As a born bread, corn fed American I gave you permission to call us Yanks 😂😂😂😂😂 when American say square foot we mean under air-conditioning that means anything that’s inside the house that touches air-conditioning air
American author E. B. White summarized the distinctions for the word “Yankee” in this way: "To foreigners, a Yankee is an American. To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner. To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner. To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander. To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter. And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast."
I think they are confused as to what a granite countertop is. Granite is a natural stone and would rarely contain glitter, something they may have put into synthetic countertops, a couple decades back. Granite is extremely hard, durable and will not burn if you put your hot pots and pans on top of it. It’s also quite expensive.
Although I don't think granite/quartz countertops are necessarily ugly (and some of them are), I don't like them because they are so damn hard you have to be careful with glassware, earthenware, etc. Set something to hard on the counter and you could break it. Also noisy. Also, you can't use them as a chopping board so what's the point? If you need a marble top to roll pastries (who does?), get a marble board. A decent looking composite is fine by me.
In areas with earthquakes, masonry houses require so much steel reinforcement they are impractical. Wood frame buildings are much better in shear, side forces, if done properly.
Here in the US, a Yankee is someone who lives in the northeast. It's a word used mostly by southerners and is sometimes used as a pejorative. Outside of the US, a Yankee is just someone from the US.
Sorry to shit in your Easter Basket but I live in the upper peninsula of Northern Michigan right on the Canadian border like I can see downtown Soo Ontario that's how close I am. We have three names for you people below the Mackinac bridge and none of them are good. When we're sober we call you trolls or Wanking Yanks and when we're drunk and wanna fight we call you Butt Munchers
American home designer here, specializing in kitchens and baths I like the differences between the countries and the way everyone adapts and uses the space available to them I don’t like saying ‘stupid granite countertops’ Every granite countertop is stone that is naturally occurring and dug up from the ground. Nature makes those sparkly bits of glitter are actually made by the earth. I guess we can say the earth makes tacky, wanting to be luxurious stuff but failing.. or perhaps you just don’t know what you are looking at.. Either way, newer homes are using more quartz (you know, those hard crystals grown naturally but they are ground up and made into beautiful colors and designs.. many with their hated glitter and are really expensive) I could be petty and say we can offer an alternative to their stupid hairstyles but I’m from the south so I’ll just say, bless their hearts
I agree with you 100%! And bless their hearts for thinking granite is somehow tacky or cheap! I wonder if they’ve actually seen granite or perhaps it was a substitute?
These guys probably think the trendy quartz countertops are cool. What they call "quartz" is actually pulverized stone that has been mixed with polymers and hardiners and reformed. So basically, plastic. More sexy than stone. No? 🙄
@@TestGearJunkie. It's more about the natural lighting than actually looking out the window for me. I like waking up to the sunrise, not shitty fluorescent light. It also makes a good fire escape in case of a house fire.
In America we do not add the entire property size into the square footage. Sometimes space IN the home isnt even added to square footage. It has to be livable finished house to be counted toward the square footage. When you see 2,000 square feet thats JUST the house. That house might have acres and acres of land attached to it that isn't included on the listed square feet.
The word "Yank" can be derogatory depending on how it's used. It's usually an informal term for Americans, but the context and tone can make it offensive.
it's intent and origin was an insult for independent minded British colonists in what is now the U.S. Also used by the Southerners to describe those from the Union from which they tried to free themselves before during and after the War Of Northern Aggression. it is not a slight for one to call some Southerners a Yank or Yankee. that isn't a slight it is a major offence.
Sorry to be so chatty, but I believe legally, you can only call a room a bedroom if it has 1. a door that closes, 2. a window for emergency escape, and 3. a closet. Doesn't have to be a huge, walk in closet, but must have a little room for one. Our office is technically a bedroom because it has all three of those items.
Yeah, it completely depends on the state, but that's all standard on the West Coast. Some places can sell walk-in closets as extra bedrooms. People really think there are standard real estate rules for the whole country, but there never were, and the whole real estate industry is changing anyway now. Now that buyer's agents cannot be paid and seller's agents can only get 2%, the whole industry probably will become less complicated and more standardized.
In the U.S. our square footage isn't inclusive of non walk-out basements either so millions of homes are much bigger than their real estate listings depict.
Window screens!!!! A/Cs are always talked about but we have screens on the windows ( and some home have screen doors as well) to let in air when it’s comfortable outside without letting bugs in
And the basement should be a “walkout” or it won’t as much as the rest of the house. We need to know the square footage because it’s how the house primarily valued.
Two thoughts: 1) Temperatures are more extreme in the US than in the UK, and the wood used in the construction of the American houses is a great insulator. Wood is cheap, available, easy to handle in construction, and very durable. And nothing flimsy about it. 2) Granite and quartz countertops are gorgeous. Not to mention practical and extremely durable. I never heard anyone complain about them before until I saw this video. Who doesn't like a pretty rock?
8:50 As a Realtor I dealt with some big new houses which literally had a room named "the conservatory." But this is rare. The American equivalent is called the "sunroom" and you will find lots of medium houses with sunrooms.
A friend lived in a four-plex, so four homes, I've seen them with two units on ground floor, then two more up a flight of stairs. Also, i've seen them configured four in row, like a townhouse, or in UK row house, but when it's larger, five and more, I am thinking most would then call them apartments. I like the idea of a duplex, you could live in one side, and rent out the other unit. Helps a lot with the mortgage,
Yes, in many States in the US a room must have a built-in closet as well as a fire regulation window in order to classify it as a bedroom. Also, yes, the land in front and back of the house is the front and back yards. A garden is used to grow food. Nobody calls their yard a garden. Also, the middle walls in old homes are often loadbearing walls. But many people that renovate older homes still remove them in order to open up the space. You just have to add support beams to support the weight of the home, which is often not cheap.
I live in Arizona. For hundreds of years homes were made of adobe (mud bricks) or bricks because wood is rare in the desert. Now wood is cheap and it's common to have them built with wood. My home is made from Burnt Adobe, which is adobe brick fired in a kiln. We do not have basements. Basements originated in cold places where the foundation had to be several feet deep to get below the frost line. After you dig four feet for that you might as well keep digging and get a full basement where you can put your coal-fired furnace. In Arizona we don't need to dig deep and the soil is so hard in places you need dynamite to excavate it. No basement, footers 18 inch deep around the property and then a four inch concrete slab on grade. I live in a townhouse officially which is attached to the neighbor by 8 feet of kitchen wall matched up to the neighbor's carport wall. Other than those 8 feet it is a "single family home" about 1350 sf but my backyard is enclosed by a block wall and I have a 200 sf covered patio, 600 sf paved patio under trees, and about 600 sf of artificial grass (it's Arizona we don't grow grass these days.) And some beds for planting flowers and hedges. There's a front yard and a small front porch but the backyard is where we spend our time and do our entertaining most of the year. The microwave is permanently mounted over the stove. There's a heat pump on the roof.
omg a fellow Arizonan! I was just about to comment how houses/apartments in the Arizona are usually made with adobe and or brick unless you're up north!
@@desertoutlaw3317 Maybe in Phoenix but only large tracts are likely to be entirely stick built. In Tucson it's quite common to find houses up to today made of brick, concrete block, or adobe. My entire HOA (1989) is burnt adobe though we fir out the interior with wood and sheetrock. Tucson has a bunch of neighborhoods of mid-century moderns made in the 60s and they're mostly brick. Wood is cheaper these days if you are building a lot of homes to essentially the same designs.
@@philipem1000 you misinterpreted my comment, yeah maybe a couple old ass neighborhoods in tucson aren’t stick framed but like i said in my original comment, majority of homes in phoenix are.
Home designs and fads in the US change more than the weather. Also load bearing walls are why you don't see a lot of open conecpt homes in the UK. It's easier in the US when the house is made of wood. It's easyr to knock down a wooden wall and put in load bearing wood support beams in the US. Knocking down a stone wall will need a steal support beam to support the weight in the UK. It's probably more costly in the UK to alter a home than it is the US
My parents did a major renovation on their house a few years ago. They enclosed the carport and made a huge room with a pantry and washer/dryer room. They redid the back bathroom and took the tub out and put in a huge walk in shower. I love the glass door with the door gear inside. It just looks neat. The kitchen was also redone. The guy that was doing it had done a big house where he put in granite counter tops. The other people had bought and paid for this Italian granite. They paid $7000 for all of it. The contractor had enough left over to do my parent's house with this granite. He wanted to use it up and whatever they decided was going to be pure profit for him. I know my mom fed him almost every night while he did the work. My dad has a full BBQ and smoker section outside that they cooked on while the kitchen was getting worked on. I don't think my parents paid that much for the Italian granite tops and these things do not look cheap in the least bit. We live in Georgia which has a whole lot of granite, but these counter tops looks nothing like that kind of granite. They are very pretty and my mom said they just costs some food. My mom is the typical Southern Lady and she cooked really good. She is starting to have some memory problems so I cook for everyone more now. I mean she just cooks simple meals but they taste good. The contractor was a nice guy and he loved food. I remember my son had a big garden and he picked Butterbeans and we shelled and cooked a big pot of beans, potatoes, porkchops and crackling cornbread and the guy ate and that's how they decided to exchange food for granite. I live behind my parents on some of their land. We have 5 acres and that's more than enough to grow most of our vegetables. My house is small by American standards, but at 1000 Square feet it's larger than most English homes. It's mine and paid for so that's all good. It's a small place but my husband is very good at organizing and it's amazing how much stuff he can get in a small spot. I had a book room, but it seems his stuff has taken over my room!
As someone who made a lifetime living in the construction industry in Southern California, I can assure you that houses whose structural members are wood will last for generations and hundreds of years. Houses in GB are also subject to "damp rising", a structural and even more a health issue, American houses have no such issue even in high humidity and wet areas.
I watch this show in Britain about evictions,slum land lords and slum tenants. And you should see the horrific mold in over 50 percent of homes. And the landlords blame the tenants. And they don’t really have a governmental agency that deals with that fro what I can see. They have people that help with evictions and help tenants deal with mold and other issues. But,There doesn’t seem to be an agency that deals with that particularly. The cases that I have seen would not fly over here at all.
Down in the Southern states you don't want to use the word "Yank" or "Yankee" unless you're wanting to fight - - thems fightin' words. As for the size...it's a no brainer. I gave us SOOOOOO much space when I stayed in Scotland. I never realized just how much I missed my closets, pantry, laundry room, basement, and you know - - 3rd bedroom and 2nd bathroom. You do miss it if you don't have it.
Attached houses are typically called row houses when they are similar or same in design... Townhouses are varied in style, color and size. Personally, I am not offended by the term Yank (Yankee)... We even have a baseball team called the Yankees...No Worry!!!
also BTW, when referring to "square footage" in a US home it's referring to livable space and excludes the front/back yard (garden?) as well as garage (generally).
What is always not explained to people from the UK by us properly is explaining how our wooden homes are insulated. I always hear UK people explain how their homes are built to keep heat in. Well,So are our homes and more so insulated to keep away mold as well as keeping heat in too. Mold in the UK seems to be a bigger common problem over there more so than here. Although they think because their homes are built with brick they’re better than ours. Maybe not just because it’s brick doesn’t make it better I think the insulation is better on this side of the pond. And by the way we do have homes built of brick as well.
Quick explanation of difference between apartment and condominium (condo): Apartment: Unit inside of a larger building (can be a house converted to fit multiple units, or an apartment building) that you rent out. Your rent is your payment to stay there, not building any "ownership" into the apartment. When you leave, you don't sell it. You just leave. Decisions about the property are made by the building owner (individual or company). Condominium: Unit inside of a larger building (typically a dedicated condo building, or a duplex house) that you BUY. You pay a mortgage, as well as fees related to the upkeep of the general areas shared between units (outdoor spaces, etc.). Your mortgaging of the unit means that you OWN the unit (and a share of the overall building), building equity into the unit. When you leave, you sell it to someone else, the onus typically being on you to find someone to buy it. Decisions about the property are made by a "board" made up of residents, either through election, sizes of shares of ownership, or made by the residents as a whole without representatives. Condos will usually hire out management companies, that enforce shared rules (trash must be in X place and not Y, noise regulations, smoking in units etc) and manage shared spaces. Side note: you can (with board approval) sublet your condo to be used as an apartment by a renter, while you still own the unit. Overall, condos are the most complicated both practically and legally, moreso than straight ownership like houses or simple renting like apartments, but it can be much better economically in the long term in certain metropolitan areas (NYC, etc) where apartments are only a wealth drain/money pit rather than a wealth builder, and houses are mightily expensive if available at all. (Or for pensioners/retirees that want to downsize but leave their money intact by buying rather than renting, for their children etc)
One hundred to one hundred fifty years ago in the mid west (mostly the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas), when they were building houses and such there wasn’t a lot of wood or rock so they would build out of sod. They would go out on the prairie and cut 12-18 inch strips of the native grass and cut it into blocks about a foot long and stack them up to make buildings. My mother in law was born in the 1930’s and the farm she lived on until she was in her mid teens was a “soddy.” She said it was terrible because there would always be dirt falling down from the roof so you had to hunch over your food to protect it. She also said that spiders would fall out of the ceiling all the time which apparently is not a nice way to get woke up. She learned to sleep with just the top of her head sticking out from under the blankets. As far as I know there still exists a two story sod school house in north central Nebraska that was built in 1935 because of a scarcity of other building materials. It is still mostly standing so you can see it but it is unsafe to go inside. A plus for building with sod was that you could make nice thick walls so the building would stay cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
I had always thought for the longest time, that a “flat” was simply a one-story house, ie it was flat against the ground. Then on night I was watching a British film {sorry don’t remember much about the movie} and they talked about going up to the persons 3rd floor flat. Immediately in my head I thought well damn, that makes no sense. Where did the word flat come from? I even looked up the origin of the word and it still didn’t seem to make much sense to me other than, I guess a “flat” can only have on level. In the US, while most apartments are a single floor, I have seen apartments with living spaces {living room, dining room, kitchen} on one floor and bedrooms on an upper floor.
My house, the structure itself, is 2,525 square feet, that doesn’t include the attached three car garage or the yard. It has three bedrooms but the loft upstairs is so large one end could become a fourth bedroom with the addition of one wall, a door and closet. The floor plan actually shows where the wall would go so it’s an easy add. My house has a formal living room, formal dining room, a family room, the kitchen has an island which has space for four barstools on the side facing the family room and a half bath. The first floor also a giant walk-in pantry. Upstairs is the loft two bedrooms that share the a bathroom, the laundry room and the master bedroom with en suite bathroom. All three bedrooms have, walk in closets, additionally downstairs there is a coat closet near the front door and another very large closet that partially runs under the stairs. I also have a covered front porch as well as a nice size patio just outside the back door. My house has a foyer or entryway before you actually enter the living room and other rooms. Up stairs there’s a short hall way off the loft that goes to the laundry room, two bathrooms and bathroom. My microwave is built in over the stove, the vent fan is incorporated in the microwave and vents to the outside. I have the usual appliances, a dishwasher and a refrigerator, freezer on the bottom that has a filtered water dispenser, and the ice maker in the freezer. Granite countertops aren’t stupid! They’re a natural product, granite naturally has some crystallization from when the earth created the granite. And you can pick a color that doesn’t have as much sparkle when you’re selecting new countertops. They are fairly expensive though.
When they talk about square footage they are referring to the house only, not the land. They'd list the size of the land separately such as "a 2303 su ft. home on a 1.5 acre lot.
19th century American homes often had a front door that opened into a hallway with a staircase and doors off to the "parlor" on the side, much like the present-day British floor plan they were sketching in the video. However, the wall between the front entry hall and the living room began to disappear in the early 1900s. The front door would still open into a small foyer/stair landing area, with a coat closet tucked under the stairway, but it wasn't walled off from the living room any more. (Some of the small, cheap houses built immediately after WWII for returning GIs and their new families did away with the foyer altogether--you literally walked right into the living room.)
I live in San Francisco, and our homes here are over 100+ years old and made of wood. Over the past century and a half, we have had 7 major fires and two major earthquakes, and the homes, including mine, are still standing strong.
As to house construction materials, it depends on where you live. In the midwest we have a lot of brick houses. The granite was big in the early 2000s.
Love from Minnesota! sq ft is a big deal in the states, alot of people base their purchases of that most of the time. my neighborhood is 1500- 2500 sq ft
Adam, you have a brain that actually functions as compared to these 2. You know the difference between a structural wall and not. I would hate to see these 2 do a home makeover. Love your video's bro!
one thing you may need to take into consideration is a lode bearing wall, homes in the UK have been there longer than in the US. That may be the reason for the hallway walls.
The entrance hall provides a liminal space which is psychologically comforting.Covered porches and foyers serve the same function. Our house has a drop zone from the garage that holds shoes, packages and groceries until they can get put away. That is a liminal space. It also has a front entrance under a covered gallery with a locked gate. I do not allow junk dumping there.
"Yank" isn't as bad as it used to be. I mean, the New York Yankees haven't been forced to change their name. However, my mother, now in her late 80s, learned the word "damnyankee" in school. Yankee was always preceded with "damn." This was in Georgia in the 1940s, so not even a century after the Civil War.
I laughed when you said they were wrong about the microwaves. I live in the mid-west in a 2,000 sqft modest wood and brick home with 3 bedrooms, walk-in closet, 3 bathrooms, kitchen that doesn't have granite counter tops, living room, and loft. I also have huge back yard (garden), nice sized front yard, attached double-car garage, and patio, but these do not count in the house square footage because they're considered unfinished areas. We hang out in the back yard mostly, especially when we have guests in the summer. Microwaves are nice to warm leftovers, but I don't like to cook in them. I use Air Fryers more for food. The hallways in many houses are just as you described them in British homes. It depends on the style, I think. Most people love stone (not always granite) countertops, but there's always cement, laminated, stainless steel or wooden counter tops, too, which are usually more economical.
Honestly never heard of a coservatory except in clue(the board game)so we just pronounced it how its spelled. If it has glass ceiling it would be called a greenhouse. If just walls or large windows its a sun room.
@garycamara9955 there are lean-to greenhouses, they are extremely common in the midwest, they are used exactly how a conservatory is. Tropical house plants and seating. Indoor patio.
since you wanted to know of other types of living spaces here in the U.S. I figured i would share my lucky find. I actually am lucky enough to rent a one bedroom apartment here in Florida for a reasonable price. It's almost 900 square feet (83.62 Sq. meters), a designated laundry closet, dishwasher, balcony and a walk in closet. It also has an attached garage (which is not included in the square footage of living space)! This is NOT a common thing in all apartment complexes (it's not even available to all apartments here in OUR complex), but it is available in some other places. I love the videos, thanks for the laughs! keep up the great work!
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Here a detached house is called a single family home
The stupid granite complaint is one of the weirdest comments I’ve heard Granite is a natural stone all silver flecks are actual minerals found in the granite quarry where it was harvested
Most apartments in many big cities in the U.S. are co-ops, which aren't mentioned here, not condos. Granite countertops are one of the solid surfaces homebuyers look for in a kitchen, because of the many advantages. Granite is a natural stone, so if it has those chips, it's part of the stone makeup.
I live in a 110 year old farm house. No closets, no basement, 1 bedroom downstairs, 1 bathroom. 2 converted attic bedrooms (no closets). Humongous backyard and front yard. We have a mud room. But the front door enters into the living room. My stairs are located in the middle of the house. Plaster and wood. Still have the original glass windows downstairs.
Where I live, the main bathroom contains a decent size laundry closet. It's big enough for a washer and dryer to sit side by side and can be closed off in case friends or family visit. It's convenient if you need to pre-soak an item in the sink before washing.
britain doesnt have the room to build big. they are the size of a medium sized state. the building products in the uk are more expensive and you do not have the necessary amount of wood ( must import) to keep costs down.
When we in the US talk about square footage of a house it's just the house size. It does not include the "yard" or "garden area". That measurement is the lot size, My last house was listed as a three bedroom home but in order to list it that way they had to build a closet in the third "bedroom". House size and apartment size is so variable depending on how much you are willing to spend and what area you live in. In large cities where there is a massive population, things will be smaller but not necessarily less expensive. If you get out of the big city you get a lot more for your money, Housing has increased in cost everywhere over the last several years but there is still affordable housing where I live. You may not be able to afford a huge home but you can make what you can afford very nice.
Great video as always! I'm curious because I THINK they were referring to US homes having built-in microwaves vs free-standing units. Which is most common in the UK?
Here in Rhode Island, a "duplex" typically refers only to the small houses that were built 80+ years ago around factories in more industrialized urban neighborhoods. I have seen more expensive condos (condominiums) where 2 or 3 units are in the same building. I've never heard them called a "duplex" or "triplex." In fact, I had never heard the word "triplex." More commonly in those older urban neighborhoods are houses called "two-deckers" or "three-deckers." On each of the 2 or 3 floors is an apartment, some quite roomy. Residents of condos pay a monthly mortgage to a bank until they own the building or their part of it, plus a substantial monthly "maintenance fee" for upkeep of the building and the grounds. There are significant tax benefits to owning rather than renting. In general, condos are more posh than apartments, but they might look the same in big cities like New York. The American soldiers stationed in the UK in WW2 were called "Yanks," at least according to old movies. The British were of course glad for the assistance in the war, but frictions were inevitable. Most Americans were in the countryside, and the locals complained that the Yanks were "overpaid, oversexed, and over here." Supposedly, the young British men exempt from the military or no longer serving could not compete financially or otherwise with the American soldiers for the attentions of young British women. Average house size varies from 1164 square feet in expensive Hawaii to 2800 in more affordable Utah. In general, the more urban states have older, smaller houses densely built on little plots of land, while the newer suburban neighborhoods in rural areas have larger houses with enormous yards/gardens of 1-2 acres. They do this to preserve the "country feel" of the town and also to keep low the number of children who require schooling at taxpayer expense. Only some larger houses have a "room" dedicated to washing machines and dryers. For most of us, we have a space the size of a "walk-in closet" on the ground floor, or we keep them in the basement. Considering how damp the UK often is, why are dehumidifiers not more common? These are inexpensive appliances which dry the air but do not cool it. Porches were more common on older (pre-WW2) American houses. They had several uses. In cold, northern areas, people needed a covered area outdoors to keep firewood dry. In hot, southern areas, people would use porches for socializing and even sleeping when the kitchen stove made the house warmer than outside. Americans rarely entertain company in the front yard if they have a space in back. These 2 Americans are confused about this. I've never seen an electric kettle in person.
The guy in the video is slightly wrong about "house", yes, we call them houses but people who live in Duplexes {two units hooked together in the same building} or Tri-plexes {3 units} or Qudraplex{4 units} would still call their unit, their house. We have secondary terms, Single Family Home or Multi-Family home, which are more distinct for a "House" which is totally owned, including the property/land, buy one person or one family. A Multi-Family home is in the same situation but the house is designed in such a way that more than one family can live there and have their own space. This is usually a situation where related family members, such as parents and children, are living in the same home but they have their own separated living spaces within the one building. So each would have their own Living Rooms, Dining Rooms, Kitchens, Bedrooms, etc. There would normally just be one or two doors that connect the two Living Spaces and for the most part those door are not used, and may even be locked.
Your definition of mobile homes or trailers is different than ours. A mobile home is drivable, it has a kitchen area, bathroom and bedroom space along with storage. There are mobile home parks that are similar to campgrounds. You reserve a space, hook up to water, bathroom pump system and can stay for one night or months. Trailers, are similar to an apartment two or 3 bedrooms, living room, fully equipped bathroom and kitchen, you are hooked up to water and electricity and septic system the same as a home with the caveat being you can pick it up and put it on a trailer and have it trucked out should you choose. They can be on property you own or in a trailer park where you rent a space. It's not a little pop up camper that you can attach to the back of your car for a weekend getaway, your caravan possibly. Caravan here for example would be 10's and 10's of Cars going to the same location. Leaving a high school or college to travel en masse to a distant game, in a single line, windows decorated in team colors and words of encouragement
No lie, I’m really enjoying the way the TH-cam subtitles keep printing “terrorist” every time you guys say “terrace house”, it comes out in the subs as “terrorist house”. Must be the accent.
We are absolutely fine with the term "yank." I've lived all over the U.S. and zero people care. Also, the average American says "house," but real estate professionals use "single family home" when referring to a detached house.
@@HBC423 Because that was such a winning attitude for them in the Civil War. I live in the deepest South there is in the U.S. I suggest losing the attitude unless you want to eternally be considered pro slavery. No one who is glad the South lost the Civil War cares about the nick name.
@@HBC423Not a threat.... because the only reason they care about the term is because racist Southerners referred to the winners of the Civil War as Yankees. I was born and raised in the South...I know . Use Yankees!
granite countertops are a fairly recent thing. Porches are not that common in many parts of the west or midwest for the middle class unless they're a prewar 2 house . The cost of housing now is making a family able to buy a home very difficult even in not heavily populated areas in the US.
I love watching British shows, and wonder if the bay windows were inventing by you all, to get more light in. Also, by adding a conservatory you get more light in, and a little bit more warmth in part of the year. I want to add a conservatory to my house here, but it's just not practical....and here we, or at least me, I call such a room a "sun-room". Though when my aunt and uncle in Florida enclosed their backyard patio, they called it a "lanai".
Yank is not offensive to me. Ironically, I've lived in the South East US for 20+ years. But was born and raised spending half my life in Illinois. Which would be considered a Yankee. It is the land of Lincoln after all 😆.
Duplexes are houses where one side one family lives and on the other side another family lives. Most of us live in our own houses. Some of us also have a vacation house beside a lake, in mountains for skiing or on the coast by an ocean. Many of us rent those out during times we aren’t staying there. Since we only vacation for 1-2 weeks per year we rent them or exchange our vacation homes with people that live in different areas of the country. In my city in the south there are few apartments but many condominiums in the downtown area where people like to walk or bike and be near restaurants and bars (pubs). Parking is a nightmare downtown! But we do have big garages and bonus rooms for kids to play in or people to turn into a room for pool tables, library, or tv: game rooms. In the south we call northerners Yankees. Not meant as an insult. We are a big country thus the big homes on large lots. No square footage? Here that’s how we know what houses to look at when buying! We always require at least a 1 acre lot, bedrooms with walk in closet, a large master bedroom with an attached bathroom and walk-in closet. The biggest room is the kitchen. We do have front porches and a small patio in back then a long yard often with a two car detached garage and a garden/mechanic’s room in the back. I do envy the charm of London homes and streets with stores and pubs in walking distance. My mom is dying to take a British garden tour vacation! She is a master gardener and her yard is gorgeous. She loves the British style of gardens and flowers. Your rainy weather makes the plants super green don’t they?
People who live in what we call tiny homes are 500 sq feet and below. There are quite a few communities throughout the States. The cost to build one is fairly cheap it’s the cost of the land and taxes that are expensive.
15:11 Yes, American closets are standard but they do vary greatly in style. Pre 1990 most houses, even big one will have very small closets with just a bar to hang things on and sliding doors, maybe the master bedroom with have a walk in closet. Post 1990 closets got a hell of a lot bigger, they had real doors and space to store things.
In my neck of the woods what he's calling a Duplex is just called a semi detached house (attached on one side). A duplex is an apartment that has a second floor. Row houses (attached on both sides) Town houses are vertical multi-floor homes that are attached on one or both sides. Then there are detached house. Just translate conservatory to Sunroom which quite a few American homes have especially in the south. Just about every row house here has a porch. Coffee or tea in the microwave ...uggggh, maybe the Americans he knows, not the ones I do. In the US it very much depends on the age of the house as to weather or not you're walking into the hallway. Those walls are probably there for structure. I persona;;y prefer walking into a foyer or hallway instead of directly into my living room, winters are cold and every time that door opens it's sucking the heat out.
Meh, I don't think we care about "Yanks" we got bigger problems 😂 Btw would LOVE to see you react to famous American Hauntings (or UK too) and legends (e.g. Bigfoot, Loch Ness, etc). As u can tell by my name, love spooky stuff
I have stayed in a home in Scotland and the really different thing it had were these small, individual water heaters at each faucet. My friend was showing me how to use the one in the shower and I had to tell her I couldn't read the settings on the dial without my glasses. US houses or apartments have a single large water heater that feeds hot water to the kitchen and bathroom faucets. Does your semi-detached home have these small water heaters?
In the States, micrwaves are usually built into the kitchen cabinetry. If you live in an apartment, you buy a freestanding microwave to have on the counter.
12:50 Not having a dedicated laundry room is a cost saving measure as it's easier to run the utilities in the kitchen or in a closet near the kitchen. These do exist in some American houses but it's not preferred.
2:45 5% in mobile homes is still over 15,000,000 people which is a lot. There's also a very loose definition of what a "trailer" home is. It's legally a house which is either not attached to or doesn't have a foundation. But many of these places are DAMN NICE and big so no one would consider them "trailers" which can be hooked up to a truck and driven off. These houses could be disassembled and moved in pieces but not just hooked up to a truck.
My understanding is that in the past taxes on houses in the UK where figured by rooms. In order to levy a higher property tax closets where and maybe still are considered as rooms. Maybe just hearsay but it makes sense.
I'm from South Louisiana and we have "Shotgun" houses based on this. Homes got taxed extra for hallways and closets. So, you'll find old shotgun houses here still inhabited... basically going from one room into the next. Term comes from being able to shoot a shotgun straight through to the back of the house being that it's one room wide all the way through.
I'm an interior design student and the entry into hallway is a period feature...more older homes do it and alot have 2 living rooms. One for guests called the sitting room and the less formal for family. It all depends on the style and year the home was built. Open concept homes are a late 90s modern feature
In the south you have to add sunroom, den, exercise/gaming etc room, veranda, Florida has Florida room, libraries/office, parlor, family room, great room, conservatories, music room and butler’s pantry separate from pantry, carriage house (garage)… not even listing the Cajun rooms aeeeiiii
The first time I was in London, I was part of a large crowd watching a street show in Picadilly. A group of young people (20ish) realized there was a tour group from the USA and started yelling "Yankee go home". Most of us in the tour group started laughing at them because they thought they were insulting us while we are actually proud of being Yanks.
Personally not a fan of either. Give me the good ol laminate or butcher block where I can put hot stuff on and not have to worry. Plus side is they have very much improved in looks over the years.
Hi i live in a modular house/trailer house, 1660 Sq ft, With a breakfast room, dining room. kitchen, two bathrooms, laundry room, one small bedroom and 1 master bed room. Vaulted ceilings through out the house. On 1/2 acre land, on a private airport with a 2500 sq foot hangar, The house is air conditioned and central heated and very well insulated as we have 110 F degree summers and get down to 20 F degree winters, we go over a 4,000 ft pass that sometimes gets closed because of snow in the winter to get to the interstate highway to get to Vegas we lso have Humming birds outside our window feeding out of the feeder we hang on the front porch, roses and cactus in the front garden in the back garden we have a great view of the mountains in Callifornia. This is very different than my homes i lived in in England. In Liverpool, Leicester, Devon
If I, as a Texan, used the word "yankee," somebody will be pissed. If you, as someone from the UK, uses the word, nobody will think you're being rude. When I was overseas (Baghdad, 2005/2006), the UK allies only referred to us in general as "the damn yanks." We thought it was great 😂
One reason that Americans know their square footage (among others) is due to home offices and work-from-home since 2020. You can itemize on your taxes what you paid to keep your office running (purchases, internet fees, phone bill, etc) but only for the square footage of the office room. For example, if you have a 2000 sqft house, and your office room is 100 sqft, you can itemize 5% (100/2000=.05) of household bills (electricity, phone, all of the above) as costs to run your business (or do your job if you work for a company). Depending on where you are in the US, you might look at different metrics for buying a home. Most in the South (Georgia specifically), buyers care about how many bedrooms and bathrooms you have. An updated kitchen and bath are nice, but it's the bed/bath numbers most look for. But when watching the home improvement channel (HGTV), some parts of the country focus on square foot cost. Example: a house near Atlanta is $600K, 4 bed/3 bath, 2100 sqft, so about $280 per square foot. But in Detroit Michigan, for a little less than $600K, a 4 bed/4 bath, 3000 square feet. That equals out to $174 per square foot. The lower square foot price is great for buyers. But also remember LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION!
Those of us who actually bought our homes even 30 years ago, I knew approximately the square footage. It was important for both the purchase price and property taxes. My annual tax assessment always included my square footage that was used for how much I owed. The work-from-home activity was just a recent development for most people.
I was a carpenter all my life, and we came up with enough money to build our dream house. We bought a new double wide mobile home to stay in until the house was finished but then my wife fell in love with our mobile home so we decided to just live here and not build the house after all. We love our home and have over three acres too. I built a two car garage and a large Carport beside the house. Thanks for the video. I always like them.
I have an entire floor in my home we dont even use lol Living room (loft), 2 bedroom and a full bath. Love the home too much to move but after one person passed away and one moved out we only live on the first floor lol
I live in a ranch style home in Arkansas. These are fairly common around here. approximately 2600 square feet. My first home was also a ranch style but about 1200 square feet. Tiny by some standards. Three bedrooms one bath. One-bathroom sucks btw. The economy is not great here but you can afford to live in the "fly over states". Arkansas has tons natural beauty. Would recommend a visit to the northern part of the state as opposed to the southern part. [trust me] I'm totally enjoying your videos and could listen to you talk all day. Also what does your hat say? what does it mean? lol
RDR2 takes place in 1899. In the epilogue it's in 1907. I'm obsessed with the game and can help you find things that most would never have any idea even existed in the game. Like the Fluorite and the Ammolite. I can also give you pointers to get free guns, and point you in the direction of where to get an Arabian if you want a superior horse. There's 3 wild ones. The warped brindle, red chestnut, and the rarest is the white Arabian. I always color her tail black so she is easier to distinguish from The Count. My wife and I actually have a gaming channel where we upload videos of us talking about the game and how to really get into it. I personally haven't uploaded much, because I'm a perfectionist, and just haven't been happy with the videos I've recorded.
What some Americans don't even know. Is that back in the day our houses didn't have hallways at all. It was just porches you would literally have to walk outside to go to a kitchen or walk outside to go to your bedroom
Granite, marble, and quartz have been the preferred material for countertops in the U.S. Though synthetic materials are becoming more common it seems lately since they have the same look and characteristics as natural stone for a much cheaper price tag.
Adam is about hallways. I had hallways and in our wood house they were easy to take down for an open concept design. I imagine pulling a British brick wall down is a much harder project.
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Adam asking to live in an American home is just code for he’d like to “swing” (giggity) in an American home.
As a born bread, corn fed American I gave you permission to call us Yanks 😂😂😂😂😂
As a born bread, corn fed American I gave you permission to call us Yanks 😂😂😂😂😂 when American say square foot we mean under air-conditioning that means anything that’s inside the house that touches air-conditioning air
Have you gotten a post box yet?
Twitch streams are what guys have in the morning, before they're fully awake. XD
American author E. B. White summarized the distinctions for the word “Yankee” in this way:
"To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast."
Good one.
Absolutely perfect
This is absolutely true.
😂
Ayuh. That's about right.
in the USA 'Yankee' refers either to a New Englander or more generally a Northerner.
Ironically, most New Englanders who follow baseball dislike the Yankees.
Agreed, and I wouldn't say it to or about anyone in a video like this. It's really annoying.
Agree, I'm a southerner from Tennessee
As someone that lived my early years in the Midwest, when I moved to Texas, I was called a Yankee.
I Canada Yankee is anyone from the USA
I think they are confused as to what a granite countertop is.
Granite is a natural stone and would rarely contain glitter, something they may have put into synthetic countertops, a couple decades back. Granite is extremely hard, durable and will not burn if you put your hot pots and pans on top of it. It’s also quite expensive.
I agree!
No, but it does contain bits of quartz, which has a glittery sheen to it.
Although I don't think granite/quartz countertops are necessarily ugly (and some of them are), I don't like them because they are so damn hard you have to be careful with glassware, earthenware, etc. Set something to hard on the counter and you could break it. Also noisy. Also, you can't use them as a chopping board so what's the point? If you need a marble top to roll pastries (who does?), get a marble board. A decent looking composite is fine by me.
Depends
guess I'm old fashioned but I like granite counter tops, and they are easy to clean up :)
In areas with earthquakes, masonry houses require so much steel reinforcement they are impractical. Wood frame buildings are much better in shear, side forces, if done properly.
Here in the US, a Yankee is someone who lives in the northeast. It's a word used mostly by southerners and is sometimes used as a pejorative. Outside of the US, a Yankee is just someone from the US.
Sorry to shit in your Easter Basket but I live in the upper peninsula of Northern Michigan right on the Canadian border like I can see downtown Soo Ontario that's how close I am. We have three names for you people below the Mackinac bridge and none of them are good. When we're sober we call you trolls or Wanking Yanks and when we're drunk and wanna fight we call you Butt Munchers
...and also used slightly pejoratively.
As an American , Yankee refers to Americans as a whole. Even though I live in California, I am a Yankee when referring to the country as a whole.
@@paulacornelison243 As a Floridian I reject your use of Yankee as applying to all Americans and also the concept that Californians are Americans.
@@silasbishop3055 ignorance
American home designer here, specializing in kitchens and baths
I like the differences between the countries and the way everyone adapts and uses the space available to them
I don’t like saying ‘stupid granite countertops’
Every granite countertop is stone that is naturally occurring and dug up from the ground. Nature makes those sparkly bits of glitter are actually made by the earth.
I guess we can say the earth makes tacky, wanting to be luxurious stuff but failing.. or perhaps you just don’t know what you are looking at..
Either way, newer homes are using more quartz (you know, those hard crystals grown naturally but they are ground up and made into beautiful colors and designs.. many with their hated glitter and are really expensive)
I could be petty and say we can offer an alternative to their stupid hairstyles but I’m from the south so I’ll just say, bless their hearts
I agree with you 100%! And bless their hearts for thinking granite is somehow tacky or cheap! I wonder if they’ve actually seen granite or perhaps it was a substitute?
@@janfitzgerald3615 My guess is that they are talking about some builder grade laminate.
That’s a damn shame
^ A bit more condemning southern saying 😂
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I agree “bless their little hearts”. American is so big none of us are alike. Neither are our homes built the same.
These guys probably think the trendy quartz countertops are cool. What they call "quartz" is actually pulverized stone that has been mixed with polymers and hardiners and reformed. So basically, plastic. More sexy than stone. No? 🙄
It's true. In many cities, if a room does not have a closet, it can't be called a bedroom.
Or a window.
@@mczgc A bedroom without a window sounds horrible. Instant depression lol
Don't be silly. If it's got a bed in it, then it's a BEDroom.
@@ToastyZach I go to bed to sleep, not look out of the window.
@@TestGearJunkie. It's more about the natural lighting than actually looking out the window for me. I like waking up to the sunrise, not shitty fluorescent light. It also makes a good fire escape in case of a house fire.
In America we do not add the entire property size into the square footage. Sometimes space IN the home isnt even added to square footage. It has to be livable finished house to be counted toward the square footage. When you see 2,000 square feet thats JUST the house. That house might have acres and acres of land attached to it that isn't included on the listed square feet.
The word "Yank" can be derogatory depending on how it's used. It's usually an informal term for Americans, but the context and tone can make it offensive.
Only offensive to pro slavery sore losers of the Civil War .
it's intent and origin was an insult for independent minded British colonists in what is now the U.S. Also used by the Southerners to describe those from the Union from which they tried to free themselves before during and after the War Of Northern Aggression. it is not a slight for one to call some Southerners a Yank or Yankee. that isn't a slight it is a major offence.
Sorry to be so chatty, but I believe legally, you can only call a room a bedroom if it has 1. a door that closes, 2. a window for emergency escape, and 3. a closet. Doesn't have to be a huge, walk in closet, but must have a little room for one. Our office is technically a bedroom because it has all three of those items.
That’s the case in my state. 🤷♀️
Same
Yeah, it completely depends on the state, but that's all standard on the West Coast. Some places can sell walk-in closets as extra bedrooms. People really think there are standard real estate rules for the whole country, but there never were, and the whole real estate industry is changing anyway now. Now that buyer's agents cannot be paid and seller's agents can only get 2%, the whole industry probably will become less complicated and more standardized.
Those are regulations for real estate listings re: bedrooms.
In the U.S. our square footage isn't inclusive of non walk-out basements either so millions of homes are much bigger than their real estate listings depict.
Window screens!!!! A/Cs are always talked about but we have screens on the windows ( and some home have screen doors as well) to let in air when it’s comfortable outside without letting bugs in
Square footage is calculated in livable space so, gardens/yards do not count and neither do unfinished basements or attic spaces.
Gotcha!
Yes only heated/cooled enclosed spaces are regarded as habitable space. My garage is about 500 sf but not counted.
And the basement should be a “walkout” or it won’t as much as the rest of the house. We need to know the square footage because it’s how the house primarily valued.
@@MoreAdamCouserGarages are not included in a home’s square foot measurements. But it is typically expected to be there.
Usually sq ftg is based on space that is heated or air conditioner, thus garage and patios are usually not included
Two thoughts: 1) Temperatures are more extreme in the US than in the UK, and the wood used in the construction of the American houses is a great insulator. Wood is cheap, available, easy to handle in construction, and very durable. And nothing flimsy about it. 2) Granite and quartz countertops are gorgeous. Not to mention practical and extremely durable. I never heard anyone complain about them before until I saw this video. Who doesn't like a pretty rock?
8:50 As a Realtor I dealt with some big new houses which literally had a room named "the conservatory." But this is rare. The American equivalent is called the "sunroom" and you will find lots of medium houses with sunrooms.
A duplex is two houses connected together. A triplex is three.
Niceeee
@@MoreAdamCouser duplex as in "duo" and triplex as in "trio".
also in some areas of the U.S. (i.e
Alaska) i heard the term "Zero Zone" used in lieu of duplex.
A friend lived in a four-plex, so four homes, I've seen them with two units on ground floor, then two more up a flight of stairs. Also, i've seen them configured four in row, like a townhouse, or in UK row house, but when it's larger, five and more, I am thinking most would then call them apartments. I like the idea of a duplex, you could live in one side, and rent out the other unit. Helps a lot with the mortgage,
yea I live in a "duplex"... one story buildings connected by the garage that is what I think of when I think of a duplex
Yes, in many States in the US a room must have a built-in closet as well as a fire regulation window in order to classify it as a bedroom. Also, yes, the land in front and back of the house is the front and back yards. A garden is used to grow food. Nobody calls their yard a garden. Also, the middle walls in old homes are often loadbearing walls. But many people that renovate older homes still remove them in order to open up the space. You just have to add support beams to support the weight of the home, which is often not cheap.
I live in Arizona. For hundreds of years homes were made of adobe (mud bricks) or bricks because wood is rare in the desert. Now wood is cheap and it's common to have them built with wood. My home is made from Burnt Adobe, which is adobe brick fired in a kiln.
We do not have basements. Basements originated in cold places where the foundation had to be several feet deep to get below the frost line. After you dig four feet for that you might as well keep digging and get a full basement where you can put your coal-fired furnace. In Arizona we don't need to dig deep and the soil is so hard in places you need dynamite to excavate it. No basement, footers 18 inch deep around the property and then a four inch concrete slab on grade.
I live in a townhouse officially which is attached to the neighbor by 8 feet of kitchen wall matched up to the neighbor's carport wall. Other than those 8 feet it is a "single family home" about 1350 sf but my backyard is enclosed by a block wall and I have a 200 sf covered patio, 600 sf paved patio under trees, and about 600 sf of artificial grass (it's Arizona we don't grow grass these days.) And some beds for planting flowers and hedges. There's a front yard and a small front porch but the backyard is where we spend our time and do our entertaining most of the year.
The microwave is permanently mounted over the stove. There's a heat pump on the roof.
omg a fellow Arizonan! I was just about to comment how houses/apartments in the Arizona are usually made with adobe and or brick unless you're up north!
@@Rosshualian99% of houses in the greater metro area build after the 1960s are wood or block not adobe
I live in phoenix my home as a basement, plenty do. and plenty of people and places still grow real grass…
@@desertoutlaw3317 Maybe in Phoenix but only large tracts are likely to be entirely stick built. In Tucson it's quite common to find houses up to today made of brick, concrete block, or adobe. My entire HOA (1989) is burnt adobe though we fir out the interior with wood and sheetrock. Tucson has a bunch of neighborhoods of mid-century moderns made in the 60s and they're mostly brick. Wood is cheaper these days if you are building a lot of homes to essentially the same designs.
@@philipem1000 you misinterpreted my comment, yeah maybe a couple old ass neighborhoods in tucson aren’t stick framed but like i said in my original comment, majority of homes in phoenix are.
I grew up in a row house in Philadelphia. It helps to get along with your neighbors. It’s probably why when people renovate, they add sound proofing.
Home designs and fads in the US change more than the weather. Also load bearing walls are why you don't see a lot of open conecpt homes in the UK. It's easier in the US when the house is made of wood. It's easyr to knock down a wooden wall and put in load bearing wood support beams in the US. Knocking down a stone wall will need a steal support beam to support the weight in the UK. It's probably more costly in the UK to alter a home than it is the US
My parents did a major renovation on their house a few years ago. They enclosed the carport and made a huge room with a pantry and washer/dryer room. They redid the back bathroom and took the tub out and put in a huge walk in shower. I love the glass door with the door gear inside. It just looks neat. The kitchen was also redone. The guy that was doing it had done a big house where he put in granite counter tops. The other people had bought and paid for this Italian granite. They paid $7000 for all of it. The contractor had enough left over to do my parent's house with this granite. He wanted to use it up and whatever they decided was going to be pure profit for him. I know my mom fed him almost every night while he did the work. My dad has a full BBQ and smoker section outside that they cooked on while the kitchen was getting worked on. I don't think my parents paid that much for the Italian granite tops and these things do not look cheap in the least bit. We live in Georgia which has a whole lot of granite, but these counter tops looks nothing like that kind of granite. They are very pretty and my mom said they just costs some food. My mom is the typical Southern Lady and she cooked really good. She is starting to have some memory problems so I cook for everyone more now. I mean she just cooks simple meals but they taste good. The contractor was a nice guy and he loved food. I remember my son had a big garden and he picked Butterbeans and we shelled and cooked a big pot of beans, potatoes, porkchops and crackling cornbread and the guy ate and that's how they decided to exchange food for granite. I live behind my parents on some of their land. We have 5 acres and that's more than enough to grow most of our vegetables. My house is small by American standards, but at 1000 Square feet it's larger than most English homes. It's mine and paid for so that's all good. It's a small place but my husband is very good at organizing and it's amazing how much stuff he can get in a small spot. I had a book room, but it seems his stuff has taken over my room!
1,000 sqft is miniscule. Thats a mother in law unit next to the house. Where's the garage(2car minimum)
As someone who made a lifetime living in the construction industry in Southern California, I can assure you that houses whose structural members are wood will last for generations and hundreds of years. Houses in GB are also subject to "damp rising", a structural and even more a health issue, American houses have no such issue even in high humidity and wet areas.
I watch this show in Britain about evictions,slum land lords and slum tenants. And you should see the horrific mold in over 50 percent of homes. And the landlords blame the tenants. And they don’t really have a governmental agency that deals with that fro what I can see. They have people that help with evictions and help tenants deal with mold and other issues. But,There doesn’t seem to be an agency that deals with that particularly. The cases that I have seen would not fly over here at all.
Down in the Southern states you don't want to use the word "Yank" or "Yankee" unless you're wanting to fight - - thems fightin' words. As for the size...it's a no brainer. I gave us SOOOOOO much space when I stayed in Scotland. I never realized just how much I missed my closets, pantry, laundry room, basement, and you know - - 3rd bedroom and 2nd bathroom. You do miss it if you don't have it.
Yankees won the American Revolutionary War and Civil War. What's not to love?
when was the last time someone had a "fight" over the word yankee, or even cared? you've been watching too much Gone with the Wind
@@Marcel_Audubon Hilarious.
@@Marcel_Audubonwhen was the last time you walked up to a southerner and tried calling them a yank with a disrespectful tone?
@@desertoutlaw3317 thanks for supporting my point: it never happens. Ever.
Attached houses are typically called row houses when they are similar or same in design... Townhouses are varied in style, color and size. Personally, I am not offended by the term Yank (Yankee)... We even have a baseball team called the Yankees...No Worry!!!
also BTW, when referring to "square footage" in a US home it's referring to livable space and excludes the front/back yard (garden?) as well as garage (generally).
What is always not explained to people from the UK by us properly is explaining how our wooden homes are insulated. I always hear UK people explain how their homes are built to keep heat in. Well,So are our homes and more so insulated to keep away mold as well as keeping heat in too. Mold in the UK seems to be a bigger common problem over there more so than here. Although they think because their homes are built with brick they’re better than ours. Maybe not just because it’s brick doesn’t make it better I think the insulation is better on this side of the pond. And by the way we do have homes built of brick as well.
Brick houses fall down in earthquakes.
Quick explanation of difference between apartment and condominium (condo):
Apartment: Unit inside of a larger building (can be a house converted to fit multiple units, or an apartment building) that you rent out. Your rent is your payment to stay there, not building any "ownership" into the apartment. When you leave, you don't sell it. You just leave. Decisions about the property are made by the building owner (individual or company).
Condominium: Unit inside of a larger building (typically a dedicated condo building, or a duplex house) that you BUY. You pay a mortgage, as well as fees related to the upkeep of the general areas shared between units (outdoor spaces, etc.). Your mortgaging of the unit means that you OWN the unit (and a share of the overall building), building equity into the unit. When you leave, you sell it to someone else, the onus typically being on you to find someone to buy it. Decisions about the property are made by a "board" made up of residents, either through election, sizes of shares of ownership, or made by the residents as a whole without representatives. Condos will usually hire out management companies, that enforce shared rules (trash must be in X place and not Y, noise regulations, smoking in units etc) and manage shared spaces. Side note: you can (with board approval) sublet your condo to be used as an apartment by a renter, while you still own the unit.
Overall, condos are the most complicated both practically and legally, moreso than straight ownership like houses or simple renting like apartments, but it can be much better economically in the long term in certain metropolitan areas (NYC, etc) where apartments are only a wealth drain/money pit rather than a wealth builder, and houses are mightily expensive if available at all. (Or for pensioners/retirees that want to downsize but leave their money intact by buying rather than renting, for their children etc)
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One hundred to one hundred fifty years ago in the mid west (mostly the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas), when they were building houses and such there wasn’t a lot of wood or rock so they would build out of sod. They would go out on the prairie and cut 12-18 inch strips of the native grass and cut it into blocks about a foot long and stack them up to make buildings. My mother in law was born in the 1930’s and the farm she lived on until she was in her mid teens was a “soddy.” She said it was terrible because there would always be dirt falling down from the roof so you had to hunch over your food to protect it. She also said that spiders would fall out of the ceiling all the time which apparently is not a nice way to get woke up. She learned to sleep with just the top of her head sticking out from under the blankets. As far as I know there still exists a two story sod school house in north central Nebraska that was built in 1935 because of a scarcity of other building materials. It is still mostly standing so you can see it but it is unsafe to go inside. A plus for building with sod was that you could make nice thick walls so the building would stay cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
I had always thought for the longest time, that a “flat” was simply a one-story house, ie it was flat against the ground. Then on night I was watching a British film {sorry don’t remember much about the movie} and they talked about going up to the persons 3rd floor flat. Immediately in my head I thought well damn, that makes no sense. Where did the word flat come from? I even looked up the origin of the word and it still didn’t seem to make much sense to me other than, I guess a “flat” can only have on level. In the US, while most apartments are a single floor, I have seen apartments with living spaces {living room, dining room, kitchen} on one floor and bedrooms on an upper floor.
My house, the structure itself, is 2,525 square feet, that doesn’t include the attached three car garage or the yard. It has three bedrooms but the loft upstairs is so large one end could become a fourth bedroom with the addition of one wall, a door and closet. The floor plan actually shows where the wall would go so it’s an easy add.
My house has a formal living room, formal dining room, a family room, the kitchen has an island which has space for four barstools on the side facing the family room and a half bath. The first floor also a giant walk-in pantry. Upstairs is the loft two bedrooms that share the a bathroom, the laundry room and the master bedroom with en suite bathroom. All three bedrooms have, walk in closets, additionally downstairs there is a coat closet near the front door and another very large closet that partially runs under the stairs. I also have a covered front porch as well as a nice size patio just outside the back door. My house has a foyer or entryway before you actually enter the living room and other rooms. Up stairs there’s a short hall way off the loft that goes to the laundry room, two bathrooms and bathroom.
My microwave is built in over the stove, the vent fan is incorporated in the microwave and vents to the outside. I have the usual appliances, a dishwasher and a refrigerator, freezer on the bottom that has a filtered water dispenser, and the ice maker in the freezer.
Granite countertops aren’t stupid! They’re a natural product, granite naturally has some crystallization from when the earth created the granite. And you can pick a color that doesn’t have as much sparkle when you’re selecting new countertops. They are fairly expensive though.
When they talk about square footage they are referring to the house only, not the land. They'd list the size of the land separately such as "a 2303 su ft. home on a 1.5 acre lot.
19th century American homes often had a front door that opened into a hallway with a staircase and doors off to the "parlor" on the side, much like the present-day British floor plan they were sketching in the video. However, the wall between the front entry hall and the living room began to disappear in the early 1900s. The front door would still open into a small foyer/stair landing area, with a coat closet tucked under the stairway, but it wasn't walled off from the living room any more. (Some of the small, cheap houses built immediately after WWII for returning GIs and their new families did away with the foyer altogether--you literally walked right into the living room.)
Just checked the website for my apartment, my unit is 681sqft.
Bigger than I thought, but still feels like living in a shoebox, lol
Room gets taken up fast!
My bathroom is that big.
I live in San Francisco, and our homes here are over 100+ years old and made of wood. Over the past century and a half, we have had 7 major fires and two major earthquakes, and the homes, including mine, are still standing strong.
Building code here says you must have a minimum size closet for each bedroom. Size of room decides the size of the closet
That’s unreal, wish it was that way here!
Our home is called a “center-hall” . You would walk into a hallway, and separate entrances to the kitchen, “family room, “living room”.
When my father bought our house in 1962, it was a Duplex. When my sister sold it in 2000, it was listed as a " semi-detached." In Canada.
As to house construction materials, it depends on where you live. In the midwest we have a lot of brick houses. The granite was big in the early 2000s.
Large homes in the US often have a "Sun Room" or a "Sun Porch", That's our name for a "Conservatory".
And they are common here in Arizona where we call them "Arizona Rooms" -- usually they are a covered porch that's been enclosed.
Love from Minnesota! sq ft is a big deal in the states, alot of people base their purchases of that most of the time. my neighborhood is 1500- 2500 sq ft
Adam, you have a brain that actually functions as compared to these 2. You know the difference between a structural wall and not. I would hate to see these 2 do a home makeover. Love your video's bro!
Thanks brother!
When calculating square footage in the US, we don't include anything unfinished: like porches/garages/yards/etc.
one thing you may need to take into consideration is a lode bearing wall, homes in the UK have been there longer than in the US. That may be the reason for the hallway walls.
Most homes have load bearing walls right?
Most, if not all homes have load bearing walls. They are the part of the structure that holds the weight of the parts above them.
The entrance hall provides a liminal space which is psychologically comforting.Covered porches and foyers serve the same function. Our house has a drop zone from the garage that holds shoes, packages and groceries until they can get put away. That is a liminal space. It also has a front entrance under a covered gallery with a locked gate. I do not allow junk dumping there.
"Yank" isn't as bad as it used to be. I mean, the New York Yankees haven't been forced to change their name. However, my mother, now in her late 80s, learned the word "damnyankee" in school. Yankee was always preceded with "damn." This was in Georgia in the 1940s, so not even a century after the Civil War.
We still call them Yankees in Georgia. Here a yankee is someone visiting from up north, and a damn yankee is one that moved here and won’t go back lol
also the term Carpet Bagger could be added after damn Yankee. eg. that damn Yankee Carpet Bagger voted for that evil Democrat Kay Hagen
I’m from TN and it’s being applied to Californians who move there.
That’s okay, us northerners call people from Georgia, dumb rednecks. 😊
I laughed when you said they were wrong about the microwaves. I live in the mid-west in a 2,000 sqft modest wood and brick home with 3 bedrooms, walk-in closet, 3 bathrooms, kitchen that doesn't have granite counter tops, living room, and loft. I also have huge back yard (garden), nice sized front yard, attached double-car garage, and patio, but these do not count in the house square footage because they're considered unfinished areas. We hang out in the back yard mostly, especially when we have guests in the summer.
Microwaves are nice to warm leftovers, but I don't like to cook in them. I use Air Fryers more for food. The hallways in many houses are just as you described them in British homes. It depends on the style, I think. Most people love stone (not always granite) countertops, but there's always cement, laminated, stainless steel or wooden counter tops, too, which are usually more economical.
Honestly never heard of a coservatory except in clue(the board game)so we just pronounced it how its spelled. If it has glass ceiling it would be called a greenhouse. If just walls or large windows its a sun room.
Here we call them Arizona Rooms ...but here is Arizona.
A greenhouse is detached from the house. It's for growing things, hence greenhouse.
@garycamara9955 there are lean-to greenhouses, they are extremely common in the midwest, they are used exactly how a conservatory is. Tropical house plants and seating. Indoor patio.
since you wanted to know of other types of living spaces here in the U.S. I figured i would share my lucky find.
I actually am lucky enough to rent a one bedroom apartment here in Florida for a reasonable price. It's almost 900 square feet (83.62 Sq. meters), a designated laundry closet, dishwasher, balcony and a walk in closet. It also has an attached garage (which is not included in the square footage of living space)! This is NOT a common thing in all apartment complexes (it's not even available to all apartments here in OUR complex), but it is available in some other places.
I love the videos, thanks for the laughs! keep up the great work!
Here a detached house is called a single family home
" Single-family homes " is a zoning regulation, not necessarily a type of home. It could be a two story, a ranch style, a back-split, a bungalow.
The stupid granite complaint is one of the weirdest comments I’ve heard Granite is a natural stone all silver flecks are actual minerals found in the granite quarry where it was harvested
Most apartments in many big cities in the U.S. are co-ops, which aren't mentioned here, not condos. Granite countertops are one of the solid surfaces homebuyers look for in a kitchen, because of the many advantages. Granite is a natural stone, so if it has those chips, it's part of the stone makeup.
I live in a 110 year old farm house. No closets, no basement, 1 bedroom downstairs, 1 bathroom. 2 converted attic bedrooms (no closets). Humongous backyard and front yard. We have a mud room. But the front door enters into the living room. My stairs are located in the middle of the house. Plaster and wood. Still have the original glass windows downstairs.
Where I live, the main bathroom contains a decent size laundry closet. It's big enough for a washer and dryer to sit side by side and can be closed off in case friends or family visit. It's convenient if you need to pre-soak an item in the sink before washing.
britain doesnt have the room to build big. they are the size of a medium sized state. the building products in the uk are more expensive and you do not have the necessary amount of wood ( must import) to keep costs down.
When we in the US talk about square footage of a house it's just the house size. It does not include the "yard" or "garden area". That measurement is the lot size, My last house was listed as a three bedroom home but in order to list it that way they had to build a closet in the third "bedroom". House size and apartment size is so variable depending on how much you are willing to spend and what area you live in. In large cities where there is a massive population, things will be smaller but not necessarily less expensive. If you get out of the big city you get a lot more for your money, Housing has increased in cost everywhere over the last several years but there is still affordable housing where I live. You may not be able to afford a huge home but you can make what you can afford very nice.
Great video as always! I'm curious because I THINK they were referring to US homes having built-in microwaves vs free-standing units. Which is most common in the UK?
Free standing units definitely!
Here in Rhode Island, a "duplex" typically refers only to the small houses that were built 80+ years ago around factories in more industrialized urban neighborhoods. I have seen more expensive condos (condominiums) where 2 or 3 units are in the same building. I've never heard them called a "duplex" or "triplex." In fact, I had never heard the word "triplex." More commonly in those older urban neighborhoods are houses called "two-deckers" or "three-deckers." On each of the 2 or 3 floors is an apartment, some quite roomy.
Residents of condos pay a monthly mortgage to a bank until they own the building or their part of it, plus a substantial monthly "maintenance fee" for upkeep of the building and the grounds. There are significant tax benefits to owning rather than renting. In general, condos are more posh than apartments, but they might look the same in big cities like New York.
The American soldiers stationed in the UK in WW2 were called "Yanks," at least according to old movies. The British were of course glad for the assistance in the war, but frictions were inevitable. Most Americans were in the countryside, and the locals complained that the Yanks were "overpaid, oversexed, and over here." Supposedly, the young British men exempt from the military or no longer serving could not compete financially or otherwise with the American soldiers for the attentions of young British women.
Average house size varies from 1164 square feet in expensive Hawaii to 2800 in more affordable Utah. In general, the more urban states have older, smaller houses densely built on little plots of land, while the newer suburban neighborhoods in rural areas have larger houses with enormous yards/gardens of 1-2 acres. They do this to preserve the "country feel" of the town and also to keep low the number of children who require schooling at taxpayer expense.
Only some larger houses have a "room" dedicated to washing machines and dryers. For most of us, we have a space the size of a "walk-in closet" on the ground floor, or we keep them in the basement.
Considering how damp the UK often is, why are dehumidifiers not more common? These are inexpensive appliances which dry the air but do not cool it.
Porches were more common on older (pre-WW2) American houses. They had several uses. In cold, northern areas, people needed a covered area outdoors to keep firewood dry. In hot, southern areas, people would use porches for socializing and even sleeping when the kitchen stove made the house warmer than outside.
Americans rarely entertain company in the front yard if they have a space in back. These 2 Americans are confused about this.
I've never seen an electric kettle in person.
The guy in the video is slightly wrong about "house", yes, we call them houses but people who live in Duplexes {two units hooked together in the same building} or Tri-plexes {3 units} or Qudraplex{4 units} would still call their unit, their house. We have secondary terms, Single Family Home or Multi-Family home, which are more distinct for a "House" which is totally owned, including the property/land, buy one person or one family. A Multi-Family home is in the same situation but the house is designed in such a way that more than one family can live there and have their own space. This is usually a situation where related family members, such as parents and children, are living in the same home but they have their own separated living spaces within the one building. So each would have their own Living Rooms, Dining Rooms, Kitchens, Bedrooms, etc. There would normally just be one or two doors that connect the two Living Spaces and for the most part those door are not used, and may even be locked.
Your definition of mobile homes or trailers is different than ours. A mobile home is drivable, it has a kitchen area, bathroom and bedroom space along with storage. There are mobile home parks that are similar to campgrounds. You reserve a space, hook up to water, bathroom pump system and can stay for one night or months. Trailers, are similar to an apartment two or 3 bedrooms, living room, fully equipped bathroom and kitchen, you are hooked up to water and electricity and septic system the same as a home with the caveat being you can pick it up and put it on a trailer and have it trucked out should you choose. They can be on property you own or in a trailer park where you rent a space. It's not a little pop up camper that you can attach to the back of your car for a weekend getaway, your caravan possibly. Caravan here for example would be 10's and 10's of Cars going to the same location. Leaving a high school or college to travel en masse to a distant game, in a single line, windows decorated in team colors and words of encouragement
Yank is rude. Actually a term used for the northern who opposed slavery, somehow turned negative
You hit the nail on the head… being from New England, I find offensive when a southerner uses that word to describe us.
No lie, I’m really enjoying the way the TH-cam subtitles keep printing “terrorist” every time you guys say “terrace house”, it comes out in the subs as “terrorist house”. Must be the accent.
We are absolutely fine with the term "yank." I've lived all over the U.S. and zero people care. Also, the average American says "house," but real estate professionals use "single family home" when referring to a detached house.
You call someone from the south a yankee and they might fight you
@@HBC423 Because that was such a winning attitude for them in the Civil War. I live in the deepest South there is in the U.S. I suggest losing the attitude unless you want to eternally be considered pro slavery. No one who is glad the South lost the Civil War cares about the nick name.
@@HBC423Not a threat.... because the only reason they care about the term is because racist Southerners referred to the winners of the Civil War as Yankees. I was born and raised in the South...I know . Use Yankees!
@@HBC423 actually, that sounds like a them problem.
No lol. People out east are traditionally Yankees, but I wouldn't say it to anyone.
granite countertops are a fairly recent thing. Porches are not that common in many parts of the west or midwest for the middle class unless they're a prewar 2 house . The cost of housing now is making a family able to buy a home very difficult even in not heavily populated areas in the US.
She sounds like shes saying "terrorist house" the entire time so far.
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I love watching British shows, and wonder if the bay windows were inventing by you all, to get more light in. Also, by adding a conservatory you get more light in, and a little bit more warmth in part of the year. I want to add a conservatory to my house here, but it's just not practical....and here we, or at least me, I call such a room a "sun-room". Though when my aunt and uncle in Florida enclosed their backyard patio, they called it a "lanai".
The word "lanai" comes from Hawaii and is a porch, veranda, or patio that is roofed, but open sided. Neat name.
Yank is not offensive to me.
Ironically, I've lived in the South East US for 20+ years. But was born and raised spending half my life in Illinois. Which would be considered a Yankee. It is the land of Lincoln after all 😆.
Duplexes are houses where one side one family lives and on the other side another family lives. Most of us live in our own houses. Some of us also have a vacation house beside a lake, in mountains for skiing or on the coast by an ocean. Many of us rent those out during times we aren’t staying there. Since we only vacation for 1-2 weeks per year we rent them or exchange our vacation homes with people that live in different areas of the country. In my city in the south there are few apartments but many condominiums in the downtown area where people like to walk or bike and be near restaurants and bars (pubs). Parking is a nightmare downtown! But we do have big garages and bonus rooms for kids to play in or people to turn into a room for pool tables, library, or tv: game rooms. In the south we call northerners Yankees. Not meant as an insult. We are a big country thus the big homes on large lots. No square footage? Here that’s how we know what houses to look at when buying! We always require at least a 1 acre lot, bedrooms with walk in closet, a large master bedroom with an attached bathroom and walk-in closet. The biggest room is the kitchen. We do have front porches and a small patio in back then a long yard often with a two car detached garage and a garden/mechanic’s room in the back. I do envy the charm of London homes and streets with stores and pubs in walking distance. My mom is dying to take a British garden tour vacation! She is a master gardener and her yard is gorgeous. She loves the British style of gardens and flowers. Your rainy weather makes the plants super green don’t they?
People who live in what we call tiny homes are 500 sq feet and below. There are quite a few communities throughout the States. The cost to build one is fairly cheap it’s the cost of the land and taxes that are expensive.
Thats called a shed. They sell portable sheds at home depot.
15:11 Yes, American closets are standard but they do vary greatly in style. Pre 1990 most houses, even big one will have very small closets with just a bar to hang things on and sliding doors, maybe the master bedroom with have a walk in closet. Post 1990 closets got a hell of a lot bigger, they had real doors and space to store things.
In my neck of the woods what he's calling a Duplex is just called a semi detached house (attached on one side). A duplex is an apartment that has a second floor. Row houses (attached on both sides) Town houses are vertical multi-floor homes that are attached on one or both sides. Then there are detached house. Just translate conservatory to Sunroom which quite a few American homes have especially in the south. Just about every row house here has a porch. Coffee or tea in the microwave ...uggggh, maybe the Americans he knows, not the ones I do. In the US it very much depends on the age of the house as to weather or not you're walking into the hallway. Those walls are probably there for structure. I persona;;y prefer walking into a foyer or hallway instead of directly into my living room, winters are cold and every time that door opens it's sucking the heat out.
I like granite countertops but my marble ones are definitely my favorite
You can have support another way by inserting an I beam whether metal or would. So you can get rid of the door and make it an open entry
Meh, I don't think we care about "Yanks" we got bigger problems 😂
Btw would LOVE to see you react to famous American Hauntings (or UK too) and legends (e.g. Bigfoot, Loch Ness, etc). As u can tell by my name, love spooky stuff
This is such a good idea!
@@MoreAdamCouser Watch how those get views too, just look at views of spooky creators! Love ur personality, wish ya the best!
I have stayed in a home in Scotland and the really different thing it had were these small, individual water heaters at each faucet. My friend was showing me how to use the one in the shower and I had to tell her I couldn't read the settings on the dial without my glasses. US houses or apartments have a single large water heater that feeds hot water to the kitchen and bathroom faucets. Does your semi-detached home have these small water heaters?
Yank is basically the nickname for Americans, kinda like Britian's are Brits, and Australian's are Aussie's
In the States, micrwaves are usually built into the kitchen cabinetry. If you live in an apartment, you buy a freestanding microwave to have on the counter.
Where the hallways are, is dictated by the type of roof on the house.
12:50 Not having a dedicated laundry room is a cost saving measure as it's easier to run the utilities in the kitchen or in a closet near the kitchen. These do exist in some American houses but it's not preferred.
Love my beautiful granite counter tops. These people are insane.
2:45 5% in mobile homes is still over 15,000,000 people which is a lot. There's also a very loose definition of what a "trailer" home is. It's legally a house which is either not attached to or doesn't have a foundation. But many of these places are DAMN NICE and big so no one would consider them "trailers" which can be hooked up to a truck and driven off. These houses could be disassembled and moved in pieces but not just hooked up to a truck.
I’m from the south so you better NOT call me a dang on yank
I will never ever
My understanding is that in the past taxes on houses in the UK where figured by rooms. In order to levy a higher property tax closets where and maybe still are considered as rooms.
Maybe just hearsay but it makes sense.
I'm from South Louisiana and we have "Shotgun" houses based on this. Homes got taxed extra for hallways and closets. So, you'll find old shotgun houses here still inhabited... basically going from one room into the next. Term comes from being able to shoot a shotgun straight through to the back of the house being that it's one room wide all the way through.
I'm an interior design student and the entry into hallway is a period feature...more older homes do it and alot have 2 living rooms. One for guests called the sitting room and the less formal for family. It all depends on the style and year the home was built. Open concept homes are a late 90s modern feature
open concept predates the 'nineties ... you need to study harder
In the south you have to add sunroom, den, exercise/gaming etc room, veranda, Florida has Florida room, libraries/office, parlor, family room, great room, conservatories, music room and butler’s pantry separate from pantry, carriage house (garage)… not even listing the Cajun rooms aeeeiiii
The first time I was in London, I was part of a large crowd watching a street show in Picadilly. A group of young people (20ish) realized there was a tour group from the USA and started yelling "Yankee go home". Most of us in the tour group started laughing at them because they thought they were insulting us while we are actually proud of being Yanks.
your comment about countertops is spot on. we're moving on to quartz tops. so many are being replaced.
Personally not a fan of either. Give me the good ol laminate or butcher block where I can put hot stuff on and not have to worry. Plus side is they have very much improved in looks over the years.
@@nanner3200 I have quartz, they are durable and can take the heat; however, I still use a hot pad
Hi i live in a modular house/trailer house, 1660 Sq ft, With a breakfast room, dining room. kitchen, two bathrooms, laundry room, one small bedroom and 1 master bed room. Vaulted ceilings through out the house. On 1/2 acre land, on a private airport with a 2500 sq foot hangar, The house is air conditioned and central heated and very well insulated as we have 110 F degree summers and get down to 20 F degree winters, we go over a 4,000 ft pass that sometimes gets closed because of snow in the winter to get to the interstate highway to get to Vegas we lso have Humming birds outside our window feeding out of the feeder we hang on the front porch, roses and cactus in the front garden in the back garden we have a great view of the mountains in Callifornia. This is very different than my homes i lived in in England. In Liverpool, Leicester, Devon
If I, as a Texan, used the word "yankee," somebody will be pissed. If you, as someone from the UK, uses the word, nobody will think you're being rude. When I was overseas (Baghdad, 2005/2006), the UK allies only referred to us in general as "the damn yanks." We thought it was great 😂
The square footage is just the living space/house, not the size of the lot/property itself in the US;typically both are listed
I grew up in a row house (terraced) in Chicago. But it was pretty big with six bedrooms and three bathrooms. A brownstone built in 1892.
One reason that Americans know their square footage (among others) is due to home offices and work-from-home since 2020. You can itemize on your taxes what you paid to keep your office running (purchases, internet fees, phone bill, etc) but only for the square footage of the office room. For example, if you have a 2000 sqft house, and your office room is 100 sqft, you can itemize 5% (100/2000=.05) of household bills (electricity, phone, all of the above) as costs to run your business (or do your job if you work for a company).
Depending on where you are in the US, you might look at different metrics for buying a home. Most in the South (Georgia specifically), buyers care about how many bedrooms and bathrooms you have. An updated kitchen and bath are nice, but it's the bed/bath numbers most look for. But when watching the home improvement channel (HGTV), some parts of the country focus on square foot cost. Example: a house near Atlanta is $600K, 4 bed/3 bath, 2100 sqft, so about $280 per square foot. But in Detroit Michigan, for a little less than $600K, a 4 bed/4 bath, 3000 square feet. That equals out to $174 per square foot. The lower square foot price is great for buyers. But also remember LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION!
Those of us who actually bought our homes even 30 years ago, I knew approximately the square footage. It was important for both the purchase price and property taxes. My annual tax assessment always included my square footage that was used for how much I owed. The work-from-home activity was just a recent development for most people.
I was a carpenter all my life, and we came up with enough money to build our dream house. We bought a new double wide mobile home to stay in until the house was finished but then my wife fell in love with our mobile home so we decided to just live here and not build the house after all. We love our home and have over three acres too. I built a two car garage and a large Carport beside the house. Thanks for the video. I always like them.
I have an entire floor in my home we dont even use lol
Living room (loft), 2 bedroom and a full bath. Love the home too much to move but after one person passed away and one moved out we only live on the first floor lol
I live in a ranch style home in Arkansas. These are fairly common around here. approximately 2600 square feet. My first home was also a ranch style but about 1200 square feet. Tiny by some standards. Three bedrooms one bath. One-bathroom sucks btw. The economy is not great here but you can afford to live in the "fly over states". Arkansas has tons natural beauty. Would recommend a visit to the northern part of the state as opposed to the southern part. [trust me] I'm totally enjoying your videos and could listen to you talk all day. Also what does your hat say? what does it mean? lol
RDR2 takes place in 1899. In the epilogue it's in 1907. I'm obsessed with the game and can help you find things that most would never have any idea even existed in the game. Like the Fluorite and the Ammolite. I can also give you pointers to get free guns, and point you in the direction of where to get an Arabian if you want a superior horse. There's 3 wild ones. The warped brindle, red chestnut, and the rarest is the white Arabian. I always color her tail black so she is easier to distinguish from The Count.
My wife and I actually have a gaming channel where we upload videos of us talking about the game and how to really get into it. I personally haven't uploaded much, because I'm a perfectionist, and just haven't been happy with the videos I've recorded.
love this, ill be streaming it later on Twitch!
What some Americans don't even know. Is that back in the day our houses didn't have hallways at all. It was just porches you would literally have to walk outside to go to a kitchen or walk outside to go to your bedroom
Granite, marble, and quartz have been the preferred material for countertops in the U.S. Though synthetic materials are becoming more common it seems lately since they have the same look and characteristics as natural stone for a much cheaper price tag.
I love sitting in the front yard or front porch and watching life go by. It’s cool.
Adam is about hallways. I had hallways and in our wood house they were easy to take down for an open concept design. I imagine pulling a British brick wall down is a much harder project.