They soon get you & your bed warm. Electric blankets & microwaves were not available in the past. In the days before Duvets, when blankets were the norm, then a top sheet between the person & the blankets. A DUVET IS FILLED . A blanket is just piece of cloth, wool or similar. We don't need ceiling fans in the UK, it's never that hot. We just open a window, or buy a standing fan. Again these American things are MODERN devices, you grandparents wouldn't have had such things. I'm British & I've had a TV in my bedroom for years.
It's no fun climbing into an ice cold bed In the winter time put the bottle in earlier cosy .It's also good if you have back problems a bottle placed behind me when watching TV works wonders .plus women use them at certain times for mysterious reasons .
Lucky you, it seems you are never cold at night.
We have a ceiling fan in our bedroom and when I was a kid we had built in wardrobe/closet
To have a ɓuild in wardrobrobe or not depends on the house holder choice, ex: Ive always had 1, hot water bottles are amazing to help keep u warm and ease pain, bed frame in thr uk can br lufted up to so you are able to store things underneath, Beijing is your choice, everyone chooses different, duvet is just a quilt, it would be to cold for a ceiling fan in the UK, to have a tv in your bedroom is also your choice
I think uk don't generally have built in wardrobes because of space , You trying to maximum the space
Mattresses in Australia are usually coil spring or foam, the bed is either slat type base, inner spring base or box base with drawers
Some houses in the UK have built in wardrobes (US = closet) while others have freestanding ones, this enables the furniture to be repositioned when you wish to make changes. A fixed 'closet' restricts that possibility. By the way, the word wardrobe is derived from medieval French Guarderobe where the meaning of 'Guard' is obvious and French for clothes was 'robes' - now in French it means 'dress'. To add, for interest, the French alphabet had no 'W' and used other combinations of letters to represent the sound, so the word was Anglicised with a W when introduced here by the invasion of 'Guillaume le Conquerons' (i.e. William the Conqueror).
Yes. I once worked with a young lady whose legs were scarred because her hot water bottle cooked them overnight.
That's why they have thick cloth covers. If you don't use the covers you can get burned.
So some older houses in the UK have a built in wardrobe
But they are rare and not common at all
Most UK households have a separate piece of furniture called a wardrobe and yes we call them wardrobes
Don't think everyone has or uses hot water bottles it is a old concept and it was more for when homes did not retain heat as well as they do now. My mom still uses one to put direct heat on where ever she wants, she is also 70 so... lol
I have personally never owned a home, and I have owned several, including my present home, that did NOT have built-in closets (what we in the UK call ‘wardrobes’) although I have also lived in some homes in other countries in other parts of the world (elsewhere in Europe, in the Middle East or East Asia) that did not always have built-in closets, although most did. As for a/c and ceiling fans, in my part of the UK (the northern part) we really don’t need these, although for the winter and cooler months most relatively modern homes now have central heating. When I lived in other parts of Europe, the Middle East or East Asia, however, air conditioning was more or less standard, sometimes in earlier years “window units” (which were quite noisy, and in my opinion made sleeping for long periods rather problematic), but in more recent years were much quieter “split units” for individual rooms or even better, “central a/c” for the whole house/home, which were much more unobtrusive and comfortable in daily use. Particularly in earlier years however, in the Middle East and East Asia, several of my homes were also equipped with ceiling fans in almost every room (bedrooms, living or dining rooms, also sometimes in kitchens etc) and at first these were for a British person like me a bit of a novelty, but I quickly realised how much I hated them, not because of noise (they’re usually reasonably quiet), but because I often wakened up with sniffles and colds, so now always switch them off in homes or hotel rooms which have them. As for bed coverings I have for many years used duvets and have three different kinds for every bed in my home, heavy winter (13 tog *), winter (10.5 tog) and summer (4.5 tog), although in practice I have not for many years used my 13 tog duvets as my homes have been centrally heated, modern and well insulated). I did for many years also own a holiday home in Spain, very warm/hot in summer but very chilly in winter and there used 10.5 & 4.5 tog duvets at different times of year, and in the hottest part of the summer just a duvet cover without duvet or just a top sheet on its own for the very hottest weeks/moths, when I usually had the central a/c on too, plus occasionally a floor fan. In the UK I don’t have a/c, but very occasionally do make use of a portable table fan, but this is just for a few days/weeks during our quite occasional/rare warmer spells in the north of Scotland, but here I mostly just open a window a little as we don’t usually have too many troublesome flying insects or spiders, I think if I lived in the southern part of the UK (eg around London), where it tends to be a bit warmer in summer, then I’d probably want at least a portable temporary a/c unit or a room fan more regularly. Finally, when I was young (I’m now quite old) we didn’t have central heating at home, although certain rooms, such as the living room and kitchen, were well heated by a coal-fired ‘range’, the bedrooms were mostly unheated unless the coal firs were lit occasionally, so warm blankets on beds were essential and bathrooms were freezing in winter 🥶. Now most reasonably modern homes have both good insulation and central heating 😊.
It's rare to have a burn from a hot water bottle, as they are very well closed. Unless it blows or if the rubbers at the top, there is not a risk of being burn. When it's really cold they are very cozy and very good to muscular pains as well.
I live in an old house which has 2 bedrooms with built in warerobe but we don't have walk in closets much over here. Walk in closet would be a dream of mine. Our built in wardrobes are quite small too.
New Zealand has built-in wardrobes, usually sliding doors in homes built in the last 50 years or so, but some older villas don't and use freestanding wardrobes that are sometimes sold with the house. Not many homes have ceiling fans, but I do now, in my lounge, to circulate either the cool air from the air conditioner or hot air from the heat pump or log burner. I am 69 years old, and all my life have slept between a bottom sheet and a top sheet, even when we lived in the USA. A duvet is never called a blanket here because we still have in circulation 100% wool blankets that you would not want touching your skin. Many find wool blankets itchy, but they are excellent at keeping you warm. I use a duvet with a duvet cover now, but it is used more like a padded bedspread over my top sheet, with one or two soft blankets (not wool). Thanks for your interesting video. Well done. 😁 ❤
I live in a new build house in uk I don't have any built in wardrobes. This means I can change the bed and other furniture around, sometimes it's nice to rearrange the furniture.
Newer houses, I mean 50 years old at least have 'closets' as part of the room ! Older houses may not have, therefore free standing wardrobes would be used. I haven't used a hot water bottle since I was a child ( and remember the stone ones 🙂) I have central heating now. I know my daughter - in- law has one. I don't use an electric blanket either ! The bed and mattress conversation is odd, you can get all types here. A duvet, which is like a quilt ( not a blanket ) inside a cover, is more popular than blankets.
Fans not required for most of the year, due to the cooler weather.
TV's in the bedroom are becoming more common I think.
I'm now wondering if I'm British ? Or maybe I'm just hardy having been brought up in the north east of Scotland a looong time ago 😂
Built in wardrobes are very 1970s. Most people rip them out when they move into a house with them.