American Reacts to a Typical Norwegian Home
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Can looking into a home tell you all about the Norwegian culture? I am very interested to learn and react to this tour of a typical home in Norway, and in this case an apartment. I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to be observing here, but as an American I do feel like I will be able to pick up on the subtle or obvious differences between American homes and Norwegian homes. If you enjoy my reaction feel free to leave a like, comment, or subscribe for more videos like this!
“I thought IKEA was an American company”
My Swedish pride has been severely hurt.
IKEA is known as a place where you buy affordable furnitures, not at al luxury. At least here in Norway. A typical sofa from a more regular quality brand would cost about $2500 and up.
I would say under IKEA comes only the bulky waste, the social department store and a few furniture discounters without design line, but the same poor quality.
The good thing about IKEA is only that furniture made of cardboard and pressboard still seems somewhat modern. 😅But I also don't want to make it worse than it is. It is for many people the possibility to have at least a minimum of living culture. 👍
Love Ikea but the sofas suck so hard
@@wanderwurst8358 So the reason why ikea don't use for example all wood in their design is for the environment (use less material), the user experience (easier to build and carry), the price (gives you a lower price and ikea earns more), and they want you to have the option to change style every 10 years or so (not buying a very expensive brown or orange sofa that goes out of style in a few years and you can't sell it because it's ugly and it's to expensive to throw away so you keep it for 40 years)
Ikea is in America too dude
@@andersask5503 Yes, but the way the brand is perceived could be different in different countries.
Very much a typical beginner home in a city. In rural areas living spaces tend to be way bigger, but with the same beige colour palette and cheap IKEA furniture.
Really. Been to many kitchens but not seen that.
I wouldn’t say this is a beginner’s home in Oslo. Prices are sky rocketing, many starter homes in Oslo will be studio apartments nowadays.
"Very much a typical beginner home in a city" Rich kid spotted. Ive been living in Oslo as an adult for 14 years and I live in a (much) smaller apartment than this. I think a lot of rich people who gets money thrown at them by their families doesnt know what reality is for most people
The golden rule in Scandinavia, no shoes on your feet while in the house (unless allowed and necessary)
with the exception of getting your house keys or something similar that you just remembered after you closed the front door.
@@Carlium I even take of my shoes just to go back and grab my keys 😅
And literally everywhere in Europe as well.
@@khorinis8161 Not in spain, portugal, or italy iirc.
Same here in the UK. Lots of British dont worry about this, but increasingly
they do !Who wants to walk into the house with any kind of dross on the
bottom of their shoes !
5:11
No, IKEA isn't Norwegian, it's Swedish.
However Scandinavian design tends to be similar, we have similar taste.
And most of IKEAs competitors have a similar style to them, just not with the ease of packaging, transportation and assembly of IKEA.
That's what allowed IKEA to go international.
6:24
In Norway I'd say they're a budget brand.
Like, students go to IKEA to shop furniture for their tiny apartments.
Rich people don't use IKEA but more expensive brands with a similar style, just slightly better.
....nope....it's a Dutch company for maybe 40 years.... ...so wake up dude....
@@Dan-fo9dk Nobody cares. Dude…
functional and elegant. as furniture should be
Lol. He even read it out load that it's Swedish, and Norway was the first other country to get IKEA stores
That is the same here in the Netherlands
He forgot to mention the big importance of having a "bod", a little storage room either in the hallway or in a garage. That is where we keep all our skis, christmas decorations, random bits and bobs etc. Very common place to have in Norway!
As a Dutchie who moved to Norway at 10 years old. I remember always reacting to al the family photo's everywhere through the home. Espacially baby pictures of all the kids and marrige pictures.
the Balcony or garden will be used a lot in summer-because of the long dark winter, that is why he is saying it's the heart-because finally in the summer people can get light and warm weather
His a comedian, and make a lot of sketches, so take everything with a certain grain of salt
Is he even norweigan? the accent dont sound it
@@KungKokkos He's a Norwegian!
@@atleyri Is he? When I googled it said he was American
@@atleyri Half Norwegian, iirc.
Thanks for the warning. I was ready to post a comment saying: "IKEA is a luxury brand?"
Norwegians do not buy everything from Ikea. It's maybe more normal in Oslo, but most of Norway doesn't have a Ikea store close. Think we have 3 stores or maybe 4.
Norwegians love to redecorate, and the white and grey colours makes it easy to change the feel of a room by changing curtains, pillows and decorations cheap.
8 stores.
👍😊
Oslo Bergen and Stavanger last time i checked, but thats a ling time ago so i guess Trondheim also has one now?
@@andywessel 2 in Oslo, 1 in Stavanger, 1 in Bergen, 1 in Hamar, 1 in Trondheim, 1 in Kristiansand
There are Ikea in all the bigger cities in Norway, ergo many people in the city buy there stuf from there, also they have free busses to and from so students LOVE that offer =) I do believe most homes near ANY city in Norway has many things from Ikea =)
I am not a big fan of the quality my self, but buy the pictures and some stuff ofc, but hate the beds, they are REALLY not good for your back lol =)
While this video actually seems pretty representive of the average norwegian home, remember that this is a gross generalization. I for instance have only one piece of furniture that I have bought, and that was bought in 1998. The rest of my stuff is inherited from grandparents, or second hand-free stuff. Another "typical" thing in Norway is to renovate the kitchen-burning like 30 000 dollars on the Kitchen every 5th year. We are crazy when it comes to renovating. -One theory is because of the weather and climate, we spend a lot of time inside our homes.
On another note, here is a video I'd like you to recomend to: th-cam.com/video/A9UmdY0E8hU/w-d-xo.html It's about how easy it is to get rich in Norway
This is true about kitchen renovating frequency.
It's so funny that Ikea is so popular abroad.
In Sweden, at least in the middle class or above, it's something you may buy when you've got your first apartment and can't afford anything better.
It's really low class, it's cheap but doesn't last too long.
Well, thats true in Norway as well - IKEA is kind of entry-level.
That goes for Norway as well 👍😊
That's exactly how we see Ikea in the UK!
My IKEA 'Ivar' shelves still last very well, thank you ;) Most of them we bought around 1976-82.
Same in Canada (though IKEA have an upper range also)
Wait.
IKEA is expensive in the US?
Now there is a difference I did not expect.
If I want expensive furniture I'm either going to a specialty shop or hiring someone to make something by hand for my apartment specifically.
IKEA er ikke så billig i Norge heller.
@@paulallen1939 Jeg vet ærlig talt ikke helt hvor jeg skulle gått for å få billigere møbler. Bruktmarked kanskje?
@@karl-erlendmikalsen5159 Fordi møbler ikke er billige.. møbler er ikke så mye dyrere på feks møbelringen
@@paulallen1939 Nei, sant det. Også lignende på Bohus om du bare ser på de billigste alternativene. Men jeg vet ikke om noe som er billigere enn IKEA.
Imagen the freight cost to get all over there from Sweden, puts on some $ right there, and marketing is WAY higher over there, and Americans LOVE commercials you know lol =) So easy to fool ;) Imsdal water is luxury product in America, same we have in tap most places, says something =)
You probably noticed that the Ikea picture on the wall at 12:52 is of a traditional, iconic London red double-decker bus which is famous throughout the world.
Haha! Your Norwegian episodes are so awesome! I know that many ppl in the US usualy have concrete floor or carpet-floor. In Norway this also was a thing but that was in the early 80s.
IKEA is Swedish. We got the first IKEA store in Norway in the 1970ies. I like a lot of the things they have there, but I don't know anyone who has almost exclusively IKEA furniture. We inherit special pieces, and we certainly buy used things online and from thrift shops, too. Very easy and affordable to do a makeover on most of IKEA's furniture when you want something "new", too. This is probably a few years ago, though. Muted, calming and slightly darker colors is all the rage now. But the very light color palette you see here is really nice during winter when it's dark pretty much all day and night for months on end.
So fun to hear what you think about Norwegian homes. I also learn a lot from what you tell about America.
This could be a home in any Scandinavian country. Or Germany. Or probably many European homes.
But the theme is all Scandinavian.
I'm with you on the TV though. That's a small TV. Probably 40". The general size TV sold in Denmark,for example, is probably 50-55". But that's just a guess from the ads in papers, TV, etc.
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I’m from Sweden and I’ve seen that IKEA bus picture in so many homes. (That and the big black and white painting of Audrey Hepburn) It’s usually bought by someone who doesn’t really care about art but wants something on the wall and they think it looks cool. In my opinion, it just looks cheap. I’m not much better though, like 80% of my wall art is from online poster store Desenio. 😆
Well, Ikea is mostly tasteless bland stuff. Desenio is a mix of everything with medium to blah print quality.
and the guys having luch sitting on a steel beam from NY, black and white. Seen this picture bought on ikea like in 100 places(homes,diners etc)
Don’t listen to this guy, he’s a comedian, but yea we do love Ikea and nordic design. No way would anyone keep a price tag lol
Keeping the price tag is flashing wealth. I'm this rich! Very much against our social control to flash wealth around. Against the "Janteloven".
"comedian"
The reason the outdoor porch space is important, is cus our winter is very long, dark and cold. So in the spring and summer, we rly try to enjoy being out on it, and eat/barbeque etc.
Oh we get most/a lot of our stuff 2nd/3rd-hand as well, but that was originally bought at IKEA too!
I'm very intrested to know more about american furniture, because in Sweden (where I live), all the IKEA-stuff are "boring basic" and that's the reason to buy something big that's from some other company, just to prove that you actually can have something else :p Also, in Sweden, IKEA is much cheaper than many other brands. And, if you look at second hand furniture, you can get a lot of things from IKEA for almost nothing at all (sometimes it's actually free for those who can bother to come and get it).
Our house was built in 1914. When we moved in, the out building had a 2 seater toilet. Currently our house is painted white outside on vertical profiled cladding. The living room is painted in "bonde rød" (a red), the dining room is a light sea green, kitchen in light blue and white. The bedroom upstairs is painted bright yellow on home sawn planking (not me). The only walls we have repainted is the dining room, it was the same as the living room. All other walls are naturally yellowed varnished vertical profiled pine paneling. The only Ikea we still have is a sofa bed in the big work/guest room upstairs. There are other furniture chains in Norway, Ikea is considered "starter" furniture by a lot of people. We have lots of traditional Norwegian hand made things as decoration from our past as folk dancers. I'm Norwegian-American, my wife Canadian-American, we've lived in Norway since 1985 after moving from Seattle.
Our house is typical for a house built before the 1930's by the owner. 1st floor has log walls, although hidden for the most part, 2nd floor is what is called "bindings verk" (balloon framing). The outside has vertical cladding painted white. When we bought the house it had very little insulation but we had the whole house insulated when we reclad the house in 2015 and had old style windows installed. We still heat mainly by a wood stove.
It look pretty similar to a Swedish apartment.
The biggest difference from a Swedish apartment, I would say, is the lack of a hallway. Is this common in Norway? I don't think I've never seen an apartment, or house, where you enter directly into the main room and hav the shoe rack right there, there is always a separate little room where you put your shoes and outdoor clothes before entering.
The colors are very similar, we also like light muted colors, like grey, beige and white, but perhaps with some pillows in a brighter color perhaps.
In Sweden we do have a lot of IKEA furniture, but often a lot more mixed with furniture form other stores, and older things you have inherited or bought second hand. Some IKEA stuff is great, but in moderation, you don't want your home to look exactly like the show rooms at IKEA.
We would definitely _not_ keep the price tag on the carpets or the furniture, that would come across as really strange, like you were planning on returning it after using it or something.
He didn't show much in the bathroom, but in Scandinavian and Finnish homes you can usually pour water on the entire floor, but I've heard that in American bathrooms you only have a drain in the shower, making it harder to clean.
Swedes, and Norwegians, drink about twice as much coffee as Americans, but not as much as the Finns. I think a lot of us don't consider Starbucks to be coffee, it's more like sugary flavoury water. Starbucks used to have like 20 stores in Sweden, but they failed, since we have better coffee chains here, leaving just the one at the airport and central station for tourists.
Balconies are important in Sweden, and increases the value of the apartment, especially if it faces south, or west. We really need the sun in the summers, to survive in the winters.
that is still very common here. Maybe not so much in modern apartment buildings, I wouldnt know:P But having that small buffer room, a "wind catcher", to hang jackets and put shoes, is common here.
Most of what you describe is common in Norway too. The,entrance room with shoes and stuff, inherited furniture, the balcony with plants and chairs and so on. We are scandinavians and have similar taste, mostly.
Balconies are modernist shit that destroys the facades more than anything. (Real beautiful buildings never has balconies facing the street.)
Hei,nei denne leiligheten som er uten entre er uvanlig🌞
Please do your apartment tour, we would love to see what kind of a person you are.
When you live in Scandinavia (where its really dark like 6 month a year). You want bright walls at home.
Ive noticed that american homes dont have paintings, posters, pictures on the walls. Looks so naked.
And!!! Not everything is american. IKEA was founded in Sweden.
When the man pointed out the rowing machine I had to laugh... I have one right next to me one step away from even more IKEA furniture. And I am drinking homebrewed coffee while watching this. My walls are white and light green/turquoise, my floor is an adventure brown. But the dude was right though, my balcony is super important for me. I NEED a balcony. I need big windows to get light in during the winter.
Apartments and houses in Norway do have some deviants from what the video showed. Some people like splashes of color besides green, and I personally love to have dark-wood and knickknacks like reindeer pelt and moose antlers. However, his video reminded me of many homes, at least in the big cities.
About coffee:
Norway is the second biggest consumer of coffee per capita in the world, behind Finland. Iceland, Denmark and Sweden have spots # 3, 4 and 6. Per capita, we drink more than twice that of USA. So yeah, to say that we like coffee is an understatement. :)
Its not a house its a small apartment
Yes, very small. I've never seen anything so small.
The Norwegian guy is a commedian, probably showing his own home. Makes a lot of jokes. Nothing special about his home, except a lot of people has a small hallway where you take your shoes and coats off.
You make really enjoyable videos! This apartment is quite typical for a young couple in Oslo, where prices are high. For average Norwegians living elsewhere in Norway, it would seem nice enough, but quite small and basic - typical for first time owners. Most of us have considerably more space, and less IKEA furniture (which is cheap).
IKEA, a swedish company if you haven't realized that yet, is synonymous with mass produced low quality furniture and is popular here mostly because it's dirt cheap. It's hilarious if it really is considered luxurius anywhere in the states, because it's at the absolute bottom end over here. Walk into any student's apartment and it'll be full of IKEA simply because that's the cheapest stuff that can be found.
Well, IKEAs entry level furniture is dirt cheap. But gets more expensive if you buy their more premium products. A shop like Jysk can be cheaper in many cases.
It's not super low quality in comparison to price tho
I dont't like IKEA much either, but don't be so pompous and arrogant.
@@herrbonk3635 IKEA is great for many products, even architects love IKEA th-cam.com/video/NpxjDdQiMnQ/w-d-xo.html And I bet most Norwegian and Swedish architects have something Malm from IKEA
...well.... it seems like you haven't realized that IKEA is a Dutch company... It is completely irrelevant that it was Swedish ....once upon a time ....40 years ago.... before mr. Kamprad decided that he didn't want to pay taxes anymore to Sweden and moved out. Kamprad (founder and owner) himself moved to Switzerland... Using blue and yellow colours in their marketing does not make the company "Swedish". It is a mystery to me why so many Swedish people are so proud (I don't think you are Swedish) of IKEA and still go around and call it "Swedish" when in fact the company left Sweden and didn't want to contribute to the society there..... .....but the company still use the culture there to promote themselves.... Tax refugee would be a term which is fitting for them....
As other have commented: IKEA is where we go to get cheap, new furniture on a budget. When we buy more expensive furniture, it will either be design stuff or furniture made to last a generation or three (or combine both those features). A staple in many households are the BBB bookshelves, practical and solid shelves that will easily last 50 years unless severely abused.
Hi Taylor! First, Norwegians are crazy about refurbishing their homes and apartments. And when it comes to apartment sizes, there are big differences. Some are only 35 m2, while others have 280 m2, but more luxurious. A standard house in Norway is often less than 140 square meters due to, among other things, taxes and fees. But there are also what we call villas which can be both 500 and 800 square meters and larger! But normally American houses are often bigger than Norwegian houses, as we often do not buy more than we really need, simply because it is so expensive in Norway. Something typical of Norwegian houses and apartments is that they often have an entrance, a small room for undressing with hangers or cupboards for outerwear and shoes, before you enter the living room. This is probably due to the variable weather we often have such as rain or snow. Then it's good to take off your clothes before you get all the way in, so you don't have wet clothes inside where you're staying. These entrances are often equipped with heating in the floor, and they also have heating cabinets, so the shepherds' clothes are dry when they leave again! So this is not quite a typical apartment in Norway, I would say! A few more things! NO, it is not typical for Norwegians to buy all their furniture at IKEA. Often you have inherited something, bought something online, and ended up in regular furniture stores. And when it comes to coffee, Norwegians are on top of the world. But that it is typical to have three different devices to brew coffee? Doubt ! Tracts are most common!
Nope norwegian coffee is terrible and most people buy their coffee in sweden. Har du blitt lurt av evergood reklamen du eller? XD
Hahhaaaa Svensk kaffe er jo som vann med farge på,æsj ! Smaker som piss, og vil aldri nå opp til verken Evergood eller Ali. Selv drikker jeg mest Friele Frokost. Og det går fort en liter om dagen ! Og iflg lister over de landene som drikker mest kaffe, så er Norge helt opp mot toppen. Sant og si, så tar du helt feil, når du påstår Normenn @@toadwine7654 kjøper sin kaffe i Sverige. Det selges 44 tonn med kaffe her til lands, noe som blir til fire kopper kaffe pr innbyger pr dag , som er over 18 år !
I think you should find another housetour to review to get a better understanding of Norwegian homes.
This is a typical first timers flat in the city centres, and not representative to the rest of the population.
My house is a small to medium house, fairly normal size, and it's over twice as large as this appartement.
Norwegians are known to LOVE our quality coffee, and it is so much more affordable and easy to grab a cup from your own kitchen than it is to travel or walk to a Starbucks type coffeeshop and pay through the nose for a cardboard cup of coffee. My coffee grinder just broke down, so that's number one on my Christmas wish list this year!
Ikea in Norway is what we call affordable, not bad but not amazing either you find more expensive for double price
10:30
Yes, we're among the people in the world who drink the most coffee pr capita, way more than Americans.
We're in between the American coffe as a stimulant drug use culture and the continental coffee as a treat for your tung culture.
Our coffee is way better than American coffee, but not as fancy as what some continentals drink.
Most populare TV size in Norway is the same as in US, 65 inch. Most are LED technology and 4K. This is according to an article from 2021.
I spend time on the balcony all year round, because being outside is based and good, no matter the season.
Also, for the harsh Norwegian winter I have a portable fire pit thingy to heat me up if my toesies get a lil' cold
the winter is so long here, so when summer comes its important to use the most of it outside :) thats why a balcony is so important, and the sun HAVE to shine on it :)
IKEA is cheap furniture in Norway.
In the world.
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I love these videos! :D You should check out the similarities between the Norwegian language and English. It might surprise you that you already know and use a lot of old Norwegian words.
That apartment appears to consist of ONE large kitchen/living room.
Very convenient, but it would drive me mad. Here in the UK you would expect
a separate kitchen ( either with dining table etc or a separate dining room)
We do also go for the "beige" look these days, but older houses still love
their prints and rugs! The Norwegian home looks very utilitarian.
16:58 - I´m a Norwegian, and I´ve been to a few US homes, in WY ans WI. I´d say a lot is really alike, the two bits that really stood out to me, was the food grinder in the sink and making your bed with a lot of different blankets and sheets. In Norway, you´ll never find that garbage grinder, and most people just have a single duvet on their beds, maybe some cover to put over your bed when you´re not sleeping in it. Otherwise - nothing really stood out to me. We might have some difference in common solutions, like insect screens. In WY, I lived in the Yellowstone park, and they had screens all over. Windows were covered, you could open them for air with a crank without breaking the screen, which I have never seen in Norway, but it was really nice. Also, nobody in Norway has insect screens on their doors.
Ok so here we go!
Yes we have a very cohesive color scheme with drops of color here and there but with a base color.
This apartment is like a student home, and well not sure what I would say about the carpet in the living room🙈. Not sure this place is very representative, very blend but alright. It gives an idea.
A lot of homes looks like magazine photos these days, yeah Im not kidding. This is not everyones house but a lot of people carefully chose their furniture, pictures, style to match together. The scandinavian style is very common, light light wood, whites, brown, fluffy textures on pillows or throws, carpets, coziness, beige, gold accent, or a darker style like black with accent colors etc.
Ikea is considered a cheap store here but its still popular, some people buy it all from there while others just buy all the other necessary stuff there.
Many people spend a lot of money on furnitures and decor. For me, my dining table is a light light wood (eik) and the tv stand is also ikea, else I have furniture from other places. Ikea have some nice stuff so no shame in shopping there really in my opinion. But certain things are bought by many people so to get a more unique place some people chose to buy elsewhere.
We do like to have a balcony yes so we can enjoy the sun and get some tan when the sun peeps out, or even if its rainy. Gives you a bit more freedom if you live in an apartment.
The toilets are actually pretty different looking than americans. The most popular type hangs on the wall, so its easier and cleaner underneath. The older style is the one attached on the floor. I think the sinks are also a bit different with the handles, in the kitchen too.
Homes here vs the US are quite different in my opinion, the style is very different. And off course theres old people with same style as they have had all their lives, but in general the style is very modern.
Great video idea btw!
If you think this is a student home, then I wish I was as rich as you.
@@rustknuckleirongut8107 The Wilfa coffee machine and the living room carpet may be a bit over the top for a student apartment and I wouldn't expect the average student to have developed enough sense of styling even for this yet. But apart from that, I wouldn't be surprised if a student lived there. There are no tuition fees at Norwegian school, not even at university level, student loan terms are quite good and it's fairly easy to combine studies with a part time job. So generally a Norwegian student's economy isn't that much different from somebody who has a full time job.
@@tessjuel Jeg er norsk og vet veldig godt hvordan det fungerer her. Selv om skolen er nesten gratis etter en internasjonal skala er ikke husleien det. Ikke mange studenter som har råd til femten tusen i leie. Eget separat kjøkken og eget soverom som student? Det fungerer ikke på de fleste studiesteder med et vanlig stipend og lån hvis du ikke dagpendler inn fra Ytre Enebakk til Oslo eller fra Folldalen til Trondheim. Hvor mye penger fra pappa eller arbeidstimer i uka utover skolen legger du til grunn for a dette er en normal bo situasjon for en student?
@@rustknuckleirongut8107 Legg merke til senga. Det her er leiligheten til et samboerpar så det er to til å dele på husleia. Det hjelper jo godt på.
Og se på vinduene, gammeldags type med litt forslitt maling. Innredningen er ganske moderne, men leiligheten i seg selv er åpenbart ganske gammel og ikke så veldig godt vedlikeholdt.
Utover det, ja, du finner neppe noe slikt for under femten tusenlapper i Oslo, men I alle andre universitets- og høyskolebyer kan du klare å finne noe slikt ned imot og til og med under ti hvis du har tålmodighet og litegrann flaks.
@@rustknuckleirongut8107 are you a Norwegian?
Yes, we love coffee! And yes, I believe most people mostly make it at home. Sooo much more expensive to buy it at a café or coffee shop.
9:34 - Balconies are really an apartment thing, and most Norwegians doesn´t live in this kind of apartment. But! What a lot of people do to their houses, is to add a "winter garden", sort of a veranda or terrace which you put glass walls around so it feels a bit more like the outdoors. You can put electrical or gas heaters in these winter gardens to prolongue the "outdoor" season.
On the flip side of this, we´ve got sun almost all around the clock during summer, so a lot of us also has really dark curtains in our bedrooms, like blinding curtains.
TV sizes are pretty diverse. Some love their movies and games, and they buy 100" TV´s if they like. Some doesn´t have TV at all, because they think it steals too much of their time. But most have fairly regular TV´s I guess, somewhere in the range of 50-70" in 2023. We stream most of our content, not a lot of cable or satellite TV going on these days, I don´t think.
I have now watched all your videos were you trye to learn about Norway 😊 and I looooooove it. And I would love to have a conversation with you, to tell you all about Norway and how we live and how we see other countries, like the USA.
I’m Norwegian, and the only IKEA furniture we own is a shelf we got from my mother in law.
We had a lot of IKEA furnitures when we got our first apartment 😅
We also have other colours than white, beige or grey 👍😁
And it’s not a thing to keep the price tag on anything 🤣
This guy showing off the apartment is a comedian 🫣
This apartment is probably in Oslo, a typical student place and not especially big😊 It’s very expensive to live in Oslo.
You should react to the Kings speech and Norwegian prisons. Also you should watch the "why America sucks at everything" video!
This is so fun to watch! An American finds IKEA to be a luxury brand 🤣. This is what I bought after spending my last money on furniture. That is to say my Chesterfield salon. I had to buy the rest at IKEA because the salon was so expensive...
In Norway, Ikea is known for being cheap. Used in almost all apartments in Oslo, with white walls and wooden floors.
I feel like this was an apartment in Oslo. I have mostly been living in houses my entire life, except as a student. As a student I had lots of IKEA furniture that wasn't possible to reassemble when I moved because of poor quality. I started buying more expensive Norwegian made stuff, finding old furniture that had better quality and making my own.. Also, I only have one room that is beige. Lol.. I like green, and blue is the traditional colour of kitchens. I don't watch TV, so I have a similarly small one, for no good reason, and a projector for watching movies. My balcony has heating for the 8-9 months of winter.. It's nice for taking the morning coffee or the occasional evening when we have time to enjoy the mountain view with a good cup of coffee or tea. He's very right about coffee. I got several coffee machines.
It is a quite normal home. We just moved into a new house and it's just above 200 square meters. 2150 square freedom units. We have mostly gray walls with grey black or white kitchen and furniture.
That is true when it comes to big tv in the USA. Most families that I visited in the States have big tvs.
The coffee maker is a $300 Moccamaster. It's a top end coffee maker in Europe.
You can also buy dirt cheap $50 coffee makers here though.
I am from the US, and I live in Norway. I can def agree that Norwegian homes are much larger then the typical american home. I had to laugh at myself a bit also, because I have the exact same beige curtains that he showed in the video. lol But my furniture comes from a store called Jysk. But it is also white and gray. lol Really enjoying your videos by the way. Your channel was recommend in the Americans in Norway group I am in on facebook. :)
I also wanted to say please ignore people here saying he is a comedian and not norwegian and to not take him seriously. He is a bit quirky but he is definitely a norwegian and his videos actually give some great information.
That bathroom need an upgrade.. Early 90's style tiles.. Only white in my house are the ceilings.. And I'm an Norwegian
I`d say it is a mid to high end apartment for most, it is alot of normal stuff but the "one super expensive thing" is not really a must. I also have a balcony and a wintergarden for enjoying the few houers of sun we have in winter hehe.
I have a 65" 4k Samsung Tv, getting more and more normal to have bigger tv here to =)
Never speak to a Norwegian before he/she has had the morning coffee. Therefor we brew it at home, first thing in the morning. So thats 1 machine to get that fast cup of coffee in the morning, 1 coffee brewer for a thermos and similar, and 1 french press for those special occasions, all usually high quality products. And that is considered normal. Coffee is also the nr 1 thing to offer guests here in Norway. You can never go to anyones home without beging offered a freshly brewed cup of coffee.
When I writers this you have 993 subs, when you pass 1000 your videos can be monetized. I have never seen anybody be so natural, pleasant, nice and brutally honest about their lack of information and still so intelligently pursuing knowledge that they stop, pause to ponder an info bit and even using Google to find context to understand the info given. I would love to believe that all Americans were this open and interested in understanding another country, but you, Tyler, are a very likeable person with a pleasant voice and good pedagogic sense that you must have learned somewhere..or you are a natural born teacher. I am 100% Norwegian and the weakest spot in most Norwegians is the strong feeling of being uninteresting, overlooked and boring… my sister became a chaired professor at Duke University thirty years ago (she’s still there) and she says that in the US the term “an intellectual Norwegian” is an oxymoron… My point is that you really have a talent for this kind of programs and one year from now you will make quite a lot of money from these videos - they will be seen for years to come as we Norwegians discover your videos. I will use my wall on Facebook to do some promotion for these videos, you need to pass one thousand subscribers to make money and in just 2 weeks you have come to the brink of That is just amazing. I wish you well, friend Tyler, you are a nice guy!
Balcony is important to sit have coffee there all year long..
I myself have Ikea dining chairs with vintage dining table 😀 Ikea is affordable workable especially family with small children easy to clean.
i live in sweden , and i would say that looks like an avg size apartment with ikea stuff.
Ikea is cheap, we got most of our furniture from there when buying our first apartment. The sofa is from somewhere else simply because it was more comfortable, our art is not from Ikea.
The color thing is exagorated in this, I think most prefer a bit more color. Childrens rooms are usually very colorful, ours is a light blue with an accent wall with very colorful tapestry. Our bedroom, toilet room and hallway are blue and the office green. I probably have way more plants than most tho, it's like a tropical forrest in here.
One reason for the white and beige is to catch the light. Long dark nights that far north!
He had some comments that i think was off, but the apartment overall and style was very representative.
Vinterhage or (wintergarden/balcony) is very much used by us norwegians yes
First observation, this home lacks an entryway. Usually Norwegian homes have an entryway, you don't just walk straight into the livingroom. Typically upon entering a Norwegian home, whether it's a house or an apartment is that you have some kind of entryway, typically with a shoerack and place to hang your coat. Shoes come off immediately when you enter a home here. Some entryways have built in closets to store shoes, coats, etc. others just have the shoerack. The livingroom is usually on the other end of the home.
The muted colours, yes, that is very typical, as is the IKEA furniture (IKEA is a Swedish company), also very typical. IKEA is not considered high end here (nor low-end, more average I would say), it's very typical to start out getting the cheaper stuff from there as students and then gradually get some sturdier options later on. But if you intend to get high end furniture here, you typically go to other furniture stores overall.
Coffee makers in the home are very typical here, as are electric kettles. It's really expensive to always buy hot beverages on the go, so most people don't do that here.
Overall, I would say this home (apart from the lack of the entryway) does look pretty normal. It's not huge, but it's not tiny either. Types of furniture is very familiar, it has an established young-ish person look to it.
The only thing I have from Ikea is my kitchen. My other furnitures comes from a local finer furniture store. And I like more colors, my livingroom is red and black, my bedroom dark blue, my hallway orange and my kitchen black and gray, same with my bathroom.
Could be a german home too. The Color Scheme is nice. Yeah..Ikea..Austria and Germany love them too. Pretty things! They have everything..sometimes very 70ies. Ikea is cheap, affordable, Elegant, good designed cause you can Mix and Match their Series. Specially if you have smaller homes but also for big homes. Balconies are cool but not cheap in Austria..extra costs. But Ikea has sometimes big patterns or colors. I just own ⅓ of Ikea Furnitures. They could do better in screwing..sometimes screws are loose.
I’ve seen that picture of a bus several places
I've for a period been looking at American house Renovation programs, the differanses that strucks me is that mostly there is no hallway but one gets strait into a living room, and if there is a upper floor the stairway up is the first thing one sees when one gets into the house, while in Norway it's rarely like that. Then it's the use of carpets glued to the floors, in Norway almost Noone use that. Instead carpets you can move around is normal. I also notice that houses have their own bathroom for the people in the house, but I guess that's the rich people houses. I don't know if these things are representative for America but it's certainly different.
Could you react to "Geography Now - Norway" please :) Its packed with random facts about Norway😉👍
Here in Denmark neighbouring Norway and Sweden, IKEA is so cheap that we shop there every now and then. Just for fun
this was actually quite small. looks like a student residence or something like that. definitely not a house
Not student place, it’s a normal apaertment, of course not a house.
@@truxton1000 where is this a regular apartment? it is smaller than my student accommodation. that's just sad
@@XzERp1 Not sure what you are used to, or if you know anything about the real World??
@@truxton1000 This guy may be a rich kid that is slightly disconnected from the realities of most people in Norway.
Many people go with this scandinavian style white and grey thing in Oslo. It may be different in rural areas. This apartment has a good size for a couple. Apartments in Oslo are very expensive.
This is a typical city apartment. Colors are typical fashion, and varies over time. Althougt neutral and natural colors are usuial. Ikea here is a typical place you go for a first home buyer - when you get money you find different things. As time goes, you gather more different decorations and furniture.
Wait wait. Is ikea luxury in the US? Their philosofy is literally functionality and affordability. Not luxury.
I would say a more average home tend to have an entry with a proper place to put your shoes instead of the living room solution you saw here. I believe homes like this that have been compressed to the point of excluding that is rather rare as it breaks with the Norwegian shoe culture (they get taken off before you go inside). Perhaps becoming more common in Oslo? But it's certainly not average elsewhere in Norway, at least I've personally never seen an apartment lacking that before and I lived for many years in both the city and the countryside so I've seen quite a few apartments on both sides of that coin.
Either way, IKEA might be the default go-to low-cost-furniture for many here and thus could be considered the average in that regard, especially for younger people starting out, but you will certainly find a more varied assortment of styles in most homes otherwise, not just that "one-piece" he's talking about, lol. I personally got very few IKEA-furniture (perhaps to the point of it being the 'one-piece' for me) and a greater contrast of colors, most of this is Scandinavian furniture from non-IKEA brands that are both sturdier, functional, and more decorative (IKEA furniture is the definition of plain to me) in addition to carpets and furniture that I've inherited. My bedroom have more darker hues though, like a black-silver colored furniture set imported from Italy (which is actually cheaper than buying furniture in dedicated stores here) combined with black-brown leopard patterned curtains and bed sheets; neither are the walls here entirely white like much of the rest of the house, instead they have a lavender color, which is still a light color, but not as bright. This makes for a naturally dark room which helps with the sleep quality during the summer when we have 24-hour daylight. I dunno how common this is, but I hear a lot of other people like a darker bedroom too when I mention it.
I do have a room with sports equipment tho, spin-bike and rowing machine, but I don't think that's really the average, lol. Taking walks along scenic routes along the coast or through forests are probably more common, and going to the gym / sports clubs are fairly popular too.
It's not a big tv. the most sold size in norway in 2018 was 65" and it's considered to be a starter size.
Ikea is budget friendly and modern, and you’ll Get everything there, but I have never seen someone keeping the price tag on the carpet before😅 Ikea is not showoff 🤣
We have one bookshelf from IKEA, I can't say that me as a Norwegian love IKEA, I think it's consider cheap, but it's nice if you like to change the design now and then. I like to buy second hand so in my house it's not very uniform. LOL.
IKEA is the most affordable furniture in Norway, and it's not at all bad quality as a few people down here says. It may have been that in the 80's, but not anymore. I have had a lot of IKEA furniture thru the years, and have never had any issues with the quality. The fair prices makes it possible to change more often, and if you don't jump on the furniture daily, it will last as long as any other furniture at double price. I have always had IKEA beds too, and they have always been dead comfy! Recommended! Typical Norwegian style I would say is IKEA mixed with some other random items, like for instance retro furniture from the 60's or 70's. Nice combination 👍Lovely vlogs by the way 👋☺
The average size of a Norwegian home in 2010 was about 120 square meters. But this includes apartments. The average house is a little bigger than this, but not huge, on average up to 200 square meters, but some new houses are getting a little bigger these days. I could not right away find more updated numbers. My home is pretty much exactly 300m2, and there were only about 19000 houses in the 300-350 range, and only 13000 larger than 350m2, out of a total of about 2,3 million homes.
As for TV sizes most ppl I see buy in the 65" range these days. In my house, including the children’s rooms, I have one 85", one 75", two 52" and two 50", so I might be a little more American there.
In sweden IKEA is the go to place for affordable, standard furniture.
coffee makers is a big thing here, averaging from 50 to over 1000 bucks. IKEA is known over here for cheap nice furniture, TV's are also "big is better" over here. I have a 85" tv at my place🙂
For some reason you've started popping up on my feed. But I just gotta say, this dude is not talking about typical Norwegian homes, he's in a new-ish/just upgraded apartment. Furniture depends on if you're in the north, middle or south of Norway, as there are different stores available. Temperatures down to -30 degrees celcius in the north creates the need for wooden houses, while in the south you could make due with less isolation. NO, people don't all have balconies, but in apartment complexes it is quite normal... Problem is, these are mostly only found in the south. In Northern Norway most people live in their own house, as there's plenty of space. This guy is exaggerating everything, and I would say he does not make a good job of showing anything "typical". Norway has a wide variety of sub-cultures from the south to the north, because of how the coastline separated people and made it hard to travel between towns, and within those sub-cultures, you will find very different ways of life and styles of living.
Probably an old video. The TVs are much bigger now. This guy is a comedian, having fun with everything norwegian. And he is good at it. His videos are really funny. You should watch more of them. We don't buy everything at IKEA, and we do not have similar pictures on our walls lol.
I learned something new today. So in America IKEA is considered a luxury or quality brand. Here in Norway, it's the affordable option for the every-man.
Are you going to make an account for every country you are reacting to? :P I haven't noticed that strategy before, but it makes sense.
Interesting that you find IKEA a exclusive brand. IKEA is a Swedish company and over here (Sweden) it is a low price quality brand.
This is A apartment in Oslo, the country is long and there are many houses in the country and many different things. It is not so important to have a balcony everywhere, there is a lot of nature for the most part.
Norwegians usually have light colors in their house due to the dark winter. Light colors reflect light and the glow from the fireplace better than dark colors.
Norwegians Re-decorate like A LOT, and IKEA is pumping out "scandinavian design" at a low price like there is no tomorrow.
Norwegians are top 3 in coffe consumption per person in the world, probably to stay awake during hte winter.
Tyler, you might want to take a look at norwegian adaption of electric vehicles.
The video How Norway KILLED the petrol car could be a good starting point.
It's a nice appartment. In Norway it's considered that.
I was blown away when you said Americans consider Ikea to be a luxury store. Here in Norway, if you wanna get the most for your money you go to Ikea :D hehe
you make everything at home in norway :P stuff is too expensive to buy out all the time. and the balcony i guess is when u live in an apartment and not a house with a yard to be able to enjoy the summer without having to walk away from home.