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- Reaction To Swedish Vs American Homes
This is my reaction to Swedish Vs American Homes
In this video I react to homes in Sweden and how they differ from homes in USA
#sweden #culture #reaction
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I have never seen a washing machine in the kitchen in Sweden. It´s in the bathroom or you have a loundry room.
We have a washer in the kitchen in sweden...
But it's the dishwasher 😂
thats right .. and the brits have it in the kitchen
And in apartments theres usually a communal laundry room in the basement.
@@AnnWahlquist Sadly, yes. There was more space in our previous house, where we actually did have a dedicated (but small) room for a washer + dryer, but not in our more modern house (which has triple-glazed windows, imagine that).
I had it when i lived in Norway.
One thing that he dont mention are that the front door always goes out. If theres a fire its easy to get out.
So newer try to kick in an Swedish door as in the American movies.😂
And swedish doors are a lot sturdier than american ones.
@@incognitones5604
Well... Its the frame that gives away when you kick in a door. But trying to kick in a door that opens "outwards" you need to kick in the whole frame. Kicking in an door that opens inwards like in US all you need to do is break the frame at the point where the lock is and that is fairly easy to do even with our doors (kinging it "out", from the inside).
Ive heard that US has it the way they do because it will be easier for emergency service personnel to get in, in case of an emergency.
In Sweden you basically need a locksmith to pick it, find an other way in or actually break the door with tools. A front door is sturdy as hell.
@@perkalov The door has switch above locking bolt when pull down you can lock the door with key and when have locked the door you can only open door with key from inside or outside other wise you lock/unlock it by the knob under keylock.
@@bengtandersson2649
Jag antar att du menar att det finns en liten knapp på låskistan som du kan trycka på så "automatlåser" dörren sig, då du stänger den?
De flesta nya lås har inte den funktionen. Det var poplärt att instalera förr.
Säger inte att det inte finns, men hyresvärdarna undviker dem (troligen för att de inte gillar att åka ut och låsa upp då vi låser ut oss).
Jag misstänker att förslitning på låsen gjorde att dörren gick i baklås. Vilket inte sker med den "vanliga" modellen.
Dessutom så är det, som jag antydde, betydligt svårare att lyckas låsa ut sig om man måste använda nyckel för att låsa dörren.
Oavsett...
Vad har själva låsmekaniken med vilken väg dörren öppnar sig att göra?
True 😂😂
There are tons of straight staircases in Sweden. I would actually claim they are more common than the spiral ones.
Yes, I Wonder where he gets this fact from. It's not correct.
Maby because new houses often have more free space designs. So, the spiral staircase is starting to become more popular. Most of the videos are done by Stocholmare 😅
@@DragmoraProductions perhaps, they are pretty. 😅 I'm also from Stockholm. I wonder if it's the spiral staircases in some of the old apartment buildings in that case? Those that go around old elevators. Otherwise I feel like most houses I've been to in Stockholm have straight staircases. 😅
modern homes you will see more spiral stairs these days but they are not many. In older houses and in the country side almost never seen one in my life.
From my experience most stairs are like those corner stairs, square spirals
We usually have a designated room for laundry, but in apartments people usually have them in the bathroom (or a shared laundry room in the basement of the building). If you live in a house, you definitely have a laundry room with a washer and drier.
Depends on how old the house is... my house is pretty old, aka it was built before there ever were laundry machines... So it's in the Bathroom.
@@livedandletdie same bro my house is also kinda old so no laundry room for me hihi
We had our laundry machine in the kitchen, and we live in a big house
Washer and drier being seperate depends on the family, if there was a drier installed when one moved in than sure, but for example, we have a washing machine room with a shower because why not, we had the space to install one, but the biggest thing is that, we really never use the drier function on our washing machine. Why? well, why would we? let the clothes dry naturally, let them hang on racks and dry, doesn't hurt, and saves money.
@@viktorlundin2753 And I'm sure you are very well aware that that is very uncommon for a Swedisg house! 🙂Seeing foreign kitchens on TV always made me smile because here we think it a very weird thing to have - washing machine in the kitchen.
I have been living in Britain and I was quite amused by the washing machine in the kitchen, it removes the cosyness from the kitchen, it has now become a working area. Usually in Sweden you eat in the kitchen. In Sweden it is always in the bathroom if it is not in the basement.
Yes, there are outlets in the ceiling for lamps. It is standardized, just as electrical outlets in the wall.
When it comes to stairs, spiral ones are not very common in Sweden. The stairs in our homes are mostly found in houses rather than apartments, and the majority make a 90° turn halfway up.
What swedish homes have that I have never seen anywhere else,and I've been around, are the windowsills where we put our potted plants indoors!
The tv-tax in Sweden changed a couple of years ago. To a actual tax, so now no one can escape it. But its also cheaper since everybody pays now. And what you pay is set by what you earn. 1% of your yearly salary if you earn under 130k (yearly), and 1300kr per year if you earn above 130k. If you are a student, or have no income, you don't have to pay. So in all, better than before.
What you neglect to mention is that the 1300 kr is now per individual, not per household, meaning it's only cheaper if you live alone. If you live more than one adult with an income per household, which is quite common, you're now paying more than you did before. So no, it's not necessarily better.
I don't want the washing machine in the kitchen!
Bring in dirty laundry where you are going to eat, no thanks😂
I don't know anyone in Sweden who has it😁
Thanks for the interesting topics you bring up👍
This is an apartment and the windows is modern, many houses have windows hanging from the side. We use "netwindows", a frame with a net that we attache to the window or just a net applied to the window frame. I think having the washing machine in the bathroom is because it is a wet room. If the machine brooke and the water flows out on the floor there is a floor drain for the water so the damage is zero on the building. I live in my own house, a villa, and I would say that all villas has a laundry room. Most houses with apartments also have a collective laundry room (mostly in the cellar) with a couple of big washing machines, dryers and room for hanging laundry.
I think there is a lot to say about homes in Sweden that he did not talk about. We do not have many big towns and in more rural areas most of us live in our own or rented houses. Most houses is build by wood (well, we have a lot of it) and building houses is strictly regulated to how to build them and where to build them, as in UK you need a building permit. We insulate the quite heavy due to our cold winters and nowadays we also use triple-glazed windows (with agon gas between the two outher window glasses) to isolate the house. We also isolate the roof, not so common in US if I have understand it the right way. We also have to consider the inclination and strenght of the trusses due to heavy weight from the snow. Flat roofs if not so good in our climate, even the south can get a lot of snow and down there they get wet (and heavier) snow that what we get here up north.
Radiators is beneath the windows if used, many modern houses today uses floor heating, electrical or using water. There is also many houses using geothermal heat and air heat pumps. We always have a hallway and in houses a secondary entre, often from or beside the garage, mostly getting through the garage or laundry room, for those muddy spring and autumn days or just because it is convenient, children and dogs covered with snow and mud...YEY! 😄 Yes, I forgot, we also isolate the walls between the rooms to get them a little more private, not disturbing someone sleeping in the next room and being able to play the music I love but not my family. I was raised in a house about 300-350 yrs old and it was cold and drafty, the cold air blow from both the windows and the floor but the air was fresh. In modern houses we have to use a fan system to hold the air fresh, especially in winter with dry air and not spending as much time outside as in summertime.
All true. About his windows, they can turn all around, makes the cleaning easy. Its not common to see people in flats carring a ladder 😂
The washing machine is in the bathroom (or in a separate room) in most European countries, rarely in the kitchen. The bathroom is a wet room, so any wet equipment belongs there (the exception is obviously the dishwasher). Bathrooms are also built to much higher standards, with membranes, water insulation, ventilation etc than in the UK.
Suspended ceiling lights normally have their own plugs. It's an EU standard - the DCL plug. Older connectors exist, but DLC is the new standard.
The washing machine is either in a laundry room in a house however, in a apartment, it's more or less always in the bathroom (the wet area). Never, ever in the kitchen unless someone deliberately place it there and rewire the apartment electric grid. In an apartment you have a separate fuse group dedicated to the washing machine/dryer and the fixed outlet is always placed in the bathroom. In Sweden you also have to have an authorised electrician installing all you fixed appliances like washer, dryer and dishwasher.
Regarding the windows, it varies very much on the architect. Some use the windows shown in the video, other use windows that swings open like a door.
Also the light fittings are always grounded in newer homes and you purchase your ceiling light and put it up yourself.
Also, Swedish apartment are centrally heated and use water radiators instead of electric or gas. That means that our hot water is not locally produced like in many UK homes.
The induction stoves are becoming more and more common since we don't use gas for heating in Sweden and induction cookers are so much more energy efficient.
Walking into somebody's home as a guest with your shoes on is anathema. It's close to taking a dump on the bathroom floor instead of inside the toilet.
We're in Jamtland, bugs are absolutely a problem through spring to autumn! What we do is buy those mesh door and window screens that you can stick or tack on to the frames. If it wasn't for those I'd have gone crazy this past year when mosquitoes seem to have decided to take over the world. But, being Scottish, I also do remember sash windows and still like them. We have a smart induction cooker/oven. Truth? I hate it, but that is because I'm an oddity in Sweden..I'm a Luddite and hate modern tech. So we bought a small hotplate to cook on and also have a small wood stove too. We also have heat pumps...not really that great in winter, I found, but they come into their own in summer because they double up as air conditioning. One thing I must admire about our Swedish home here ...built in 1970...is the insulation and construction. Houses really are much superior to many other places (and I include Scotland in that) when it comes to retaining heat in winter and generally being well built. Our washer and drier is in a designated basement room, which also contains the sauna and shower just outside the sauna. Makes more sense, imo, to have all that "wet" stuff in one place.
I don’t understand why anyone even came up with the idea of putting a washer in the kitchen… I don’t want dirty clothes in my kitchen and i don’t want my clean clothes inthe kitchen where I cook with grease, tomato sauce, et.c.
I also definitely don’t want to have a clothing bin with dirty clothes in my kitchen, but having it close to the washer in a separate room or the bathroom works great 😊
In Sweden the doors usually opens outwards. Hard to kick in and doesn't use precious space inside. I have notice in America, doors often opens inwards.
Some Americans complains about kicking their toes into our higher door tresholds also being common between rooms inside.
Yeah, inwards going doors seems stupid since it is likely much easier for people that want to break in, with outwards going doors you would have to pretty much break the actual door or break the doorframe from the house. On an actual one family house hardly anyone would break in from the door but use a windows instead but for me that live in an apartment building a few floors up it is infinately safer with a door that goes outwards especially since i also have a safety door.
It's also from a fire safety point of view where an outgoing door will allow for an easier and quicker escape.
@@carinalindberg7377 That may be but when i think of it all the doors to the outside on my apartment building has inwards going doors but the actual apartments has outwards going doors as usual. Im not sure if the inwards going doors to the actual building is common or not though.
Inåtgående dörrar är normen i de flesta länder. Ukraina verkar ha dörrar som går utåt, men i hela Västeuropa går de inåt. Redan i Danmark går dörrar inåt. Gamla svenska dörrar går också inåt. Titta på ett hus från 1800-talet som har kvar ursprungsdörrarna.
It's law that doors have to go outwards. Not even when they built a viking longhouse near Jönköping were they allowed to put a historically accurate inwards going door.
The law was passed after a fire where people were trying to get out and because people kept pushing they couldn't open the inwards going doors so there were a lot of needless death.
It’s wierd AF to have a washing machine in the kitchen, it’s something I always react to when seeing it in UK/US homes.. like why?
In England when the houses were built in the Victorian time, the only drain you had was in
The kitchen, that’s why it’s still there
@@mikahina3909 What? No drain in the bathroom?
To have the washing machine in the kitchen is unsanitary, I never understood why you'd want dirty clothes in the kitchen as it is in uk. Most larger apartments or houses in Sweden have a separate laundry room, or in the bathroom. And larger apartment buildings usually have a communal laundry room with many washing machines in it that you book time in.
Also the kitchen is no wet room. At least OUR bath rooms has a standard for being water safe. If there is water leaking on the floor and moist on the walls it shall not penetrate the walls and floor, thus not destroy the building. Therefore you need a certificate to build a bathroom in Sweden. No such thing for a kitchen. Of course, the dish washer in the kitchen is then questionable. But, there convenience wins.
Gas stoves have never been a thing in Sweden, at least not in modern times. People have it but it is very rare, it is not the norm. I think normal ceramic stoves are still more common than induction.
I have gas stove.
For many years. But you right, its not a standard here.
If you have gas stove or not depends on where you live. Stockholm actually had lots of gas stoves and still have many left. So, here and there it is "standard". My parents had gas stove.
Gas stoves were the norm in Swedish cities after doing away with wood stoves or no stoves in apartment buildings.
The sharp decline in using gas for stoves (and heating in some suburbs in Stockholm) was during the 70's and 80's and there are still tens of thousands of apartments in Stockholm with gas stoves.
In private houses they are now more of a luxury item but not that hard to find.
There is a exception to the never shoes in the house rule. And that is if there is a summer party outdoors, then shoes are usually alowed on the bottom floor in the house to have it easier to carry stuff in and out and toilet and stuff.
2:40 this is not really a diffrance between Sweden and USA but between old and new. You have old light swiches they go up and down in Sweden to. The large flat one was introduced in the 80s for handicapped and old people. They was never mandatory, but they just spreed really fast.
4:10 induction cooker is still very rare in in flats, but in houses basically everyone have them,. They are dirt cheap now, we talking like €300 for a induction cock top. Gas are rare, but they do exist, and some really fancy places have gas/induction hybrid cockers. Those are quite rare.
5:40 The thing is, in summer its light until like 23:00 or there about. And as long as its light outdoors, the bugs don´t fly indoors (because its darker, and they are attracted to light).
There is a breef period say very late August and early September that its a problem, but its like a 2 week problem, Nobody want to bother with bug nets for a 2 week issue.
7:10 Sprial staircases is not common, They are typically just used for lofts. But bent stairs is very common.
8:40 Washingmachine in the bathroom is fairly typical Some larger house does have a washing room, i never seen a washer in the kitchen (in Sweden)
9:50 That is almost universal. its so people can switch out lamps with out touching anything electric. There are older homes where its not fully converted. But all new homes got it something like that.
11:40 No that is not concrete, that is a OSB-plaster sandwich. Its quite hard, you can´t punch throw it, but its not concrete.
He was in an 70-ish appartment, or maybe older, it might very well be concrete. I had three different types of concrete in one of my 40-ies built appartments, depending on what wall it was. Osb sheets are quite new.90-ies?
@@jimmygranqvist7684 the wall sounds way to soft. It migt be leca of cause.
Before OSB there was MDF board in steed. Simular just slightly more expensive and not quite as strong
@@matsv201 I didn't hear. Noisy environment and viewing on the phone. But both plasterboards (gips) and plywood are common. Osb replaced both in most instances.
It can be brick too. My last appartment had all brick walls inside the loadbearing concrete. I learned to hate brick with a passion, it might be a worse material than mdf.
@@matsv201 I live in a funkis-apartment and we have concrete walls. His didn't sound like concrete but maybe there is a layer of plaster on top of it or something.
Your statement about the bugs are false. They gonna fly indoors all day and night from spring to autumn so you definitely need a net if you going to have doors and windows open.
I think the main reason why we've "always" had electric stoves/ovens is that we have an electrical grid that can cope with it.
That's not the case for most of the world including many European countries.
3 phase 400 V is standard in all houses and the vast majority of the apartments.
Some apartments in the late 90s early 00s were built with only 1 phase 230 V but it was soon realised it was a stupid idea and 3 x 400 V again became the norm.
Most houses have main fuses between 16 - 25 A which equates to a maximum power delivery of roughly 11 - 17 kW.
In Italy for an example I _believe_ the typical house has an available power of 3 - 6 kW so gas is more or less the only option.
You had to pay the TV license _IF_ you owned a TV. ;)
A few years back it was changed from "TV license fee" to "public service fee" which is more like a tax so it's no longer possible to dodge that expense. ;)
The license was paid per household but the new fee is paid by everyone with a certain amount of income.
So it became cheaper for singel households which benefited me. =P
The maximum yearly fee as of 2023 is 1300 SEK so something like £100.
Houses typically have some sort of laundry room.
In apartments the bathroom usually pulls double duty if it isn't an apartment complex with common laundry facilities.
Should the washing machine start leaking in the bathroom it's not a problem because the water will just go down the shower drain.
The room itself is supposed to be totally sealed so it shouldn't be able to cause any water damage.
I didnt know that they just had 1 phase in some 90´s apartments that suprices me, i think it was the norm much earlier though since my apartment that is from 1962 only got 3 phase in 2015 in when our housing cooperative (bostadsrättsförening) did the replumbing (stamrenovering) with new bathrooms and we also got a new fuse box and new power lines up to the apartment and stove. We have always had a common laundry room in the basement but i have also always had my own washing machine in the bathroom and actually never used the one in the basement even though i have lived here for over 25 years. There is some homes in Sweden that still has gas for the stove to this day though, but it isnt very common.
@@Stefan- It became quite popular in the late 90s early 00s but you're right, it existed before that.
I have a colleague who had his apartment converted to 3-phase a couple of years ago during the same circumstances you mentioned.
I'd guess it was built around the same time period but I still wouldn't say it was that common.
There is also the other side that hardly anywhere in Sweden so are there gas lines. Gas is mostly relegated to campers or summer cottages without electricity.
The only time it's normal to wear shoes inside your home is if you just got a brand new pair and want to walk them in without risking to go for a long walk and getting blisters half way though it.
mostly correct video but i want to add:
* the spiral staircases exists but the other normal diagonal are far more common.
* we don't have screendoors because like you said we dont get alot of bugs, if you do you could just add it.
* we had tv-license tax, but it's like in the UK many didn't pay it. so now it comes on the regular tax instead, and isn't as high.
*washing machines is sonetimes in the bathrooms (if it's a smaller apartment) OR it doesn't exist (in apartments), and you share a communal big washingroom in the cellar of the building with the other tennats that live in the apartment complex, and you book your time to do your washing using a key, writing / card or lock system. If it's a house, most people have a separate washingroom with laundry and dryer. I know many germans also have their washingmachines in the kitchen, BUT i've never seen that in a swedish home..most would think that laundry detergent and powder have no place in a place where you do your cooking, as well as you don't want odor from food on your freshly washed clothes..i don't understand how it's even a thing, i guess you could say the same thing about taking a poo around your laundry if its in the bathroom, but you never leave your laundry in the bathroom when it's done, so it's not like it stays there for long.
* i don't know if it's correct that most swedes hang their clothes to dry, many do..but many also don't.
”Do you ever wear your shoes inside a home in Sweden?” Yes! If you go to a more formal party or dinner (which maybe younger people don’t do), you do wear shoes inside. A lot of the year however, you might bring a pair of clean shoes that you change into after taking off your wet, muddy, or snowy outdoor shoes.
Gas stove isn’t so common in Sweden, but in the the apartement building where I live we have it.
There are not that many places here which has a proper citygas distrubiton system, i think there are only one or two of the bigger cities here who has, and non in the north, propane gas is expensive here and the canisters are hevy and must be stored in a separated shed because of the explosion hazard in case of a housefire or the riskt of accumulation from a gasleak. I think it is a lot more common in the UK to hawe a large citygas distribution system, even i some rural areas. That's why we does not hawe gas heaters either here except for in mobile vacation homes like caravan wagons or boats, etc. In the UK it seem to be more common to hawe a gas heater for both water and for centralheating. In sweden the options are usualy wood fired central heating system or electric heating systems like ATA or geothermal heat pumps.
@@sheep1ewe There are currently about 50000 househioulds just in Stockholm that has gas but it was apparently a quarter of a million in the late 50´s according to Stockholm gas. Its not very common these days but used to be at least in Stockholm.
@@Stefan- Thank You for the information, i taught it where a lot more to be honest. Some people prefear a gas stove connected to a propane tank because of the much faster heat and cool down time compared to an electric stove which (at least in our country, but in the 1950s there where some experiments with fast heating electric stoves but they consume to much current for the regular household system here, possibly in Norway they are still a thing?) they heat up very slow slow and also cool down very slow, a gas stove has an almost imidiate response in comparision. I know for example (the swedish master chef) Leif Mannerström are using such combo of an electric hotplate and a gas fired stove so he can get the best of two worlds so to speak...
@@sheep1ewe These households in Stockholm that i was talking is/was connected to the grid of gaslines so we are not talking about single propane tanks here just so you know if you perhaps thought that, the people that might be using such tanks are a separate group that i dont know how many they are. Yes top chefs seems to like using gas. Cheers !
@@Stefan- Yes, i know what You are talking about, the city gas where originaly a biproduct from cokeburners for the iron smelters (the rock coal need to be purifyed to coke before it can go into the smelter) i think the burners are a bit different as well compared to propane burners, an interesting sidenote is that old jewelers torch made for citygas had a small pipe whare one could blow air and control the flame to a small very hot flametip used for soldering gold and silver. I think Acetylene become widespread because of the railroad lights later, before Dalen made it possible to store Acetylen gas the locomotives used oil dossouse gas, i think they did use beet oil in old light armatures before the prtrolamps and city gas armatures. I hawe a very small one for my model railroad which works that way. :-) (i just like tecnology history so i easily got carried away once i start digging into it...) Hawe a really good advent and Santa Lucia day!
We love to change the lamps in the ceiling 😅 so being able to unplug like that makes it very easy. I live in the north and it's dark for 6 months of the year so the lighting is very important. I have at least 2 lamps in every window plus various ceiling lamps and the are on timers so the stay on from 3 pm until 11 pm.
In summertime I love to let the natural light in all night 🤩
When you travel around at night time you can watch all the different lightings in people's homes.
One interesting thing is that when you watch the apartment buildings where many immigration family's live, they don't have any lights in their windows. Give them 10 years 😉
I remember when i was a small child, i think it was in the end of the sixties, we got these new bed sheets "påslakan", translation bagsheets 😂. Do we didn't have to wake up in a tassel of linen any more and i loved them. We bought them at IKEA. Did they invent them? We do wash our bedsheets often, most of us anyway and we love to discuss about it on Facebook 🤔
Sprial stairs is not common in regular homes in Sweden. It’s a rarity. Sometimes you see them in small cabins if you don’t have room for a regular stair. Curved stairs are quite common though.
Wearing shoes indoor is a big no-no. If you have a formal party and the guests are wearing suits and fine dresses the norm is to bring a separate pair of clean shoes with you to wear indoor and maybe on the patio if it’s dry and clean.
Yeah we usually put the washing machine in the bathroom or a separate laundry room in Sweden, never the kitchen. The reason I guess is that our bathrooms are wet proof and a leak from a laundry machine can’t damage the floors if it’s placed in a wet proofed room. Kitchens are usually not wet proofed. But we are not consistent as we always place the dishwasher in the kitchen of practical reasons. But it can of course also break down and leak.
Agree, but under our dishwasher we have a tray and a water stopper. So it should be safe.
One reason for electric stoves being more common in Sweden is the electric system. We usually have three-phase 240/400V available for the stove providing plenty of power. Using a 110V single phase system would require insane currents and thick cables => slow...
I know there are 240V available in some cases in the US.
Some induction stoves can utilize the max power consumption a bit smarter than old stoves (rotating power to where it is needed).
The USA has induction stoves. They are very expensive. Of course, the USA is having all kinds of craziness about gas stoves now because of health issues. The USA is much further south, so screens are highly recommended to keep out flies, mosquitoes, and other bugs. Modern buildings are less well made than older ones. My house was built in the 1950's, so it is quite solid.
In Sweden you'd only sometimes have people wear shoes inside if it's the countryside and good weather. I know that was a thing growing up with my dad. Also happens easier when you have pets in such a place. In apartments it only happens when it's a quick in and out perhaps or like moving some things in and out. But to walk around inside with shoes all the time is insane, even if you have indoor shoes it's still weird.
About the oven, you gotta remember that that video is a bit old now. And we mostly have the older style oven but never gas ones. Don't know if we ever had that.
6:30 Yeah it used to be exactly like that until recently where they made it unavoidable by including it in the normal taxes.
8:20 Yes. Having it in the kitchen sounds weird. If not in the bathroom it's in its own room. But mostly for apartments we have the tvättstuga, shared place in another building.
Jag hade gasugn i min lägenhet i Göteborg på 90-talet.
My grandmother had a gas cooker and oven in the up until she passed away in 2000. We had a gas cooker with electric both in London and Sweden in the naughties
With electrical oven…
Every door leading INTO rhe home, open outwards.
Im surprised, seeing how his video began, he didn't OPEN with that.
(I Could only see a handful off comments about this and wanted to adress it, since it is one of the biggest safety factors)
To utilise space the same goes for any small room with a door in the home, they open outwards. Toilets, bathrooms and closets. Even some bedrooms. So to not have dead space.
Same thought. That's why you never see anyone kicking a door in, because they'd break their foot! 😂
feels so strange, that some do NOT take of their shoes. but I can imagine that it is geographical, her its common that the shoes got wet mud/dirt on them or snow.
We live in a house from the 90s and we have something called a Grovkök, which is a small room with a sink, washer dryer closets and cabinets for cleaning items and laundry, we also have a long drying rack in the ceiling that comes down at the pushof a button.. it's called a washroom. About the size of a hallway. And a door that leads outside to the backyard where we can hang our clothes outside.
I still have some of the original lightswitches in my apartment from 1962 that are more like the American ones but have a round backplate, these are of very much higher quality than you can get today and i like them so i have kept them and not replaced them. The electrical "outlets" with a special type of connector for the celing lamps are standard and has been for many decades, my apartment from the 60´s has them.
Washingmashines belong in the barhroom,never in the kitchen (there's a difference between how electric is installed in Swe & UK).
Spiralstairs ain't that common i Swedish homes. They are quite uncommon.
There are many different kinds of windows in Sweden. And many different types of stoves. It has to do with the age of the building. Everything from single-glazed windows that open like a door to triple-glazed windows that open like in the movie. Iron stoves, gas stoves and electronic ones. The influences from other countries are great. And innovation by Nordic designers has an impact. We have a varied selection of everything that can be bought. And people are very keen to preserve old environments and interiors. You should check out Swedish furniture design and Swedish architects.
The washing machine is in the bathroom if you live in a apartement. If you live in a house you most often have a laundry room for the washing machine/dryer and closets.
In my family we don't want our guests to take their shoes of when entering our home. To take the shoes of is a modern thing and of course, if your shoes are VERY dirty it's a nice thing to do, BUT if you invite someone to your home - you expect them to come with their shoes on. Shoes are a part of your dressing and to part with them at the door is not a very nice experience.
One major difference is how electrical and waterlines are built. In sweden electrical wires are placed in conduits, or flexible hoses. Waterpiping is preferbly placed fully visible. It is actually a ban against having a coupling inside a wall.
There are no fixed electrical installations in a living area, it's all via sockets. Waterpumps, boilers and other, somewhat "heavier" equiment, is connected directly
One thing that he did not mention is that we usually have two duvets in our beds, not one big one that we share. When it comes to shoes it can happen that you can keep your shoes on, if there is a party for eg but it's not common. In Sweden it's unusual to enter straight in to a livingroom, most of us have a hallway where you hang your jacket and put your shoes and then continue from there. In many houses in the US I have seen on TV they have put their beds with big headboards infront of the windows, that is something I haven't seen here in Sweden, we probably don't want to block out the light, and I think most people avoid blocking windows with furniture in Sweden, but I'm not sure. A lamp in the window, standing on the windowsill is very common in Sweden (I had a friend who visited from Austria who commented on that), I don't know if it is as usual in the US as it is in Sweden.
in apartments it can be combined shower and washing room, but most houses have seperate rooms for that
Cities used to have a network for gas distribution. But electric stoves and boilers became economically competitive, and little by little most cities have abolished their distribution networks.
We bought three city apartments in the 1980s-90s. In each of them, gas stoves had been replaced by electric stoves, mentioned by the seller as a plus, although the houses in question sometimes were stilll connected to a working gas distribution.
I wasn't convinced, and checked how much it would cost to replace the electric stove with a new gas stove. The cost was prohibitive.
Sweden used to have a paid tv license that was mandatory if you had a tv receiver. For some years now they bundled it into the regular tax and everyone pays it regardless of if you have a tv or not.
If you live in a apartment you can have the washing machine in the bathroom or a separated wash place in the seller or other house. They are for everyone in the community and you book your time. Never ever in the citchen.
If you live in a house you have a special washing room.
Some have gas cookers in Sweden but most have electric. Gas is rare but those cookers can be found in some houses in the big cities. Induction is a lot like gas though, as it reacts immefiately if you turn the heat up or down. Older cooking tops without induction though are not reacting fast and the rings get hot.
In houses we usually have a utility room but in flats it may be either in the bathroom or in a communal utility room.
That was not a concrete wall. It was drywall. You can clearly hear the different when knocking. It is just higher quality than the American one. The outer walls and the walls between the apartments is concrete.
You can, absolutely, have shoes indoors in Sweden. Your indoor shoes! They can be Birkenstocks, slippers, trainers etc. But you only use them indoors. And if you go to someones house for a party you might bring indoor shoes to change into, when you arrive. Especially if you’re a bit more dressed up. You wouldn’t wear a dinner jacket outfit or an exclusive dress - and no shoes! Upper classes also tend to wear shoes indoors more often especially for dinner partiets etc
There are almost no gas in swedish homes, there are a few exeptions where there are some old gas network, the washing machine are never in the kitchen, it is either in a room called "laundry room" or in the bathroom. the lights can always be unplugged unless we are talking about some 200 KG light assembly in a castle.
In a house, walls are usually covered with drywall. However, it is common to use two layers of drywall or even a plywood board with one layer of drywall on top, and good luck punching through any of those without a sledgehammer 😂
One thing I have noticed when visiting the US is that a lot of stuff is built with plastic. Plastic panels on the houses, plastic floor on the patio, plastic railings (or at least a plastic outer layer). This is more or less unheard of in Sweden, we use wood, tiles, bricks etc. There's some composite materials which have been gaining popularity, but they are a bit different from regular plastic.
Outlets and plugs for light fixtures are very common. Though sadly a European standard called DCL was put in place a few years ago with a new worse light fixture outlet, for some dumb reason. You're allowed to hardwire your light fixtures, but these outlets are still very common to make sure amateurs don't have to fidget with the wires or call an electrician to change a light fixture.
In like the 50ies washers were in the kitchen, but not since then. I guess electricity was improved so that it wouldn't be a problem with them in the bathroom (as well as having sockets there).
We do use screens, but they are not permanently attached to the window, so when you open the window you go and fetch the screen and attach it if needed.
Most houses in Sweden are wooden, except for city buildings, it differs a bit depending on where (bricks in the south where it doesn't get as cold, and wood in the north where wood is plentiful and wood having better insulating properties).
No it was not common to have washing machines in the kitchen in the fifties. I am 68 years old and have seen many hundreds or even thousands of rental apartments in my professional career and have not once seen or heard about it....
@@coole6825 That may very well be, I'm only 55 yo and I've never seen a washing mashine in a Swedish kitchen. That's the point.
I have seen commercials from the 60ies and before where they put the washers in the kitckens though
We used to have tv licenses but like you say some did pay and some didn’t, so now days it’s included in the taxes so all contribute regardless having TV or “not”.
Gas is more common in larger cities. Small cities and the country side only have gas if you buy big heavy bottles. We dont have gas lines every where. 😊
We never have our loundry in the kitchen.
I think due to that we spend so much time inside we like to easily redecorate our homes. We have a plug to our lamps so we fast and easy can change them in a SAFE way. You never have to touch any electrical wires. 😊
Sweden doesn't have gas in the ground like Northern America or Russia.
GAS is very unusual in Sweden. Elektricity
i have never seen a washing machine in the kitchen in sweden, for the very reason that the kitchen is a sanitary place where you cook what you eat. you don't want to contaminate that place by bringing in a basket of dirty laundry.
Well, your doors usually open inwords, and the screen door outwards, here the door open outwards. And the windos that he has isnt the standard one, standard is that you have a small window at the side of the big, that opens. Those windows are quite new modell.
I have never seen a washing machine in the kitchen in a Swedish home. In small houses and apartments, they are in the bathroom.
Don't like having a shower head attached to the wall. It is better with an adjustable one and with pipe connections visible. Water damage happens!
We live in sweden and have our washing machine in the kitchen but it's over all uncommon, all our friends think that it's weird. It's just because there is no more space in the little bathroom of ours, living in an appartement. Most people don't even have their own washing machine if they live like we do, they just book and use the house communal mascines in the cellar.
One thing he doesn't mention is that outer doors to houses open outwards!
Haha when you mentioned Asia and wearing shoes in the home i right away said no no. I visited Asia once and they are even more strict about no shoes inside than we are in Sweden.
About the shower, we dont like to have piping inside of the walls in case of leaks.
I know of one person who use gas, other then that its electric stoves. Induction is likely standard nowdays.
TV licens has been removed (transferred over to the normal tax). We used to have licence for TV and it was indeed a crime to not pay it.
The washing machine can be in the bathroom or in a specific room for washing (often with capacity to dry the wet stuff). It is never ever in the kitchen.
As for the lamps. Some lamps might be built in like tubelights, but most lamps in a home is easily removable just as shown by the dude.
Hold up, you got your washing machine in the kitchen? I recently traveled around in Scotland. Not once did I see that :D As for in Sweden tho, this guy is showing off an apartment, and although it is true most of us have the machine in the bathroom, when living in an apartment and have access to your own washing machine. The most common is signing up to use a laundry room in the building, which is used by everyone living in the apartment building. As for houses/villas, most Swedes have their own laundry room, separate from the rest of the rooms and dont use the bathroom for washing cloths :)
The twisted cables on your headphones will not untwist itself or by pulling on it. 😃
Sweden changed TV license to TV tax in 2019 and the maximum tax to pay is about $130/y.
Now, the induktion top is stil the newest and not everyone has one. but the standard is a glass top. it look thee same but the circles glow red and do get hot. before that and still in many older kitchens there is the mettal circles, protruding from the base. we seldome have gas stoves and then it is probably in like resturants and such... WINDOW/DOR MOSQUITO NETS!
We have not used gas stoves for at least 50 years. (There are very few exceptions) The outlets third "plug" i a protective earth. Really good safety feature. Prevent's electrical fire an protects the electrical system. It's mandatory for every house built since 1994. It's really common for apartments to have either a shared washing place usually in the basement. Or a dryer and a washing mashine in your bathroom since it's waterproof has a propper drain with built in flooring leaning towards the drain in case of a failure. This is to protect the home and other's from waterdamage.
Houses have a washingroom in either the basement or in newer homes a dedicated area also waterproofed.
The contacts can be put in either way. So if the cable goes out in a 90 degree angle you put it in in the way that gives you access to the other power outlet, since most contacts are doubled.
There is also VERY few places in sweden that have gas available. Mostly it is in caravans or summerhouse where you bring flasks with gas. There is almost no gas pipes available any longer.
Regarding the washing machine in the bathroom. You are not allowed by building law to have a washing machine in the kitchen. Besides on older apartments there is usually some space left in the bathroom after the bath tub is removed. Otherwise it will not fit.
in the past you had to pay for tv licens here in Sweden. That have changed and now its just part of taxes that you already pay.
He's refering to apartments most houses have there own room for washer and dryer and bigger apartments have a room for it aswell
If you don’t have enough space for a utility room, then you have the washing machine in the bathroom.
4:05 I'd say that the oven is underneath the stove as he are demonstrating. And NO, not all home has induction stoves.
The TV licence is now included in the standard tax cost in Sweden, but they used to knock on doors to ask if you had a tv :p
your right you always find you self fliping between two settings on the induction stove i use one still. here in Malmö sweden som parts of the city has some old gas infrastructre so depending on where you live you might have gas cooktop
insurance doesn´t always cover water damages from washing machines in the kitchen cause the floor isn´t water proofed which it is in the bathroom.
The door handles is a standard in Sweden so that it is easy for handicapped and old people to open the door.
We always take our shoes off when we enter a house. We also teach our small children to do so.
Just watched this and Sweden is full of summer right now.
Without air conditioner, this is how it goes.
From young to old, we say this for 2 months during summer.
"Window closed"= OPEN IT, it´s hot "Window open" CLOSE IT there´s mosquitos
He missed the biggest difference which is that the front doors in Sweden always opens outwards when in the US it always opens inwards. (At least I have never been in a hotel or house in the US where the front door opens outwards.)
That´s a safety concern since it´s much easier to kick down a front door which opens inwards...
Ooooh, just noticed that this has already been commented. Sorry.
(BTW, the kitchen is supposed to be a clean place and not a place where you handle dirty underwear and such in a washing machine together with your food.)
I've lived in many different apartments in Sweden but I have never had a window that opens like the one he shows! They have all opened inwards with hinges on the side. Older houses have windows that open outwards. Remember my mother hanging halfway out the windows on the second floor in our old house when cleaning them... scary!
The kind of window shown in the video is common on houses in the countrysida and also in modern apartments. The most common window in Sweden is the one you describe. And, that is actually the only sensible window. You can actually open it.
The stoves in Sweden is mostly electric only in really old houses up north I have seen wood stoves. Gas stoves is really rare, only used in caravans and camping :P. Musquitos are more of a problem up north where ther are more lakes and rivers but we have them and flyes as well but we dont care so much about it I think. We had a tv license that you payed for when you got a tv but now everybody pays a tax instead. The washing mashine is in the bathroom because its an apartment small space, in my experiance its not common to have it in the kitchen, houses often has a laundry room. We have a plug for our sealing mounted lamps, we have a couple different types of these. We have a lot of wood houses aswell with plasterboard on the inside walls.
Most Swedish towns and cities don't even have gas mains, so if you want to cook with cas, you'll have to haul those huge bottles to and from your home. And if you live in an apartment building, you might not even be allowed to keep one there.
in pother words, the standard has been electric stoves and ovens since we stopped using those cast-iron wood-burning ones back in the 40's and 50's. And let me tell you , if you think induction cooktops are imprecise, you really don't want to try cooking on an old-fashioned electric one. Those things are slow!
No one has a washer in the kitchen in Sweden.
I remember visiting my brother who moved to London, i was CHOCKED that the washermachine was in the kitchen. I mean, kitchen is for food.. not cleaning clothes.. right?
In Sweden the smaler elektrik switches were that small, like 50y ago. Induktionstoves are half common, gas is the best if you enjoy cooking but selldom used (swedes dont use gas since many years ago). in Uppsala and its surroundings bugs do get inside when windows ore doors are open if you live on the ground floor, 1 stair up and they are fewer, 2 stairs or higher very few get inside. Doorknobs was used before 1970 as the switches. Tv license is payed by our taxes. Washer/dryer or washer and dryer is always in the bathroom often you place the dryer on top of the washer.
The only built in lights in sweden are the one over the sink and the one in your bathroom.
We don’t hang clothes outside. You never know when it will rain in Sweden. But we hang some in our cloths hanging room beside our laudrary room. But only clothes that are not supose to be in the dryer mostly
On sunny summer days we always hung the laundry, and clothes to air, outside our house. Living in an apartment, I use to hang them on the balcony. Hopefully the neighbours don’t smoke.
Yea, lamp sockets in roof or high on walls over windows for hanging window light is standard, it's like a wall socket but smaller. 1/2-1/3 smaller. Light switches where small like the us version back in the 70s. But from. the 80s we got big switches
I have never seen a gas oven in Sweden, but im sure they exist. Not every oven is induction though, but they are electric.
We usually don't want our dirty clothes where we cook, most houses in Sweden I think have a laundry room and if it's a smaller house or apartment we'd rather do laundry in the bathroom than in the kitchen.
I've never known anyone who has a gas stove in Sweden, but they do exist. Otherwise electric stoves have ruled the roost for at least four decades if not more. I have an old one with solid plate hobs and that's what I usually saw in peoples' homes while growing up in the 90s. The only time I saw a gas one was in Ireland at my granny and granda's, and I hated the smell of it.
seen many in Gothenburg and had one myself in my first apartment on Hisingen.That where over 20 years ago and I know they are still there.. as in many older houses as I´m a caretaker.
You might wear the shoes indoors if your'e just going to fetch something, or if you're a plumber or electrician doing some work or something like that. But if you are actually staying in a home as a guest fore more than a few minutes you take your shoes off. Gas stoves have never been common here, the older electric stoves are still most common even though those new induction stoves do get more and more commonplace every year. As for screening for bugs, if you don't live in a major city then yes, in the summer especially mosquitoes can be a real nightmare. But thing is that you install your own things for that, that don't goes with the house/apartment. If you happen to see such a thing when you look. at a house, the current owner will likely not leave it for you anyway.
I live in northern Sweden and we have very much moscitoos, flies.
Here in Norway we use to have the washing Machine in the bathroom or in the laundry room. Yesterday we had to drain the washer and it was a lot of water on the floor. Luckely we dont have in our kitchen where we have the same parket floor as in our living room. In our laudryroom we have ha tile floor with a drain. I can´t see me having dirty laundry in the kitchen at all.
NEVER seen a washer in the kitchen in Sweden.
as a swed i find it amazing how carpet floors are a common thing in the US from what i know and mixing that with not taking of your shoes just seems braindead >.
Wall to wall carpeting exist in Sweden. When someone have not done anything to the home since the 70's 😀
@@hakansivertsen6520 well yea but we don’t use our shoes indoors :p
Concrete? That was clearly the sound of drywall when he knocked 😆
Gas stoves and induction stoves has the same level of control.
With a gas stove you have flame that heats your cooking vessel. The moment you alter the amount of gas being burnt you alter the amount of heat going into your cooking vessel
With an induction stove you have an electromagnetic field that causes the ferrous metal in your cooking vessel to heat up. The moment you alter the intensity of that field you a alter the amount of heat going into your cooking vessel.
I guess some restaurants use gas stoves here in sweden. But I've never seen a gas stove in a home in all my 31 years.
We used to have a tv license we needed to pay. But now days it's just part of your standard taxes.
Dishwashers are usually in the kitchen in Sweden while the washing machines, if present, are in the toilet normally.
In Denmark all front doors open inwards. In Sweden they open outwards.
Wearing shoes indoors which they always do in American shows really makes me wince. They even put their shoes on the bed or the couch! Imagine what they might have stepped in out on the street!