Civil engineer here ^_^ Firstly thank you for your videos, I'm trying to move to Norway myself and I find them very helpful and they keep me hyped up! Secondly, I wanted to comment on the subject of heated floors you mentioned and maybe provide my own personal knowledge since you are an Architect yourself. Heated floors are especially effective on keeping the home warm, since the floor materials (ie. wood in this case) store the transmitted heat inside their mass and radiate that same energy very slowly to the environment (in comparison to traditional heated systems which heat only the air volume). Simply put, that way one may spend less energy to afford a comfortable living area in the winter when the sunlight heat gains are very small since the heated floor system is always on. Heated floors are a great solution for countries which receive little to no sunlight in the winter months, however, they are terrible on Mediterranean countries where we receive enough sunlight in the morning hours to sustain a comfortable environment and we only need to heat up our homes in the evening and night hours! Sorry for the long comment, thought you might find it interesting :D

Love your hair in this vid! Gives those elves vibes. Almost like Arwen from Lord of the rings 🧝🏻💕

The reason for the shoe thing is because of the weather. Norway get a lot of rain. So in the fall and/or winter you would have to clean the floor a lot.

Taking your shoes off is a very hygienic habit... we do that here as well😊

Interesting comparison! Blue was by far the most expensive color. Some farmers painted their barn door blue just to show off their wealth. There is one thing I miss from your video. In Norwegian houses it is common to have what we call vindfang (wind catcher) or entrée (from french, entrance). It's a small room you enter when going through the front door to get into the house. In some larger houses like Trønderlån, this is more like a hallway. This room forms a barrier between the outside and the inside. Usually people dress or undress their outdoor clothes in this room, and shoes goes here. Anything like this in Portugal? Some Norwegian houses, like the one I grew up in have what we call værvegg (weather wall). This is the wall that is facing the direction where the most severe weather come from. This wall have no windows, or just one, small window, and sometimes covered with weather resistant plates. The rest of the house may have many windows and other features. I'm not sure how common it is, but this can be seen on houses at the coast and some fjords.

So interesting that american farms took on the red barn white farmhouse look too! At least here in minnesota which has a large Norwegian population

I'd say that in Portugal bedrooms/bedroom areas usually have wooden floors. While bathrooms, and the rest of the house (kitchen, living room, dining room, other kind of rooms) have tiles. I live on a rural area and most houses here have a top floor, where usually the bedrooms are and it has completely wooden floors (including corridors) except for any bathroom there. Meanwhile the floors on the ground floor are completely tiled. I'd have a huge problem if I had to take my shoes off anytime I entered a house because of the smell. I only take my shoes off when I'm in my house and the first thing I have to do is wash them...

As a builder in USA it was interesting to here about these two countries. I think we share a lot common traits with both. Of course depending on the region and age of the house it varies widely.

The comparison was very interesting to me. I am an Iranian living in Canada and when I was watchig this video it was like oh my gosh, everything she says about Portugal is very similar to Iran and everything she says about Norway is just like Canada!

I think Norway used to be more like Portugal with a separate room for the kitchen, but has been influenced by other countries and the trend of "open floor plan". This is something my mom often points out as she likes to have the kitchen in a separate room and does like this "new wave" of open floor plan trend. But I think a lot of houses in Norway still have a separate room for the kitchen :D Also outside of cities I think it's quite normal to have a fence in Norway, but then more a small one, not like a barrier as you pointed out Portugal has :) The thing with bathtubs as well in Norway, I think it's pretty normal in houses, not in city centers, to have a bathtub in like the "main" bathroom. But in apartments it's not because of the use of space :)

Hi. I am Norwegian and I love your reflections! I also love Portugal. I have been ‘all over’ Portugal again and again. I also have Portugesian friends and therefor, I have been inside many Portugesian homes. One thing I noticed is that many (not all) of them had their washingmachine on the balcony. Many balconies were like ‘an extra kitchen’. I agree on many of your observations. However, I grew up in ha house with a bidé😂! But you are right, so few Norwegians have a bidé. Ours is the only one I have ever seen in Norway. In Portugal, however, everybody had one. A funny memory I have from visiting Portugal in December one year, was how cold peoples home were. No one had a fireplace or a heater. They said only rich people have that. So, how do Portugesians keep warm in their winters? I had dinner wearing my ‘boblejakke’ on. Portugesians looked confused an said ‘Why are you wearing your jacket? Aren’t you a viking?’ I was no vikig in Portugal, thats for sure. I was freezing my ass off🥴😂😱

From what I know. We dont have the color code anymore, atleast not up in the North or a thing i have heard is a thing. You paint your house the way you want it pretty much, but if you live in a building that got other familys you need to have the same color (we call it rekkehus), it can be 2-4 houses wall to wall, so its just one long building with houses that is connected. But this is something they talk about on meetings, they vote and does what the most part want and can afford, but some of these got a rule that everyone need to agree before they can do anything. I really dont think i have ever heard that the houses needed to be in a color to "show" others, must be before i was born in that case (im 30). Not sure if you travel out of the North tho. Before everyone was just taking care of the houses and things, we didnt want to be a person "showing off" in the same way as in the South or the West, (sorry to all of you from South or West, but its just a fact.) :P But this is something that have started to change here aswell, there is a lot more people today that are kind of "showing off". It goes a bit against how we used to want to be, humble and not sending that "be better then others" vibe, but it have changed a lot. Been a biiiig change for the last 10 years in Tromsø atleast. Tbh i kind of wish it was a rule that each neighboor hood had the same color. I find it much prettier then how we have it, 1 house can have a old yellow color, and the next house got a nice grey color, and then a red or w/e. It just looks a bit messy in my eyes. So when i see places that got a rule on what color you can have, i just find it way prettier. Not talking about the houses tho, just thinking about the colors now.

woo the bedsheet part for Norway impressed me

This is my favorite video of yours! Personally, I prefer a long narrow kitchen (Galley-style) with an open counter joining the dining room

Oh WOW Mon fascinating video about Protegees homes, as I'm Norwegian I knew about the homes here but STILL very interesting video I liked yes!!!! :)

In the “old days” the less affluent houses used to be painted either brown or - along the south coast - yellow/ochre color. As you said, white was reserved for more affluent homes

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Type of floors have changed. In the 80s and early 90s it was mostly "wall to wall carpets" - but that changed during mid 90s and until now. Stone floors it's not unusual for the first floor, not most common perhaps, but not unusual. Bathtubs: More common some years ago. And by that I mean, most common. Almost everyone had it. PS: Regarding Common Laundry Room... In older buildings in Oslo (not nowadays) there was also a "common toilet" - and it was in many cases "utedo" (outhouse toilots) - mostly in eastern side of town, where they where they where not that wealthy. Still was common in the 80s and up until the 90s I guess.

We have a clothes washer in our kitchen in Oslo! Also, I would need to fact check this, but I heard that white paint keeps a home a more standard temperature in all seasons and the other paint colors like red and yellow don’t so they were used in the past for outbuildings and as livestock buildings.

Generally speaking, older houses / apartments have bigger floor plans With bigger rooms. Houses and Apartments that are built today have smaller rooms. Buying a house or Apartment is very expensive in Norway and so if you want bigger rooms and more practical housing, you should buy older house / Apartment. Homes built today are smaller and more impractical in their layout. You also get more for your money the further away from the city center you are.

In the US (Texas), laundry closets are typical, built against an exterior wall to allow clothes dryer exhaust to exit the home. They usually have shelving in the upper half above the washer/dryer

Portuguese, Greek & French people living in Canada tend to put bidets in their bathroom & I like both a tub & a shower in my bathroom! Baths are great for stress relief!

The bedroom thing is probably because you live in an apartment in city centre.

It's interesting to hear about Portugal, it makes me want to travel there 😊

Love this video, always been obsessed with how different cultures live. Here in the US, all of these difference exist but it depends on the climate and inner city versus suburban. You’ll find tile floors in the Southwest, wood floors up north. Fewer bathtubs and more shared building washing machines in the city. Most older houses have separate kitchens while new designs are more open plan. Same with shoes off/on, depends on the host, though I see more and more shoe removal requests in the city, not so much in the country. Anything goes here!

White, red and yellow are by far the most common colours for Norwegian houses.

I don't have a fence around my property. There's really no need to even lock the door of my house even though I live right off the Main road. I live in Telemark in a 300 square meter farm house from ca 1900 with 5 big bedrooms.

I love the architecture in Portugal.

Its quite commin in Norway to have a separate kitchen and dining room. Sometimes you can have a small kitchen table in the kitchen for every day use, and a larger and separate dining room for when you have more people. Also, regarding the bedroom sizes, the master bedroom is usually quite a bit larger than the other bedrooms and will of course differ in size depending on whether you have a house, a town house or an appartement down town. Not sure if it is possible to say that there is a general rule on bedroom sizes.

I am not sure blue is that common, like yellow, grey and brown seems to be more common. White and red are still sold cheap as it is some tax reduction thing or something, like farm paint. I think it is sort of illegal to put up a tall fence on residential housing, it is more for workplaces, however people will most likly react very rash if discovering unknown adults in their property as it is very uncommon. The washingmachine have to be in a room with a drain.

I didn't know you're an architect. That's so cool :D

Nice video. About the duvet, the shared ones are also very common in Norway. Just look at the places that sell them here, they normally offer both singles and doubles.

Houses in different areas and districts are different in Norway. In south coast typical houses are white. In north more different colours .

You are seriously pretty! And an architect. And really good English. Great comparative info. My interest is in Portugal; I'm an American long-time resident of the Czech Republic. Now I'm going to look for more insightful presentations from this woman who is quite pleasant to watch. Thank you. :-)

My parents house have no fence, instead they have a hedge to keep passersby from looking into the garden. As i live in student housing i dont have a garden or a fence

Hi Mon! In case you haven’t seen them, you can find a bidet attachment that can ba installed a regular toilet. They sell them on Amazon in the US. It works really well. I really enjoy your videos--you are such a pleasant person! I hope you are as happy as you appear. :)

A Portuguese beautiful girl living in Norway , loved it

thank you. so nice.

10:36 this is my favourite spelling error ever, the common laudry room. To laud someone is to gove them praise, so a laudry room would be a place where people would come together and tell others how good they've been 😂 I just thought that was funny. I also wouldn't be surprised if the Scandinavian people actually had such rooms, such a cheery bunch.

Boas Amie, Pensava que era só mesmo eu a pensar que os quartos eram pequenos aqui na Norge. Aqui em Hamar todas as casas sejam pequenas ou grandes a cozinha é "OpenSpace" parece que eles não se importam com o cheiro a comida 😅😅😅. Faz mais videos assim.

Very informative. Enjoyed the content

in Argentina we have bidets (that's how we call them here) but I think in the rest of Latinoamerican countries they don't

In the Azores, there aren’t fences around the houses, and they tend to be row houses. Also if you step outside your door without looking you could get hit by a vehicle, you have to take off your shoes so that you don’t track dirt into the house. Clearly there’s different expectations in different regions of Portugal.

We in Norway can also share a bedsheet. Me and my boyfriend does it and my parents does it, and my sister and her boyfriend does it. It probably is someone here that doesn't share a bedsheet

Its fun when a Portuguese can learn us Norwegians about our ways. I did not know about the colour thing on the houses, but when you mention it, it make sense. (i know that the red colour they used on barns comes from rust that they put in the paint, and that the living houses used to be white) Of course this does not count to day, to day they simply use the colour they like best, many find the red colour to be more cosy. :) When it comes to the size of the bedroom, i think it comes down to the fact that it is more easy to keep a small room warm in the winter then it is with a big room. (that is just a guess) I know that it was normal to have really high rooms in the 18 hundred (3-4 meter from the floor to the roof) and that takes a lot to warm up..(that was mostly in the cities) I discovered a strange thing about really old houses here in Norway(at least in Telemark) i have fixed a lot of old houses from 17 hundred and early 18 hundred. And in many of them i have found small children shoes build in to the corner of the houses inside the wall. Not in pair, just one shoe in different corners, and it has always been very well made shoes. I have tried to find out why, but have not found any answers, but i suspect it was about some superstition. :) (i have not asked any historians directly about this, just done some internet search)

Love Norway 😍 from Portugal

Aqui no Brasil não usamos mais o bidê nas construções modernas. Mas eles eram muito comuns até os anos 70 pois a maioria dos construtores eram portugueses. Hoje só temos as duchas higiênicas acopladas ao vaso ou próxima a ele. Achei muito interessante o assunto. Poderias nos mostrar outras diferenças, como escolas p. ex. 💗

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Not a good idea to have a washing machine in the bathroom, water and electricity dont go well together, unless it is a large bathroom area. Safer in the kitchen, also the plumbing will be there for the dishwasher and sink. I think you are refering to houses in portugal built in the 80’s or 90’s , because modern houses and apartments in Portugal mostly now have central heating systems and most rooms have wooden/laminated flooring, except bathrooms and kitchens. Of course houses have to be different on these countries, a completely different climate.

Few houses are blue. Most are painted white and different browns and greys.

As I grew up in Denmark, bidé was pretty common in older houses. At least in the middle to upper class houses. Today no one uses them or have them installed. I don't even think the younger generation (your age) would know what a bidé is, in Denmark.

Really enjoyed this video...coming from an architect, quite interesting!

Grandes diferenças: - Casas "grandes" em Portugal contra casas pequenas na Noruega; - Falta de aquecimento contra excesso de aquecimento (caso não houvesse, as pessoas morreriam) - Casas de banho sempre com sanita contra casas de banho sem sanita e um compartimento para fazer cocó (ou isso é só em França? Estou confuso...) - etc.

Interesting Mon! In Brasil our houses are like in Portugal, but we have always laundry in the house or apartment ! And we use to do our coffe without machine... “ Café coado no filtro de pano” I dont know how can I say This in Enghish!! 😀😊

There are also brown and yellow houses. I would say that white us the most normal color to use on the outside of your house. Personally I have only seen 3 or 4 blue houses in my life

Aqui no Brasil, casas com muro já são um perigo, imagine se não os tivéssimos!!

So white houses were not expensive in color but could be portrayed cleaner. As if the house is not cleaned and maintained the color would discolor. Therefore that person would require cleaners, or has some godly energy to keep a house clean. Back in the days there were lots of coal mines therefore the smog would accumulate fast every day. Clean colors = clean house. Clean house = workforce. Put 2 and 2 together...that house is rich...or so they thought...some people thought. Also white style colors were royal colors as they have many workforce helpful people and therefore are 'rich' yes!!!! :) #ColorsOfTheEighteenthCentury

Small bedrooms and kitchenette or kitchen in the living-room are a city-thing, especially for Oslo. The space are limited in city centers and the companies who develop apartment buildings are greedy as f*** and want to max their profits. Outside of city centers its a bit different. Colours - yes its true that back in the days white paint was more expensive than red paint - thus houses were painted white and barns (fjøs, løer) were painted red. Im talking 100-150 years back in time. Nowadays houses are painted in any colour owners like...🙂

From what I've seen, homes in US are more similar to Portugal

Thanks for new video

Adorei o vídeo 😍

You soud go Some time to Vesterålen (just over Lofoten). Here we have a city named BlackContry (Sortland). The main thing is that moust of the bulding Are paint blu. Take a look...:-)

Yes" Thank you... grate movie!

Grey is more and more common now this days :)

Hi I was wondering if you could do a video about job opportunities and job searching. I'm planning to study a master in NTNU, so your point of view would be super helpful. Thanks

In Norway people prefer the open floor concept for the kitchen, while in Portugal: bacalao.

Hei, på Sørlandet vil du se at enkelte hytter/hus i skjærgården er røde på baksiden og hvite på veggen ut mot vannet/skipsleia, å det var som du fortalte at hvit maling var veldig dyr.. 😃😃

I’m considering to rent a flat without the furniture in Norway and decorate it from scratch. Do you think it would be easy to sell the furniture while moving out?

Hi Monica,. Have you stopped your you tube channel ??.🍊

I gamle dager var Vite hus er dyre PG at du må male det oftere. Blå å rød holer lengre på fargen.

Hi Mon Amie, enjoyed really, love from Karnataka

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I have a fence. 0,8 m high, no gate!

Reparei que tanto na dinamarca como no canadá nao parece existir o conceito de estores para as janelas... e se é de dia, é de dia :p

The information about "always taking off your shoes" in Norway is not accurate. It is by no means mandatory or common to take them off - but during the wintertime or in the wet season it can be polite and practical to take off your boots or shoes - but often you bring your own "indoor shoes" and put them on when inside.

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Maam can you please tell me about the job prospect for an interior architect/designer in norway..

The Moccamaster makes French style drip coffee, not American style, which I'm sure is good too. Also, it's esPRESSo note EXPRESS-o. If you don't get it right the Italians will whine about it for hourse. It's a mierde as they say.

In Norway do they take their shoes off in any stores? Say if you go into a really nice shop? Is that a thing? Just curious! I would love to go there someday.

Alt i denne videoen er sant! Kanskje ikke det om Portugal men det om Norge er 100% sant!

Of course take shoes off inside. The shoes are dirty. Been everywhere with them. Rude not to take of shoes off inside. Many lives in appartments too, in big block of flats. Not all have houses.

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It sounds like you have only lived in cheap cramped apartments, and not your typical Norwegian house (larger bedrooms, and bathtubs). Also, I have two microwaves! :D

How do you live in Norway? Do you have a visa? Or you hold a Norwegian passport as well? I have Portuguese passport but I heard Norway is not part of EU.

What is the averange home value in norway?

What!!! No room for a car?

no home... expresso Saeco.

What’s the point with a large bedroom?

Why am I watching this while I’m staying in India 😕

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haha Portuguese are like Americans... shoes inside the house.

What the fuck??? Everybody take the shoes in my house. I only accept one exception if somebody from a company come to make some work inside my house. But after they leave, i'm going to wash the floor. We (at least in Lisbon) all my family even cousins do the same and take the shoes off. Using a open kitchenthe result is the entire kitchen and living room smelling the food all day long. No way i want a open kitchen, if i'm going to cook i want the smell stays only in the kitchen. Imagine make french fries and the smell stay for the entire day. Even the kitchen with the extractor fan can have the smell a lot of time. that socializing if i'm alone with my wife i'm helping her in the kitchen (the kids are playing or make their homework from school), if i have my brother, my wife is in the kitchen with my sister in law and me and my brother are repairing something in the house, or in the garden make the barbecue... Our kids are playing. Bidet is not only to wash private parts. We can use to wash clothes at least when are a few. I use to wash my cloth in the summer when i was single. Because i use a T-shirt and shorts i use to wash there and not in the washing machine, easy and in the summer i wash only one shirt one short one underpants, because my work clothes is washing in the company (Hotel). Right now my family use a lot after we came from the beach to wash the bikini and swimsuits with soap powder and water after put in clothesline to dry (to use next day) when we are in our beach house in holidays. Sorry but any coffee machine (even that in the Picture) can do any kind of coffee (expresso or american style). wen you going to buy you can choose what coffee you want. I have in my house dolce gusto machine. There is in Norway to. www.dolce-gusto.no/ You have expresso coffee, Grande coffee, etc. Like in Portugal with that machine you can buy and have any kind of coffee even cappuccino. But you dont have Sical (great expresso Portuguese brand coffee), because is one the Portuguese coffee brands. www.dolce-gusto.pt/capsulas-cafe/expressos/2x30-cafe-expresso-sical

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