There was a crap ton of Irish who imagrated to the u.s. back in the day so the guy at 19:40 is probably Irish and probably why he looks like your relative.
So good to see American homes that are more typical than the mini mansions some channels claim to be average homes in the US. This is how the majority of Americans live.
Exactly. I loved seeing this. What a wonderful idea he had to ask viewers to share their real homes. This was so much more realistic than other videos I've seen like it.
Molasses, a dark brown syrup made from sugar cane. Several people were I live grow sugar cane to make molasses to sell at the annual crafts fair. Kitchenette, a very small kitchen usually seen in studio apartments (studio apartment consists of one room that serves as kitchen, living room and bedroom) Love all your videos, they make my day. Sitting down to an Adam Couser video ups the spirits. Thank you for all the joy you bring to us.
my grandfather bought a 'kit house' from Sears in 1944 for $550 and built it himself in a country area outside the Baton Rouge, Louisiana city limits. it had a kitchen, living room and bedroom. they had an outhouse. My grandmother refused to move into it until my grandfather built a working bathroom INSIDE the house, which he did. they then added another bedroom with their first child and then a master suit, then a 3rd bedroom with 4 boys and a 4th bedroom with their 5th child (girl, so she could have her own room from her 4 brothers). by the 1960s, my grandfather had build a new larger kitchen/dinning room. a sitting room, a second larger living room. a car port, and the house was 4 bedrooms, 3 baths with a total of 5,400+ sq ft.... and this was all on 10 acres (2 acres wide, 5 acres deep, with a creek on the end 1/2 acres). he built ALL of the house himself throughout those years. when my grandparents passed. the family (grandparent's adult children) didn't know what to do with the house and property, since they all already owned their own property. They looked into selling it, but there was too much work to fix the house up in order to justify selling it. so they thought about tearing down the house and just selling the property. but it would have cost a lot to tear the house down. Eventually, I offered to buy the house and property. I offered $35,000 for all of it. That was actually more than the property and house were worth at the time. They agreed because it would "stay in the family" this way. So I became the owner of 10+ acres with a large ranch style house. I put around $120,000 into the house for repairs and updating it to modern building codes.
That’s pretty awesome dude!! I would love to see pics!!! It’s amazing ing what our grandparents did, it seems like they accomplished so much more than us lol. I bet you love living there, plus I couldn’t imagine selling something my grandfather worked so hard on and built by himself with his own hands!!
@@kellygriffin8232 Our grandparents didn't have the government breathing down their neck every time they farted. Much more could get done without uncle Sam's fat fingers involved!
Adam, thanks for showing my house first! Sorry you didn't show the railroad building. This could be a great series for you, I hope people keep sending in their pictures and histories. It brings all of us together in its own way.
The Gamble House in Pasadena is a national landmark. It was donated to the city of Pasadena by the Gamble family of the Procter and Gamble manufacturing empire makers of Pampers, Gillette, Old Spice, Dawn, Crest, and so many more household items we use. The Gamble House is available for tours. The House is also used by University of Southern California (USC) architectural students.
The Gamble House architects were Greene and Greene, brothers justly famous for their work in the Craftsman/Bungalow style favored in SoCal in the early 1900s. There are several smaller examples of their work in that neighborhood in Pasadena (home of the famous Rose Bowl and New Years parade.) The Gamble House was a summer home in their signature style (w/ added Japanese influences). The custom-designed furnishings (built--ins, furniture, art glass windows and lamps, etc.) reflect the best available craftmanship and an enormous budget in 1908. Any woodworker would be astounded by the joinery on display in the interior finishes. The large sleeping porches mentioned in the video were a notable feature of larger homes in a pre-AC era--they used the screened porch to get a decent night's sleep in the summer heat. I had the privilege of visiting the Gamble House when I was an Architecture student in college. One of the features I loved was the use of brick like fieldstones in the rear porch surrounds, giving a wonderful splash of color and texture to the otherwise largely wooden structure. The garden area is also very nice, simple and very complimentary to the home. And yes, I remember seeing _Back to the Future_ and doing a double-take when Marty McFly walked up to Gamble House garage (Doc Brown's iconic lab). You get that a lot in LA. Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House (familiar from its ornate concrete block construction and 80+ film shoots) and the Bradbury Building in downtown LA (featured in _Blade Runner_ , _500 Days of Summer_ , etc.) are other notables in the area. Search them online and be prepared to be amazed.
The Gamble House reminds me of a house in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Mayer May home is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed house. The Steelcase company sponsored a major restoration of the house and decor to bring it back to its original splendor. This included rugs, furniture and a gorgeous wall mural. I remember getting to tour the house during the early 90's.
Funny you mention that because I lived right next to a Frank Lloyd Wright House in Rockford Illinois right next to Sinnissippi Park and that house was beautiful
@@PunkIAmFLW made some gorgeous works of architectural art... As much as I admired his works it is known he was quite the unpleasant man to be around, very much the tortured artist type.
That was fun, thanks! Also a great push-back to some of these European TH-camrs that say American homes don't last longer than 30 years or so and have to get knocked down.
1:30 molasses noun 1 : the thick dark to light brown syrup that is separated from raw sugar in sugar manufacture 2 : a syrup made from boiling down sweet vegetable or fruit juice citrus molasses 🙂
My house is a 1927 stucco Craftsman style -- it still has open flame gas heaters and window air. My landlord's house dates from the 1880s. The neighborhood is surrounded by national park woods, so we frequently see wildlife, including deer, raccoons, opossums, foxes, and a huge groundhog. Last night I saw an armadillo, first one I've seen in a while.
That house from Oak Ridge might have housed my great grandparents. My great grandfather was a nuclear physicist who worked at Oak Ridge on the Manhattan project. We were able to meet each other just before he died, but I was only 9 months old, so don't remember him at all. My great grandmother lived to see me graduate from high school, and I enjoyed hearing her stories about the great depression, WWII, and my great grandfather.
Small world. I’m in Knoxville. Born here, grew up in the USAF. My father was head of security at ORNL after retiring from the AF,before transferring to Los Alamos NM to be the head of security at the sister plant. He was the big dog in charge of the whole deal. To be honest..I’m not positive about what he did beyond that. Security clearances and all. 😂
I'm from Knoxville and grew up partly in Oak Ridge, too! It is a small world. The periodic sirens to drill something wrong at Y-12 was quite a head trip growing up. I wondered if swimming in the lakes would make me glow like a superhero 😂. It's such a beautiful region. You used to be able to drive waaay closer even 40 years ago. Adam would find a lot to see if he ever made it around that way.
Really does seem like a small world! Was not expecting to see Oak Ridge! (Cleveland/Ocoee TN native myself) but we have tons of friends that work for security for Y-12!
@@AngelaC.-iz4ts Same here. My dad was FBI in charge of visiting scientists or whatever. Didn’t know for sure what he did either. We weren’t allowed to say where he worked. He was in “accounting”. We had kidnapping protocols. Didn’t know that wasn’t normal until therapy 😂
@@EmmaViviane Haha! I know right? I remember going out into the civilian world after I was grown and being blown away that not everyone grew up knowing not to ask questions about your dad’s work. I thought this was totally normal. 🤣
This was a very entertaining video, Adam. I saw the light bulb go off in your head when you thought of the idea in your last video and didn’t know how it would work. I love looking at houses and hearing about their history was a bonus. Great job!
Thanks for showing mine. If your ever in San Antonio Texas I'll take you by there, a lot of the homes in the neighborhood are even grander than this one
Two really famous homes in the U.S. that you should check out are the Biltmore Estate and the Winchester Mystery house.The history of the Winchester estate is utterly insane but it's an amazing place.
I was just thinking he should watch a video about the Winchester house. I’ve never been but I’ve driven by it a lot. My husband has been and thought it was really cool. No ghost sightings though
Molasses (moh - lass - iss) is a sticky, black, old-school sweetener with a very distinctive taste. It's a by-product of the sugar making process and is extracted from the crushed sugar cane or beets. You'll see it used in Gingerbread cookies, Shoofly Pie, and some BBQ sauces. It goes really well with heavy spices or Christmasy spices. A Kitchenette is just a small kitchen, usually consisting of a microwave, small fridge, and sometimes a sink... maybe like an air fryer or some other small appliances. It's usually placed in an area of the house where it's a pain in the butt to get to the big kitchen if you want something, like near an upstairs media or game room. That way you don't have to traipse all the way down the stairs just to get a soda or some popcorn while you're in the middle of a big COD battle or a movie.
God I love Mt. Rainier never gets old seeing it. Even my newest workplace has an awesome view of it. On a side note:One of my ancestors helped build up Tacoma,Wa as a bricklayer and Tacoma still has some amazing mansions and cool older brick roads…though will say not the best place to live based on crime statistics.
My house here in south-central Pennsylvania was built circa 1900. I bought it 29 years ago from a family friend and the family filled me in on ALL the history of the house. RIP to ALL of them. That being said: Buying an old house is NOT for the faint of heart. There are CONSTANT upgrades......they NEVER end. HOWEVER: Living in an old house brings more history & atmosphere & character than you can even IMAGINE. If you've got the money & the balls, it's WELL worth the gamble....!!!! 😄
Thanks for sharing my home on sand mtn. in alabama. Yep, that's my dog "snuggles", i have to hide when i wanna drink me a brewski. She only gets to lick the empty bottle. That pic of the view off the mtn. showing the Tennessee river is not my view. I have to drive 4 miles to see that view. It's where everyone goes to walk or jog or for a picnic. Thanks again, Adam, for sharing. My wife can't believe our house was shown by someone in Northern Ireland. You are the best. Ricky T.
I love seeing how everyone else is living!!! We need a house tour from you now Adam!!! (If you’ve already done one, sorry I didn’t know lmao), but like that one guy said who took the video of the bad storm, I only have window units for AC and radiator heaters for heat in my house here in N.C., and it DOES suck when it’s super hot or super cold…. And it’s super hot here A LOT!!! Great video adam as always!
My Grand Aunt 's, { not sure if that is even a real term but she was my Grandma's sister } house in the Knobs region of Kentucky is a log house built in 1812 . It was originally a stage coach stop . The logs are about 20 feet long and 18 inches in diameter with the old mud chinking in between the logs . It was two stories high with two rooms , each with a field stone fireplace and chimney on each side of the dogtrot in the middle . A kitchen, living room and dining room were later added onto the back . When I was a kid ,it had no running water so the toilet was an outhouse and we had to walk down to the spring each morning to bring up four 5 gallon buckets of water . Bathing when the weather was hot enough was in the cold spring fed creek on her 225 acre farm about 1/4 mile from the house . I spent several summer and Christmas vacations from school there and loved it .I really like your idea for this post , wish I had photos to share , but I now live about 800 miles from there and haven't been there for MANY years .
Used to live in the greater Seattle area (for about 25 years) and I loved it. The weather is the closest to UK you will find. Lots of old Victorian homes as well as lots of Arts and Crafts style homes. But the best part is the outdoors! When you have a spare moment, google images with the prompt “Seattle in spring” to see what I mean.
Love that viewers sent in their houses in response to your request. If I weren't already a subscriber I'd subscribe again just because of the community you're creating here.
The reason you don't see laundry shoots anymore, is because (at least in the USA) they are illegal. They create a fire chase where a dryer fire (or any other fire) has an easy route to spread to the second floor and destroy the house.
I found your channel recently because I have found that I freaking love watching people from other countries, especially the UK, react to things that I take for granted every day. This was a fantastic idea for a video series! I want more! I had to subscribe because I have to see you enjoy your trips here. You couldn't be visiting two more different parts of the country and I am here for it!
My great grandfather built the home that he and my grandmother and my mom eventually grew up in. It was 3 floors. In the 1920s there was a huge flood in the town and after that my grandfather moved the house and two floors back off the road and up the incline behind it 300ft, so it is now set back so far that the front of the house looks into the back yards of all the neighbors. I can send the before and after pics if you tell me how. I'm kind of not tech savvy. Great show seeing these old homes.
I am 71 and the type of phone back then you would pick it up and an operator would come on and say number please. You would then give them the number you were calling and the operator would connect you. If you were on what was called a party line which was several households were on the main line you could hear them talking and would have to wait to make a call until they were finished. You just hoped they weren't long winded lol.
Molasses is essentially burnt or blackened sugar syrup used in cooking and baking (like golden syrup but darker and more bitter) Kitchenette is a small kitchen (like how a cigarette is a small cigar)
Take 10 seconds to Google or read some of the earlier comments You described Caramel. Delicious, but not nutritious. Molasses is all the nutritional parts of cane juice that are refined out of white sugar. Not only is it delicious as a sweetener, it's insanely nutrient dense.
@cblynn485 never said "refined sugar," nor did I mention "white sugar." Sugar is still sugar, and caramelization is a process, not limited to "refined," "white" or "beet" sugar (for which I assume you are mostly refering to) but all forms of sugar. The product caramel was named after the process, but that does not mean that every caramelized sugar is caramel, if so, then maple and other forms of syrups would be called a caramel. So no, I'm not wrong-you just assumed that I said something that I did not.
THESE are the houses most of us live in. My husband and I are from opposite coasts ( Bay Area in California for me, Wilmington, Delaware for him, and both went to Kansas State. The cost of living in my town is low compared to most places in the United States. We essentially won the lottery when we moved to town. One of the churches had hired a new pastor who owned his own home already, so they rented out the parsonage. 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, full finished basement. It seems small from the outside, as a lot of houses do, but it’s over 2k square feet. It has a central vacuum system that is rarely used anymore, but was popular and was installed in the 70’s. The house is in an average one for our area. We have about a quarter acre too. No one in the US will believe me when I say, my rent is $650 a month. But the church does not need or want to charge more and our rent is only a hundred dollars a month more now than it was when we moved in 20 yrs ago. We may not love living in Kansas all the time, but the cost of living here has kept us here. Honestly, it is a trade off. If we want to go see mountains, it’s a 10 hour drive, and the closest coastal waters are another 10 hours south to the Gulf of Mexico. So. It’s boring, but very cheap. 😊
Kitchenette is a small kitchen where meals are prepared but is too small to eat in. Usually if you have this type of kitchen, you also have a dining room where the table and chairs are located.
Molasses (Moe-lass-isss) is a viscous byproduct of refining sugar cane or sugar beet juice into sugar. It's used to sweeten and flavor foods. Molasses is also the ingredient in brown sugar that gives it its color, flavor, and moisture.
I grew up in Pasadena and was a docent for the Gamble House as a teenager in the 80s. It was one of those volunteer jobs that you strive to get as a teenager growing up in the Pasadena area for your college applications. There are so many beautiful craftsman homes in the area,
My house was built in 1947 and had the original furnace in it until 3 years ago. We recently started to pull up the carpet in the living room and dining room and found beautiful original hardwood floors. When I bought this house in 1996, my grandfather looked at the unfinished ceiling in the basement and he said that since the floor boards from the living room were placed diagonally, there was probably nice hardwood floors and he was right! Right now my adult children are living with us so it's a little cramped but I love it! I have been watching you for years and I love your reactions, especially to hockey because that's our favorite sport!😅❤
Hello Adam...I hope you're having a good rest of your day and / or night... My home was built in 1880... it has a stone wall that runs along the road that used to protect it from the flooding until the dam was built on Berlin Lake...it's now used as a flower bed...(where u plant flowers and such) it's a 3 bedroom, 1 bath house, with a huge basement...the house is about 1800 square feet and has lots of old unique features such as oil lamps and lots of old school wood and framing...the home is very unique and im very happy to call it my own....
I’m from Tacoma but living in Texas now, and I had the same exact thought. It’s difficult to describe how the homes look up there to Texans. But my thoughts on the WA standard colorful craftsman style home was confirmed with that view of Mt Rainier. I’d recognize that mountain anywhere.
I'm also from Oak Ridge Tn.(I was like hey I know that blue house. lol) I live out in Roane Co now. My house was built in 1916. That was before there was electricity in the area. It ,at one time was the local post office, and once a week the pony express came to pick up the mail.
About Florida: it's a beautiful state and I love it. I also have lived in the Ft. Walton Beach area. But two things in particular give it a dubious distinction: 1) it is the lightening capitol of the US; and 2) it has more sinkholes (because of its high water table and limestone bedrock) than any other state in America. I live in TX, in a pier and beam house built in 1926. The time of year determines whether the doors in my house will hang plumb or tilt, but I love it because it has beautiful original oak floors; 11 ft ceilings in every room, and established 100-year old trees in the yard. I wouldn't change a thing, except maybe for the peeling plaster in every room.
Funny Story-- Back in the 70's I was an Architecture student in college. One of the benefits of being in greater LA was the notable architecture, and part our class work was taking Saturday field trip drives. The professor assigned us areas of LA and lists of sites to visit. One trip took us down to Watts Towers. Another trip included a residential area near Griffith Park. My buddy and I were driving around looking at homes on the list and we saw the back of this really interesting 30s era house with blocky lines perched atop a ridge. "I wonder what that is?" We drove up there to investigate, and another handful of students and one of our professors happened to follow us. We were admiring the house from the street when the owner stepped out the front door and asked what we were doing. We explained how intrigued we were with the house's architectural design. "Would you like to have a look around the property?" "YES!" He graciously invited us in to walk the grounds, and from his back balcony there were magnificent views of West LA and towards the ocean. It turned out the house and landscaping were designed by famous architects in the early 30s (contemporaries of Frank Lloyd Wright) and it had just been sold to the current owner. The house had not been seen by the public since it's construction. Fast forward a couple of years. I'm at a R-rated B movie double feature, and mulling over whether to bother staying for _Weekend with the Baby SItter_. Movie opens with someone crossing the U.S. border at Tijuana into SD county. Wait, that's home turf, and nostalgic me decides to wait a bit. Camera follows the drive up the I5 corridor towards LA, then winding its way to through the Hollywood Hills. It turns onto a familiar looking steeply-inclined street, pulls up in front of a very familiar looking house, and then the owner of the house (actor/producer of the film) greets the visitor at the door. The movie was meh, but I finally got to see the INSIDE of that house! LOL
I love that you're seeing real houses. A lot of folks in America are very poor live in homes that they'd be ashamed to show. I hate that, but it's the truth.
Why would anybody be ashamed? There's no shame in that..... The only thing shameful about it would be the ones that dont take care of where they live. Some people enjoy a simple life not scrounging for hollow glory and money.
Yeah, my house is basically a bunker - a basement where the guy building it ran out of money & just slapped a roof on it. But it's very tornado resistant so I love it for that. We put most of our effort into adding trees, shrubs, a raised bed garden & a greenhouse add-on to a newish garage.
Normally the TH-cam people that show their homes are from generational wealth or they know what they have is not average. I was raised literally dirt poor and had to struggle for everything from clothes to food. That's the point of my comment.
Agreed - but I have learned to OWN my poor. LOL. I have been a single woman/mom my entire life. I have ended up having my mother, 2 of my brothers, my son & his family, and later a family of 6 move in with me when they needed a place to live, all because I had a home. But understand my home is trash. I have always called it, my piece of White Trash Heaven. 🤣 I have lived in it for 20 years now and all the internal & external vitals (furnace, water heater, roof, etc) have now been replaced, after dying at the MOST inconvenient & cash poor time. NOW I am working on upgrades and aesthetics, with as much DIY as humanly possible. I learned a long time ago that even if I had trash (you should see my crappy yard at this point - that is next years project), I HAD it. Even when I rented - I was luckier than most. So what you say is true - but I am proud of my piece of white trash heaven. It has protected me, some of my siblings, my mother, my child, his family, and a homeless family of 6. (It's a 924 sq ft above grade, split level, 2 bedroom home + 3 'rooms', ie: no built in closet)
Great reaction - that was a lot of fun. It is good to see the variety of houses, and especially those that are from different eras - to admire the differences in styles.
A kitchenette is a small, compact kitchen area typically equipped with basic appliances such as a fridge, microwave, sink, and sometimes a small stovetop or a space for plug-in appliances. You might have seen kitchenettes in hotel rooms, resorts, university dorms, and other compact living spaces. There are probably many homes in the UK that could fit into this category.
The Gamble House is a historic house museum. They do occasionally let people stay there. I know at least for awhile they let some students, I think preservation students, stay in the house for a short time. I used to work at Pasadena Heritage and the Gamble house is such an important piece of architecture. This was such a wonderful video!
I’m not far from Seattle and Mt. Rainier! Any house with a view of “The Mountain” is very lucky! If you visit Seattle you might enjoy visiting some of our Irish pubs and restaurants, the Owl and Thistle, Kell’s, the Blarney Stone Pub, Muleady’s Pub, T.S. McHugh’s and Molly Maguires to name a few. You could review the food and let us know how it compares. You did well with the pronunciation of Washtucna, it’s “wash-tuck-nah” and it’s a tiny town with a population of just over 200 people! It’s about a four hour drive from Seattle, it’s on the east side of the Cascade Mountains.
I got to do TDY over in SeaTac for a month last year, I loved your city, it was a little too busy and cold for me, but I would definitely visit again 😊
@@LegitHarpyHunter you must have been here right before we had eighteen straight days of 80°+ temperatures, many of those days were in the 90°’s. We joke that summer never really arrives until the 4th of July. 😉
I wish my parents' house still existed. My grandfather built it by hand shortly after marrying my grandma. It was 6 miles from the nearest small town (population 20) and 12 miles to the nearest "big" town (population 1500), and 30 miles to the nearest proper city (population 80,000). They raised their THIRTEEN KIDS in that house. It had only 3 bedrooms, but the massive wrap-around porch was sectioned off into sleeping quarters for all the kids. Mom had stories of sleeping 3 to a bed on that porch. Grandpa was quite proud of his double seater outhouse, although THANKFULLY he installed a real toilet in the bathroom in the 1970s. The house used well water instead of city water. The well water had an orangish tint and tasted of copper, but my grandparents preferred the taste and said it made for stronger bones. After they passed away, my mother got the house. After a few years, my little sister needed a surgery, and my parents went to the city to help her out as she healed. While they were gone, a massive storm came by, tornadoes destroyed many farms, and lightning struck the house, burning it to the ground. I'm very sad to lose a house with so much family history, but I'm VERY thankful my parents were not in the home at the time this happened. Many in my family believe the timing meant my grandparents were looking after them in their own way.
Each city seems to have 'historical' districts... depending on which State as to what cultural background is on display...of course you have the odd builders that have their own vision for a project so every now and again youll find the singular design thrown into the district of history..still old but different... The gentleman who wrote about the front and back door being in line with each other..in the south we call them 'shotgun' houses...where you could shoot straight through the home because the rooms were on either side of the hall running from front to back...there were loads of them build in the 30's and 40's.. during the depression..to house seasonal workers so you'll find blocks and blocks of this style... Also the south is famous for wrap-a-round porches...why ?.. I really don't know..lol... Florida has old Spanish styles as it was once owned by Spain..crazy thing.. Florida was under 5 different country's flags 🤔... Louisiana has beautiful buildings.. especially within the French Quarters..lots of wrought iron balconies... I just recommend you Google some pics...👍😉... Minnesota has Scandinavian flare in their homes... The fact we have so many cultures that tended to group as they come over..has created such a wide diversity in architecture.. it's almost like touring Europe !...you name a style and we have it... Have an excellent week..we all look forward to the day you come to visit..or stay !... 🌿🌿🌿
That was fun! I am so nosy! If i get my house clean enough, I’ll send some pics. I love seeing how other people live, not to compare myself and feel superior or beneath others, but to get ideas for my own decor and get an insight to other peoples’ daily lives. Very cool.
The 2nd house in your video shows a snow covered mountain. Ascending to 14,410 feet above sea level, Mount Rainier stands as an icon in the Washington landscape. An active volcano, Mount Rainier is the most glaciated peak in the contiguous U.S.A.
You need to check out a house calling Falling Water. It was designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright and is built in Pennsylvania on a waterfall. We toured it a few years ago, and it is amazing. There are huge overhangs that go over the water. There is a staircase that opens up from the middle of the living room and goes directly into the middle of the stream.
In the US, when you find regions where basements are not typical, it's almost always because of a high water table (you hit water before you get 10' down) and/or limestone bedrock which is prone to water erosion (look for sinkhole videos) and caverns that would make digging down too unstable. The entire state of Florida deals with this issue as do other states in the American Southeast. Americans typically love a basement, so regions that can safely construct them usually do.
Awesome video. Love that people honored your request and that you honored them by sharing and reacting with your community. Keep up the great work brother!
Good ole Sand Mtn. lol. 😅 (Am a SE TN native). Loved the one from Oak Ridge! Have many friends there that moved there for work (the nuclear plant) 2 of my friends work as security for Y-12 and the other is an engineer! Very interesting stuff to read into! In my 20s I moved higher up from my hometown (Chattanooga) to the edge of Cleveland/Ocoee TN, so not too far from Knox/Oak Ridge. Beautiful, beautiful areas with such rich history!
Really good representation of typical American homes, historically and architecturally important homes and from all over. Love everyone sharing their beautiful homes and stories for the video.
Glad you looked at real people's houses rather than just gushing about rich people's houses. There were a few fancy ones, and the lawns are bigger than you'd see in much of the UK, but most folks live in the smaller homes you saw. Of course there are all the apartments and mobile homes and such that didn't make it here.
The house with the lined up front and back doors is called a dog walk. They were very popular in the south because it created a breeze through the house for those hot summer days. Love your channel, you are so fun to watch!
When they mentioned the sleeping porch on the Gamble house I remember my mother talking about them sleeping on the screened in porch during Oklahoma summers when she was a child. This was before air conditioning was common and the only way to sleep comfortably during the summer.
molasses is the same thing as the "treacle" you have in the UK, only molasses is darker, thicker, and more bitter than your black treacle. We have a "light" molasses which is closer to your treacle, but we don't typically use "golden syrup" - that niche has been replaced with maple syrup for us
I live in a log cabin that was built in the 1780 that still has its original logs. It used to be one of the major properties in Howard County, Maryland back when it was built. The entire neighborhood was once a part of the property and was slowly sold over the centuries.
Greene & Greene architecture & woodworking is stunning! There are several books available that detail a lot of their designs and furniture. Truly inspiring!
I'm also in the cascade mountain range in the Willamette Valley along the Willamette River. I live in a absolutely gorgeous tiny college town home of WOU . In the Pacific Northwest we still have some old growth forests left but here in Monmouth all through town and on the college campus we have some of the oldest biggest trees ive seen in a long time. We are surrounded by farm land and farther out mountains. Lots of mountains. The Oregon coast is around 40 minutes away . The drive takes so long because once you get going through the mountains on hwy 101. I could go on and on. Just stay away from the major cities here in Oregon!!!
Thank you for getting this right. Ihave no clue why I care, but it makes me happy. That flavor is because it's packed with all the nutrition they removed to make white sugar. It's a true nutritional powerhouse. It also has a lot of interesting America trivia associated with it. Google the Great Molasses flood for starters. I think it was a common ingredient in homemade baby formula before there was any commercial products. And it is used to make rum.
Don't know how to send pictures, but my Moms house was built in 1900. It has 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. A living room, a dining room, a Butlers Pantry. Kitchens, walk in food storage closet, closed in back porch where the laundry room is. It has an attic. It also has a garage with an attached one room apartment. A large backyard with beautiful plants and a gazebo. It was originally built as a Parsonage for the Baptist Church.
"Open House" is the name of a TV show that features homes around the US. The Gamble House was given to the City of Pasadena by the Gamble family. Gamble, as in Procter and Gamble. Tours are offered to the public.
Best one yet, to enjoy others Blessings brings blessings. Inspires opens new worlds and expands understanding of how regular Americans live outside the city.
Please do a part 2…it’s so interesting hearing the background stories with the photos/videos. Though I did find it kinda funny that most of the ones shown in this video are around 100 years old, especially since the average American home is between 42-51 years old…aka built 1973 or later. (me typing this while in my 106 yr old Central California home 😂 I promise, the irony doesn’t escape me)
Many homes up until the early 1900s were larger as families had many more children back then. The Gamble house didn't use ANY nails or screws. You can literally take it apart with a mallet. The Gamble family house is a custom made home, currently owned by a museum. There are many other Arts and Crafts homes in that area of California, Buffalo & Rochester NY, and Pennsylvania. Some experts suggest that it could be worth tens of millions of dollars... because of the building tech used, it's beauty, size, and bespoke design. A normal, mass produced, house that size could cost closer to $250,000.
In Florida we have to worry about sinkholes some places the house sold you can get insurance from the mortgage company but as soon as your mortgage is paid off your without insurance because the area is a sinkhole area. They wouldn't tell you anything about it until you got to get your own insurance and can't take back your money from the builders. The company that built your house is gone and the builders start a new one. The build the house with sinkholes because the land is cheap.
Never doubt those Sears box houses, make your own, the Brady Bunch had one there is down the way still, lovely crowd. Always offering to take off the yard clippings.
The Gamble House in Pasadena, CA is the most famous example of the Arts & Crafts movement in the US and began with this very house. There are other amazing examples of this style in Pasadena as well.
Gamble House must be a tour house, probably owned by a non-profit conservation group. The Gambles were a merchandising family - owning hardware/general merchandise stores across the country. Now the name is associated with Proctor and Gamble. yep - them. Good job folks sending Adam a better representation of average American homes!
I live north of Oak Ridge Tennessee, we are within a nuclear strike here being 100 miles from Oak Ridge! They still produce nuclear weapon"s materials there! A lot of government production buildings and science buildings still in use there. Great history there! The original living quarters were enclosed with chain link fencing and no one outside of the community was allowed inside the fence!
You should look into my favorite Architectural Design for a house: Fallingwater is a house designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935. Situated in the Mill Run section of Stewart township, in the Laurel Highlands of southwest Pennsylvania, about 70 miles (110 km) southeast of Pittsburgh in the United States,[4] it is built partly over a waterfall on the Bear Run river. The house was designed to serve as a weekend retreat for Liliane and Edgar J. Kaufmann, the owner of Pittsburgh's Kaufmann's Department Store.
My home was built in the 50s. Small house so I hope to one day raise the roof for a second floor :) Old phones - they didn't need dials because you picked up and were connected to an operator who would then physically connect your call. "Hello operator? Can you connect me to the pharmacy on, blah blah street?"
Architectural features of the Gamble was really popular where architects were building in upper ends structures. The Pasadena Playhouse is similar. A feature of this design is little to no nails in these buildings
A kitchenette is an additional mini kitchen. Sometimes in the basement or on upper floor. Usually has a small refrigerator, a sink, a microwave and possibly a hot plate.
Facts about FL. When i was a kid i would dig holes in the back yard (i had an area for it) and id be down maybe 3 ft before i hit mud. Keep going a little further and it was so moist the hole would start to pool water at the bottom.
SO COOL that one of your viewers is a cop so cool. Maybe do another video of some fun malls or photos of what people do for fun near where they live. Is there a fun lake to go to or hiking spot ect. It's fun to see people in other states. Thanks for all that you do my friend much love to you and your family hope all is well. 🙏❤🙂
That submission from northeast Alabama, on Sand Mtn, is not very far from where I live. I live on the other major mountain, at the southern end of the Appalachians, Lookout Mountain. There is a canyon just a few miles from my house(that I helped build as a young lad, back in 1985), on my families land(been in the family since the late 1860s). The house I grew up in before we built the 'new' house, on the same plot of 160 acres, was originally built in the 1920s.
Hey everyone, in case you didn’t know, I stream on twitch also, would love to meet a few of you guys! www.twitch.tv/adamcouser
One man. 3 Names. frank lloyd wright....you'll like his houses.
Nice video. I'd enjoy more of them.
@@donnabert I mean this with all due respect...I wasn't talking to you.
There was a crap ton of Irish who imagrated to the u.s. back in the day so the guy at 19:40 is probably Irish and probably why he looks like your relative.
What is Adam's email address? I think I've seen two different ones. I want to make sure I have the right one.
So good to see American homes that are more typical than the mini mansions some channels claim to be average homes in the US. This is how the majority of Americans live.
Amen
Exactly. I loved seeing this. What a wonderful idea he had to ask viewers to share their real homes. This was so much more realistic than other videos I've seen like it.
Molasses, a dark brown syrup made from sugar cane. Several people were I live grow sugar cane to make molasses to sell at the annual crafts fair. Kitchenette, a very small kitchen usually seen in studio apartments (studio apartment consists of one room that serves as kitchen, living room and bedroom) Love all your videos, they make my day. Sitting down to an Adam Couser video ups the spirits. Thank you for all the joy you bring to us.
Treacle is very similar and may be more common over there.
my grandfather bought a 'kit house' from Sears in 1944 for $550 and built it himself in a country area outside the Baton Rouge, Louisiana city limits. it had a kitchen, living room and bedroom. they had an outhouse. My grandmother refused to move into it until my grandfather built a working bathroom INSIDE the house, which he did. they then added another bedroom with their first child and then a master suit, then a 3rd bedroom with 4 boys and a 4th bedroom with their 5th child (girl, so she could have her own room from her 4 brothers). by the 1960s, my grandfather had build a new larger kitchen/dinning room. a sitting room, a second larger living room. a car port, and the house was 4 bedrooms, 3 baths with a total of 5,400+ sq ft.... and this was all on 10 acres (2 acres wide, 5 acres deep, with a creek on the end 1/2 acres). he built ALL of the house himself throughout those years.
when my grandparents passed. the family (grandparent's adult children) didn't know what to do with the house and property, since they all already owned their own property. They looked into selling it, but there was too much work to fix the house up in order to justify selling it. so they thought about tearing down the house and just selling the property. but it would have cost a lot to tear the house down. Eventually, I offered to buy the house and property. I offered $35,000 for all of it. That was actually more than the property and house were worth at the time. They agreed because it would "stay in the family" this way. So I became the owner of 10+ acres with a large ranch style house.
I put around $120,000 into the house for repairs and updating it to modern building codes.
That’s pretty awesome dude!! I would love to see pics!!! It’s amazing ing what our grandparents did, it seems like they accomplished so much more than us lol. I bet you love living there, plus I couldn’t imagine selling something my grandfather worked so hard on and built by himself with his own hands!!
Wow! That sounds awesome. It would be great if you sent in pictures of the house & land.
@@kellygriffin8232 Our grandparents didn't have the government breathing down their neck every time they farted. Much more could get done without uncle Sam's fat fingers involved!
Mo-lass-iss is a syrup added to brown sugar to make it brown. They used to use as a sweetener on pancakes etc.
That's only $9,817 in todays money. That's crazy.
Adam, thanks for showing my house first! Sorry you didn't show the railroad building. This could be a great series for you, I hope people keep sending in their pictures and histories. It brings all of us together in its own way.
The Gamble House in Pasadena is a national landmark. It was donated to the city of Pasadena by the Gamble family of the Procter and Gamble manufacturing empire makers of Pampers, Gillette, Old Spice, Dawn, Crest, and so many more household items we use.
The Gamble House is available for tours. The House is also used by University of Southern California (USC) architectural students.
I miss the one that was built down the street from Gamble...the Blacker house. So beautiful.
The Gamble House architects were Greene and Greene, brothers justly famous for their work in the Craftsman/Bungalow style favored in SoCal in the early 1900s. There are several smaller examples of their work in that neighborhood in Pasadena (home of the famous Rose Bowl and New Years parade.)
The Gamble House was a summer home in their signature style (w/ added Japanese influences). The custom-designed furnishings (built--ins, furniture, art glass windows and lamps, etc.) reflect the best available craftmanship and an enormous budget in 1908. Any woodworker would be astounded by the joinery on display in the interior finishes. The large sleeping porches mentioned in the video were a notable feature of larger homes in a pre-AC era--they used the screened porch to get a decent night's sleep in the summer heat.
I had the privilege of visiting the Gamble House when I was an Architecture student in college. One of the features I loved was the use of brick like fieldstones in the rear porch surrounds, giving a wonderful splash of color and texture to the otherwise largely wooden structure. The garden area is also very nice, simple and very complimentary to the home.
And yes, I remember seeing _Back to the Future_ and doing a double-take when Marty McFly walked up to Gamble House garage (Doc Brown's iconic lab). You get that a lot in LA. Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House (familiar from its ornate concrete block construction and 80+ film shoots) and the Bradbury Building in downtown LA (featured in _Blade Runner_ , _500 Days of Summer_ , etc.) are other notables in the area. Search them online and be prepared to be amazed.
To me, the older houses have so much character. I love them. Adam, thanks for sharing all the photos sent in.
The Gamble House reminds me of a house in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Mayer May home is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed house. The Steelcase company sponsored a major restoration of the house and decor to bring it back to its original splendor. This included rugs, furniture and a gorgeous wall mural. I remember getting to tour the house during the early 90's.
Funny you mention that because I lived right next to a Frank Lloyd Wright House in Rockford Illinois right next to Sinnissippi Park and that house was beautiful
@@PunkIAmFLW made some gorgeous works of architectural art... As much as I admired his works it is known he was quite the unpleasant man to be around, very much the tortured artist type.
That was fun, thanks! Also a great push-back to some of these European TH-camrs that say American homes don't last longer than 30 years or so and have to get knocked down.
Guys, thanks so much for sending me so many homes, i loved this! Ps. make sure to subscribe and like! 💜💜💜💜
I love seeing the Roman numeral tattoos. September 15, 1991. I tried to get a better look, but did I get this correct?
Great video! Do you think you’ll do a part 2 to this? I’d love to send pictures and give the history of mine!
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molasses
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: the thick dark to light brown syrup that is separated from raw sugar in sugar manufacture
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: a syrup made from boiling down sweet vegetable or fruit juice
citrus molasses
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@@littlerock8926September 25 close enough! 😂
@@APT0905absolutely!
My house is a 1927 stucco Craftsman style -- it still has open flame gas heaters and window air. My landlord's house dates from the 1880s. The neighborhood is surrounded by national park woods, so we frequently see wildlife, including deer, raccoons, opossums, foxes, and a huge groundhog. Last night I saw an armadillo, first one I've seen in a while.
That house from Oak Ridge might have housed my great grandparents. My great grandfather was a nuclear physicist who worked at Oak Ridge on the Manhattan project. We were able to meet each other just before he died, but I was only 9 months old, so don't remember him at all. My great grandmother lived to see me graduate from high school, and I enjoyed hearing her stories about the great depression, WWII, and my great grandfather.
Small world. I’m in Knoxville. Born here, grew up in the USAF. My father was head of security at ORNL after retiring from the AF,before transferring to Los Alamos NM to be the head of security at the sister plant. He was the big dog in charge of the whole deal. To be honest..I’m not positive about what he did beyond that. Security clearances and all. 😂
I'm from Knoxville and grew up partly in Oak Ridge, too! It is a small world. The periodic sirens to drill something wrong at Y-12 was quite a head trip growing up. I wondered if swimming in the lakes would make me glow like a superhero 😂. It's such a beautiful region. You used to be able to drive waaay closer even 40 years ago. Adam would find a lot to see if he ever made it around that way.
Really does seem like a small world! Was not expecting to see Oak Ridge! (Cleveland/Ocoee TN native myself) but we have tons of friends that work for security for Y-12!
@@AngelaC.-iz4ts Same here. My dad was FBI in charge of visiting scientists or whatever. Didn’t know for sure what he did either. We weren’t allowed to say where he worked. He was in “accounting”. We had kidnapping protocols. Didn’t know that wasn’t normal until therapy 😂
@@EmmaViviane Haha! I know right? I remember going out into the civilian world after I was grown and being blown away that not everyone grew up knowing not to ask questions about your dad’s work. I thought this was totally normal. 🤣
This was a very entertaining video, Adam. I saw the light bulb go off in your head when you thought of the idea in your last video and didn’t know how it would work. I love looking at houses and hearing about their history was a bonus. Great job!
This is absolutely one of the best videos I have seen. Thanks for asking people for this and thanks for sharing!
Aw thank you!
Thanks for showing mine. If your ever in San Antonio Texas I'll take you by there, a lot of the homes in the neighborhood are even grander than this one
Two really famous homes in the U.S. that you should check out are the Biltmore Estate and the Winchester Mystery house.The history of the Winchester estate is utterly insane but it's an amazing place.
I was just thinking he should watch a video about the Winchester house. I’ve never been but I’ve driven by it a lot. My husband has been and thought it was really cool. No ghost sightings though
@@nicole06964 I've been to visit Biltmore but never had any opportunity to get anywhere near the Winchester house.
Molasses (moh - lass - iss) is a sticky, black, old-school sweetener with a very distinctive taste. It's a by-product of the sugar making process and is extracted from the crushed sugar cane or beets. You'll see it used in Gingerbread cookies, Shoofly Pie, and some BBQ sauces. It goes really well with heavy spices or Christmasy spices.
A Kitchenette is just a small kitchen, usually consisting of a microwave, small fridge, and sometimes a sink... maybe like an air fryer or some other small appliances. It's usually placed in an area of the house where it's a pain in the butt to get to the big kitchen if you want something, like near an upstairs media or game room. That way you don't have to traipse all the way down the stairs just to get a soda or some popcorn while you're in the middle of a big COD battle or a movie.
God I love Mt. Rainier never gets old seeing it. Even my newest workplace has an awesome view of it. On a side note:One of my ancestors helped build up Tacoma,Wa as a bricklayer and Tacoma still has some amazing mansions and cool older brick roads…though will say not the best place to live based on crime statistics.
I know that stats aren't good but I grew up here and live in hilltop, I don't feel unsafe 🤷🏻♀️ keep Tacoma feared lol
My house here in south-central Pennsylvania was built circa 1900. I bought it 29 years ago from a family friend and the family filled me in on ALL the history of the house. RIP to ALL of them. That being said: Buying an old house is NOT for the faint of heart. There are CONSTANT upgrades......they NEVER end. HOWEVER: Living in an old house brings more history & atmosphere & character than you can even IMAGINE. If you've got the money & the balls, it's WELL worth the gamble....!!!! 😄
Thanks for sharing my home on sand mtn. in alabama. Yep, that's my dog "snuggles", i have to hide when i wanna drink me a brewski. She only gets to lick the empty bottle. That pic of the view off the mtn. showing the Tennessee river is not my view. I have to drive 4 miles to see that view. It's where everyone goes to walk or jog or for a picnic. Thanks again, Adam, for sharing. My wife can't believe our house was shown by someone in Northern Ireland. You are the best. Ricky T.
Crazy to see someone else from Sand Mountain on this channel. 😮 Howdy neighbor! Nice house.
@eringilbreath Thank you.😎
I love seeing how everyone else is living!!! We need a house tour from you now Adam!!! (If you’ve already done one, sorry I didn’t know lmao), but like that one guy said who took the video of the bad storm, I only have window units for AC and radiator heaters for heat in my house here in N.C., and it DOES suck when it’s super hot or super cold…. And it’s super hot here A LOT!!!
Great video adam as always!
My Grand Aunt 's, { not sure if that is even a real term but she was my Grandma's sister } house in the Knobs region of Kentucky is a log house built in 1812 . It was originally a stage coach stop . The logs are about 20 feet long and 18 inches in diameter with the old mud chinking in between the logs . It was two stories high with two rooms , each with a field stone fireplace and chimney on each side of the dogtrot in the middle . A kitchen, living room and dining room were later added onto the back . When I was a kid ,it had no running water so the toilet was an outhouse and we had to walk down to the spring each morning to bring up four 5 gallon buckets of water . Bathing when the weather was hot enough was in the cold spring fed creek on her 225 acre farm about 1/4 mile from the house . I spent several summer and Christmas vacations from school there and loved it .I really like your idea for this post , wish I had photos to share , but I now live about 800 miles from there and haven't been there for MANY years .
This community needs to ramp it up Up UP and get you over here to the US. We will leave the light on for you.
Seriously. Will host in New England!
I can show you around San Antonio
Love this guys, thank you!
Cooperstown, NY
@@donnabert Man, you beat me to it. I live alone in an 1800 sq. ft. rancher in Salem. Lots of room!
Used to live in the greater Seattle area (for about 25 years) and I loved it. The weather is the closest to UK you will find. Lots of old Victorian homes as well as lots of Arts and Crafts style homes. But the best part is the outdoors! When you have a spare moment, google images with the prompt “Seattle in spring” to see what I mean.
Love that viewers sent in their houses in response to your request. If I weren't already a subscriber I'd subscribe again just because of the community you're creating here.
I like that old blue house at 6:00 make. The skeletons on the ladder is a perfect match for the house. The Adams Family comes to mind😂😂😂
The carriage building at the Gamble House was used at Doc Browns garage and laboratory in the movie Back to the Future
I love this! Everybody’s historical stories about their homes are fascinating. Loved the Gamble House tour. We need more of these 🖤
The reason you don't see laundry shoots anymore, is because (at least in the USA) they are illegal. They create a fire chase where a dryer fire (or any other fire) has an easy route to spread to the second floor and destroy the house.
I found your channel recently because I have found that I freaking love watching people from other countries, especially the UK, react to things that I take for granted every day. This was a fantastic idea for a video series! I want more! I had to subscribe because I have to see you enjoy your trips here. You couldn't be visiting two more different parts of the country and I am here for it!
My great grandfather built the home that he and my grandmother and my mom eventually grew up in. It was 3 floors. In the 1920s there was a huge flood in the town and after that my grandfather moved the house and two floors back off the road and up the incline behind it 300ft, so it is now set back so far that the front of the house looks into the back yards of all the neighbors. I can send the before and after pics if you tell me how. I'm kind of not tech savvy. Great show seeing these old homes.
I am 71 and the type of phone back then you would pick it up and an operator would come on and say number please. You would then give them the number you were calling and the operator would connect you. If you were on what was called a party line which was several households were on the main line you could hear them talking and would have to wait to make a call until they were finished. You just hoped they weren't long winded lol.
Molasses is essentially burnt or blackened sugar syrup used in cooking and baking (like golden syrup but darker and more bitter)
Kitchenette is a small kitchen (like how a cigarette is a small cigar)
Take 10 seconds to Google or read some of the earlier comments
You described Caramel. Delicious, but not nutritious.
Molasses is all the nutritional parts of cane juice that are refined out of white sugar. Not only is it delicious as a sweetener, it's insanely nutrient dense.
@cblynn485 never said "refined sugar," nor did I mention "white sugar." Sugar is still sugar, and caramelization is a process, not limited to "refined," "white" or "beet" sugar (for which I assume you are mostly refering to) but all forms of sugar. The product caramel was named after the process, but that does not mean that every caramelized sugar is caramel, if so, then maple and other forms of syrups would be called a caramel. So no, I'm not wrong-you just assumed that I said something that I did not.
THESE are the houses most of us live in. My husband and I are from opposite coasts ( Bay Area in California for me, Wilmington, Delaware for him, and both went to Kansas State. The cost of living in my town is low compared to most places in the United States. We essentially won the lottery when we moved to town. One of the churches had hired a new pastor who owned his own home already, so they rented out the parsonage. 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, full finished basement. It seems small from the outside, as a lot of houses do, but it’s over 2k square feet. It has a central vacuum system that is rarely used anymore, but was popular and was installed in the 70’s. The house is in an average one for our area. We have about a quarter acre too. No one in the US will believe me when I say, my rent is $650 a month. But the church does not need or want to charge more and our rent is only a hundred dollars a month more now than it was when we moved in 20 yrs ago. We may not love living in Kansas all the time, but the cost of living here has kept us here. Honestly, it is a trade off. If we want to go see mountains, it’s a 10 hour drive, and the closest coastal waters are another 10 hours south to the Gulf of Mexico. So. It’s boring, but very cheap. 😊
Kitchenette is a small kitchen where meals are prepared but is too small to eat in. Usually if you have this type of kitchen, you also have a dining room where the table and chairs are located.
3:13 mount tahoma! one of the best parts about being from washington state
Molasses (Moe-lass-isss) is a viscous byproduct of refining sugar cane or sugar beet juice into sugar. It's used to sweeten and flavor foods. Molasses is also the ingredient in brown sugar that gives it its color, flavor, and moisture.
I grew up in Pasadena and was a docent for the Gamble House as a teenager in the 80s. It was one of those volunteer jobs that you strive to get as a teenager growing up in the Pasadena area for your college applications. There are so many beautiful craftsman homes in the area,
Absolutely! Pasadena is really nice.
My house was built in 1947 and had the original furnace in it until 3 years ago. We recently started to pull up the carpet in the living room and dining room and found beautiful original hardwood floors. When I bought this house in 1996, my grandfather looked at the unfinished ceiling in the basement and he said that since the floor boards from the living room were placed diagonally, there was probably nice hardwood floors and he was right! Right now my adult children are living with us so it's a little cramped but I love it! I have been watching you for years and I love your reactions, especially to hockey because that's our favorite sport!😅❤
Hello Adam...I hope you're having a good rest of your day and / or night... My home was built in 1880... it has a stone wall that runs along the road that used to protect it from the flooding until the dam was built on Berlin Lake...it's now used as a flower bed...(where u plant flowers and such) it's a 3 bedroom, 1 bath house, with a huge basement...the house is about 1800 square feet and has lots of old unique features such as oil lamps and lots of old school wood and framing...the home is very unique and im very happy to call it my own....
I was literally gonna say that first green house looks exactly like a Washington home and then boom! Mt Rainier 😂😂😂
Saaaame! Loved seeing a couple Seattle homes
I’m from Tacoma but living in Texas now, and I had the same exact thought. It’s difficult to describe how the homes look up there to Texans. But my thoughts on the WA standard colorful craftsman style home was confirmed with that view of Mt Rainier. I’d recognize that mountain anywhere.
I'm also from Oak Ridge Tn.(I was like hey I know that blue house. lol) I live out in Roane Co now. My house was built in 1916. That was before there was electricity in the area. It ,at one time was the local post office, and once a week the pony express came to pick up the mail.
About Florida: it's a beautiful state and I love it. I also have lived in the Ft. Walton Beach area. But two things in particular give it a dubious distinction: 1) it is the lightening capitol of the US; and 2) it has more sinkholes (because of its high water table and limestone bedrock) than any other state in America. I live in TX, in a pier and beam house built in 1926. The time of year determines whether the doors in my house will hang plumb or tilt, but I love it because it has beautiful original oak floors; 11 ft ceilings in every room, and established 100-year old trees in the yard. I wouldn't change a thing, except maybe for the peeling plaster in every room.
Funny Story-- Back in the 70's I was an Architecture student in college. One of the benefits of being in greater LA was the notable architecture, and part our class work was taking Saturday field trip drives. The professor assigned us areas of LA and lists of sites to visit. One trip took us down to Watts Towers. Another trip included a residential area near Griffith Park. My buddy and I were driving around looking at homes on the list and we saw the back of this really interesting 30s era house with blocky lines perched atop a ridge. "I wonder what that is?" We drove up there to investigate, and another handful of students and one of our professors happened to follow us.
We were admiring the house from the street when the owner stepped out the front door and asked what we were doing. We explained how intrigued we were with the house's architectural design. "Would you like to have a look around the property?" "YES!" He graciously invited us in to walk the grounds, and from his back balcony there were magnificent views of West LA and towards the ocean. It turned out the house and landscaping were designed by famous architects in the early 30s (contemporaries of Frank Lloyd Wright) and it had just been sold to the current owner. The house had not been seen by the public since it's construction.
Fast forward a couple of years. I'm at a R-rated B movie double feature, and mulling over whether to bother staying for _Weekend with the Baby SItter_. Movie opens with someone crossing the U.S. border at Tijuana into SD county. Wait, that's home turf, and nostalgic me decides to wait a bit. Camera follows the drive up the I5 corridor towards LA, then winding its way to through the Hollywood Hills. It turns onto a familiar looking steeply-inclined street, pulls up in front of a very familiar looking house, and then the owner of the house (actor/producer of the film) greets the visitor at the door. The movie was meh, but I finally got to see the INSIDE of that house! LOL
I love that you're seeing real houses. A lot of folks in America are very poor live in homes that they'd be ashamed to show. I hate that, but it's the truth.
The fact they own instead of rent is a achievement. Are they 1st gen to own or youngest? Be proud BC its hard to do for normal or poor ppl...
Why would anybody be ashamed? There's no shame in that..... The only thing shameful about it would be the ones that dont take care of where they live. Some people enjoy a simple life not scrounging for hollow glory and money.
Yeah, my house is basically a bunker - a basement where the guy building it ran out of money & just slapped a roof on it.
But it's very tornado resistant so I love it for that.
We put most of our effort into adding trees, shrubs, a raised bed garden & a greenhouse add-on to a newish garage.
Normally the TH-cam people that show their homes are from generational wealth or they know what they have is not average. I was raised literally dirt poor and had to struggle for everything from clothes to food. That's the point of my comment.
Agreed - but I have learned to OWN my poor. LOL. I have been a single woman/mom my entire life. I have ended up having my mother, 2 of my brothers, my son & his family, and later a family of 6 move in with me when they needed a place to live, all because I had a home. But understand my home is trash. I have always called it, my piece of White Trash Heaven. 🤣
I have lived in it for 20 years now and all the internal & external vitals (furnace, water heater, roof, etc) have now been replaced, after dying at the MOST inconvenient & cash poor time. NOW I am working on upgrades and aesthetics, with as much DIY as humanly possible.
I learned a long time ago that even if I had trash (you should see my crappy yard at this point - that is next years project), I HAD it. Even when I rented - I was luckier than most. So what you say is true - but I am proud of my piece of white trash heaven. It has protected me, some of my siblings, my mother, my child, his family, and a homeless family of 6. (It's a 924 sq ft above grade, split level, 2 bedroom home + 3 'rooms', ie: no built in closet)
Great reaction - that was a lot of fun. It is good to see the variety of houses, and especially those that are from different eras - to admire the differences in styles.
A kitchenette is a small, compact kitchen area typically equipped with basic appliances such as a fridge, microwave, sink, and sometimes a small stovetop or a space for plug-in appliances. You might have seen kitchenettes in hotel rooms, resorts, university dorms, and other compact living spaces. There are probably many homes in the UK that could fit into this category.
The Gamble House is a historic house museum. They do occasionally let people stay there. I know at least for awhile they let some students, I think preservation students, stay in the house for a short time. I used to work at Pasadena Heritage and the Gamble house is such an important piece of architecture. This was such a wonderful video!
The amount of people in this community who live in Washington is actually insane!! My fellow Washingtonians stand up!!!
representing the 206 here. 🙂
360 here!
425 when I lived there
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I’m not far from Seattle and Mt. Rainier! Any house with a view of “The Mountain” is very lucky! If you visit Seattle you might enjoy visiting some of our Irish pubs and restaurants, the Owl and Thistle, Kell’s, the Blarney Stone Pub, Muleady’s Pub, T.S. McHugh’s and Molly Maguires to name a few. You could review the food and let us know how it compares. You did well with the pronunciation of Washtucna, it’s “wash-tuck-nah” and it’s a tiny town with a population of just over 200 people! It’s about a four hour drive from Seattle, it’s on the east side of the Cascade Mountains.
I got to do TDY over in SeaTac for a month last year, I loved your city, it was a little too busy and cold for me, but I would definitely visit again 😊
@@LegitHarpyHunter you must have been here right before we had eighteen straight days of 80°+ temperatures, many of those days were in the 90°’s. We joke that summer never really arrives until the 4th of July. 😉
I have to drive 4 hours from Salem just to get my fix of Steak & Kidney Pie at Kell's!
I wish my parents' house still existed. My grandfather built it by hand shortly after marrying my grandma. It was 6 miles from the nearest small town (population 20) and 12 miles to the nearest "big" town (population 1500), and 30 miles to the nearest proper city (population 80,000). They raised their THIRTEEN KIDS in that house. It had only 3 bedrooms, but the massive wrap-around porch was sectioned off into sleeping quarters for all the kids. Mom had stories of sleeping 3 to a bed on that porch. Grandpa was quite proud of his double seater outhouse, although THANKFULLY he installed a real toilet in the bathroom in the 1970s. The house used well water instead of city water. The well water had an orangish tint and tasted of copper, but my grandparents preferred the taste and said it made for stronger bones.
After they passed away, my mother got the house. After a few years, my little sister needed a surgery, and my parents went to the city to help her out as she healed. While they were gone, a massive storm came by, tornadoes destroyed many farms, and lightning struck the house, burning it to the ground. I'm very sad to lose a house with so much family history, but I'm VERY thankful my parents were not in the home at the time this happened. Many in my family believe the timing meant my grandparents were looking after them in their own way.
Each city seems to have 'historical' districts... depending on which State as to what cultural background is on display...of course you have the odd builders that have their own vision for a project so every now and again youll find the singular design thrown into the district of history..still old but different...
The gentleman who wrote about the front and back door being in line with each other..in the south we call them 'shotgun' houses...where you could shoot straight through the home because the rooms were on either side of the hall running from front to back...there were loads of them build in the 30's and 40's.. during the depression..to house seasonal workers so you'll find blocks and blocks of this style...
Also the south is famous for wrap-a-round porches...why ?.. I really don't know..lol...
Florida has old Spanish styles as it was once owned by Spain..crazy thing.. Florida was under 5 different country's flags 🤔...
Louisiana has beautiful buildings.. especially within the French Quarters..lots of wrought iron balconies... I just recommend you Google some pics...👍😉...
Minnesota has Scandinavian flare in their homes...
The fact we have so many cultures that tended to group as they come over..has created such a wide diversity in architecture.. it's almost like touring Europe !...you name a style and we have it...
Have an excellent week..we all look forward to the day you come to visit..or stay !...
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That was fun! I am so nosy! If i get my house clean enough, I’ll send some pics. I love seeing how other people live, not to compare myself and feel superior or beneath others, but to get ideas for my own decor and get an insight to other peoples’ daily lives. Very cool.
The 2nd house in your video shows a snow covered mountain. Ascending to 14,410 feet above sea level, Mount Rainier stands as an icon in the Washington landscape. An active volcano, Mount Rainier is the most glaciated peak in the contiguous U.S.A.
You need to check out a house calling Falling Water. It was designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright and is built in Pennsylvania on a waterfall. We toured it a few years ago, and it is amazing. There are huge overhangs that go over the water. There is a staircase that opens up from the middle of the living room and goes directly into the middle of the stream.
In the US, when you find regions where basements are not typical, it's almost always because of a high water table (you hit water before you get 10' down) and/or limestone bedrock which is prone to water erosion (look for sinkhole videos) and caverns that would make digging down too unstable. The entire state of Florida deals with this issue as do other states in the American Southeast.
Americans typically love a basement, so regions that can safely construct them usually do.
Awesome video. Love that people honored your request and that you honored them by sharing and reacting with your community. Keep up the great work brother!
Good ole Sand Mtn. lol. 😅
(Am a SE TN native).
Loved the one from Oak Ridge! Have many friends there that moved there for work (the nuclear plant) 2 of my friends work as security for Y-12 and the other is an engineer! Very interesting stuff to read into!
In my 20s I moved higher up from my hometown (Chattanooga) to the edge of Cleveland/Ocoee TN, so not too far from Knox/Oak Ridge. Beautiful, beautiful areas with such rich history!
Thanks for showing my house! 😊 I loved seeing all of the others too. Yes, please do a part 2. I enjoyed seeing homes from other parts of America.
you got me! I am your uncle Gary! LOL Even weirder, I have an uncle Gary, we look identical, and share the same birthday!
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Really good representation of typical American homes, historically and architecturally important homes and from all over. Love everyone sharing their beautiful homes and stories for the video.
Glad you looked at real people's houses rather than just gushing about rich people's houses. There were a few fancy ones, and the lawns are bigger than you'd see in much of the UK, but most folks live in the smaller homes you saw. Of course there are all the apartments and mobile homes and such that didn't make it here.
The house with the lined up front and back doors is called a dog walk. They were very popular in the south because it created a breeze through the house for those hot summer days. Love your channel, you are so fun to watch!
Aren't they also called "shotgun houses?" I think I heard that on an episode of This Old House.
When they mentioned the sleeping porch on the Gamble house I remember my mother talking about them sleeping on the screened in porch during Oklahoma summers when she was a child. This was before air conditioning was common and the only way to sleep comfortably during the summer.
I subscribed after seeing how down to earth Adam is. Truly refreshing to see your reactions and appreciation for your fans. Love the channel, man!
molasses is the same thing as the "treacle" you have in the UK, only molasses is darker, thicker, and more bitter than your black treacle. We have a "light" molasses which is closer to your treacle, but we don't typically use "golden syrup" - that niche has been replaced with maple syrup for us
I live in a log cabin that was built in the 1780 that still has its original logs. It used to be one of the major properties in Howard County, Maryland back when it was built. The entire neighborhood was once a part of the property and was slowly sold over the centuries.
Off-topic, but I feel like you're gonna be at 200K subscribers before the end of the year, and I LOVE that for you!
Nice video...I love seeing different styles of houses and hearing their history
Greene & Greene architecture & woodworking is stunning! There are several books available that detail a lot of their designs and furniture. Truly inspiring!
Reminds me a bit of Frank Lloyd Wright designs. They may be old, but seem to have an almost futuristic look.
I'm also in the cascade mountain range in the Willamette Valley along the Willamette River. I live in a absolutely gorgeous tiny college town home of WOU . In the Pacific Northwest we still have some old growth forests left but here in Monmouth all through town and on the college campus we have some of the oldest biggest trees ive seen in a long time. We are surrounded by farm land and farther out mountains. Lots of mountains. The Oregon coast is around 40 minutes away . The drive takes so long because once you get going through the mountains on hwy 101. I could go on and on. Just stay away from the major cities here in Oregon!!!
This was such a fun video! I absolutely LOVED the house with the skeletons.
Molasses is a by-product of making sugar. It's very sweet, but has a deeper flavor. Think strong honey.
and STICKY AS HECK :)
Thank you for getting this right. Ihave no clue why I care, but it makes me happy.
That flavor is because it's packed with all the nutrition they removed to make white sugar. It's a true nutritional powerhouse.
It also has a lot of interesting America trivia associated with it. Google the Great Molasses flood for starters. I think it was a common ingredient in homemade baby formula before there was any commercial products. And it is used to make rum.
2:33 My beloved Mt. Ranier!!
That was a really cool video adam. I enjoyed hearing the history of the houses. Would love to see another if you do one.
Don't know how to send pictures, but my Moms house was built in 1900. It has 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. A living room, a dining room, a Butlers Pantry. Kitchens, walk in food storage closet, closed in back porch where the laundry room is. It has an attic. It also has a garage with an attached one room apartment. A large backyard with beautiful plants and a gazebo. It was originally built as a Parsonage for the Baptist Church.
Wait, is that mountains behind the home built in 1864?? I love ALL of these!! Adam, you are amazing for doing and sharing these! Already subscribed.
"Open House" is the name of a TV show that features homes around the US. The Gamble House was given to the City of Pasadena by the Gamble family. Gamble, as in Procter and Gamble. Tours are offered to the public.
Best one yet, to enjoy others Blessings brings blessings. Inspires opens new worlds and expands understanding of how regular Americans live outside the city.
Please do a part 2…it’s so interesting hearing the background stories with the photos/videos. Though I did find it kinda funny that most of the ones shown in this video are around 100 years old, especially since the average American home is between 42-51 years old…aka built 1973 or later. (me typing this while in my 106 yr old Central California home 😂 I promise, the irony doesn’t escape me)
Many homes up until the early 1900s were larger as families had many more children back then. The Gamble house didn't use ANY nails or screws. You can literally take it apart with a mallet. The Gamble family house is a custom made home, currently owned by a museum. There are many other Arts and Crafts homes in that area of California, Buffalo & Rochester NY, and Pennsylvania. Some experts suggest that it could be worth tens of millions of dollars... because of the building tech used, it's beauty, size, and bespoke design. A normal, mass produced, house that size could cost closer to $250,000.
This was really cool to see so many different homes from all over...each one with a unique story 😊
In Florida we have to worry about sinkholes some places the house sold you can get insurance from the mortgage company but as soon as your mortgage is paid off your without insurance because the area is a sinkhole area. They wouldn't tell you anything about it until you got to get your own insurance and can't take back your money from the builders. The company that built your house is gone and the builders start a new one. The build the house with sinkholes because the land is cheap.
Never doubt those Sears box houses, make your own, the Brady Bunch had one there is down the way still, lovely crowd. Always offering to take off the yard clippings.
The Gamble House in Pasadena, CA is the most famous example of the Arts & Crafts movement in the US and began with this very house. There are other amazing examples of this style in Pasadena as well.
I showed your videos to my Irish American family. They loved it!
What a fun video! Thanks to everyone that shared their lovely homes. It was very interesting. ❤️🤗👍
This is so cool. I love looking at houses and especially old homes
Gamble House must be a tour house, probably owned by a non-profit conservation group. The Gambles were a merchandising family - owning hardware/general merchandise stores across the country. Now the name is associated with Proctor and Gamble. yep - them. Good job folks sending Adam a better representation of average American homes!
I live north of Oak Ridge Tennessee, we are within a nuclear strike here being 100 miles from Oak Ridge! They still produce nuclear weapon"s materials there! A lot of government production buildings and science buildings still in use there. Great history there! The original living quarters were enclosed with chain link fencing and no one outside of the community was allowed inside the fence!
You should look into my favorite Architectural Design for a house:
Fallingwater is a house designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935. Situated in the Mill Run section of Stewart township, in the Laurel Highlands of southwest Pennsylvania, about 70 miles (110 km) southeast of Pittsburgh in the United States,[4] it is built partly over a waterfall on the Bear Run river. The house was designed to serve as a weekend retreat for Liliane and Edgar J. Kaufmann, the owner of Pittsburgh's Kaufmann's Department Store.
My home was built in the 50s. Small house so I hope to one day raise the roof for a second floor :)
Old phones - they didn't need dials because you picked up and were connected to an operator who would then physically connect your call. "Hello operator? Can you connect me to the pharmacy on, blah blah street?"
Architectural features of the Gamble was really popular where architects were building in upper ends structures. The Pasadena Playhouse is similar. A feature of this design is little to no nails in these buildings
A kitchenette is an additional mini kitchen. Sometimes in the basement or on upper floor. Usually has a small refrigerator, a sink, a microwave and possibly a hot plate.
The Gamble makes me want to tell you about Bolt castle in NY and Gleensheen Mansion on lake Superior. Both absolutely beautiful legends of houses.
Facts about FL. When i was a kid i would dig holes in the back yard (i had an area for it) and id be down maybe 3 ft before i hit mud. Keep going a little further and it was so moist the hole would start to pool water at the bottom.
I'm glad I found this channel. I'm enjoying your content while on paternal leave. Much love from New York.
SO COOL that one of your viewers is a cop so cool. Maybe do another video of some fun malls or photos of what people do for fun near where they live. Is there a fun lake to go to or hiking spot ect. It's fun to see people in other states. Thanks for all that you do my friend much love to you and your family hope all is well. 🙏❤🙂
This needs to become a series.
That submission from northeast Alabama, on Sand Mtn, is not very far from where I live. I live on the other major mountain, at the southern end of the Appalachians, Lookout Mountain. There is a canyon just a few miles from my house(that I helped build as a young lad, back in 1985), on my families land(been in the family since the late 1860s). The house I grew up in before we built the 'new' house, on the same plot of 160 acres, was originally built in the 1920s.