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This is just comparing older home to a modern home. If you live in a prewar, vintage or country home in USA you will find many similar things
This is true. I just stayed in an historic (late 19th Century) Airbnb home that had many of its original fixtures. All of the bedrooms still featured the old push button light switches. I noticed a coal shoot door on the side of the house, too. It was a cold and drafty place, but we all had lots of warm blankets to snuggle under.
Some of these things can be found in homes from the 1970s all the way up to modern homes today
Eh, maybe. For one thing, the US has grown so much since the mid 20th century (130M in 1940 vs 330M today) that probably 3/4 of US housing stock is post-WWII. But that aside, I live in a neighborhood where the oldest houses were built in the 1920s and our own house was built in 1940. Even so, none of them had pull chain lights for anything other than maybe a closet or corner of the basement. You will still see boilers in some pre-war houses, though, as retrofitting duct work is a huge job (and now people with those houses are more likely to install mini-splits), but that's about it. I don't think putting laundry facilities in the kitchen was ever a thing in the US (except maybe in NYC apartments where space is at an extreme premium and where having space for your own washer/dryer is a luxury).
@@markweaver1012 I lived in NYC and have seen many of those things. Also have homes in the mid west and saw those things among family and neighbors. And yes, visited relatives and friends in other places around the country and saw all types of modernity with no sign of the old age.
@@Myraisins1 Well, I live in Michigan, and I've seen countless homes over the decades and have never seen one with a pull chain light in a living area or a kitchen or bath with a double-tap sink. I have seen older homes with boilers and radiators -- those are difficult and expensive to swap out. But I definitely believe you about cramped, outdated, substandard housing in NYC. For one thing, landlords really aren't in any hurry to upgrade rent-controlled units.
- In the US we had separate faucets like that in the 1910s
- I'm looking forward to UK building codes recognizing that the technology for Ground Fault Interrupt outlets for bathrooms exists.
Ouch.
In my house from the early 2000s has separate faucets for hot and cold here in Wisconsin
@@richards1191 Ah. I would say that must have been a deliberate choice then.
@ don’t know. I didn’t buy it new. You can still walk into Menards, Home Depot or Lowe’s and buy new faucets that are 2 piece
@@richards1191 Yeah... There are people who like "old time charm". I don't mind the faucets that are the same style but have two taps and a single faucet in the middle. Otherwise a lot of homes have the control over the faucet that you lift up to turn on and rotate left or right to adjust the temp.
Happy New Year to you Millie, James, Archie and Vicki ❤️. I hope this year is blessed for you!
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Millie, maybe next time you come to the US you and James should go to some open house tours. It would be fun for you to see things for yourselves
Some of the things she's describing in British homes are also in older American homes.
My great-aunt was in a beautiful older house built in the 1920s by her first husband. It had pull strings for lights. She had separate hot and cold taps, a rubber stopper to prevent the water draining from the sink. There was no shower - just a cast iron tub.
Older floor plans had separate living (lounge), dining, and kitchens were closed off by doors to keep them separate from everything else. Larger homes had a butler's pantry. Laundry in the basement.
In the U.S. we like an open floor plan. That way you can still see your guests and socialize with chatting while you cook. It also allows you to keep an eye on your kids without them being in the way when you cook. As far as laundry is concerned, many houses in the U.S. have a washer and dryer on the upstairs / bedroom floor. Its more convenient than carrying the clothes down a flight of stairs to wash and carrying them back up the stairs to put them away.
Now we do.. At least here in Phoenix, our home is open.. But the homes built 20-25 years ago in Sun city, sun city west, and even pebble creek were NOT open.. most have the typical living room, kitchen sometimes with eating area, formal dinning room, half baths.. laundry rooms, master bedrooms with full bath.. and office or second bedroom and finally a guest bath of some sort. All that said.. There are many different types of housing, depending where you live.
I have never seen the laundry area set up on the ground floor in a home with a basement. We don’t have basements in most of the homes around me in Texas, so the laundry is on the ground floor.
Depends on where you live. Where I live ranch style homes are the most common. Most people don’t have a second floor so we do laundry on the main level or the basement.
I hate open floor plans, makes me feel like I’m living in a warehouse. However, as my grandma used to say, to each his own said the woman as she kissed the purple cow.
I don't like it. It's less cozy. Cools and heats less efficiently. I don't have parties, just small get togethers, and we can just all be in one room.
In the US, a small apartment where space is at a premium, will have the washer in a closet in the hallway, either near the bathroom or the kitchen (any source of water really).
You can find electrical outlets that are switched, but not on the receptical cover as show, but rather on the wall in a 2, 3, 4 (or more) gang set of switches. The idea is that outlet is used for a lamp, and the switch makes it switchable, often that switch (or set of switches) is next to the door so you can switch on the lamp using a wall switch.
Happy New Year Millie....looking forward to a new year of You, James and Archie....!!!!
Umm. Here in America I stil wash my dishes in the sink.
Many houses and flats in the US have kitchens as a room separate from the dinning room and kitchen. The reason Brits and Europeans have washers in their kitchens is they don’t have basements. Almost all old houses in America have a basement, it’s unusual to not have one. It was used to store root vegetables and preserved foods and was the most easily plumbed space for a washer then a dryer when they became a thing. The basement is also a safe space in case of tornadoes. The plant is called a jade plant and has no superstition concerning it in the US.
True we tend to have attics here in the uk , don't forget we have limited space we build up instead. Most of the land here is farm land and green spaces , so when you see our towns the houses are tightly packed together . rural areas have villages where cottages can be spaced out more . 😊
We have the washers in the kitchen , because that's where all the plumbing is =-P
Houses with basements are uncommon in California, unfortunately.
@@DonMachado When I was helping my friend buy a house we found that houses in Ohio don't always have basements. I thought just about everyone had a basement and this wasn't the case. I wouldn't buy a house without a basement in Ohio. We have to many tornados.
More often than not, you aren't burning your food and therefore can smell the goodness in the livingroom lol
Washing machines can be found in kitchens in the U.S., usually in some sort of cubby that is like a large closet in the kitchen, and it houses the furnace and hot water heater along with the washer and dryer. Typically found in smaller homes. Larger homes, especially ones with basements, you'll find those items in the basement. (like that in my split level) home in which I live.
If you have all of those things in a room/closet/cubby off the kitchen, that would be considered a laundry room. It’s not in the kitchen under the counter next to the kitchen sink like they would have it in Britain. Also, laundry rooms are typical in newer homes. Having your washer and dryer in the basement is something that was done in older homes.
that water heater is just a tankless water heater. its very common in the US just only usually in higher end new houses. source, plumber for 10 years in colorado
In the States…Open Floor plans utilize space by not adding extra walls and doors…it is more functional…something burned in the kitchen?So what?..Maybe you made cookies..now the fresh baked cookie smell makes the house feel more welcoming and homey…it’s rare things get burned…so I would not worry about the kitchen being a room by itself…it,is more confining…as though you need more room…it feels crowded..The United States is 3,000 miles wide from ocean to ocean…we have bigger houses because we have more land to build and expand on…England is an Island…so this comparison, as well intended as it may be…is self explanatory…England has not the space to build as we do here…and we have so much empty land…and 2/3 of America is federal property, National Parks, Mountains, Streams and rivers…
Not exactly a fair comparison, if she visited 3000 homes it might make sense.
No. In America we don’t open windows by sliding left to right. We slide them up and down.
Except in bathrooms
I’m in the US ( Southern California). My home was built in the mid 1970’s. The windows slide to the left to open and to the right to close.
@@davidcosta2244 in older American homes (pre 1970) even the windows slid up and down. In newer American homes there aren’t any bathroom windows.
@ yeah. Most American bathrooms haven’t even had windows since the early 1970s. Before that they opened up and down.
We had a wonderful Christmas and New Year this time. Our oldest grandson is home on leave from Germany. I made the traditional Mew Year dinner: blackeyed peas, hog jowl, greens (collards for us) and cornbread.
10:46 - In English that's a Jade plant.
The separate hot and cold faucets with two separate water outlets no longer meet national US plumbing codes and havent for some time - in the kitchen a single lever faucet s SO much more convenient when doing dishes and such, same in the bathroom a single lever faucet is whats usually found, though you can still have two handles but only one water outlet to make it easy to temp. the water.
Yes most of the taps in the uk are mixed taps now
The string light and separate taps are both safety features. Older homes had a style of wiring where wet hands could get a shock from regular switches. That is why the switch is always a string not a chain. The taps are because the hot water used to be connected to the boiler and radiators and was not potable water. If the taps were joined as is common today, a fault could contaminate the potable water (cold) for your house and possibly the neighbours.
Happy New Year!!
I was confused at first because I've never heard an US accent like that (except from my Russian piano students and their parents), but she did say she was from Russia, which makes sense now. Good video.
This lady, Marina, is from St. Petersburg, Russia.
I was wondering where she was from. She is clearly not from the US or the UK; the accent is wrong.
9:04 in the US there is a water heater that can be that small in a house but it's usually in a lanuary room.
Or garage
I've seen little "on demand" units inside houses. A lot of the new homes that I've been in have offered an "instant hot" spigot at the sink that appears to be using an on-demand tank. I have a separate water dispenser in my kitchen though. It dispenses hot/cold/room temp water on demand. They are quite handy.
Open kitchen to a living room is good for families with small kids. You can watch the babies playing in the living room while you cook and wash dishes
We also have a type of outlet with a button. GFCI Outlets. It shuts off automatically to prevent shocks. The button is to turn it back on after it shuts off. Or turn it off maybe in a kid's room or if someone has dementia. Those outlets continually monitor the flow of electricity and automatically shut off power when necessary. USA Electrical code requires that GFCI receptacles be installed in bathrooms, wet areas of kitchens, basements, and outdoors, but I also put them in my entertainment room because that is where I have a lot of electronics to plug in. Not sure I need it there but I like the concept that they shut themselves off if they sense danger. They cost $10-ish per outlet, so I put them everywhere that I was renovating. Worth it to not have to worry.
In the US, those pull chains for lights are almost always in closets or attics, on older homes.
I've never seen one like that in a primary room, other than on a ceiling fan, but that's in addition to the wall switch.
Many years ago my great aunt lived in a really old house and it has a pushbutton switch on the wall like in the really old black and white movies. I haven't seen a pushbutton light switch in decades. It's almost always an up/down switch. My brother went fancy and has the rocker panel switches. Oh well.
Here its just soke bathrooms
I live in suburban Chicago, so I probably have more yard space than even the average American city dweller, but one of the things that fascinated me about visiting London was how close the homes were to each other and how close they were to the street. Little to no front yard.
Another thing that surprised me was how many push-button flush toilets there were. Over here, we generally have the lever flush.
Push button toilets are modern and water savers, i got one and my water bill dropped drastically. Those old lever toilets last forever though, thats why so many people still have them.
As a rural living american, I think my 2.5 acre yard is small.
The basement of my mom's northern Illinois home (built in 1915) still has pull-cord light fixtures.
The plant is called a Jade Plant in the US. I like when the kitchen is connected to the family room (not the formal living room). Anyone looking after children would not necessarily want them underfoot in the kitchen while cooking, but within eyesight. Having these two areas connected helps. Also, the kitchen is the hub of activity. Having a kitchen closed off means the cook is relegated to not being part of anything while cooking. As for the outlets, I do like the idea of an on/off switch. However, we have a lot of outlets to having to remember to turn them off and on.
8:20 I live in an apartment complex so we have a communal laundry room, but we do have our own kitchen and bathroom and a walk in closet, living room and bedroom.
My friends craftsman house build in 1911 has a washing machine in the kitchen. He quickly removed it & and installed one in the detached garage.
I lived in Suffolk for 4 years. Had mixed kinda hot and cold tap. I say kinda because hot water in back cold in front so kinda mixed but not really.
The main difference is that older houses in the UK do not have open floor plans. Our house is 2yrs old. With 2 large rooms downstairs - kitchen/dinning and living room. We have 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. All sinks have mixer taps. We don't have pull cords, that's for very old houses. All power sockets are switched, unless they haven't been upgraded. Old houses quite often have the bathroom downstairs as it is an add on, when it became compulsory to have a bathroom.
06:40 ... We call the Duvalay, "quilted comforter bedspread" or just a "comforter". Technically Duvalay is the trademark name for the cover/bedspread but it's been made into a generic name for the thick cover a lot like any dark soda is called a "Coke".
Also, I have noticed that the bedrooms in UK houses seem to be half the size of US bedrooms. The one at this timestamp looks to be the size of the master bedroom's closet in my house, or the main closet in my hallway. Are all bedrooms so small in the UK?
I work in a very old factory that has the faucets separated like that, except in the kitchen. I have worked here since the 1980s and this is the first time I have heard that we should be stopping the sink and mixing the water that way. I only use one faucet and it is just to wash my hands after going to the bathroom. Years ago, there was a study that you can get the germs off your hands even in cold water, so I use that and sometimes hand sanitizer.
Open concept homes are fairly new. My family home was in a neighborhood where homes were built in the 20s to 40s. The floor plan was, starting at the front door, vestibule, living room, dining room, breakfast room and kitchen. There was a swing door between the kitchen and breakfast room like in restaurants. And sliding doors between breakfast room and dining room.
I’m not comfortable with open concept kitchen/family rooms. Too many distractions with tv, kids, pets, etc.
Windows going out isn't unheard of here. My parents had an addition to our modest house in Bloomington MN and the windows installed have a crank to move them out. Until I saw this video, I hadn't realized that I couldn't think of anyone else that had windows like this, though. Also, my home in Minneapolis, which was built in 1948, as a doorway to the kitchen that may have had a door at one point (not in the 30 years I've owned it.) I think she must be used to open concept houses, which hasn't always been as popular as it is now.
Aloha 🤙 There is still 1 remnant of a pull-string light in my Gram's (Nan's) upstairs bathroom [original part of the raised house, preceding ground level add-ons]. The 💡socket is still in the wall, but the string is gone. The plug still works 🔌🤙
On off switches on your switch plates, because you have powerful current running through them. Where ours is 110 volts, yours is 230 volts.
Happy New Year to the channel. I had some pull chain lights in my house when I bought it but it was a hundred years old.
I see them occasionally in the US too but usually in closets or pantries.
Happy New Year 🎉🎉
We call those weeds here in the states, ha!
Older houses in USA have separate rooms
OMG STOP BUYING FOOD FROM THE INTERNET BEFORE WE HAVE NO MORE GROCERY STORES TO BUY FOOD FROM!
When I was a child our house had a kitchen as a separate room. It was built in the late '40's
I lived in Boston for years where there are a lot of old stone, brick, and brownstone style townhouses divided up into apartments and you still will often find the annoying double tap in the bathroom. The last apartment I lived in before moving to a house outside the city had the hot and cold separate. It really is a massive oversimplification to compare US houses with homes in other countries because houses in the US vary widely depending on region of the country, age of the house, and the socioeconomic status of a given neighborhood or town.
British home trends appear to be 40-50 years behind the US/Canada:
* Radiators are inefficient heat sources.
* The ignorant idea that switches on outlets does anything worthwhile... It makes no difference if the outlet is on, or off. What does matter is if the plugged in device has its own power switch/button "off" (no power used), or powered on (power being consumed).
* Plumbing not concealed inside walls, etc, is weird, and considered to be of crude quality, by construction standards in North America.
* Mixed-flow taps have been common in the US, for around since like the 1390's. (The single handle mixer tap was invented in 1937, by Alfred Moen.)
A lot of Uk homes (and Homes in Europe for that matter) are older than the USA and Canada, never mind the homes in those countries!! :) (as for 'mixed flow taps being common in the US since the 1390's I suggest you go and study your history as you clearly were not paying attention the first time. :) )
@@RobG001The poster that you were so quick to correct obviously made a typographical error. This happens a lot when people type without looking at the keyboard. Two numbers were switched.
@RobG001 The poster that you were so quick to correct obviously made a typographical error. This happens a lot when people type without looking at the keyboard. Two numbers were switched.
I do love the switch on your outlets.
I’m from the US, the kitchen and both bathrooms have outlets that control both the lights and plugs have an on and off switch.
@@marydavis5234 Must be a crap shoot of death when you have wet hands then LOL
I saw "Rubbish" and instantly heard Vicky Pollard shouting, "that's so rub-ash!!"
A lot of home in the USA are built wood framed 2x2 so thin only ment to last a certain number of years.
Happy New Year!
I love those AGA stoves though!!! Wish I could have one!!!
Tell that lady to stop burning $#!+. Lol
Millie I know you have watched a couple of videos of an American home being built, but I really wish you would watch this one as it shows more than any other. Also they give the cost of each phase and a total at the end. They show finishing the interior walls after the insulation is in place. Just a good video. It is One year time-lapse of our custom home. By Faris & Lisa.
This woman makes the assumption that all Brits live in the same kind of house throughout Britain. Houses and living conditions vary in many ways.
I grew up in a US home built in 1949, and the home in which currently I live was built in 1948. Both had/have doors between the kitchen and the living-room, though my parents always kept theirs open. The differences the video highlights seem to me like things that evolved out of adapting 18th and 19th Century homes to 20th Century features like plumbing fixtures and kitchen appliances.
Yes houses in the UK in the 50s were like that door from kitchen to dining room
alot of older american homes have the separate hot water and colder water lines and faucets.
I lived in an apartment in NYC with separate hot and cold taps in the bathroom and I hated it!
You can buy all heights of toilets for your home.
3:01 that's interesting because we still do have pool lights but it's usually houses that were built many decades ago. I don't think that that was the case for anything built after ... 1970?
I was so confused that British people didn't rinse off their just washed dishes!
OK I'm still confused by that. How is that hygienic? How does the dish or utensils not taste like soap?
8:51 also we tend to have a dishwasher in the kitchen where the washing machine is in this photo.
I’ve seen it in some houses from the 80s
Happy New Year Millie! Same to James, Archie , Vicky and your mom
When showing the bedroom she didnt mention UK homes dont have closets. They use wardrobes .some newer homes is US have walk in closets
How often does she burn dinner? I don't think I would design a Floorplan on my inability to cook.
I grew up in a house with a separate kitchen and let me tell you, when my mom would burn something the smell worked its way throughout the house. To be more accurate, it was us kids burning something not mom...😊 she was a great cook whose food is very dearly missed
🎉Happy New Year
My house has the washer and dryer in the kitchen. They're not under the counter but the tops of the machines have kitchen things on them. When i moved in there was also a water heater inside the cabinet next to the washer. I put in a full-size water heater in the basement, and that cabinet has the dish washer inside now.
Now we know "what British people do." 😅
USA I see a picture of a GB house , it's stone with a dead grass roof. Is that true?
Videos showing UK washing machines in the kitchen never mention a clothes dryer. Are they combination washer/dryer machines or are clothes lines more common?.. Seems unlikely to use a clothes line since the UK weather is often said to be cloudy and rainy.
Hi in all the apt. or houses I lived with my parents had the laundry in the kitchen an we live in Brooklyn, NY
This woman isn't British or American, so I'm not sure how she's an expert on either country's homes. She sounds Eastern Euro or something.
She said that she was from Russian when she was talking about kitchens being cut off from the main living space in the UK (and, similarly, in RU).
Like you pointing out the things in your house being more modern I’m always saying to the videos from Lawrence and Feli from Germany. They live in old houses in Chicago and Cincinnati. Our newer homes in Texas are not like what they point out.
She didn't mention closets
That is a biggie. In the US, realtors do not like to refer to a room as a bedroom if there is no built-in closer. If it doesn't, they lists homes with some euphemistic terms such as "private office" or "bonus room".
@@lilliputlittle yup
No such thing as a typical house in the States. BTW, she is completely clueless and clearly understands NOTHING about American homes.
If i had to have my clothes washer in the kitchen I'd prefer a door also
I definitely relate to liking to be cold. Getting warm is so good that it's worth getting cold just so you can get warm.
I’m trying to figure out what Millie is drinking. We can probably rule out root beer…
Why would she not start the tour of the house from the front door instead of the bathroom? Hopefully she's not a real estate agent.
She is russian, dont try to make any sense of those people
Wow that sound when the numbers fly in was obnoxious
Millie, Marina is actually Russian. I've been watching her channel off/on for years.
Not really at typical British house seems more like cheap student accommodation
Ewwwww. They call it a duvet in England! I wonder what America calls it?🤔Oh yeah, a duvet.🙄 I am from the Texas, but I do have friends in the north who have homes with radiators.😆
Is that the "Home Alone" house behind you?
Seems like it.
I grew up in a house built in the 60s and they all had washing machines in the kitchen. Our dryer was out in the garage 😊
NC was the only place I lived in and had laundry in the garage or in a room on the back porch. It was odd, but it worked out just fine. In Missouri we had them mostly in the basement, and here in Texas we largely have them on the ground floor (sometimes in a laundry room and sometimes in a laundry closet).
After watching this I am even more convinced about 2 things regarding British homes and people...charm and class.
FALSE 😂😂😂
Backward and inferior 😊
You don't rinse your dishes....how's your stomach, because your dishes aren't clean. Read the bottle. Soap, grease, and every meal you've ever had is on that dish, your utensils, and your pots. How do you have a water shortage with all that rain.
Most people do
I want to know wth she is burning that the fan over the stove can’t suck up and her whole house smells. 🤔
I am questioning this video of how she is comparing things from the US to British? I lived in a house in California with windows that opened out, lights that had cords. Sounds like the person who is comparing is not exactly educated enough to do a video on the differences. BTW, I love watching your channel.
She did mention that she is from Russia and has lived in both England and the US and are comparing the differences ,she has seen between both countries
with open floor plans I've never known anyone whose living room smelled like fried chicken, or pot roast... not sure why the smell doesn't stay, but its has not been an issue. Maybe our ventilation system is different.
Laundry rooms take more pipe and electric wiring let alone to make a room just for that .
My laundry room has the main water pipes ,so it was easy to hook up the washing machine ,instead of added more pipes to another room
UK houses are very small
Not all of them. Ones built in towns in the 40s maybe
Hi from Mass a two ships. Near Basket ball hall of fame. Where is Jersey? I look all over GB map can not find it. Is it a island off France? Happy New Year.
Yes
Millie and James live on the island of Jersey.
Honestly...was not impressed at all #1.nothing says Bon Appetit like doing shity baby diapers in your cooking area. #2. every room looked like it was on the edge of being seedy. #3 You actually called that a living room? #4. so if some thing is buring in the kitchen with a closed door how the hell would you know? #5. Back yard. looks more like an empty lot. Yeah Yeah I know each house/apartment is different but why did you choose to highlight this one
Why are you burning your food?
she has a strange accent, almost asian, maybe east European. I don’t think she from the US.
She's Russian
I’m not Russian either.
Happy New Year. Best Wishes. This lady's name is Marina. She is from Russia but now lives near Palo Alto, California ("Silicon Valley"). Her other YT channel is called "Silicon Valley Girl".
Happy New Year to the Beesleys!! I hope you guys have a great 2025!
Sorry, but I couldn't watch this woman. She was bashing the Brits and wasn't taking into account the old-fashioned home she was showing us isn't universal across the UK.