Im 74 years old. Born, and lived in the U.S. all of my life. I have never had a bath suite without a door. I find the idea of it ridiculous. 😅

I had never seen a bathroom without a door.

Typically, you'll find all master bathrooms have a door. The larger master bathrooms will sometimes have the toilet in its own tiny room with a door. The only time I've ever seen a bathroom without a door in the US, its been in a builder's model home.

99.9 percent of all bathrooms in america have doors. I have never seen a bathroom without a door

The toilet usually has a door. Not sure why they don't in such an expensive home.

Giving you a heads up, they live in a gated community and therefore, they go to a building to pickup the mail.

NOBODY puts a full banana into a garbage disposal!! That is nothing but trouble later on. Further, most homes (millions of them) are at least 40 years old or more and the average size was much smaller as well as the inside style was more individual rooms and not open concept which is mostly in the past 20 years. So this is not a fair or realistic representation of the average home. Homes are entirely different from east coast to west and I would guess that more than 50% of home have only 1 1/2 or 2 bathrooms.

My wife and i live in rural Tennessee. We live on 44 acres with a log home we built 6 years ago. We have a basement and 2 stories above that. Including the basement it is 3300 square feet of space. We are retired on fixed incomes, but we are still able to live comfortably. We probably are not typical in our situation because I was a building contractor for most of my life, and we built our home ourselves. I think you will find it pretty hard to compare the American lifestyle to that of British lifestyle because there is such a wide variety of lifestyle here in this massive country. There are so many different climate zones here and a different way to build and live in each one. You need to spend a few months here and travel a long distance to experience them all. I am blessed to live in a country like this one.

Mail delivery varies by area here in USA. Some go to Post Office to pick it up, some have a mailbox out by the street, others have it either on the porch or a mail slot...there is no standard means of mail delivery in the USA.

1:58 That's literally the house on the ranch that was used for the television show Dallas. It's Southfork Ranch and what you are seeing is basically a museum you can visit in Texas that was used on location for the show.

As far as hard wood flooring, you can add heating underneath to keep the floor from being too cold

That's a strange mail situation. Every house I've seen had a mail box either at the curb or on the porch, or a slot in the door.

I have never seen or heard of a house in the US without a door for the restroom. I was actually surprised when she mentioned that.

This comparison isn’t a middle class home in 🇺🇸 nor older builds

This couple was showing you top of the market type of home in the US. It is NOT the norm for most people in the US in all of the categories.

Many master suites in the US are open onto the vanity/bath area, especially in larger houses, but there is always a door to the Water Closet(toilet area). If your en-suite is just a regular sized bathroom, it would definitely have a door.

Typically, the average home in the US is a 3 bedroom 2 bath 2 car garage. 1200 - 1800 sqft. Depending on your geographic location, you may have a basement which can be used as living quarters, entertainment room, office, home gym, ect....

Draining boards next to the kitchen sink can be purchased at Walmart, etc. They're relatively inexpensive.

It's amazing the vast differences! I live in a suburban area of upper-middle class homes. My home is almost 70 years old, so it is not the more modern "open-concept" with the kitchen part of the living room. We have a two-car garage, as opposed to the 3-car garages more popular in newer homes. You're correct that most people do not have all the luxury shown in the featured home. But overall, we Americans are spoiled in what we take for granted. I couldn't live without central heat or AC.

The best part of an open kitchen is you can prepare meals for family and friends and still be included socially.

As an American, I’ve never seen a bathroom without a door.

Most US homes the mailbox is at the road in front of the home. In gated communities the mailboxes are at entrance of community.

i call bovine excrement, that couple are a double 6 figure income couple and their house reflects it. also they live in a desert where water is at a premium so you wouldn't have a "garden" per say you would go broke hydrating it. and like the uk it depends on the age of your house mostly as to the amenities you get. area also dictates housing prices here in miami like ny a small apt will cost you $2500 and a simple house will set you back $500k down here you really dont worry about heat (i haven't worn long pants in 5 years) but you do have higher insurance costs due to storms. there's a lot about this video that doesn't apply to most of the US.

I've never heard of a bathroom not having a door. Everyone I know with an en suite has a bathroom door. As far as the mailboxes, our mailbox is at the end of our driveway so the mail truck can dry by and deliver your mail without having to walk to the door. He only comes to the door if a package won't fit in the mailbox.

When I built my home in the 70’s we opted for the open style even my smaller home feels so much larger without the walls.

I live in a house that has a basement, first and second floor. Each floor of my house is about 400sq ft. I have a galley kitchen, one full bath (we have 3/4 bath, in the basement, but it's just a place for bugs to go die). The bedrooms are big enough for a twin bed, and the "master" can fit a queen. When it comes to my kitchen, I have 2 normal sized cabinets and 2 very small cabinets on the bottom and 3 regular sized cabinets up top. I would kill for a larger kitchen with a full pantry, but my house isn't built that way. The houses that are shown in these video's are great, if you can afford it, but for the most part more people live in homes like mine.

Our space is not excessive, its just what we have. Britain is miniscule.

Americans to a large degree are feriously independent and very very protective of their freedom,this has a very good effect on quality of life.

Another thing that is different between U.S. and UK homes is that the clothes washer and dryer are in the kitchen in the UK and they are in a separate area of the home in the U.S. I can not imagine trying to wash my dirty laundry in the same room where i prepare my food. Laundry facilities vary in location depending on the size of the home here. In some homes they are located in the basement, some home have dedicated laundry rooms, and in some homes they can even be located in the garage. I have lived in homes where the laundry facilities are located in the above mentioned places. My sister's house has a little alcove off of the hallway that has folding doors specifically for the washer and dryer.

After my wife(a cancer patient) passed 13 years ago, I downsized into a new home closer to my relatives in central Texas. I bought the smallest house being built in a new subdivision that is a 3 bedroom(4th room for BR, or other purpose), 2 bath, 2 car garage. Using the chart in your video, it is more than twice the size of an average UK home. We just have more land for homes, compared the UK. I would have been perfectly fine living in a smaller house, just for myself, but they don't build smaller houses in this area. ❤

Hardwood floors every time!!! They are beautiful, and tou can cozy them up wirg large area rugs around the bed, couch, etc. Har wood is essential for tjose of us with allergies!!!

The mail situation for them is unique. I've lived in the US all my life, I'm 66 years old. 95 % of the places I've lived in have had mail delivered in the door, or a mailbox on your front porch. I've lived in apartments, and they have mail delivered in the front lobby (1st floor), in a communal mail area where everyone has a lockable mailbox. The home I have now is a 2100 sq foot townhome, in a development here in southern Pennsylvania. The mail is delivered to a communal outside box where we have a keyed mailbox. It's about 100' from my front door. I personally love mail delivered to my front door, but that's typically not done in a more rural setting, which I like living in the rural area. I hope that helps!!

In hot climates like Las Vegas, many people have coated cement, marble, or ceramic/porcelain tile floors. It keeps the heat down and is easier to clean. People will put down a throw-down rug in areas for comfort.

Maybe the main part of a bathroom doesn’t have a door, but the toilet area does. 🤷‍♀️ I heard, that in the UK, there are no minimum room size requirements. Water is scarce in the Southwestern US. Gardening might be mostly drought tolerant plants.

US ensuites are so large they are multiplied separate rooms with a shower room, a bathroom and a water closet. The water closet and shower will have a door, but the bathroom with a sinks/ vanity/ soaking tub will sometimes be open to the bedroom.

They can buy a drainage thingy to put next to the sink. Rubbermaid and I imagine other companies make them. They also usually have a rack that sits on top where you can put your wet dishes as they dry and drain into the sink. They are probably at every dollar store.

My ensuite has a door. Also, there is a separate room within the bathroom for the toilet - it is called the toilet room.

A lot of master bathrooms don't have doors as you enter the bathroom because the toilet has its own space within the bathroom with a door.

Residential mail delivery receptacles (i.e. where you pick up your mail) come in a few flavors in the US: * slot on front door (this tends to be only very old houses) * mailbox mounted on house (this requires the route to be walked by the postal carrier, so it's also a bit less prevalent) * mailbox at the end of your driveway (carrier drives a mail truck), or across the street from that (this being required if the driving mail carrier will only traverse the road in one direction) * multiple boxes or multiple cells in one spot in the neighborhood * mailbox that you rent from the post office (or one of its competitors)

They’re showing big houses in the US. Not all of us live in homes like that. Yes, new construction is opening up homes with big kitchens and bigger rooms but we have plenty of smaller homes here too. I grew up in a small home with one bathroom and 3 bedrooms and shared a bedroom with my little brother. We were able to afford a bigger house as I grew into a teen but not all of us can do that.

In nearby Philadelphia the average square footage for homes is 1,420. I live in the suburbs about a half hour away so homes here are definitely bigger. 2:00 This house is HUGE!

Open plans with kitchens are fairly new. My house has doors on each room, including the kitchen. It was built in the 1940s and the rooms are small.

That house, the first one, looks like rhe home on the old tv show, Dallas!! Way before your time!! Its ginormous!!!

The house pictured at 1:58 is actually Southfork Ranch, home of the Ewing family in the 70s and 80s television show "Dallas" which is by no means a standard house in the US. Never put a banana with the peel in the garbage disposal because they could wrap around the blades and damage the motor. We buy draining racks to stack dishes after hand washing them. Most kitchens in the US have double sinks instead of one sink and a drainage area, one sink to wash and one sink to rinse.

14:58 where I am (El Paso, Tx), replacing an hvac system (assuming a split unit - condenser outside with evaporator and furnace inside) for a residential @ 1600 square foot single story house would cost from $6,800 (low quality) to @ $15,000 (high end system - this includes a thermostat that also displays info useful to a tech and the condenser has a display panel of pressures and temps of refrigerant with other useful info allowing the tech to not have to connect gauges and other tools/equipment)

The mailboxes are in a central location in newer neighborhoods, older neighborhoods or houses have a mailbox at the front of the property

I'm an American and have never seen a en suite without a door. As far as parking, it depends on the city and neighborhood if you have on street parking vs a car port, driveway or garage

My wife and I lived in a very large flat on Upper Whimpole St. in London. We were lucky to get it (2+ years), but it was expensive! The bedrooms were large, but no closets...WTH?? The one bathroom was 10' x 10' and it had heated towel racks!! We had the entire 3rd and 4th floors with a couple doctor offices on the first and second. The kitchen was small with a washer that was also the dryer. A wash and dry session took over 3 hours, but our clothes came out very clean. One thing all the Americans noticed was our "whites" came out incredibly white!! We had a good time in London and our weekend road trips to the English countryside were the best!!

I live in Las Vegas too like this couple and newer subdivisions will have a central mailbox for a couple of streets. My neighborhood was built in the early 1980's and every house has an individual mailbox at the end of the driveway. Post people love central neighborhood mailboxes since it reduces their work load!

If they are in Vegas in that size house in a gated community they have pretty good money. They probably live in Summerlin, which is a wealthy neighborhood in Las Vegas. I used to live in Vegas, my kids were born there my ex-husband and father-in-law were security guards for the Prince of Brunei's Vegas mansion so I have been in the gates of the rich areas. For a long while I had marble slabs that were cut off from the Prince's mansion's kitchen counters when they were installed.

Houses in America, with lots of windows, tends to be in locations with mostly sunny weather. Too many windows in cold climates, means cold air, which means high utility bill. One more point, my experience growing up was 3 bedroom home, with 1 bathroom, no basement. Not the normal. I currently reside in a home with 4 baths, walk in closets, brick home. There is what i would say is an older stock of homes, and a newer, more modern stock. The homes on here, is typically newer, higher end homes.

Hardwood is definitely popular in the US right now. However, I have always enjoyed having a mix- carpet in the bedrooms and hardwood in the main areas and hallways

originally, British homes were built out of stone (with little wood, as it's scarce for building material there) and the interiors were walled off rooms so that the heat could be kept in the rooms that were being used, while the rooms that weren't in current use to get cold until they were needed again. thus why your traditional building schemes still work that way. In the U.S. we used to build that way until we created 'central' heating and aircon. then that allowed us to keep the whole house at the same temp, so there was no longer a need to keep the rooms walled off to keep heat or aircon within those rooms that were currently occupied. this allowed for the 'open' floor plans, thus you have it as the default building plan now in the U.S.

If you're building the house and you're looking at plans, it's up to you to put a door in your bathroom, sweet. Now if you buy a house that's already built, probably some of them didn't come with doors, but you can always put them in

I have NEVER seen a bathroom without a door.

Lived in the U.S. for 64 years. Always had a bathroom door and my mail always comes to my front door.

We don't all have hardwood floors. It's a preference. some have hardwood, some have carpet and many have both.

Growing up in the U.S. our houses almost always had 2 full bathrooms. The ensuite ALWAYS had a door. The kitchens were usually in their own "doorless" rooms. Though for most homes built in the past 20 years or so, they will be in an open plan, usually splitting the living room to one side and the kitchen with pantry to the other. Growing up, our mailboxes were typically in front of the house, or actually in the door or next to the door. However, in more recent times when entire areas were developed all at once, some developers have decided to create mass mailboxes in several locations around the development. The one in the video seems extraordinarily odd to me to have to go any distance to pick up your mail. In the northern areas and places where it can get cold, carpet is definitely the norm from my experience. Really old homes tend to be hardwood flooring. Homes in the south, especially warm, humid areas like Florida, tile, wood, or some other material (not carpet) is often used. But to be fair, there is a mix of all surfaces in all areas of the U.S. My personal preference is carpet in all areas outside of the bathroom and kitchen.

Houses are smaller in the UK due to heating costs. When most homes were built, the technology to build them at the time needed you to have smaller rooms to keep in the heat. More homes in the US are newer. With building technology today, you can have those open floor plans. Windows today keep a lot more heat/cold out. Central heat/air in the US helps keep those bigger spaces comfortable. The ensuite might not have a door, but they usually have a toilet closet with a door.

Perhaps the size of some examples are larger than average however I think the concepts they are describing are found more often than not in US homes. While the dish drain thing they say they miss is something you can buy and put on the sink. Not sure why they can't find that but it might not be something they have really tried to replace. There are homes with other mail delivery but often modern neighborhoods have centralized mailbox clusters. Usually these are required by the local Post Office requirements because it speeds the postman's route time.

In our en-suite, we have what we call saloon doors just for a little privacy. One has to be in the bedroom before getting to the bathroom. The saloon doors also serve as a bit of a light diffuser for the night light we have in the bathroom. If those doors are kept open at night, more light shines into the bedroom.

Most mail in the U.S. is delivered directly to the home's mailbox out front. Walking to get your mail is rare.

KZfaq pro tip for backing up the video to be able to read something: The left and right arrows jump 5 seconds at a time, but the comma and period keys (look at the < and > symbols) let you move frame by frame.

British people commonly call their back area a 'garden' because before and during the world wars, they grew food in those areas as it was common for families to grow their veggies instead of buying most of them, and would buy meats from the store and the few veggies they didn't or couldn't grow. this naming just stuck and it's been that way since for British people. In the U.S. on the other hand, we've rarely grown our own foods, unless you live on an actual farm (small or otherwise) and thus it has nearly only been 'yards'. Widespread carpet in homes is a fad that changes decade to decade. in the 60s and 70s it was highly used (even some bathrooms had carpet up to and could include the sides of the bath), even on the stairs. but in the 90s and 2000s, non-carpet floors became more popular. it started off being that the kitchen and living rooms were non-carpet (along with bathrooms and laundry rooms. basically anywhere that water might spill). then it spread to bedrooms as people started to understand that it was much easier to keep non-carpet areas clean than carpeted areas. thus you have now that it's popular to have nearly (or entirely) the whole house without carpet. some may have it already (or get it installed) in specific places for comfort, like the bedrooms or living rooms, but it's preference now. and area or small rugs are used in those non-carpet places to keep the cold off people's feet.

The backyard garden in Britain is a hold over from the "Victory Gardens" of WWII. Brits all grew a small patch for food, to help with the war effort, this became ingrained into their culture and the practice continues to this day. Americans who grow a (small) garden generally grow enough to have produce to can for winter, and perhaps some to sell to recoup their investment. So roughly 6 to 10 times the size of the average British patch gardens.

Kitchens are kind of the center of the home. A lot of family time is spent during meals and cooking or eating together, or both! I love it.

They don't have a garden because they live in a desert. In most of the country, gardens, flowers, and trees are common

Just remember that these homes they are showing are single-family detached homes in suburban neighborhoods. Many cities still have attached row houses like the British picture they showed.

It's extremely common here in the US to entertain guests in the kitchen, especially during the holidays where food is a central element.

That home is the site for Dallas the tv show, it’s enormous! My new home in SC was 2,200 which is typical middle class.

in the US you have a yard and a garden is an area where food is grown. The yard can have flowers, trees, etc. referred to as landscaping but we would never call that a garden. Even at our farm we call the landscaped area around the house and barn a "Farmyard" and the sub-area with fruit trees the "fruit orchard" (we are not there enough to take care of a garden with vegetables).

mail slots are in old neighborhoods. The postal service pushes for boxes since it is more efficient for them.

The master en-suite in my childhood home had an open doorway, but the toilet was in an enclosed room with a door inside the bathroom.. Most people have letterboxes or mailboxes at their residence. Our mail is delivered straight to our houses, with few exceptions. If you don't like hardwood, put a large stylish rug down.

We use rugs in rooms we want to have a more cozy feeling.

The one thing im envious of with American homes is basements, i collect a lot of stuff, it would be nice to have an entire floorspace to display it all.

I'm a commercial plumber here. Having a master bedroom with a bathroom with no door attached is very common if you have money.

Their mail situation isn’t typical. A lot of homes have door mail slots and others have mail boxes on the outside of the house or on the street in front of your house. A/C is fabulous, as are garbage disposals, lol. We have a true garden as part of our backyard. Lots of English roses!

in the state i live in, in the midwest most bathrooms have a door on them. most houses are three bedroom and at least two bathrooms. The room that laundry is done in is called a Mud Room. Three car garage which is 700 square feet is not the norm but I enjoy it. The down side to a much bigger home is that you buy a lot of stuff to fill it that you probably really don't need. And a larger home takes more time and work to keep clean. Yes it's great to have temperature control, ( Furnace and air conditioning) but energy to run those cost and repair or replacement cost as well. It all comes down to what you want and what your willing to work for. I have no doubt that the Beesley's make their house a real home.

You can plant a garden in your backyard. A garden for us can be a vegetable garden or a flower garden (which people plant in various locations of the front, side, or backyard).

That “stunning” house at the beginning is Southfork Ranch from the TV show “Dallas.” That’s where I watched the solar eclipse.

My house is 3,200 sq ft of living space (5 bedroom,3.5 baths, live in basement). Our kitchen opens into the family room. And our mail is delivered to the door. And we have a single carport, so we have to park our cars behind each in the driveway.

in 2018 the average home was almost 7000 square feet in America. Its a big house. Now its closer to 2500 because of fad's like tiny homes being popularized. Buying 500 square foot homes on Amazon really cuts into the national average, even though some people are setting them up as secondary homes for vacationing or camping.

my grandfather bought a 'kit house' from Sears in 1944 for $550 and built it himself. it had a kitchen, living room and bedroom. they had an outhouse. My grandmother refused to move into it until my grandfather built a working bathroom INSIDE the house, which he did. they then added another bedroom with their first child and then a master suit when their 4th child (girl, so she could have her own room from her 3 brothers). by the 1970s, my grandfather had build a new larger kitchen/dinning room. a sitting room, a second larger living room. a car port, and the house was 4 bedrooms, 3 baths with a total of 5,400+ sq ft.... and this was all on 10 acres. He built ALL of the house himself throughout those years.

I lived in England for 7 years in the Nineties. My biggest takeaway was the low water pressure in a typical English home.

Yeah, the house they showed the exterior for is Southfork the mansion from the tv show Dallas.

We aren't wealthy at all but our house has an open floor plan so our kitchen dinning and great room are all visible from any room and so is our fireplace. Our fireplace is the focal point of our house. We have doors on all our batrooms.

I bought a 2-bedroom, 2-bath home on 3/4 acre in the mountains of Idaho. It didn't have a garage! Since I decided that I needed a garage, I decided it would be cost effective if I built a garage (3 car) with a 2nd story apartment for my Mother. I designed a loft style apartment. with a large deck on the south side (above the original house) & a balcony on the north side. The deck has a patio (sliding) door & the balcony has French doors. This allows a breeze in the summer. There is a full kitchen with dish washer & built-in microwave. All interior walls are 3/4 height including the bathroom, i.e., open concept. The bathroom has a Jacuzzi, toilet, bidet, pedestal sink, & a stacked washer/dryer. I did include a door to the bathroom. I installed double swinging "bar doors" for the perfect amount of privacy for an apartment dweller.

Who has a bathroom with no door? I've never seen a home like that! Our house, built in the 1950's is a 3 story, counting the basement, home. It is right around 1600 sq ft. we have 3 bedrooms, living, dining, kitchen, gameroom, 1 full and 2 half baths. The laundry room is down in the basement, near the furnace room. My wife and I raised our 3 kids there, so big enough!

I don't have a pantry now but an old apartment used to have one. But that's only because the building used to be a house and the pantry used to be a bedroom closet.

We have a bathroom in every bed room & a powder room for guests on the main level.

Common area bathrooms have doors, but in some homes the bedroom bathrooms may not. It's YOUR bedroom. Lol!!

The in-home climate control systems we use here are sometimes referred to as HVAC. Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning system. The system consists of 3 different machines working in concert, and a network of ducts that connect the furnace to the rooms of the house. Inside the house, the furnace is the central hub. It is responsible for heating, filtering, optional moisture control or even airborn bacteria killing. It also forces the air into the ducts, distributing it around the house. The condenser unit is outside, and it provides the cooling of the air, as well as moisture removal. Lastly, theres the thermostat, which is what you use to control the system. If everything is going right, you will only ever have to deal with the thermostat, aside from occasionally needing to change your furnace filter every 6-12 months. Some modern thermostats have more advanced controls, where they will give you temperature and humidity readings outside, courtesy of the sensors on the condenser. They can also be programmed with schedules, so you could program the system to turn off while you're at work, and set it to turn back on 30 minutes before you get home.

Most kitchens aren't open floor plan either. We have a wall between the living room and our kitchen which I'd LOVE to open up (it's load bearing so would need a beam) with an entryway but no door to close them off completely. They are roughly the same size in dimensions at 11 1/2 by 16 feet or 184 square feet each. The totally square footage of our house is around 1500 but our home was also built in 1976 so en suite bathrooms were not a thing. We still have a 3 br/1 bath home that consists of a ground level and a basement level. There is a room downstairs that can be used as a bedroom and space to build a small bathroom inside the utility room, my parents just never did. The a/c and heating units are different systems. If we have a garden in the US, it's because we are GARDENING. Some are growing fruit and veggies. Some just have a flower garden hence the reason it's a backyard. A yard at the back of your house to do whatever with even if part of it is a flower garden or you have a patch of herbs. It's still a backyard :).

Air conditioning does not replace radiators. Forced air replaces radiators. Air condition provides cold air, and whatever method is used to heat provides hot air. Traditionally these were separate units, but heat pumps are becoming more popular as they've gotten to the point where they can handle a wider range of temperatures. A heat pump provides both heating and cooling through the same unit. In homes where there's no room to run ducts you still have options. You can get a mini-split, which has individual permanently installed units in each room that directly connect to the outside. Or you can get a ductless system that runs coolant through pipes or tubes to air handlers. It's all expensive to install of course. If you want to get really fancy you can get radiant heating. It's like a radiator except the entire floor is the radiator. A tube is installed under the floor, filled with coolant, and heated. Radiant heat can also be installed outside under concrete.

Some homes have pocket doors in the bathroom. They slide in / out of the wall to save space.

In older communities, where houses are both closer together and more near the sidewalk, the mailman CAN walk a normal route. In some areas the houses are both far from the neighbors and from the street. This means that the mailman will have to walk huge distances between houses. In those cases you have a mailbox on a pole at the edge of your property and at the street. In this way the mailman drives a little truck delivering (and picking up mail) into those mailboxes at the street. Now many new housing developments believe that those street mailboxes are unsightly. In some new areas where they have smaller houses, a forest of mailboxes on poles is quite ugly. So now those new communities will have a little oasis of mailboxes (usually under cover and maybe a picnic table). They might look like small high-school book lockers. The mailman comes with a truck and a "master key" to open the individual mail boxes and distribute the mail (and packages) into "locked" boxes. Each "oasis" might have boxes for 20-30 houses or more. Some communities may have several....situated every 2 to 3 streets. In California my sister's each have their community mail boxes just around the corner. My son here in Florida has their's a block away.

That's why you put heated floors in the master bedroom/bathroom.

Older American here. I live in southern New Mexico, in what is often called the high desert. We have a house with a climate controlled system similar to what was shown in your video. Last summer it reached 132°F [55°C] in our back yard. We had well over 44 days of consecutive 100°F [38°C] days last year. In the winter it can drop down below 32 deg. F [below 0 deg. C]. You simply set the thermostat to heat or cool & forget about. It is pretty efficient & isn't really very expensive to run on either setting.

More likely the kitchen is sort of separate but the dining room and the living room are one large room.

Enjoyed hearing from a couple from England. It makes me feel I should be more thankful for all we have in the USA. Thank you for sharing.. My name came from England in the 1600's, I think.