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in the USA 'Yankee' refers either to a New Englander or more generally a Northerner.

American home designer here, specializing in kitchens and baths I like the differences between the countries and the way everyone adapts and uses the space available to them I don’t like saying ‘stupid granite countertops’ Every granite countertop is stone that is naturally occurring and dug up from the ground. Nature makes those sparkly bits of glitter are actually made by the earth. I guess we can say the earth makes tacky, wanting to be luxurious stuff but failing.. or perhaps you just don’t know what you are looking at.. Either way, newer homes are using more quartz (you know, those hard crystals grown naturally but they are ground up and made into beautiful colors and designs.. many with their hated glitter and are really expensive) I could be petty and say we can offer an alternative to their stupid hairstyles but I’m from the south so I’ll just say, bless their hearts

I think they are confused as to what a granite countertop is. Granite is a natural stone and would rarely contain glitter, something they may have put into synthetic countertops, a couple decades back. Granite is extremely hard, durable and will not burn if you put your hot pots and pans on top of it. It’s also quite expensive.

It's true. In many cities, if a room does not have a closet, it can't be called a bedroom.

In areas with earthquakes, masonry houses require so much steel reinforcement they are impractical. Wood frame buildings are much better in shear, side forces, if done properly.

Here in the US, a Yankee is someone who lives in the northeast. It's a word used mostly by southerners and is sometimes used as a pejorative. Outside of the US, a Yankee is just someone from the US.

American author E. B. White summarized the distinctions for the word “Yankee” in this way: "To foreigners, a Yankee is an American. To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner. To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner. To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander. To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter. And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast."

As someone who made a lifetime living in the construction industry in Southern California, I can assure you that houses whose structural members are wood will last for generations and hundreds of years. Houses in GB are also subject to "damp rising", a structural and even more a health issue, American houses have no such issue even in high humidity and wet areas.

Square footage is calculated in livable space so, gardens/yards do not count and neither do unfinished basements or attic spaces.

The word "Yank" can be derogatory depending on how it's used. It's usually an informal term for Americans, but the context and tone can make it offensive.

In America we do not add the entire property size into the square footage. Sometimes space IN the home isnt even added to square footage. It has to be livable finished house to be counted toward the square footage. When you see 2,000 square feet thats JUST the house. That house might have acres and acres of land attached to it that isn't included on the listed square feet.

8:50 As a Realtor I dealt with some big new houses which literally had a room named "the conservatory." But this is rare. The American equivalent is called the "sunroom" and you will find lots of medium houses with sunrooms.

Sorry to be so chatty, but I believe legally, you can only call a room a bedroom if it has 1. a door that closes, 2. a window for emergency escape, and 3. a closet. Doesn't have to be a huge, walk in closet, but must have a little room for one. Our office is technically a bedroom because it has all three of those items.

Down in the Southern states you don't want to use the word "Yank" or "Yankee" unless you're wanting to fight - - thems fightin' words. As for the size...it's a no brainer. I gave us SOOOOOO much space when I stayed in Scotland. I never realized just how much I missed my closets, pantry, laundry room, basement, and you know - - 3rd bedroom and 2nd bathroom. You do miss it if you don't have it.

A duplex is two houses connected together. A triplex is three.

Window screens!!!! A/Cs are always talked about but we have screens on the windows ( and some home have screen doors as well) to let in air when it’s comfortable outside without letting bugs in

I live in San Francisco, and our homes here are over 100+ years old and made of wood. Over the past century and a half, we have had 7 major fires and two major earthquakes, and the homes, including mine, are still standing strong.

Two thoughts: 1) Temperatures are more extreme in the US than in the UK, and the wood used in the construction of the American houses is a great insulator. Wood is cheap, available, easy to handle in construction, and very durable. And nothing flimsy about it. 2) Granite and quartz countertops are gorgeous. Not to mention practical and extremely durable. I never heard anyone complain about them before until I saw this video. Who doesn't like a pretty rock?

I grew up in a row house in Philadelphia. It helps to get along with your neighbors. It’s probably why when people renovate, they add sound proofing.

Home designs and fads in the US change more than the weather. Also load bearing walls are why you don't see a lot of open conecpt homes in the UK. It's easier in the US when the house is made of wood. It's easyr to knock down a wooden wall and put in load bearing wood support beams in the US. Knocking down a stone wall will need a steal support beam to support the weight in the UK. It's probably more costly in the UK to alter a home than it is the US

What is always not explained to people from the UK by us properly is explaining how our wooden homes are insulated. I always hear UK people explain how their homes are built to keep heat in. Well,So are our homes and more so insulated to keep away mold as well as keeping heat in too. Mold in the UK seems to be a bigger common problem over there more so than here. Although they think because their homes are built with brick they’re better than ours. Maybe not just because it’s brick doesn’t make it better I think the insulation is better on this side of the pond. And by the way we do have homes built of brick as well.

I live in Arizona. For hundreds of years homes were made of adobe (mud bricks) or bricks because wood is rare in the desert. Now wood is cheap and it's common to have them built with wood. My home is made from Burnt Adobe, which is adobe brick fired in a kiln. We do not have basements. Basements originated in cold places where the foundation had to be several feet deep to get below the frost line. After you dig four feet for that you might as well keep digging and get a full basement where you can put your coal-fired furnace. In Arizona we don't need to dig deep and the soil is so hard in places you need dynamite to excavate it. No basement, footers 18 inch deep around the property and then a four inch concrete slab on grade. I live in a townhouse officially which is attached to the neighbor by 8 feet of kitchen wall matched up to the neighbor's carport wall. Other than those 8 feet it is a "single family home" about 1350 sf but my backyard is enclosed by a block wall and I have a 200 sf covered patio, 600 sf paved patio under trees, and about 600 sf of artificial grass (it's Arizona we don't grow grass these days.) And some beds for planting flowers and hedges. There's a front yard and a small front porch but the backyard is where we spend our time and do our entertaining most of the year. The microwave is permanently mounted over the stove. There's a heat pump on the roof.

Adam, you have a brain that actually functions as compared to these 2. You know the difference between a structural wall and not. I would hate to see these 2 do a home makeover. Love your video's bro!

The guy in the video is slightly wrong about "house", yes, we call them houses but people who live in Duplexes {two units hooked together in the same building} or Tri-plexes {3 units} or Qudraplex{4 units} would still call their unit, their house. We have secondary terms, Single Family Home or Multi-Family home, which are more distinct for a "House" which is totally owned, including the property/land, buy one person or one family. A Multi-Family home is in the same situation but the house is designed in such a way that more than one family can live there and have their own space. This is usually a situation where related family members, such as parents and children, are living in the same home but they have their own separated living spaces within the one building. So each would have their own Living Rooms, Dining Rooms, Kitchens, Bedrooms, etc. There would normally just be one or two doors that connect the two Living Spaces and for the most part those door are not used, and may even be locked.

One hundred to one hundred fifty years ago in the mid west (mostly the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas), when they were building houses and such there wasn’t a lot of wood or rock so they would build out of sod. They would go out on the prairie and cut 12-18 inch strips of the native grass and cut it into blocks about a foot long and stack them up to make buildings. My mother in law was born in the 1930’s and the farm she lived on until she was in her mid teens was a “soddy.” She said it was terrible because there would always be dirt falling down from the roof so you had to hunch over your food to protect it. She also said that spiders would fall out of the ceiling all the time which apparently is not a nice way to get woke up. She learned to sleep with just the top of her head sticking out from under the blankets. As far as I know there still exists a two story sod school house in north central Nebraska that was built in 1935 because of a scarcity of other building materials. It is still mostly standing so you can see it but it is unsafe to go inside. A plus for building with sod was that you could make nice thick walls so the building would stay cool in the summer and warm in the winter.

My parents did a major renovation on their house a few years ago. They enclosed the carport and made a huge room with a pantry and washer/dryer room. They redid the back bathroom and took the tub out and put in a huge walk in shower. I love the glass door with the door gear inside. It just looks neat. The kitchen was also redone. The guy that was doing it had done a big house where he put in granite counter tops. The other people had bought and paid for this Italian granite. They paid $7000 for all of it. The contractor had enough left over to do my parent's house with this granite. He wanted to use it up and whatever they decided was going to be pure profit for him. I know my mom fed him almost every night while he did the work. My dad has a full BBQ and smoker section outside that they cooked on while the kitchen was getting worked on. I don't think my parents paid that much for the Italian granite tops and these things do not look cheap in the least bit. We live in Georgia which has a whole lot of granite, but these counter tops looks nothing like that kind of granite. They are very pretty and my mom said they just costs some food. My mom is the typical Southern Lady and she cooked really good. She is starting to have some memory problems so I cook for everyone more now. I mean she just cooks simple meals but they taste good. The contractor was a nice guy and he loved food. I remember my son had a big garden and he picked Butterbeans and we shelled and cooked a big pot of beans, potatoes, porkchops and crackling cornbread and the guy ate and that's how they decided to exchange food for granite. I live behind my parents on some of their land. We have 5 acres and that's more than enough to grow most of our vegetables. My house is small by American standards, but at 1000 Square feet it's larger than most English homes. It's mine and paid for so that's all good. It's a small place but my husband is very good at organizing and it's amazing how much stuff he can get in a small spot. I had a book room, but it seems his stuff has taken over my room!

My house, the structure itself, is 2,525 square feet, that doesn’t include the attached three car garage or the yard. It has three bedrooms but the loft upstairs is so large one end could become a fourth bedroom with the addition of one wall, a door and closet. The floor plan actually shows where the wall would go so it’s an easy add. My house has a formal living room, formal dining room, a family room, the kitchen has an island which has space for four barstools on the side facing the family room and a half bath. The first floor also a giant walk-in pantry. Upstairs is the loft two bedrooms that share the a bathroom, the laundry room and the master bedroom with en suite bathroom. All three bedrooms have, walk in closets, additionally downstairs there is a coat closet near the front door and another very large closet that partially runs under the stairs. I also have a covered front porch as well as a nice size patio just outside the back door. My house has a foyer or entryway before you actually enter the living room and other rooms. Up stairs there’s a short hall way off the loft that goes to the laundry room, two bathrooms and bathroom. My microwave is built in over the stove, the vent fan is incorporated in the microwave and vents to the outside. I have the usual appliances, a dishwasher and a refrigerator, freezer on the bottom that has a filtered water dispenser, and the ice maker in the freezer. Granite countertops aren’t stupid! They’re a natural product, granite naturally has some crystallization from when the earth created the granite. And you can pick a color that doesn’t have as much sparkle when you’re selecting new countertops. They are fairly expensive though.

Attached houses are typically called row houses when they are similar or same in design... Townhouses are varied in style, color and size. Personally, I am not offended by the term Yank (Yankee)... We even have a baseball team called the Yankees...No Worry!!!

Our home is called a “center-hall” . You would walk into a hallway, and separate entrances to the kitchen, “family room, “living room”.

When calculating square footage in the US, we don't include anything unfinished: like porches/garages/yards/etc.

I had always thought for the longest time, that a “flat” was simply a one-story house, ie it was flat against the ground. Then on night I was watching a British film {sorry don’t remember much about the movie} and they talked about going up to the persons 3rd floor flat. Immediately in my head I thought well damn, that makes no sense. Where did the word flat come from? I even looked up the origin of the word and it still didn’t seem to make much sense to me other than, I guess a “flat” can only have on level. In the US, while most apartments are a single floor, I have seen apartments with living spaces {living room, dining room, kitchen} on one floor and bedrooms on an upper floor.

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19th century American homes often had a front door that opened into a hallway with a staircase and doors off to the "parlor" on the side, much like the present-day British floor plan they were sketching in the video. However, the wall between the front entry hall and the living room began to disappear in the early 1900s. The front door would still open into a small foyer/stair landing area, with a coat closet tucked under the stairway, but it wasn't walled off from the living room any more. (Some of the small, cheap houses built immediately after WWII for returning GIs and their new families did away with the foyer altogether--you literally walked right into the living room.)

Just checked the website for my apartment, my unit is 681sqft. Bigger than I thought, but still feels like living in a shoebox, lol

When my father bought our house in 1962, it was a Duplex. When my sister sold it in 2000, it was listed as a " semi-detached." In Canada.

Building code here says you must have a minimum size closet for each bedroom. Size of room decides the size of the closet

"Yank" isn't as bad as it used to be. I mean, the New York Yankees haven't been forced to change their name. However, my mother, now in her late 80s, learned the word "damnyankee" in school. Yankee was always preceded with "damn." This was in Georgia in the 1940s, so not even a century after the Civil War.

No lie, I’m really enjoying the way the KZfaq subtitles keep printing “terrorist” every time you guys say “terrace house”, it comes out in the subs as “terrorist house”. Must be the accent.

granite countertops are a fairly recent thing. Porches are not that common in many parts of the west or midwest for the middle class unless they're a prewar 2 house . The cost of housing now is making a family able to buy a home very difficult even in not heavily populated areas in the US.

Yank is basically the nickname for Americans, kinda like Britian's are Brits, and Australian's are Aussie's

Here a detached house is called a single family home

since you wanted to know of other types of living spaces here in the U.S. I figured i would share my lucky find. I actually am lucky enough to rent a one bedroom apartment here in Florida for a reasonable price. It's almost 900 square feet (83.62 Sq. meters), a designated laundry closet, dishwasher, balcony and a walk in closet. It also has an attached garage (which is not included in the square footage of living space)! This is NOT a common thing in all apartment complexes (it's not even available to all apartments here in OUR complex), but it is available in some other places. I love the videos, thanks for the laughs! keep up the great work!

When they talk about square footage they are referring to the house only, not the land. They'd list the size of the land separately such as "a 2303 su ft. home on a 1.5 acre lot.

Honestly never heard of a coservatory except in clue(the board game)so we just pronounced it how its spelled. If it has glass ceiling it would be called a greenhouse. If just walls or large windows its a sun room.

Though it’s not as offensive now, the term “Yankee” was originally an offensive or racial slur used against Native Americans in the early 1800’s, and is most well known in the song “yankee doodle” where in the song they mock native traditions and attire. it was also commonly used alongside the word “savage(s)” though at this time that word would begin to phase out in favor of the new “yankee”. It was also occasionally flipped back against white folk and used by natives against white people.

Most apartments in many big cities in the U.S. are co-ops, which aren't mentioned here, not condos. Granite countertops are one of the solid surfaces homebuyers look for in a kitchen, because of the many advantages. Granite is a natural stone, so if it has those chips, it's part of the stone makeup.

Large homes in the US often have a "Sun Room" or a "Sun Porch", That's our name for a "Conservatory".

I live in a 110 year old farm house. No closets, no basement, 1 bedroom downstairs, 1 bathroom. 2 converted attic bedrooms (no closets). Humongous backyard and front yard. We have a mud room. But the front door enters into the living room. My stairs are located in the middle of the house. Plaster and wood. Still have the original glass windows downstairs.

britain doesnt have the room to build big. they are the size of a medium sized state. the building products in the uk are more expensive and you do not have the necessary amount of wood ( must import) to keep costs down.

Yank is not offensive to me. Ironically, I've lived in the South East US for 20+ years. But was born and raised spending half my life in Illinois. Which would be considered a Yankee. It is the land of Lincoln after all 😆.

also BTW, when referring to "square footage" in a US home it's referring to livable space and excludes the front/back yard (garden?) as well as garage (generally).

I laughed when you said they were wrong about the microwaves. I live in the mid-west in a 2,000 sqft modest wood and brick home with 3 bedrooms, walk-in closet, 3 bathrooms, kitchen that doesn't have granite counter tops, living room, and loft. I also have huge back yard (garden), nice sized front yard, attached double-car garage, and patio, but these do not count in the house square footage because they're considered unfinished areas. We hang out in the back yard mostly, especially when we have guests in the summer. Microwaves are nice to warm leftovers, but I don't like to cook in them. I use Air Fryers more for food. The hallways in many houses are just as you described them in British homes. It depends on the style, I think. Most people love stone (not always granite) countertops, but there's always cement, laminated, stainless steel or wooden counter tops, too, which are usually more economical.

In the States, micrwaves are usually built into the kitchen cabinetry. If you live in an apartment, you buy a freestanding microwave to have on the counter.

15:11 Yes, American closets are standard but they do vary greatly in style. Pre 1990 most houses, even big one will have very small closets with just a bar to hang things on and sliding doors, maybe the master bedroom with have a walk in closet. Post 1990 closets got a hell of a lot bigger, they had real doors and space to store things.

My understanding is that in the past taxes on houses in the UK where figured by rooms. In order to levy a higher property tax closets where and maybe still are considered as rooms. Maybe just hearsay but it makes sense.

We are absolutely fine with the term "yank." I've lived all over the U.S. and zero people care. Also, the average American says "house," but real estate professionals use "single family home" when referring to a detached house.

A duplex makes sense. Its two houses attached to make one structure

Where I live, the main bathroom contains a decent size laundry closet. It's big enough for a washer and dryer to sit side by side and can be closed off in case friends or family visit. It's convenient if you need to pre-soak an item in the sink before washing.

12:50 Not having a dedicated laundry room is a cost saving measure as it's easier to run the utilities in the kitchen or in a closet near the kitchen. These do exist in some American houses but it's not preferred.

As an american, I'm not offended by the term Yank or Yankee, unless it's preceded by 'damn'

one thing you may need to take into consideration is a lode bearing wall, homes in the UK have been there longer than in the US. That may be the reason for the hallway walls.

Our house has the family rooms, kitchen and living room upstairs, after my children all moved out (all 5 of them) we closed off the downstairs and the upstairs alone is 1200 sq ft or 111 sq meters.

Granite, marble, and quartz have been the preferred material for countertops in the U.S. Though synthetic materials are becoming more common it seems lately since they have the same look and characteristics as natural stone for a much cheaper price tag.

Hi i live in a modular house/trailer house, 1660 Sq ft, With a breakfast room, dining room. kitchen, two bathrooms, laundry room, one small bedroom and 1 master bed room. Vaulted ceilings through out the house. On 1/2 acre land, on a private airport with a 2500 sq foot hangar, The house is air conditioned and central heated and very well insulated as we have 110 F degree summers and get down to 20 F degree winters, we go over a 4,000 ft pass that sometimes gets closed because of snow in the winter to get to the interstate highway to get to Vegas we lso have Humming birds outside our window feeding out of the feeder we hang on the front porch, roses and cactus in the front garden in the back garden we have a great view of the mountains in Callifornia. This is very different than my homes i lived in in England. In Liverpool, Leicester, Devon

I like the term "Garden." In the US, it's the Back Yard. As to having the washer & dryer in the kitchen, yeah, as an American, that seems a bit strange. I think that's becoming more normal in the US "tiny home" movement though. Amazing the little cultural differences & norms. It's fun to discover them!

I live in a duplex; 2 homes in 1 building each with a separate yard and porch. I'm a southerner and if I say Yankee I'm not being flattering.

Duplexes are houses where one side one family lives and on the other side another family lives. Most of us live in our own houses. Some of us also have a vacation house beside a lake, in mountains for skiing or on the coast by an ocean. Many of us rent those out during times we aren’t staying there. Since we only vacation for 1-2 weeks per year we rent them or exchange our vacation homes with people that live in different areas of the country. In my city in the south there are few apartments but many condominiums in the downtown area where people like to walk or bike and be near restaurants and bars (pubs). Parking is a nightmare downtown! But we do have big garages and bonus rooms for kids to play in or people to turn into a room for pool tables, library, or tv: game rooms. In the south we call northerners Yankees. Not meant as an insult. We are a big country thus the big homes on large lots. No square footage? Here that’s how we know what houses to look at when buying! We always require at least a 1 acre lot, bedrooms with walk in closet, a large master bedroom with an attached bathroom and walk-in closet. The biggest room is the kitchen. We do have front porches and a small patio in back then a long yard often with a two car detached garage and a garden/mechanic’s room in the back. I do envy the charm of London homes and streets with stores and pubs in walking distance. My mom is dying to take a British garden tour vacation! She is a master gardener and her yard is gorgeous. She loves the British style of gardens and flowers. Your rainy weather makes the plants super green don’t they?

I'm an interior design student and the entry into hallway is a period feature...more older homes do it and alot have 2 living rooms. One for guests called the sitting room and the less formal for family. It all depends on the style and year the home was built. Open concept homes are a late 90s modern feature

As an American I have to say if you want individual cups of hot coffee or tea, get a Keurig for that. A microwave excels at many things, but heating up coffee or boiling water for tea is not one of them.

Great video as always! I'm curious because I THINK they were referring to US homes having built-in microwaves vs free-standing units. Which is most common in the UK?

When we in the US talk about square footage of a house it's just the house size. It does not include the "yard" or "garden area". That measurement is the lot size, My last house was listed as a three bedroom home but in order to list it that way they had to build a closet in the third "bedroom". House size and apartment size is so variable depending on how much you are willing to spend and what area you live in. In large cities where there is a massive population, things will be smaller but not necessarily less expensive. If you get out of the big city you get a lot more for your money, Housing has increased in cost everywhere over the last several years but there is still affordable housing where I live. You may not be able to afford a huge home but you can make what you can afford very nice.

Entrance halls are very classy and until the post World War II period in the USA, they were common in most upper middle class and upper class homes; especially more traditional Colonial homes and large, more opulent cape styles, both of which stressed symmetry. They were often not found in most mid and small size capes of the post WWII era. After the 1990s when the "open plan" concept really went extreme, hallways and also separate kitchens began to disappear completely. I personally think that the open plan was carried to the extreme because who wants to look at a messy kitchen when guests come over...and who wants guests cooking with you in that open kitchen??? Also, during COVID when everyone was home together all day for the first time, a lot of American families experienced the noise, kitchen smells and lack of privacy that the "open plan" caused. Dining rooms open to the Livingroom are one thing, but open kitchens to me are tasteless. You may as will be living in Lincoln's birth place which was a one room cabin!

In the county I live in, in MN, you legally cannot call a room "a bedroom" unless it has a closet and a window that is large enough to escape in case of a fire.

Here in Rhode Island, a "duplex" typically refers only to the small houses that were built 80+ years ago around factories in more industrialized urban neighborhoods. I have seen more expensive condos (condominiums) where 2 or 3 units are in the same building. I've never heard them called a "duplex" or "triplex." In fact, I had never heard the word "triplex." More commonly in those older urban neighborhoods are houses called "two-deckers" or "three-deckers." On each of the 2 or 3 floors is an apartment, some quite roomy. Residents of condos pay a monthly mortgage to a bank until they own the building or their part of it, plus a substantial monthly "maintenance fee" for upkeep of the building and the grounds. There are significant tax benefits to owning rather than renting. In general, condos are more posh than apartments, but they might look the same in big cities like New York. The American soldiers stationed in the UK in WW2 were called "Yanks," at least according to old movies. The British were of course glad for the assistance in the war, but frictions were inevitable. Most Americans were in the countryside, and the locals complained that the Yanks were "overpaid, oversexed, and over here." Supposedly, the young British men exempt from the military or no longer serving could not compete financially or otherwise with the American soldiers for the attentions of young British women. Average house size varies from 1164 square feet in expensive Hawaii to 2800 in more affordable Utah. In general, the more urban states have older, smaller houses densely built on little plots of land, while the newer suburban neighborhoods in rural areas have larger houses with enormous yards/gardens of 1-2 acres. They do this to preserve the "country feel" of the town and also to keep low the number of children who require schooling at taxpayer expense. Only some larger houses have a "room" dedicated to washing machines and dryers. For most of us, we have a space the size of a "walk-in closet" on the ground floor, or we keep them in the basement. Considering how damp the UK often is, why are dehumidifiers not more common? These are inexpensive appliances which dry the air but do not cool it. Porches were more common on older (pre-WW2) American houses. They had several uses. In cold, northern areas, people needed a covered area outdoors to keep firewood dry. In hot, southern areas, people would use porches for socializing and even sleeping when the kitchen stove made the house warmer than outside. Americans rarely entertain company in the front yard if they have a space in back. These 2 Americans are confused about this. I've never seen an electric kettle in person.

I don't mind the use of yank. The hallway point he made about yalls living room having the wall is actually what you would find in a more traditional home in America. I think the reason for having a closed off formal living room is so you can receive visitors.

The first time I was in London, I was part of a large crowd watching a street show in Picadilly. A group of young people (20ish) realized there was a tour group from the USA and started yelling "Yankee go home". Most of us in the tour group started laughing at them because they thought they were insulting us while we are actually proud of being Yanks.

Americans don't have the patience for the length of time it takes to build a home in the UK...builders and buyers. We need to house too many people! We also like to remodel....a lot ..and it's much easier to do in houses made of wood. Also, brick is unrealistic in Southern California and other earthquake prone zones...they crumble. I've seen the aftermath of an earthquake in LA and brick buildings were severely damaged compared to stucco, etc.

My question is: If you could have either an extra room, an extra bathroom, or a bigger kitchen, which one would it be. The extra room choice would be for anything---a music room, a den, a library...

They should really be comparing median statistics instead of average statistics. That would be closer to the typical size/price.

I love watching British shows, and wonder if the bay windows were inventing by you all, to get more light in. Also, by adding a conservatory you get more light in, and a little bit more warmth in part of the year. I want to add a conservatory to my house here, but it's just not practical....and here we, or at least me, I call such a room a "sun-room". Though when my aunt and uncle in Florida enclosed their backyard patio, they called it a "lanai".

😂Yankee hasn’t been a derogatory term in the U.S in almost 200 years, your good bro👍🏿. I personally think stone countertops are Great plus they’re durable and easier to clean.

Heating water for coffee or tea - once again the guy in this video is just being short sighted or ignorant. There are specific "pitchers" that you can use in the microwave. They are not expensive at all. You can usually heat enough water for two full cups. You heat the water in the microwave. These "pitchers" are made of a material that does not get hot. Once heating, and these "pitchers" work like the old tea pots, when the water boils the steam causes a loud whistling sound. You pull it out of the microwave, pour the water into your cup and boom you are ready to make your tea or coffee. Nothing burning hot except for the water itself. I use mine all the time, not only for tea {I'm not a coffee drinker} but I use it for anything I need hot water for.. oatmeal, instant noodles, etc. It take less than 5 mins to get boiling hot water.

Yank is like Canuck, it depends on the context and intent.

Yank can be derogatory, or not. During WW2 the US troops were often called yanks. Out lot is 8,979 sq. ft, house is 960 sq. ft. (not including the full basement). Granite may sparkle because of the minerals (like mica or quartz) found in the stone. Our counter top is Formica, easy to maintain, durable and not expensive.

Lots of homes where I live are now built out of steel. Oftentimes called Barndominiums. These homes can be built much larger and much stronger. They are often open concept.

In the USA … 1. not everyone has a separate laundry room… 2. A room is not considered a bedroom unless there is a built in closet… 3. Most older homes DO have hallways… Although interesting, there are SOO many discrepancies in this video-Too many to continue to list.

As to house construction materials, it depends on where you live. In the midwest we have a lot of brick houses. The granite was big in the early 2000s.

Yank or Yankee - naaa most of us don't care. We generally don't hear the term unless we are with someone from the South and generally if they call me a Yank, I just call them a Rebel and remind them they lost the war. That usually shuts them up. hehehe Keep in mind, there's a song "Yankee Doodle" which was considered a very patriotic song in our history - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d914qdyis6q5pnk.html There are actually quite a few songs that use the term "Yanks" or "Yankees" and let's not forget the baseball team "The New York Yankees"

We use kettles for tea in the USA.. however there are cups that are made of a certain material that will not heat up the cup but only what is in the cup in microwaves. But kettle is fast and easy with new models of kettles ( most Americans are coffee drinkers however my family hates coffee but love fruit tea with no caffeine)

In some areas of the U.S. it is illegal to have a clothes line outside. Not in Wisconsin which passed a law supporting clothes lines.

Adam is about hallways. I had hallways and in our wood house they were easy to take down for an open concept design. I imagine pulling a British brick wall down is a much harder project.

She put a 70-inch TV in a British home that goes half of the home lol your killing me 😂😂😂😂

21:22 As a Realtor I know just how much the quality of granite countertops vary. Some are great and there are others types of faux granite like "zodiac" which can look great. But if the quality and installation of the granite is shoddy it looks like rubbish which is what they're generally referring to.

2:45 5% in mobile homes is still over 15,000,000 people which is a lot. There's also a very loose definition of what a "trailer" home is. It's legally a house which is either not attached to or doesn't have a foundation. But many of these places are DAMN NICE and big so no one would consider them "trailers" which can be hooked up to a truck and driven off. These houses could be disassembled and moved in pieces but not just hooked up to a truck.

Preparing the guest room for you as we watch this video. Working on the pool today, hope you enjoy swimming!

Subdivisions in rural areas in USA sometimes have community laws.. if you wanted to build in my neighborhood it is in the by laws that it must be a 1600 square foot or larger heat/air.. so depending on where you are looking for you may have restrictions in rural areas

I live in a detached house that is 1,000 sqft. Its made with brick and siding. We are in the process of building a .master suite that adds another 300 sqft. As of now, we have 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom. After building is done, we will have another bathroom and bedroom.

I grew up in a row house (terraced) in Chicago. But it was pretty big with six bedrooms and three bathrooms. A brownstone built in 1892.

In some areas of the USA, basements are nearly mandatory, for safety during severe weather, such as Tornados. Many homes I have lived in had full basements, which is great for storage. But if you live in a High Water table area, you will need a sump pump to remove flooding during spring.