Turkish homes are weird because...
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- Did you ever move abroad and notice any differences in the houses?? When I moved to Turkey it took me QUITE some time to adjust to Turkish apartments! No door handles, closing the curtains constantly, and of course bird doorbells.
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Most of the doorbells in Turkey are either birds or Für Elise
i was thinking the same thing
OMG FÙR ELISE LOL SO RIGHT
Bizim evde okul zili gibi
İsmine baktımda reis eskiden sidikli yumurta diye bir kanal vardı onun gibi olmuş ne alaka afrikalı japon.
7:15 eğer lavaboda biri varsa buzlu camdan gelen ışıkla lavabonun dolu olduğunu anlaya biliyoruz
doğru bir şey aslında ama yine de ona rağmen içeri dalacak insanlar var ışık kalmıştır diye falan
Our bathroom door has a window because in that way the person in the other side of the door can see if the lights are off or on. And they can see if there is someone in the bathroom or not without knocking the door. In my house the window is at the top of the door which I think is more efficient.
That makes sense. Is the window opaque for some privacy through?
@@seaofroses8888 yea
@@seaofroses8888 Window on the bathroom door is opaque and upper side of the door, so you can see if lights are on or off but nothing else.
There's usually space between the door and floor in US homes. I can see a light there. But I can't see what is going on in the room at all.
@@annp9704 I feel like that is rare. Unless you're in a public restroom..there's like 6 inches of space under the door and walls. Its annoying and unnecessary😂
The weird shape of the walls and ceilings are due to the construction technique. In most of the world reinforced concrete technique is valid. In this technique you have columns and beams which may have different thiknesses than the regular wall. So the thick walls that you see are columns and beams. On the other hand, In America you have steel construction technique of which columns and beams are usually thinner and easily hide within the walls and floors. This gives you a regular space for the room. But the steel construction technique is difficult and expensive for high apartment blocks. You usually have detached houses with gardens in America :)
This is why it’s so much more painful to stub your toes in a Turkish home 😂
Plus American suburban houses are wood structure and max 2 stories so its a light weight to carry for the buildin u dont need that much of engineering, but when you go high up with concrete you need a lot of columns and beams to carry the weight.
turkey isn't the only place in the world that uses reinforced construction, its just that people in turkey want to save as much space and weight as possible and the old apartments used to have sobas(fire place i geuss ) , other rich countries do there walls straight.
Exactly this. Many Turkish buildings were built in the 50s and 60s when reinforced concrete was common for apartment blocks. We have them in mid-20th century buildings here in London too. Whatever you do, don't get rid of them :)
@@gmegennis Western, and SOme Southern parts of Anatolia own to best ancient theatres during Helenistic ad Roman periods
and still even today architectural fundamentals are being imitated. because they set the many rules 2300 years ago. It was once a school in architecture ...
You don't have ancient theatre in Britain ! Do you ????
When she said doorbell I immediately thought of the bird 😂😂 I KNEW IT...
lol me too :)
was it just me thought about the Für Elise? Come on Guys! Our national school bell and doorbell 😂
@@ozdenozbek8927 THAT TOO OMG...
I haven't even noticed until this video that that sound was a bird 😁
Its actually better not to have door handle.This way even if you forget the lock the door ıt wont open unless you have a key.
Thanks!
btw there is a dot on the "i" in english as the default letter, it's a common thing that Turks miss!
This is only for the lowercase "i", the upper case "I" is the undotted uppercase Turkish "I"
@@doggo7567 bu kadar cümleyi yazan adam da küçük harf ile ı yazmaması gerektiğini kesin bilmiyordur. İyi oldu açıkladığın 😁
On the other hand, it may be useless as well. If you are the person who forget the key in house suddenly, you cant open the door like everyone. :D
@@BrittCatharina it makes a difference. Checking doors if they are unlocked is easier if there is handle. If there is no handle it will be harder to find a unlocked door. Plus most of the doors are protected against credit card opener.
I am living in England and we have door handle on our flat's door. People just come in without knock if it's not unlock and it's not nice. Turkish people doesn't like the other people able to access their home without keys= permission x
Jeez, what kind of neighborhood do you live in? I live in America and in 40 years I've never experienced people entering my apartment like that. Even family members who drop by don't dare to enter like that nor the mail guy. Here in America respect for private property is a religion. Only people with bad manners enters your apartment like you have explained.
@@edwin11373 Hey Edwin, people use buzzer at downstairs, I let them in to the building and they think they could come to flat too. They are usually family and friends. But in Turkey, we use buzzer to go in to the building and ring again in front of the flat. In England, there is no doorbell next to my flat door, so people who I already let them in to the building, they use door handle and let themself in...there is no bad intention but it's just weird...:)
aynen katılıyorum dingonun ahırına çevirirler evi önüne gelen girer içeri aileden bile olsa (akrabağlar) o şekilde girmemeli içeri
My Home is My Private. Even My Brother Shouldn't Enter If I Don't Allow. I May Not Have Locked The Door And We May Be In Inappropriate Situations With My Lover/Wife. Even if I stay alone, this situation in Turkey can be called "rape on the house" and even criminal action can be initiated depending on the course of the event. :)
İlk kez Türklerden çok yabancılar yorum atmış, çünkü altyazı yok 😂
Altyazı mecvut 🙂
Türklerin yorumları da yabancı :D
@@suheylaturan3108 ilk çıktığı haftada yoktu şu an var
@@sumeyrasahinn395 hahahhaha sende ilk hafta izlememişsin zaten
5 bin liraya biz 1 ay zor geçinemiyoruz abla ne perdesi. Ve sen hangi manyaklarla yaşadın Allah aşkına?! Sabah olunca gözümüzü açmadan perdeleri açan bir milletiz biz dhhdhfncudjfjhdh
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Yes turkish people like curtains, but we have thin curtains for the day time (it lets day light in) and thick curtains for night. It is for privacy reasons and also it is looks prettier that way ( in that sense, Turkey offers a very large variety of choices, for everyone taste) . In my home for my veranda and because there is no neighbours at that side of my home, there is no curtain, and it is a problem for my mom:) she does not understand how can i live like this :). For her it is like the house is naked. :). But she does open all her curtains all the time. We live in belgium
The door handle from outside of door is not good And necessarry
Because if door is not locked someone can get into house without having keys
If that someone is you and you forgot keys, than it's a good thing.
@@nikolajankovic96 always carry second key in wallet
exactly
I didn’t understand a single word written here, learn English properly.
@@bodoor8172 hatalarim olabilir ama yazdığım şey anlaşılır dostum
the extra walls are called "kiriş" that are going through the iron or something that keeps the building up. But yes they make decoration difficult
Amerika da genelde ucuz olsun diye betonerme ev yerine prefabrikten hallice (ama güzel görünür o ayrı ;) evler yapıp sağlam kar marjiyla pahalı pahalı satarlar taki kasırga fırtına çıkana kadar ;) ... Koy kasırganın ortasına bizim laz müteahhitin yaptığı evi bak bakalım birşey oluyor mu ;))). neyse, e haliyle , kolon yok kiriş yok odalar tam kare, dikdörtgen ;) ...
Also we have a lot of earthquakes so buildings have to be sturdy.
umm- I live in America and when you were talking about how Turkish houses had some extra wall and ceilings I was like ok that a little weird
And For Some Reason, I started to look around my house. only to realize that I also had the same excess walls
And I was sitting thinking THEIR houses were weird when I had the Same Exact (ok maybe not exact) Walls as them
Karma at it's finest
09:28 In ancient times (for example, in the Ottoman Period) birds were communicated with. They would write a letter on the paper at the foot of the pigeon and send it to another person. When the heard the bird sound, it was said "news has arrived". That's why mostly door sounds are bird sounds. It is hoped that what comes is good news.
Olaya Hiç Böyle Bakmamıştım Mk.. :O
OMG I realized that is a lot of things are semilar between Turkey and my country (Lebanon)
These things are not weird for me at all:)
Yeah, we close to each other. Same geography.
@@telifyiyenadam3491 evet, doğru:)
yes that is true :)
Well. We ruled over you for 300+ years so
@@adonis1168 yes I khow
@@adonis1168 Why did u remind this to him xD Actually we affected each other a lot. And I love Lebanon cuisine.
11:45 Bu doğru. Çünkü biz kapıyı açmak için sadece "açıl susam açıl" deriz :)
Most underrated comment 😂
Hahhaha
Nye Bu Kadar Komik Geldi Bu Bilmiyorum.. :D afdgfhfkjhlş
In Italy we use shutters all the time along with the curtains 😄 Shutters completely isolate us from the outside world.
we also do. my mom never skips the shutters, shutters are even more important tho.
those shutters are really needed for a good deep sleep. Especially in Canada, as sunrise at 4:30 am even earlier in some areas. Even though we are using blackouts, it is not efficient as shutters
@@HO-uv7eb agreed.
Taparelle. I wished we had those in the US.
Ben iç mimarım. Çok güldüm. Sevimli şekilde anlatman çok hoş.
1- Göçebe kültüründen geldiğimizi bilmen gerek. "yurt çadır" diye aratıp fotolarını göreceğin yarım günde sökülebilen çadırlar ruhumuza sinmiştir. Pencereleri yoktur. Tek pencere giriş kapısındadır.
2- Oda mantığı yoktur. İç boşluğa otağ denir. Oda sözcüğü oradan geliyor. Bizde her oda bir otağ dır. Bütün odalarda ışık alması için ve öte tarafta biri var ise görelim diye buzlu cam vardır.
3- Salon Türkler 'de kullanılamayan, misafir için bir şeydir. Zaman içinde yatak odası, oturma odası gibi ayrımlara gidildi. Aile birlikteliği çalışır. Batı kültüründeki kişisellik son YY. için tanışılan bir şey.
4- Kolon ve kiriş ler 30-50 cm. vs. gibi mühendislik hesaplarından çıkar. İç duvarlar 10cm, dış 20 cm olur. Kolon-kiriş yapıyı taşır. Duvarlar ile aralarındaki farklar iç mimariye yansır. Aynı kalınlıkta yaparsanız m2 kaybınız oluyor ve kimse de bunu istemiyor. Betonarme karkas tekniğinin yansıması.
5- Dış kapıda kol olmaması akıllıca. Kötü niyetli biri anahtarı yok ise kilit açık olsa bile kapıyı açamaz!!! Dikkat et, Yani önlem için kapıyı sadece kaparsın.
I think you exaggerated about curtains. Yes, it's important but just for evening or night. I mean when there is no sunshine
She exaggerated everything in this video. It’s very annoying.
@@handekai8500 She is shocked about the things cuz her first time to see things like that .
So funny! As a foreigner having lived in Turkey for more than 7 years, I have totally missed all what you mentioned. I probably have already become a Turk. You can add, they have special cupboard to keep precious plates, or cutlery set for precious guests. That's one most weird thing I found.
Think about the kids of crazy mothers who have them. If you accidentally break a piece of the them, run away from the house and don't come back again.
@@yaltatr 😂😂😂
Our mothers treat those special cabinets like museums. 😂
Hi Chelsea.
1. The curtains: While it is true that having two layers of curtains is almost a must in every home. And the reason is to provide privacy but also keep the home free of dust. On the other hand, most Izmirli spend a lot of their time in summer in their balconies. In my times in Izmir (1952 to 1981) most people did not have A/C therefore most windows were wide open in summertime.
2. I never lived in a home with windows on the inside doors. I know some homes had frosted glass. The reason was so that when you open the door you know that there is no one on the other side to hit his/her face with the door. It is surprising to me to hear that you saw bathroom doors with glass.
3. Door handle: I have been living in New York City since 1981. My apartment at Forest Hills Queens did not have a door handle. It was as flat as you described. Many buildings in NY city are similar. However, in my house and all housed that I have seen there are door handles as you describe.
4. The walls: You are correct. However, if you look at the expensive apartments in Kordon or Mustabey Caddesi, for example the walls are not like that. In cheaper buildings those shapes are for making the walls thinner and give more square feet of living space (hence all the damage in the earthquake).
Hey Chelsea; I enjoy your videos about my old town. Don’t be offended of my comments just sharing my very old memories.
Duvar çıkıntılarının sebebi binanın yapılış tarzı. Eskiden daha çok kirişli binalar yapılıyordu. Hala da yapılıyor. Kendine göre avantajları var. Son dönemlerde kirişsiz aynı kalınlıkta tablalar yapılıyor. Terim olarak ne kullandıklarını bilmiyorum. Bu tür binaların kirişleri olmadığı için oda tasarımları da çok kolay. Yani kısacası betonarme binlarda olan bir şey bu. Muhtemelen tahtddan çelikten amerikan yapılarında bu yok.
Girl! The door bell cracks me up all the time! It’s so weird! 😂
I think the window theory is wrong. I think its because of the Turkish family culture which can be boiled down to "keep it in the family". Family matters and personal matters are usually not discussed with strangers but it is expected to have 100% transparency towards your family members.
I think that you exaggerated the curtain thing.. our curtains are always open hahahs
türk olarak bu videoları izlemek eğlenceli ve ingilizcemi birazcık geliştiriyor :)
in our defense, the windows in the bathroom doors are usually smaller than others 😆😆😆 and wow, what a theory 😂
Chelsea u re right. Door windows very common on Turkey especially top of the bathroom door. It's actually has very practical reason. If there is a someone in there u can see the light and don't disturbing person in inside with nocking.🙂
Yeah, I thought so
In America we just look at the bottom of the door. If the light is on you can normally tell under the door :)
Sara M but sometimes people can forget lights on i dont have that window door im using the same way like you do but sometimes theres no human inside the bathroom but still lights on soo
i nock anyway 😂😂
Porc Gag yeah thats an option too😅😂
This really had me giggling. Apart from the birdy doorbell, you’d find the same in many English houses. Depending on the age of the property.
My current home was built in 1855, in my lounge I have only one straight wall. Guess where my sofa is? 😂😂
Abla valla ben de bilmiyorum kapılarda neden cam var kdkfnfj şimdi farkettim ve cidden tuvalette bile cam var kdkfkj hiç dikkat etmemiştim
Yess!! You’re absolutely right especially last part. It can be seems like weird.
Chelsea, PLEASE MAKE A PART 2 OF THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is SO fascinating, you have no idea.
Here in Algeria we also have windows in the doors,i think they are used as an emergency exit in case you couldn't open the door.
The windows on the doors are not as big as you thought. No one can use it as an exit.
@@kazmkarabekir9315 ok, do u have another explanation?
@@alexwlkr535 does he need to
Yeah i feel like the same .
I loved this video! It is just these little things, every day life stuff, that so cool about living abroad. My kitchens in China were ofter tucked into a small yet long special hallway . Here in the US too many of my Sikh neighbors have build their kitchens into the garage. Who says you have to go abroad ... but i guess in both instances they keep the pungent cool smells out of the rest of the house . Anyhoo. Keep up the awesome videos!
15:57 these "extra walls" carrying the building. You can't build a house without them. 😂
but architects can hide them between walls tho
I think they mostly show in houses trying to get the most space in rooms. Bc these kinds of houses are made for cities and cramped living, an apartment that would normally fit two bedrooms is cramping in three or four.
It's about space utilization. She's talking about city living, where you need to cram as much as possible into small spaces. So, all the walls are blown out to the structural elements instead of framing out walls to hide them. An extra 12 inches can be space for a murphy bed or bookcase. Private houses are not designed like this. Only urban apartment buildings. It's also common to see pentagonal or even hexagonal shaped rooms due to not wanting to waste space. In the US, we would make closets out of them. In Turkey, people prefer to use furniture like armoires, dressers, and room dividers, so the space is left as open as possible.
@@thevetstudent Not after the 2 earthquakes of 1999
Haha I love this video! As an avid Turkish learner, it is very interesting to learn more about different aspects of their culture 😊
love the way you express things !
I can relate to this even tho I've never been to Turkey or any Turkish home BUT we've all of these in Pakistan as well😅😅😅 The curtain game is always strong, the window on door, NO DOOR HANDLES!! The similarities had me shook🤯😆
For the doors with windows, I think that here in Turkey, people want their house to be bright. Therefore, we use windowed doors to let sunshine pass through the rooms
Thank you so much for giving a chance for looking our culture from away. It was really funny. :)
Nice vid! Here are things that could help.
1. I think the cities are much more compact compared to North America and privacy becomes a bit more important, same thing in Japan too everyone has curtains shut.
2. Window in interior door is weird, I don't understand that too they're terrible...
3. P.S: Mortise Lock (In North America you guys have dead bolts)
4. This is a bit technical but, in North America you guys usually have 2 by 4 stud walls with 16 inch spacing but in Turkey (and Europe too) buildings are erected by pouring concrete columns, beams and decks. Since 2 by 4 wood construction carries all the weight on the walls themselves, it is usually not necessary to have additional structural members. From the photos you've shown, the vertical ones are called columns, horizontal (edges of the ceiling) ones are beams and the ceiling (or upstairs floor) are decks. The walls are built after the main structure and they don't need to be beefy as much (usually 20 cm / 8 inches partition should do fine for those unlike much thicker columns and beams). Also to mention, they're absolutely necessary for the integrity of the building, don't try to take them down :)
Let me tell you why 🙃 In Turkey there is no door handle on the “outside of the door” (only outside of it. We have handles on the inside) BECAUSE we dont want anyone who hasnt got the key can open that door from the outside. It is actually pretty logical. We dont want to be obliged to lock it all the time. We dont want to feel like “anyone who wants can enter the house with just a simple push to the handle”. Even the idea of it is scary 😅 If there is no door handle or the key, simply you cannot open that door even if it is unlocked just like you saw. That key wasnt only to lock it. It simply is the only way of access 🙌🏻
To who would like to see an example;
Check “How I Met Your Mother” - Season 2 : Episode 4 from 14.25 to 15.20 🙃
Harbiden bizim oda kapılarında neden pencere var ya, Chelsea söylemese aklıma gelmezdi 😂
Koridor aydınlık olsun diye. Eve girdiğimiz zaman karanlık kasvetli olmasın diye saygıdeğer mimarlarımız mahremiyetin olmadığı odaların kapılarına cam koyarak zekilik yapmışlar. Ferah ve aydınlık bir ev.
@@sevilaykiran5953 Banyo kapısında da var 😄
@@volcanorepublic evet maalesef eskiden tuvalet ve banyolarda birisi varsa ışık görünsün diye düşünüyorlardı. Ama artık yeni evlerde buna çok dikkat ediliyor yani tuvalet banyo yatak odalarına camsız kapılar koyuluyor.
@@sevilaykiran5953 👍👍
@@sevilaykiran5953 Maalesef demeniz hoş olmamış. Zaten camlar kapının dibinde olanı anlamak için, uzaktakini anlayamazsın. Bir sorun etmiyor ki.
I'm from Ordu (Karadeniz/Black Sea) I saw your Eckard Tolle book, chilling in the background. I just love that man.
Not having door handles on the door allows you to not lock your door and still have it only be able to be accessed with a key. I think it's pretty neat that even if you forget to lock the door, it's still not easy for anyone to break in.
This is because the walls are lined with columns that solidify around them. That's why it looks like this.
A German guy once told me that one can distinguish Turkish houses in Germany, by looking at curtains because only Turks tend to just hide away behind curtains that much.
- The 5000 lira worth curtains shouldn't surprise you, in Turkey, when people are getting married, being as extravegant as possible is a norm.
- I never understood this windowed door thing. Probably because they want to put in some light or anything? There's always some thick blurred window. But to be honest, this tradition is declining, new buildings don't have those nonsense. It might also be from the culture of keeping tabs of eachother. I remember my mum constantly nagging me at night about going to bed because if the light was on, could see it from even Peru
- We have our own villa in my father's country lands. And he was talking all about it's design, how it's gonna be modern and all. And his big invovation on plugs was putting not 1 but 2 plugs in rooms. I said ''Why haven't you put 4-5-6 wide outlet as I had in my home in Ukraine, he asked ''What are you gonna do with all those plugs anyway?''. So yeah, consumerism still not understood in Turkey.
- I seriously don't get what was the surprise about door knobs. Most doors if not all, work in the same fashion. Turkish people are not trusting enough to let their entrance door to be available without a key if it's unlocked. Actually, when I moved to Ukraine, I was aghast with door knobs being in both ways. I used to have obsessions about checking whether the door is locked.
- Aestetics or practicality were never any concern about Turkish constructions ever. I am actually amazed by you not saying how fucking ugly Turkish buildings look in general, those extra walls you speak about are beams and pillars to support the weight of the next floor. Any idiot with enough money can go into construction business in Turkey and nobody's gonna enforce some proper housing regulations even today. It was even more lax back in the day.
Yep the last one that hursts the most honestly.
@@berilsevvalbekret772 I once saw İlker Canikligil asking the question I've been asking for years. ''How can an entire nation have such an awful taste''
He also once said ''I look up at streets, even buildings aren't aligned, one has to wonder if City Hall's planners aware of grabbing a ruler and drawing a straight line''
@@subutaynoyan5372 You are mistaken my friend! You assume we have city planners... we don’t haha
Hahasdhasd this video was soo funny and you were so cute trying to explain all those weird turkish stuff hahah one of your best videos and my favorite yet! Really good job chelsea
I live in Romania and we also have windows in the doors but our bathrooms did not have xD It is just the old fashion I guess and we got used to it
İt's blurry glass though. Last place I was living at had that. Also we ruled over Romania for centuries it might have been rubbed of to your culturr
@@adonis1168 not really centuries but yeah, we borrowed some things and foods like sarmale and the turkish delight
@@adonis1168 kardesim ne bu yonetme fantazisi :D lubnanli kadina da aynisini yazmissin. Hem balkanlarda hem ortadoguda bir cok kulturel etkilesimimiz var bu doğru ama "apartman" osmanlidan cok sovyetlerin commie blocklariyla taninan bir kavram. Hem romanyada hem turkiyede hem de dunyanin kalan bir cok fakir ulkesinde bu metod kullanilir. Cok matah bir seymis gibi biz sizi su kadar yil yonettik soylemi cok aşağılık gozukuyor, bil istedim
Its so funny to watch someone foreigner lives in Turkey and compares things in Usa and Turkey. I began to think our homes are weird :)
The lastly mentioned problem is bc of in Turkey many of the buildings are built with a frame structure. It means that the weight of the building is held by columns and beams, so the walls carry no weight therefore they are thinner than the columns, such us the ceiling slab is thinner than the beams.
It's tipical in many country as it's easy and quick to be built but here too.
You are hilarious! Hahaha thanks for your videos.
The idea of protruding walls is so funny!
Some times i forget the cartins open and when my fater see thats' hey people are whacing us.. close it ' 😄😄😄
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@@kazmkarabekir9315 tsk mısın bee
Same
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I just got recommended your channel by a fan of yours. I don't have window panes in my doors and I don't even have curtains on my kitchen windows any my door bell doesn't chirp 😄 But I literally have everything else! You are welcome to come and explore it.
The way im Turkish and didn't realize these all this time lmaooo
Lol yeah I have the bird noise on my doorbell too. I was surprised when I first moved in my current home.
You are right about the door, I just realized 😂😂😳
Privacy in Turkey: People like to make observation over others. So close the windows to strangers but keep watching private zone of the people in the house. No privacy at home.
This happened to me yesterday about the curtains. I opened my curtains and I saw a man stopped by and was looking at me for so long and when I just stood to close it. He went away. I saw that as weird. Thanks I saw this video today. I didn’t know if that was bad to them. 😢
No its not rude haha. Turkish people just like to stare. They even stare at bulldozers or construction sites. Btw İ don't think you should feel obliged to close your curtain because as a Turkish person İ get really annoyed that there is a lot of stigma around people seeing the inside of our homes. So İ open them and don't close them 😂.
Its similar to lebanese homes and we use curtains and we dont have door handle from outside
Love your energy!
Kapı kilitli değil iken, dışarıdan gelen bir kişi kolu çevirip giremesin diye🙂
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You dont have to keep the curtain closed all the time. There are usually 2 curtains on a window, one of them prevents sunlight and the other one is only there so people cant see the inside of the house but that layer is pretty thin and not completely a... curtain. It is called "tül". I dont know how to explain it, but yeah 😅 and the thick one that prevents sunlight is usually only closed at night. We actually love windows. And the window on the door is usually in old houses, I personally think that it has something to do with the ottoman culture.
I'm Turkish and walls literaly ruin my life
I got the felling that your curtains were open while recording this video. CLOSE EM ahahhaha
lol the window door is a mystery in itself.
The curtains are very important because first privacy of course.
Second is for shades it csn get hot in izmir
And third we dont panic we just go and close it
İ think you are living in a really old house. İn that old houses doors have mostly Windows.
The reason why there is glass on the doors (I asked my mother) said that if someone is inside, you can see the light through the window, so you will not open the door suddenly and not disturb the person inside.
You're right about the curtains. I am a foreigner living with my husband in Manisa and we spent around 3,000TL just for two curtain sets and they big ones don't even close!! I was shocked because it's so much cheaper in the UK.
In Russia it's very common that doors are without a handle. Note that those doors are likely to be main entrance door and balcony door. It could be due to sense of protection. Also I've seen in Stockholm/Sweden that apartment entrance doors don't have door handles. Also I've seen in Italy that most buildings have main entrance doors with no door handle, say an apartment consists of 20 flats. In the light of those, I wouldn't say it's a Turkish thing.
Most houses in the US have timber construction. It's much easier to divide rooms in that type, also remember they're low rise structures so bear loading is not a big issue. In Turkey, most common construction type is reinforced concrete structures where you have to create columns and beams for support. Now.. the bad outcome is mostly the result of the architect and the civil engineer not caring too much about the aesthetics. If wanted, a proper alignment can be done but still you would have the beams.. just not the small protrusions, etc.
You are not only a you tuber, you are also a mirror. Thank you for sharing your impressions with such a kind presentation. . It gives us valuable idea about how we look From other cultures' Point of view..Take care.
Because of you i learned a new word. Permeable. For example, we use frosted glass on the doors to make them light permeable.
As a Turkish who lives in an apartment built in 2017, i confirm these weird shaped rooms and doors with windows (kitchen and living room)
I am interior designer now living Turkey, what you mentioned not in many of cities the houses built in 10-15 years. And about Doors have no handles actually european countryside styles. You still can get online from high quality UK company.
Chelsea, I lovee your video. Actually I never noticed earlier somethings are really weird before I watched your video. Also Some people turned against you but you are absolutely right about tulle curtains. I think they think thin ones bc as you said we always close our tulle curtains and feel uncomfortable when it is open. Actually this is like a sociological inference bc in Turkey there is a belief that yeah you leave your courtain open bc you want people to look at you. It is so sad actually.
Hi Chelsea! I think you catched very small, but important points that we basically ignore in daily busy life. While I was watching your video, I actually realized that OMG this is exactly the same thing I do everyday by instantly. However it is not necessary at all and sometimes makes me annoying. Besides, I agree that almost every country have their so called weird way of living I experienced. I am sorry for inconvenience, but there should a reason behind putting such window into the wall for instance, the solution for another reason in the past that we may not know. I am really appreciated that you brought this into our attention, because it is obvious that we forgot to live in the way which makes things easier for our lives and continue the way learned due traffic of living. Thanks a lot again!
We don't have a door handle in Spain too haha I didn't realized about it
The little walls calling kolon and kiriş. They're carring building and Here is earthquake zone.
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Omg the thing about the windows and curtains makes me want to move to Turkey even more than I already did haha. I have always liked to have it like that but its considered super weird in New Zealand and people judge me all the time 'why are you sitting in the darkness, why won't you open the curtains?' etc, it would be so nice to have it be normal!
I think curtains reflect how much people value their home. Curtains are important in our home.
About door windows. Turkish houses, as she mentioned, are usually small and get very little light because of the curtain culture and also windows are usually small. That's why, natural light is intended to be scattered through all the rooms of the house thanks to the door windows. It was very interesting that no one wrote an explanation because it's something that so well known , if you asked your parents they would all say it ...
I think it is more about privacy, Turkish people hate when someone is doing something secretly and I think we don't have something like a personal space so these door windows are maybe subconsciously put in the house so the feeling of control won't be lost among the patriarch of the families
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i really like the video especially the curtain part omg ur so damn right lol btw it may be seem weird but actually it’s better to not to have a door handle outside so if ur goin somewhere close u do not have to lock u can just close the door if there would be a door handle anyone could get into the house if u forget to lock the door
panic that begins when the curtains are opened 😄😄
Ahah it was my duty to close the curtains before we open lights everyday :)
Nice observations. There are some weird thinks in us homes also.
Generally kitchen is in saloon.
Dear Chelsea, while your remarks about curtains are mostly correct, you have to make a distinction between two types that exist together: The transparent one (tül) and the opaque one (perde). Actually there's also a third one called güneşlik but it is already complicated enough.
We close the transparent ones in the day and the opaque ones in the evening, so lack of natural light is not that much a problem.
Omg! You speak my mind. Every Single thing! Seriously. Especially! Closed Curtains. ONE outlet (drives me crazy!) I would add, Pushing door in the store which normally we pull it in the state.)😅 I'm still learning and having hard time doing that. But what can you say, it's kind of make Turkey, Turkey. Charming🧡
After you talked about the windows on the doors, i checked my house and i just realized that we have that windows (but they are huge, i dont know how didn't i realized them before) on the kitchen, saloon and living room doors. Then i continued to watch the video and i realized that i have different shaped walls even in my room. If i would say something about the curtain culture i also find it weird. My dad is always warning me about the curtains. You should'nt open curtains, people shouldn't see our house bla bla bla. I want something from you, Chelsea or the people who is reading my comment. How did you find my English by just reading my comment. If you have seen a mistake you can fix it. Im 16 years old and im trying to improve myself in English.
It's pretty good
@@solilo325 thx
Your English is good. Well done
If you want honesty, i will give it to you. Firstly, we can start with you missing the "I", so when you said "(but they are huge, i dont know how "I" didn't realise them before). Secondly, when you say "dont" you need a ' which in English is called apostrophe. Again same problem for I'm just make sure to always include the apostrophe. Just on final note, if your studying the original English (British) just bear in mind with some words the spelling is different to American English. For example, they say "Airplane", however the correct, formal and original English is "Aeroplane", another example might include "organisations" which is the correct one however American English is organizations with the "Z" instead of the "S". Other than that notices above I've mentioned your doing great, keep it up and i'm sure you will improve and develop further. Keep it up, as English is one of the most spoken language. By the way I'm Turkish but came to the UK when i was 1 now that i'm 18 and in University i thought i have the rights to suggest ways to help improve him/her small mistakes. Cheers from American allies the UK.
@@netayconnection6236 thatk you
If u ever move to Egypt, we have the same problem of protruding walls
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You're right about the thing that "Neighbours should not be looking into your house when your curtains are open but there are so many people who love to watch others house and their private lifes when the curtains are open and you can't teach them all that what they are doing is a "not okay" thing. so, best way to secure your privacy is to close curtains.
There are so many ignorant people in Turkey.
Me and my sister also has no idea about our parents’ obsession with the curtains, which is kinda concerning and paranoid cuz they think like omg our curtains are not closed so everyone should be watching inside our house. I think younger generations don’t care about the curtains that much.
OMGoodness! I'm living in Ankara since year and a half... And everything you've mentioned is totally true! XD
I'm Turkish but I also noticed that and asked for a min literally " WHY? " AHAHA
Our home's doorbell is bird sound too and my bird was imitating this. I always thought it was from door and someone came to home. But when I went to open the door there were no one :D I looked to my bird and he imitated this again sjkdhasda I said to him "why are you doing thiis ??"
Yeah I have that kind of memory. I am Turkish and I live a house with interesting shapes and gaps like you said. Once we had to put our beds to that kind of corners and my little sister fell from bed to that gap in her sleep. That was bad 😂