On the American windows you open the bottom halfway, and then open the top halfway. The cool air comes in the bottom, while the hot air goes out the top. That uses natural convection to change the air in the room.
indeed, she's hot but annoying! She thinks everybody has the same type of door and has a preachy tone about it! Guess what Feli, some parts of the USA have a warmer climate than others and don't necessarily need the seal on the door, some are thicker, etc! She thinks there's no recycling in the USA either. Argh.
@@neutrino78xright!? The US is Very diverse, I think she is missing that fact. 😕 I have an entry in my house and she makes it sound like every door opens into a major room of the house. Weird! And my doors and windows have insulation seals too.
I have never seen a doorframe in America without a seal. Pretty sure it's illegal to build. Base on airflow testing where new builds are pressure tested for air leaks.
Oh make certain there is a way to lock the water and ice dispenser. Archie, the little cherub, will eventually be able to reach the thing, and will make messes if it isn't secured.
I thought the same thing. We have a lot of homes with the detachable shower head here in the US. They’re sold everywhere here too. It’s really easy to just pick one up for your shower.
How many people's showers do you go in though? And usually you're friends with people in your same class and age range and location so you may see the same thing everywhere you go, but that's just because you're seeing a small slice of the possibilities. Feli will see more and more the longer she stays here.
@@jenniferpearce1052 "How many people's showers do you go in though?" Are you talking about her? You should say "how many people's showers has she been in, though?". This sounded like you were talking about me....
Well she really doesn’t know a lot about America yet. I grew up with radiators. I also had electric stove for 34 years and finally got a gas stove. Love it! It heats super fast and you can turn it off if something is boiling and you don’t have to move the pot or pan. We don’t come into the living room from the front door. We have a foyer so she probably has only visited a few homes. Yes, we have A/C in some homes but a lot of us live in hot places. We live in a big country so there’s a lot of differences in home construction. Not all of us live in new homes.
14:13 - Keep in mind that in the US, a regular closet and a "walk-in closet" are two different things. So, don't get in the habit of calling them all walk-ins. A "walk-in" closet in the US doesn't just have a door with a place to hang up clothes inside. It has a walkway for you to actually walk into the closet, and often has space to hang clothes on both sides of that walkway. So, basically a small room. With a regular closet, you stand outside the closet.
As a home designer in the US, I can say that a lot of what she is talking about are fixtures in older homes. Newer homes are built with more moder fixtures like multiple shower head and wands in the shower. Low-flow toilets that don't use very little water, Bathroom light switches have motion sensors that turn on as you walk in. Closets are the same as well. As for the faucet type we have many different styles. It's up to the homeowner which style they want. Single control, duals knobs, motion sensor, etc...
Shower heads are a personal preference in the US. Houses have either the hand held or the fixed. I have both in my shower. As for the faucet, we have both also. It depends on what they put in when they built the bathroom.
She bitches about this in nearly all of her videos. They sell every type of shower head you could ever want at any type of hardware or walmart type store. If you live in an apartment, you can just give it to maintenance and they will install it for you. Its not hard! Everywhere you go will always have the cheapest option installed because peopel take their good hardware with them. Just get the showerhead you want! You don't need a special license..
Ik it should not piss me off but she is PISSING me off the crap about the shower head it's ridiculous almost everyone ik has a massager pull down shower head and the way she's talking about crap I feel lk telling her if it's so bad go back to Germany if u want a shower head that moves u buy it lk everyone who wants it she's acting lk we only have that and we're stuck when we can go buy whatever we want
@@Laura-mi3nv No, she doesn't "bitch" about it. She simply states a fact that nearly every German will notice very quickly. Fixed showerheads are the standard in America, you can't deny that. People will choose to change them, sure, but the fact remains that when you're moving into a new place, chances are very high the standard showerhead the place comes with is a fixed one. I don't know why her saying this upsets you, it's simply the way things are
@@leDespicable - she bitches about it, repeatedly and often. That is what she does, its why there's an entire comment thread about it. She's bitching. Its bitching. She acts like she's never heard of a store and can't just update it herself. That is entitlement and bitching. That is what she does. Bitching
@@leDespicableAgreed. I have lived across three different states and almost without fail the cheapest option was the fixed shower head; especially in places where you rent such as apartments. Many cheaper hotels also still do the fixed shower heads.
I'm not sure what bathroom she went into but when your building or remodel an house you can choose between probably twenty different kinds of showers twenty different toilets an faucet for vanity . Now whether one is more common than others I don't know but you literally get a variety to pick from.
This person obviously have not seen very much of America or even much of the state she resides in. Because the things she says America doesn’t have, we have throughout each of the 50 states.
Exactly! She's such an arrogant know-it-all, which is bad, but far worse when they are wrong about so much and show they really don't know that much! I get the impression she came here, stayed at someone's home and assumes that all of the 333 million Americans must all have the exact same things!
She went to College in Ohio for 5 years and thinks the whole US is like the college she went too, James and Millie might lose some subscribers as, I saw a lot of comments on their last reaction to Feli, saying if they watch her videos again, they would unscribe to their channel.
@@marydavis5234 If people unsub, that's just silly. However, I personally will not watch future videos they do reacting to her. It raises my blood pressure.
Some of you seem to have missed that this is a rather old video of hers. But still she never claimed to speak for the entire US, she always made it clear that she's only speaking from personal experience. So, why is that infuriating?
@@leDespicable It's because she comes across as arrogant, elitist and a know-it-all. Humble people that aren't looking down their noses at others are given a pass on "mistakes".
Even smaller houses have a genkan/foyer. My uncles house is small, but there is a small area with a closet to remove your shoes, and the floor is tile instead of carpet.
It also has a lot to do with the climate in NY it is more common to have a room or space by the door to take off wet shoes in winter in FL why would you need that space? Lol
My current house is the only one I've lived in that didn't have an entryway area. Even when I lived in a smaller house as a child, you walked into an entry area and to the left was a dining room and through there the kitchen and to the right was the living room, and ahead were the two bedrooms. The house I live in now you just walk in and there's the side table and lamp to a chair right beside you and a closet to the left. It was definitely a change.
She's completely wrong about "foyer", etc. She assumes based on Ohio. I live in MN, and most homes have a tile/linoleum entry area to take off wet/snowy boots etc in the winter. Opening directly into the living room DOES NOT compute. She's making a lot of generalizations.
those ceiling mounted fans have a switch on the side - it changes the direction it spins in, so during summer months you're trying to loft the hot air, while in the winter you're actually blowing it (it rises) back towards the ground (and people)
Absolutely. I know of very few homes where you walk into the living room rather than a foyer or entry way. Many older homes in my area have 2 doors - one into an enclosed space where shoes are removed and then another into the house foyer.
I think age of the house and location makes a lot of difference. Midcentury ranch houses commonly have that entry into the living room. This is going to be more common in the west and in newer (as in the last 75 years) neighborhoods. Places with older homes will have different designs. I also think an airlock type of foyer or mudroom makes a lot more sense in a colder climate.
Older homes up into the living room, my house is a fully renovated farmhouse that is over 100 years old, the front door opens up into the living room and the back door opens up into the kitchen.
Our exterior doors in the U.S. all have seals. Both types of bath faucets are commonly used here and the movable shower heads are fairly common, although I don't have one.
@@jenniferpearce1052 You mean the frame doesn’t have seals? Maybe they were removed when the house was being painted - painters often remove seals and they should replace them. My front door is 121 years old. There’s weather sealing on the frame that I had renewed about 15 years ago. I’m sure it wasn’t the first time.
We tend to get 95F and above for 3 months straight. Longer in some places. We have handheld showers here, they are sold in all hardware stores. Even if your home comes with a standard fixed shower head, most people replace it with a handheld one. The shelf in German toilets was so you can exam your poo before you flush. Something I think many of us find a bit disgusting these days. For sinks...I'm sure not everyone's home is the same but our kitchen sink is a single tap and the bathroom has the separate hot and cold- however, if you turn them both on at the same time then the water comes out mixed (warm).
Fun Fact: In most of the US, a room legally must have a closet to be called a "Bedroom" when selling. Otherwise, you have to call it a spare room. A Bedroom must also legally have two methods of egress. A window counts.
While the egress requirements are FED based, the closet 'rule' is a local/state requirement. So it would depend on where in the US. Also some houses can get 'grandfathered' in on various rules and regulations. (sell to family, or remodel part vs all of the house, etc)
@@bluflaam777LSA If you're the owner, you can do whatever you want. It's only what you can call a room when selling or leasing. Only some states have a closet law, but according to a real estate agent I know, the closet rule is a national real estate association rule. Not a "law" per se, but as good as.
The weather seals on almost all doors in the US are on the door frame instead of on the door itself, but pretty much without exception every exterior door does have a weather seal.
If we didn't have them in northern Indiana where I live the strong winds and heavy lake effect snow would make things pretty wild. My door faces north north west which is the worst in the winter.
The main reason we can't just open windows in the US is because it gets hot for weeks at a time, so the ground warms up and then it stops being cool at night. At that point, opening the window doesn't really help much anymore. In some parts of the US, people actually die from the heat if they don't have AC, or if it breaks.
And yet, I had an older coworker who grew up in Phoenix and his parents still lived in a house without AC. They adapted to how to live and not overheat.
@@jenniferpearce1052 Easier to cool a house when you don't have to worry about humidity. You can use "swamp coolers" in the desert, but that same strategy won't work in Florida (since the air already is a swamp).
@@cylontoaster7660 Yeah, using swamp coolers in a temperate or subtropical environment wouldn't work. They wouldn't cool much to begin with, and given the humidity, they'd pretty quickly get a ton of mold growing in them.
@@cylontoaster7660 Cool name, by the way. I actually had a Cylon toaster (the Caprica model), but lent it to a friend for the novelty purpose of showing his friends, and never ended up getting it back. Looked into buying a replacement.. They're selling for as much as $1,000 now, because one was featured on the Big Bang Theory. Ridiculous. It originally cost me like $35.
@@cylontoaster7660 I wonder if they had one. I don't know how long swamp coolers have been around..i only heard of them maybe 10 or 15 years ago, which was about the time frame I met this guy. His parents were probably in their 70s or 80s at the time.
2:15 - Dumbwaiters are only in old rich people houses, where people actually had hired staff to make them meals and such. Since being able to afford staff is far less common now, even rich houses aren't built with them anymore, and haven't been for many decades.
Many, many years ago, mainly in Europe, the kitchen was downstairs/with a walk-in back door, while the dining room was upstairs. The kitchen staff would put the trays on the shelf (like a little elevator) and hoist it up by a pulley. The dining room butler would open the little door and serve the rich family their dinners hot from the kitchen. Genius. A "dumb waiter" ...not a very nice term, but we didn't care about disrespectful language back then. Today the homes are mostly built on one level with only the bedrooms/bath upstairs. And we don't have a butler. 😅😆
All US locks are different depending on the makers. There are multitude of different manufacturers of locks in the United States. So you have to determine which one you like best and purchase it.
I live on a back road in Vermont, when changing the locks for the back and front door, we bought heavy duty locks, the ones that are used for fire doors.
It’s funny…..some of the things she mentioned as being more modern in Germany were popular in America back in the 1970’s but fell out of favor such as the single-handle faucet for regulating water temperature or the electric stove tops.
@coyotelong4349 The fist thing I did was take out the electric stove in my house when I moved in. Gas stoves are so much better at regulating temperatures when you cook.
@@BigMoore1232I have a glass top electric range, when cooking , if the pot or frying pan gets too hot, the stove stop will automatically lower the temperature and go back up ,if get too cold to cook the food.
There are a multitude of different types of windows in the United States from sliders that go horizontally to windows that open with a crank to others that do slide up-and-down some matter of choice. Most of the ones that slide up-and-down are from older homes that we don't use as much today.
yeah I don't know what she's talking about, man. You can buy any kind of window you want. Certainly out here in California, windows that open by sliding to the left are more common, but you find every mechanism out here. I don't think I've ever seen a window on a home in the USA that only opens like 10 inches, though. That's weird. 😕
I live in a house built in 1880 in indiana and we had new windows that swing open put in. When I first moved here they were old heavy wood windows that took a power lifter to open lol
Some German cities and towns were almost totally destroyed in WW-2 so those homes will have newer windows than places here in the United States where almost every town and city have homes over a 100 or more years
I find it interesting that a lot of what she says in the norm in Germany, although still available here in the U.S., was popular during my grandparents or parents day.
In the US we have hand held shower heads. We actually have a wide variety. I think it’s 50/50 as well . There are many different styles of showers . I think she’s judging it based on what she has seen & thinks it’s like that everywhere.
In Minnesota, USA it’s not uncommon to have a split entry home where you enter the house in a small entryway/mud room with a coat closet and you have stairs that go up and stairs that go down to the different parts of the house. Usually the living room, kitchen, and bedrooms are upstairs. The family room, laundry, utilities, bathroom, and maybe bedroom(s) downstairs.
Door seals in America are not on the door, they are magnetic and attached to the door frame so when the metal door closes it creates more of a seal. All houses vary, mine has a hall way that originally led into the kitchen and then you got to the living room from the kitchen. Now I have cut a door way from the hall to the living room. Our new windows now flip in or out to clean the better. The bathroom sinks vary, there are both single and double.
Another video by a foreigner with minimal experience. See all the Americans correcting the info. We just installed a new front door and front storm door. Like having two doors to keep out the wind. The seals are in the frames and not on the door. The contractors used foam insulation within the door frame and trim. We also had new windows. We opted for double hung (up and down open) with built in full screen. The windows can open inward for easy cleaning. I had removable shower heads with the hose. Just bought at DIY center and installed. It is preference. Dumb waiters were in very old homes. Only had them once in a 1920 farm house. It also featured a laundry chute. So many different styles and options in America. Maybe American presenter with a real estate background would help.
In the United States, we can’t claim a house has a bedroom without a built in closet…we bought our daughter a townhouse that had 3 bedrooms with closets and one spare without a closet…it was listed as a 3 bedroom unit…
@@jimmybobsap8729 1 and a half bathroom 3 bedrooms…it gave her some independence in her mid 20’s….after she left to get married we sold it made some profit…
It's interesting to me that the most common window design in the US strikes Europeans and British people as weirdly old fashioned, because that's exactly how we Americans feel about radiators. I don't think there's been a single home built in the US since about 1975 that has a radiator in it. We pretty much did away with them a long time ago in favor of central heating and/or better insulation. It's actually become something of a visual shorthand in our movies and tv shows which are set in more modern times that if the room has a radiator, it's meant to show that the building is old and possibly run-down. As an American, just seeing one instantly makes me think of the 1940s or '50s, which makes seeing them in otherwise very modern European homes feel weirdly jarring and out of place.
They are great, actually. I lived in a cheap apartment that had one, and I prefer it over FWA. They keep an incredibly even temperature, but if you want to really crank them up, they will drain all the water, and bring in new hot water, and it acts pretty fast.
Funnily enough, there are many more things still common in American homes that went out of fashion decades ago in Germany. Ceiling fans, stand-alone ovens with the hob on top that stand out from the kitchen cabinets, visible toilet tanks, carpet flooring, stucco mouldings...
@@leDespicable Yeah, I'm still baffled at how some of those things have disappeared in places like Germany. Why get rid of carpeting? It's easier than ever to maintain, and it's drastically more comfortable, especially in winter. And visible toilet tanks just make sense. What happens if there's a maintenance issue with a German toilet? Do they have to tear out part of the wall to check the tank for problems? A visible tank just means that, short of a serious problem with the pipes, the user can handle pretty much all toilet maintenance themselves, no professionals or wall repair required.
@@rmartinson19 I think the main reason carpet floors went out of fashion is hygiene. They're significantly more difficult to keep clean than parquet or tiles. My grandparents replaced their ugly 70s carpet in the living room with parquet at some point in the 2000s for the same reason. Regarding the toilet tanks: The tank is usually accessible via a hatch. It's very common to have a drywall protrusion (about 1m high) in front of the regular wall in the bathroom, which the toilet will get mounted to. This protrusion hides the toilet tank and often has the access hatch on top. In cases where there's no protrusion, the tank is accessed by removing the buttons. Maybe it's German quality, but the amount of times you actually need to tear open the wall to fix or replace the entire plumbing are very rare, I've personally never experienced it, neither has anyone I know. You pretty much only need to do that when the whole tank needs replacing, and that usually only happens when you're remodeling the entire bathroom anyway, so it doesn't really pose a problem. If it were a problem, Germans wouldn't do it, that's one thing you can be sure of. They're the ones not building air ducts into their homes because "no need for that, we have windows" after all lol
Doors may look weak but actually the front door is thicker on the inside. It’s designed so people can’t kick it down in one shot. It’s actually quite dense inside the door.
I think it is the frame or mechanical parts that give if it's a decent door. I once moved into a rental home with a metal door & it was bent in & dented a lot. Someone said it was previously the residence of a drug dealer. 😳😵 We moved as soon as we could after we got some bangs on the door looking for this person. Not very nice looking people. You never know. The neighborhood was nice.
@@ntsikeleloemma5663 Because every lock is limited by what it's attached to, and what it's counterpart plate is attached to. It doesn't matter if the door is made out of titanium, if the door frame is wood, it's no more difficult to kick in, than a hollow door is.
I'm so relieved you are considering April. When you said, in a prior video that you wanted to go to Texas in August, I didn't have the heart to tell you that the heat and humidity there in August is almost unbearable. It would also be quite unhealthy for Baby Archie.
I’m so glad to learn that they’re no longer thinking of Texas in August. April is good,but March is even better because of the bluebonnets. It’s always been one of my favorite things about Texas.
We have multiple options for nearly everything she mentioned. Our doors have a seal, it just tgat some are sealed around.the frame instead of the door. I have a washer and dryer, and a clothesline that is in the faeage so I can use it during bad weather. I do finish drying in the dryer often.
When you consider that the United States is almost the size of the European Union, each state is almost a country in and of itself. It's hard to generalize all of our country having one way of doing things. There's a big difference between older homes and new builds, as well. The open concept first floors (no walls, possibly not a foyer) is favored by young parents who want to keep an eye on their little ones. I've read that since COVID, people have tired of seeing so much of each other that walls may be coming back into favor!
I live in rural Cincinnati, and as for the shower heads, there are many different types. You can replace a fixed style with the handle style for a relatively cheap price, or spend a large sum on name brand. Being as I work HVAC construction, and have installed HVAC in many new homes, todays homes have a wide variety of options that you can select from as the homes are being built. Living here all my life, I have seen many types of faucets/taps. Many of which are the single handle style. It seems that she is speaking from an experience of an area where the homes are quite old, or inexpensive. Many of the options she is referring to are used by rental properties in order to save money on repairs.
Where on earth is "rural Cincinnati"? I'm genuinely curious, as it's the first time I've ever heard the term "rural Cincinnati" in my entire life. Do you mean the suburbs? Because there's not much in terms of rural areas outside of Cincinnati.
@@willsofer3679 When speaking abroad, I've learned to refer to the small towns in the rural areas near the closest largest city being rural areas of that city...AKA the country...I don't ever give away my exact location for safety. Basically you have the City/Urban area, the Suburbs/outskirts, then the rural areas/country. Besides, naming small towns usually confuses anyone farther away than the city.
@@hayneshvac2 Okay. That makes sense I suppose. I guess I was a bit more confused because Greater Cincinnati (presumably where you're talking about) is essentially peak suburbia. McMansions and massive numbers of restaurants and retail outlets. There's barely a farm, or anything rural, in sight these days. I've always thought of those "small towns" as more like gradated suburbs of Cincinnati and Dayton; less like the idyllic "towns" of the early 20th century with a cohesive community identity, and more like the suburban towns outside of Los Angeles that serve as runoff from the city. At least nowadays, with how built up, and nearly interchangeable, all of them are.
@@willsofer3679 Honestly I went to Florida once, and speaking to a Govt. worker, they asked where I was from. I gave them my town name, they asked which city I was closest to, then advised I just tell everyone I'm from there...lmao. Later I understood it breaks the confusion...lol. Technically where I am from, there is no city jurisdiction, but for the sake of popularity...Cincinnati. I will say that our TV programming out here is Cincinnati based, and we do have Cincinnati chili restaurants out here...that's about as close to accurate I will get on the net...lol. Mostly all farmland out this way.
@@hayneshvac2 This is true. When traveling outside of my region, I just say either "Cincinnati", or "outside of Cincinnati". I live in Butler County, by the way, if that helps with context. No need to tell me where you live, but I figured that living in the general area, it would give you a better idea of where I'm coming from.
Central air conditioners don’t typically blow a lot from the registers on the floors/ceilings. It’s much less noticeable than a window AC, where you definitely feel a breeze. Homes are only as cold as you want them to be - I set my thermostats (2 upstairs and 1 downstairs for the 3 zones) at 74 degrees in the summer and 71 in the winter and walk away. No fuss. My house doesn’t have ceiling fans.
I haven't been to many houses (in New England) that have had the single temperature control. She didn't mention it, but there's a toggle on ceiling fans that changes direction. So, in Winter it will keep the hot air down and make the room feel warmer
The single temperature control she is referring to is probably a Thermostatic Radiator Valve since she showed a radiator for the German example. If a house does have radiators and you install a thermostatic valve, they let you control how much heat a specific radiator will get. They aren't like regular radiator valves (those metal "whistles" you see on the ends of them). You still use the regular thermostat for your house to set the overall temperature for the house, but the thermostatic valves allow you to manually adjust individual rooms that use radiators for heat.
Feli’s American experience is of course contemporary. We had radiators in some homes and even now in older apartments. I grew up in the southern US in the 1950s and 60s. We didn’t have a/c until I was 15 years old.
I think with the hot and cold she meant that we tend to have two knobs rather than a single lever, but the water still comes out of one faucet/tap. I've only seen the two faucet thing in a few much older homes.
Where I live we have an awful lot of the same things she has in Germany. But some different also. You have to remember I think the main thing is. You can go to any hardware store here in the US. And get whatever type of hardware you want to put in your home.
America 🇺🇸 has single and double handle faucets. We also have the push button toilets as well as the lever type. It just depends on where you are. Historically we have have had the house full of carpet except the kitchen and bathrooms. The trend has changed to hardwood floors or hardwood look alike.
I don't know that historically we liked carpet. I think there was a trend for it post- WWII through the 80s. In the 90s, people started ripping out carpet and restoring wood floors.
I can insult whom I want because I am English, French, Danish, German, Welsh, Scott, and Portuguese. My wife is Sycilian, Danish, and American indian. My step Grandfather was Irish.
A lot of the differences Feli notes about US homes are either related to the age of the home, the homeowner's preferences, whether the home is rented or bought, or the homeowner's financial circumstances. During my childhood in East Tennessee, one grandmother's home had only wardrobes, while the other grandmother's home had both closets and wardrobes. One had central heating, the other had a coal-burning furnace in the middle of the house. One had a chamberpot that I had to empty into an outhouse, the other had a modern bathroom. One was built during the late 1800s/early 1900s, the other was built after WW2. One had hot and cold running water in the kitchen and bathroom, the other only had cold water in the kitchen sink. Hot water had to be boiled in a teakettle for bathing or washing dishes. One had electrical wiring stapled to the walls, the other had wiring inside the walls. One, the exterior doors couldn't be locked and never needed to be, the other had modern door locks. One had a huge front porch with a swing, rocking chairs, and wringer washing machine, the other had a smaller porch with a few comfy chairs. Basically, one was Victorian/Edwardian-era, the other was late 1940s/early 2950s-era construction. Both were in extremely rural areas of the Smoky Mountains. Another thing that the US is slowly phasing out is mobile homes and trailerparks. There used to be an awful lot of mobile home parks, or even trailers by themselves on single-family property lots. Mobile homes are now called Manufactured Housing. They are being phased out because people in the US are becoming more affluent. There are still plenty around, but as more people move into brick & mortar homes, trailer parks are the temporary dwellings of choice for immigrants. As the older trailers become less livable, the immigrants are moving out to the many homes being built in the suburbs. They are earning more money too, so they leave for better conditions & neighborhoods. Of course, in cities and towns, there are loads of apartments, flats, row-houses, townhouses, and so on. There are a myriad different styles of homes out there. My wife and I have a little brick house out in the countryside near my family's old farm. Mom still lives in the house she and Dad had built in the early 1970s on a 12-acre plot of land Dad bought. One of their neighbors had a small farm that he sold to Dad, so in total Mom's got the entire 68 acres of property. My siblings and I will inherit the farm when Mom passes--which we hope will be a long time from now! My brother had a house built for his family on the back of the farm, out in the woods. My sister and her husband bought some land of their own about 12 miles away from the farm and built a huge house there. I will probably wind up with the farmhouse just to keep it from being sold to strangers. None of the three of we kids want anyone but family living in the house we grew up in. Don't think any of the above was bragging. None of us are wealthy, by any means. My sister is a veterinarian, I'm 6 weeks away from becoming a pensioner, and my brother runs a small business of his own. We're middle class, all the way, LOL! I've lived in a variety of rented apartments, detached houses, and even bought a mobile home in my time. I've seen it all, left for greener pastures as my situation bettered, and now I've got a little place of my own for my wife and I. The mortgage is paid off, our cars are paid off, and our only bills are the utilities and groceries and taxes. I'm 66 now, and have worked in a factory for 46 years. I'm a very low-tier writer, a composer, and an artist. None of those are high-paying jobs. It's been the factory that has financed my life since I was 18, and it'll be that factory pension that will finance my wife and I through my retirement. Yet I remember living in those Depression-era neighborhoods as a child. Being able to live poor is a great skill to have. There are many millions of Americans, each with their own story, each to be valued. Same as anywhere else on the planet, really.
The only time I've seen a front door in the United States without some kind of seal is on a very old house that hasn't been updated. Most modern houses in the United States are very well insulated including some type of vapor barrier wrapped around the entire house in addition to a significant amount of insulation. Most local building codes have insulation requirements. She must have been in an area with older houses that haven't been updated.
I had a neighbor when I was a kid, Mr Penry, he built his house before he proposed to his wife. This was before WW1. He had a basement full of handmade tools, also a virgin 1918 calendar. There was a huge L shaped hedge 20ft tall 15 ft wide with a cabana inside of it. When his wife died he soon followed her. The idiot woman that bought the house tore down the hedge and cabana, then burned everything in the basement. I was absolutely without words. Such a callous thing. She could have had a sale or just gave away stuff. When she through the as new model T decklid he took of his car when it was new on the fire I told her it was worth several hundred dollars. In fact if she had just sold the stuff it would have been several house payments, since she payed around $10 ,000 for the house.
I'm American and have lived in many types of homes and apartments. Firstly, most newer and remodeled homes have great insulation from weather and noise. My house was built 5 years ago and has double-pane windows with add technology for soundproofing. My home is very quiet and well insulated. Before we were able to occupy our home, they had to do a test where they create a vacuum in the house. This is done to ensure the house is sealed thoroughly. Most older homes do not have the same level of insulation. Most outside doors have a seal to serve as insulation and waterproofing as well. In newer and remodeled homes, you will find light switches that are flat-where you push the top or bottom to turn on/off. Most homes in the north use forced air heating and air conditioning. This type of heating/cooling is what is shown in the video. Homes in the south tend to use electric baseboard heating. Many homes have a handheld shower. It really is a matter of preference as it is very easy to switch out a fixed shower head for a handheld one. I have never lived in a home where the water faucet in the bathrooms was separate. I believe separate taps only exist in older homes. I think the girl in the video is living in an older home. The government is working towards discontinuing the use of gas stoves and switching to electric stoves. Some cities have already passed ordinances banning gas stoves in new construction. Carpet is popular in living areas and bedrooms. I enjoyed this video where she talks about more of different details between American and German/European homes.
In the states, in order to be a bedroom there must be a closet and a window. As far as windows and doors, it depends on the age and architectural style of the house as to how they open, however most have weather stripping to seal. Most showers in the states have both a fixed and handheld faucets. As for faucet styles, all US faucets have one combined water spout but the handles are either one or separate hot/cold depending on the style and type preferred by the homeowner. Most larger houses have an entry/foyer where smaller places often just open into the main living area. The states don’t really have a typical house. It completely depends on what region of the country as to the architectural style, when it was originally built, and what socioeconomic area it’s in etc.
Feli like many Europeans, doesn't seem to understand that the USA is a vast nation, and some parts are warmer than others, and many are warmer than Munich. "Silicon Valley" where I live is further south than Munich, Germany, closer to the equator, so one would expect it to be warmer. Let's see her go through a summer where it gets up to 45 centigrade and see if she still doesn't want A/C lol. There's no such thing as "overdoing the air conditioning" when it's really hot. ((roll eyes)) Although, I'm surprised they don't use it already, because their houses would be designed to trap heat, so if it's even 22 centigrade, it might get really hot inside. My apartment is in a warm climate and is not particularly designed to trap heat (it's not very good at trapping heat at all actually), but I still need the AC when it gets above 21 centigrade, because it will get pretty hot inside. And I know it gets significantly warmer than 21 there in Munich. Opening a window doesn't really address it when it's too hot outside. Plus those old homes tend not to have bug screens on the windows, so that's a factor too. 😲
In America there are 2 things that we really enjoy. And that's open areas and plenty of windows. Well, most older homes in America probably do enter an area like a foyer. Maybe even a hallway, but for many years now. Open floor plans are really very popular. And that's because there's a feeling of rooms being larger. They just give you sense that's hard to describe, but it's a positive thing and since we don't. Enter homes of America and stop and take off shoes or hang up Coats right there. We feel that the openness that you walk into is not an issue. Interiors of American homes are lighter and brighter, and let's say more airy.
Gas stoves are fantastic especially if the electricity goes out in a winter storm because you can still cook food with gas. As a kid I would grill hot dogs and do s’mores on the gas burner
No seal on the front door? Oh come on that's NONSENSE! As a retired homebuilder I can assure you ALL exterior doors have WEATHER STRIPPING! Even mobile home exterior doors have weather stripping. To not have weather stripping is unthinkable. The exterior doors are not light either as Feli is claiming. The interior doors are usually hollow core doors, but the exterior doors are not. Also bathroom and kitchen taps can be both ways, single handle or double handle depending on what you prefer. Windows vary greatly in style and in function. Feli has no clue as to what she is talking about.
Modern us homes have the more blocky light switches but there a bit more rectangular We have detachable shower heads as well but they are usually a bit more expensive
I have only seen exterior blinds in coastal areas where they doubled as storm protection (with the blinds down, some can take a 2x4 coming at you at 75 mph) and occasionally as a defense against squatters. (Many beach homes are only occupied part time, you don't want to go there and find out that drunk college kids used your house as a party pit.) Ours were aluminum, including over the doors, and they were awesome for the bedrooms because they stopped absolutely all the light coming from outside. They were all electric, but they had a manual backup.
Radiators like the one she showed. They are here in the US. Older homes have them and they're used when trying to restore a house that's old. When you spend the money, we do have zones. So the bedrooms can be one temperature to the living room can be another temperature in the kitchen can be a third temperature.
I'm in the US and you usually enter US houses into an entry way. We also don't tend to use the front door unless you are letting guests in. The family normally enters into a mudroom via the back door or garage.
I guess I'm just another flake on the upper crust LOL. I have a foyer. I have only known one house that had a dumbwaiter and it also had a laundry chute. The dumbwaiter only went to the basement garage to the pantry. Very handy for bringing in grocery bags. Radiators are quaint and unknown in most parts of the US. In America you cannot legally list a room as a bedroom when selling unless it has a built in closet. If you have ever come home and found your front door wide open because the dog opened it you would ditch the handle and go buy a doorknob instead. True story.
This poor girl doesn’t know about double-hung windows. It’s much better to open both the top and bottom sashes because the hot air goes out the top and the cool outside air comes through the bottom opening. There are other types, of course - the most common I’d say are the ones that open outward like doors. I don’t often open windows because of the central HVAC which removes dust and especially sneeze-inducing pollens. ‘Airing out’ the rooms is only necessary if you burn something you’ve cooked! And that takes awhile because many American homes are large with vaulted ceilings and a lot of space.
The main reason for a door handle is it allows the door to stay closed without locking. Inside doors lock but usually no key needed to unlock it’s only for some privacy.
Feli means well, it’s a you tube channel, it’s entertainment… modern homes omitted a lot of the old traditional ways of building but we still have plenty of very old homes with gas heat and radiators, gas cooking stoves, two knobbed faucets, definitely foyers/Front entrance for coats and shoes if not a mud room by the kitchen. And all rooms were separated even in very small homes. Everyone should take a tour of these antique homes they’re really cool. Big hugs Beesley family😊
Our showerhead is both a fixed one and a handheld one. Our front door has a seal and so do our windows. We have all the types of windows that she showed. Also our front door opens into a hallway. We have a space in our laundry room for hanging clothes. We have no carpet. Our floors are mainly wood and a few rooms have tiles.
She has not been in alot of homes in the United States. We have seals around all of our doors. We live in Colorado and it can get very cold in the winter. We also have detached shower heads, single knob for hot and cold water, we also have the 2 buttons you push on the toilet. Closets are required to be considered a bedroom. Hope you guys have a fun trip to the USA.
It’s a code in all 50 US , For example if your house is listed as a four bedroom house, if one bedroom does not have a closet or window, it will be listed as a three bedroom house.
So our seals are around the threshold of the door opening, not the door itself. However we do have what we call a floor sweep? I think it's called. It keeps critters and hot/cold air from entering.
She needs to title her videos, Ohio versus Germany….because I cannot relate to what she is saying coming from the South. But it’s still an interesting perspective that she has based on her experiences.
When we were buying our house, the realtor told us that a room can only be counted as a bedroom if it has a closet. And Feli is a bit off about the bathroom faucet. Old fashioned faucets generally do have a separate hot and cold handles, and one tap. But most faucets now have one handle that controls both. I think what you were referring to James about America having one and UK having two, is the actual tap. Some old fashioned British houses have two completely separate taps for hot and cold. So you’d have to turn them both on and kinda splash them together. 😝 Our house was built in 1954, and the original bathroom and kitchen faucets had separate handles for hot and cold, but we’ve replaced almost all of them with the more modern single handle. Except for our shower. And it’s funny because the hot and cold twist in opposite directions…so even after having lived here for 13 years, my family still gets confused about which way to turn them. So you could be trying to turn the water off, and accidentally turn the hot all the way up and burn your buns. 😂
Mine too! I should have known better than to watch this video. I wanted to tell her that Germany also had Hitler when she kept talking about what Germany had that the US didn't. She's just like Joel and Lia, 2 others I don't watch due to all their snark and condescension towards the US. I won't be watching any Beesley videos with Feli content. She's biased af.
@@patricksweeney1088 I'll get as bent as I want, thank you. Why did you zero in on MY comment, when there were others that said practically the same thing? Feli is not enjoyable to watch and she IS biased af, so shove it. 😊
American bathrooms also have electricity in it always. Code requires we use a GFCI outlet. GFCI stands for ground fault circuit interrupter. Basically, you get water in any of that, it shuts the electricity off ASAP. We may also be a little safer cuz we're using 120 volts, not 240 volts.
Older homes in the US have attic fans so when you open the flat windows and turn on the attic fan air is brought into every window at one time and it exits through the attic space. This is how we kept cool before air conditioning became a thing. Air conditioning helps to cool the house both day and night where attic fans only worked well at night time.
My house has one and when our air conditioner has died a couple times since we've lived here (too expensive to replace so we just get it repaired when it breaks) that's what we do. Open the doors and windows and turn on the attic fan at night.
As an American, I think that Feli is basing her observations on older houses. Most houses were built with sash windows at one time, but it is not common to find sash windows on newer houses. Most bathrooms that I have seen these days have both the fixed shower head and the handheld shower sprayer. Old houses had just the fixed shower head. It doesn't cost much to purchase a handheld shower sprayer and attach it. Faucets also were mostly the two knob type, but the one handle faucets have been around for years. It's just one's preference. I have lived in a house with a foyer or small hall at the entrance, and I have lived in a house where the entrance opens directly into the living room.
It's frustrating to watch the German lady make assumptions about American homes based on her experience. She must not get out much. Single arm faucets have been a thing in the US since early 1970's. There are more styles of faucets today. You can install any style you choose. We're not limited to a certain type. Some faucets styles are chosen to match the style of the bathroom. I see more single arm faucets still today. As far as push button flushing toilets go you can have that type if you want it. There are automatic flushing toilets also. There are many types of toilets and many sizes and heights. Same thing with windows. Maybe she should visit a Lowe's or Home Depot.
We are currently building a house here in Maine. All of the floors will be either red oak, 1" thick and 2.25" wide tongue and groove, with the kitchen/dining room, bathrooms, and foyer being ceramic tile. The second floor, which is basically a 16x40' attic with windows on the gable ends will be the cheap laminate flooring. There is a large front and back porch, and our yard amounts to a regular yard, but we have 18 acres of mostly forest with thousands of trees. There are a few streams across our property, one of them with trout. The one thing I absolutely love about where we are in Maine is that you can actually safely drink from the streams flowing across our property. We're originally from Pennsylvania and if you drink from the streams there you would get very sick, very fast. We love Maine, which is why we are building here, it's mountainous, 90% forested, and absolutely beautiful. Land is also very affordable, unless you're out by the coast.
This girl is showing her lack of traveling within the U.S. - living rooms come both open and closed, we also have windows that have blinds inside of them ( they just normally are not standard when you buy a home). I’ ve never lived in a home my 48 years that didn’t have just one combination faucet ( meaning one to control the water temperature). A lot of really old homes might have two handles. Also we’ve had hand held Shower heads here as far back as I can remember but they are not standard in apartments. As far as toilets, we also have both types push button flush or lever flush as well as other fancier options, we have way more window options than she’s showing as well. I feel like she might be showing what’s more standard in apartments? ( Maybe she only hangs out in a 10 mile radius of Ohio? 🤷♀️ I’d rather have a bit more water in my toilet since I’m the one who cleans it-gross! Nah- here it’s cheaper to have gas stoves, especially it hot areas, you’re already paying to run the A/C and when you cook you’re gonna have a huuuge electric bill! Plus I find it easier to control the temp with gas than electric stoves. Just my observations living here my whole life😂👍
Windows with blinds in them look cheap, and if the blinds get messed up inside, your window is broken forever. They are not popular in expensive homes, at all.
I’m going to Texas in April to see the total eclipse! You should come then, too! I don’t understand why she even lives in the US part time when all she does is complain about how things are different, and don’t measure up. 🤷♀️
I know!! She's really preachy about it too!! I'd like to see her go through a few summer days of 113 F (43 C) without AC!! Munich is further north so it doesn't get as hot, therefore less need for AC. She thinks we don't recycle at all....she thinks there are no bad neighborhoods in Germany... (lmao)....argh. She's hot, but I had to unsubscribe from her channel. 😲
Most American faucets have one handle to operate the hot and cold flow of water. Some faucets in older homes may be double handled one operating hot and the other operating cold, like those in the UK.
In the US you will virtually always see a single exit point for the water, but two handles to adjust temperature is not uncommon, at least in bathrooms. I think it's about 50/50 between that and a single handle, but I'm not sure about that. Kitchen sinks almost always have a single handle in my experience.
Kitchen sinks have the one lever so you can turn it on with your elbow or wrist, when your hands are covered in food. Without that, you would have to constantly clean the faucet, every time you use your kitchen and touch food.
My front door opens into a hallway here in Texas. I’ve never owned a home where the front door was in the living room. P.S. for the Germans that think we use AC too much, come live here in Texas where we have had summers with 100+ days in a row over 100 degrees. It isn’t uncommon to be in the upper 90’s at midnight. ✌🏼
The German woman is mistaken, she must've been staying in an very very old building when she first visited the United States because she said that American doors in homes (I'm talking about the main entrance/front door) are much thinner than doors of German homes and that there's no seal on the front door main entrance of American homes whereas German homes do have seals. She is completely incorrect about no seal around the door. All exterior doors of American homes have seals as well as the window frames do too. Of course there are some homes as I previously said that are very old and the owners haven't made improvements to modernize and insulate most likely due to the costs involved. Some Americans build Custom Homes which way surpass the thicknesses of walls and doors of an average home whether American or German. There are some rather wealthy people that build to suit themselves exquisitely in the United States, and owners of more moderate type houses and other living quarters such as motels and such tend to be the structures that would more fit "Feli" German lady's statements.
Feli tends to make a lot of generalizations in her videos. This video shows she has had very limited access to different homes. We have radiator heaters, windows that open and close in a myriad of ways. Ceiling fans rotate clockwise in the summer and counter-clockwise in the winter. Just move the switch. Homes have many different floor plans. Many houses have foyers. Newer homes are tending to have small sitting rooms in lieu of living rooms and they have large, open areas for the kitchen, dining and family room. People tend to gather in those areas more than living rooms. We have shower wands. The best ones are from Water Pic. This girl lives in Cincinnati, Ohio which is a small city, comparably speaking. Ohio culture is different from many other states ( I have relatives that live there. ) I hope she gets out of podunk Ohio and visits other parts of the country.
I know, right??? She has a preachy attitude about it too!! Oh, you guys overdo the AC. Ok, Feli, come here for a few days when it's 113 F and tell me how we overdo the AC. ((roll eyes at her))
In 65 years all the doors I grew up with had seals. The lock she is talking about where the key doesn’t come out is a “deadbolt”. That’s added security not the main lock. We also have locks that you don’t need a key to lock it from the outside. The only problem with those is you can lock yourself outside easily. We also have all the windows they have in Germany. It must be the area she lives in. As far as showers we have had the shower heads on hoses for over 30 years. We have the single lever faucets in the bathroom. It’s just a preference. The old style burner coils on stoves are cheaper to buy for landlords and break less. We have more carpeting because it’s more comfortable and warm.
We have a foyer on the addition to our house, which was built in 1824. The original part of the house (which was built in 1745,)the front door opens right into the main what would have been the living area at the time, but is now a formal dining room.
American here. Most American homes DO have a foyer. Only the low cost homes or apartments open up into the living room. And yes, we like our foyers to be roomy. Boxy homes are OUT, here.
What she is comparing to is what is in Ohio. It is probably close to all the North East. But not everything is what is "American". Just like everything else, it depends on where you are and what companies have done the best job selling their products. Kohler is big in the bathroom game, but so is American Standard. But there are other companies that are moving up in the game and becoming what people want in their homes. Heating and cooling depends on where you live and very few homes have air ducts big enough for a person to climb through (see office building vents). And exteriors often depend on materials available and traditions. [Lots of Californian homes are made with stucco. Brick is big where brick is available cheaply. Etc.] James should be able to look into building standards all over the UK. They are going to vary by what is available and what has "always been done." As our horizons broaden, what people want in their homes is going to change. Even in Germany.
99% of US houses do not have dumb waiters those are from a bi-gone era 1800’s Most businesses now use what is called a “freight elevator” In the US u can go to the store an purchase what ever sink handles u want single or double doesn’t matter it’s each person’s personal preference, changing them isn’t hard. Electric or gas range is also a personal preference if your building your house that’s when u choose which one u want. Gas is more efficient and heats faster. With extremely high electric bills gas is the way to go.
In many, if not all American municipalities, you can't legally call a room a bedroom if it doesn't have a closet. America used to do separate hot/cold faucets but, with better water purification, hot water was also potable. They were combined into a single faucet, allowing temperature control. You may find single levered faucets, they're increasingly common but separate levers for one faucet is also a regular occurrence.
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On the American windows you open the bottom halfway, and then open the top halfway. The cool air comes in the bottom, while the hot air goes out the top. That uses natural convection to change the air in the room.
I'm American. Our front door has a seal around it. They come standard on a lot of door frames, in fact.
indeed, she's hot but annoying! She thinks everybody has the same type of door and has a preachy tone about it! Guess what Feli, some parts of the USA have a warmer climate than others and don't necessarily need the seal on the door, some are thicker, etc! She thinks there's no recycling in the USA either. Argh.
@@neutrino78xright!? The US is Very diverse, I think she is missing that fact. 😕 I have an entry in my house and she makes it sound like every door opens into a major room of the house. Weird! And my doors and windows have insulation seals too.
I have never seen a doorframe in America without a seal. Pretty sure it's illegal to build. Base on airflow testing where new builds are pressure tested for air leaks.
Feli seems to have lived in older construction in Cincinnati. Many homes in the US built after the 1970s have mixer taps.
Oh make certain there is a way to lock the water and ice dispenser. Archie, the little cherub, will eventually be able to reach the thing, and will make messes if it isn't secured.
18:05 I think it's really weird that she hasn't seen a home in the USA with a detachable or handheld shower head. It's really common here.
I thought the same thing. We have a lot of homes with the detachable shower head here in the US. They’re sold everywhere here too. It’s really easy to just pick one up for your shower.
Maybe she's mostly seen rentals they would have fewer but nice apts have them
Almost 65 never seen doors w.o seals on rentals, mobile homes etc they have seals.
How many people's showers do you go in though? And usually you're friends with people in your same class and age range and location so you may see the same thing everywhere you go, but that's just because you're seeing a small slice of the possibilities. Feli will see more and more the longer she stays here.
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"How many people's showers do you go in though?"
Are you talking about her? You should say "how many people's showers has she been in, though?". This sounded like you were talking about me....
Well she really doesn’t know a lot about America yet. I grew up with radiators. I also had electric stove for 34 years and finally got a gas stove. Love it! It heats super fast and you can turn it off if something is boiling and you don’t have to move the pot or pan. We don’t come into the living room from the front door. We have a foyer so she probably has only visited a few homes. Yes, we have A/C in some homes but a lot of us live in hot places. We live in a big country so there’s a lot of differences in home construction. Not all of us live in new homes.
14:13 - Keep in mind that in the US, a regular closet and a "walk-in closet" are two different things. So, don't get in the habit of calling them all walk-ins. A "walk-in" closet in the US doesn't just have a door with a place to hang up clothes inside. It has a walkway for you to actually walk into the closet, and often has space to hang clothes on both sides of that walkway. So, basically a small room. With a regular closet, you stand outside the closet.
There are actually 3 or 4 different types of light switches that can be installed in any house situation in the United States.
Yeah but she's right that the standard one is the flip one. She probably just hasn't encountered the other type all that often here.
As a home designer in the US, I can say that a lot of what she is talking about are fixtures in older homes. Newer homes are built with more moder fixtures like multiple shower head and wands in the shower. Low-flow toilets that don't use very little water, Bathroom light switches have motion sensors that turn on as you walk in. Closets are the same as well. As for the faucet type we have many different styles. It's up to the homeowner which style they want. Single control, duals knobs, motion sensor, etc...
Shower heads are a personal preference in the US. Houses have either the hand held or the fixed. I have both in my shower. As for the faucet, we have both also. It depends on what they put in when they built the bathroom.
She bitches about this in nearly all of her videos. They sell every type of shower head you could ever want at any type of hardware or walmart type store. If you live in an apartment, you can just give it to maintenance and they will install it for you. Its not hard! Everywhere you go will always have the cheapest option installed because peopel take their good hardware with them. Just get the showerhead you want! You don't need a special license..
Ik it should not piss me off but she is PISSING me off the crap about the shower head it's ridiculous almost everyone ik has a massager pull down shower head and the way she's talking about crap I feel lk telling her if it's so bad go back to Germany if u want a shower head that moves u buy it lk everyone who wants it she's acting lk we only have that and we're stuck when we can go buy whatever we want
@@Laura-mi3nv No, she doesn't "bitch" about it. She simply states a fact that nearly every German will notice very quickly. Fixed showerheads are the standard in America, you can't deny that. People will choose to change them, sure, but the fact remains that when you're moving into a new place, chances are very high the standard showerhead the place comes with is a fixed one. I don't know why her saying this upsets you, it's simply the way things are
@@leDespicable - she bitches about it, repeatedly and often. That is what she does, its why there's an entire comment thread about it. She's bitching. Its bitching. She acts like she's never heard of a store and can't just update it herself. That is entitlement and bitching. That is what she does. Bitching
@@leDespicableAgreed. I have lived across three different states and almost without fail the cheapest option was the fixed shower head; especially in places where you rent such as apartments. Many cheaper hotels also still do the fixed shower heads.
I'm not sure what bathroom she went into but when your building or remodel an house you can choose between probably twenty different kinds of showers twenty different toilets an faucet for vanity . Now whether one is more common than others I don't know but you literally get a variety to pick from.
This person obviously have not seen very much of America or even much of the state she resides in. Because the things she says America doesn’t have, we have throughout each of the 50 states.
Exactly! She's such an arrogant know-it-all, which is bad, but far worse when they are wrong about so much and show they really don't know that much! I get the impression she came here, stayed at someone's home and assumes that all of the 333 million Americans must all have the exact same things!
She went to College in Ohio for 5 years and thinks the whole US is like the college she went too, James and Millie might lose some subscribers as, I saw a lot of comments on their last reaction to Feli, saying if they watch her videos again, they would unscribe to their channel.
@@marydavis5234 If people unsub, that's just silly. However, I personally will not watch future videos they do reacting to her. It raises my blood pressure.
Some of you seem to have missed that this is a rather old video of hers. But still she never claimed to speak for the entire US, she always made it clear that she's only speaking from personal experience. So, why is that infuriating?
@@leDespicable It's because she comes across as arrogant, elitist and a know-it-all. Humble people that aren't looking down their noses at others are given a pass on "mistakes".
Door locks are a personal item and since the U.S. has a bazillion different types of door locks it's up to you to choose what you prefer.
There are many styles of house in the US, and most of the more expensive ones DO have a front entry room/foyer.
indeed. Feli is hot, but really annoying! I had to un-subscribe from her. 😲
And depending on the region the home may have one on the backdoor too ( mud rooms )
Even smaller houses have a genkan/foyer. My uncles house is small, but there is a small area with a closet to remove your shoes, and the floor is tile instead of carpet.
It also has a lot to do with the climate in NY it is more common to have a room or space by the door to take off wet shoes in winter in FL why would you need that space? Lol
My current house is the only one I've lived in that didn't have an entryway area. Even when I lived in a smaller house as a child, you walked into an entry area and to the left was a dining room and through there the kitchen and to the right was the living room, and ahead were the two bedrooms. The house I live in now you just walk in and there's the side table and lamp to a chair right beside you and a closet to the left. It was definitely a change.
She's completely wrong about "foyer", etc. She assumes based on Ohio. I live in MN, and most homes have a tile/linoleum entry area to take off wet/snowy boots etc in the winter. Opening directly into the living room DOES NOT compute. She's making a lot of generalizations.
those ceiling mounted fans have a switch on the side - it changes the direction it spins in, so during summer months you're trying to loft the hot air, while in the winter you're actually blowing it (it rises) back towards the ground (and people)
Absolutely. I know of very few homes where you walk into the living room rather than a foyer or entry way. Many older homes in my area have 2 doors - one into an enclosed space where shoes are removed and then another into the house foyer.
Pretty much every home I've been to has been a walk straight into a living room type. The only exceptions have been rich people's houses. -Kentucky
I think age of the house and location makes a lot of difference. Midcentury ranch houses commonly have that entry into the living room. This is going to be more common in the west and in newer (as in the last 75 years) neighborhoods. Places with older homes will have different designs. I also think an airlock type of foyer or mudroom makes a lot more sense in a colder climate.
Older homes up into the living room, my house is a fully renovated farmhouse that is over 100 years old, the front door opens up into the living room and the back door opens up into the kitchen.
Our exterior doors in the U.S. all have seals. Both types of bath faucets are commonly used here and the movable shower heads are fairly common, although I don't have one.
The seals aren’t on the doors - they are on the frames. The bottoms of doors do have a weatherstrip as well.
And depending on the region of the united states the front door will also have a storm door
Agreed, detachable handheld showheads can be bought for as little as $15 and have been around since at least the 1980's
Depends on the age of the door. My 80 year old door does not. Just a weatherstrip at the bottom
@@jenniferpearce1052 You mean the frame doesn’t have seals? Maybe they were removed when the house was being painted - painters often remove seals and they should replace them. My front door is 121 years old. There’s weather sealing on the frame that I had renewed about 15 years ago. I’m sure it wasn’t the first time.
We tend to get 95F and above for 3 months straight. Longer in some places. We have handheld showers here, they are sold in all hardware stores. Even if your home comes with a standard fixed shower head, most people replace it with a handheld one. The shelf in German toilets was so you can exam your poo before you flush. Something I think many of us find a bit disgusting these days. For sinks...I'm sure not everyone's home is the same but our kitchen sink is a single tap and the bathroom has the separate hot and cold- however, if you turn them both on at the same time then the water comes out mixed (warm).
Fun Fact: In most of the US, a room legally must have a closet to be called a "Bedroom" when selling. Otherwise, you have to call it a spare room. A Bedroom must also legally have two methods of egress. A window counts.
It depends on where you are. Not all places perfectly follow the icc
While the egress requirements are FED based, the closet 'rule' is a local/state requirement. So it would depend on where in the US. Also some houses can get 'grandfathered' in on various rules and regulations. (sell to family, or remodel part vs all of the house, etc)
@@bluflaam777LSA If you're the owner, you can do whatever you want. It's only what you can call a room when selling or leasing.
Only some states have a closet law, but according to a real estate agent I know, the closet rule is a national real estate association rule. Not a "law" per se, but as good as.
@@Trifler500 no such rule in ny
@@toughbastard Ok.
The weather seals on almost all doors in the US are on the door frame instead of on the door itself, but pretty much without exception every exterior door does have a weather seal.
If we didn't have them in northern Indiana where I live the strong winds and heavy lake effect snow would make things pretty wild. My door faces north north west which is the worst in the winter.
The main reason we can't just open windows in the US is because it gets hot for weeks at a time, so the ground warms up and then it stops being cool at night. At that point, opening the window doesn't really help much anymore. In some parts of the US, people actually die from the heat if they don't have AC, or if it breaks.
And yet, I had an older coworker who grew up in Phoenix and his parents still lived in a house without AC. They adapted to how to live and not overheat.
@@jenniferpearce1052 Easier to cool a house when you don't have to worry about humidity. You can use "swamp coolers" in the desert, but that same strategy won't work in Florida (since the air already is a swamp).
@@cylontoaster7660 Yeah, using swamp coolers in a temperate or subtropical environment wouldn't work. They wouldn't cool much to begin with, and given the humidity, they'd pretty quickly get a ton of mold growing in them.
@@cylontoaster7660 Cool name, by the way. I actually had a Cylon toaster (the Caprica model), but lent it to a friend for the novelty purpose of showing his friends, and never ended up getting it back. Looked into buying a replacement.. They're selling for as much as $1,000 now, because one was featured on the Big Bang Theory. Ridiculous. It originally cost me like $35.
@@cylontoaster7660 I wonder if they had one. I don't know how long swamp coolers have been around..i only heard of them maybe 10 or 15 years ago, which was about the time frame I met this guy. His parents were probably in their 70s or 80s at the time.
2:15 - Dumbwaiters are only in old rich people houses, where people actually had hired staff to make them meals and such. Since being able to afford staff is far less common now, even rich houses aren't built with them anymore, and haven't been for many decades.
Many, many years ago, mainly in Europe, the kitchen was downstairs/with a walk-in back door, while the dining room was upstairs. The kitchen staff would put the trays on the shelf (like a little elevator) and hoist it up by a pulley. The dining room butler would open the little door and serve the rich family their dinners hot from the kitchen. Genius.
A "dumb waiter" ...not a very nice term,
but we didn't care about disrespectful language back then.
Today the homes are mostly built on one level with only the bedrooms/bath upstairs.
And we don't have a butler. 😅😆
All US locks are different depending on the makers. There are multitude of different manufacturers of locks in the United States. So you have to determine which one you like best and purchase it.
Literally hundreds.
I live on a back road in Vermont, when changing the locks for the back and front door, we bought heavy duty locks, the ones that are used for fire doors.
@@marydavis5234 A lock is only as strong as what is holding it in place.
It’s funny…..some of the things she mentioned as being more modern in Germany were popular in America back in the 1970’s but fell out of favor such as the single-handle faucet for regulating water temperature or the electric stove tops.
I didn’t realize either of those things had fallen out of favor in the US and I’m American 😅
@coyotelong4349 The fist thing I did was take out the electric stove in my house when I moved in. Gas stoves are so much better at regulating temperatures when you cook.
@@BigMoore1232I have a glass top electric range, when cooking , if the pot or frying pan gets too hot, the stove stop will automatically lower the temperature and go back up ,if
get too cold to cook the food.
There are a multitude of different types of windows in the United States from sliders that go horizontally to windows that open with a crank to others that do slide up-and-down some matter of choice. Most of the ones that slide up-and-down are from older homes that we don't use as much today.
yeah I don't know what she's talking about, man. You can buy any kind of window you want. Certainly out here in California, windows that open by sliding to the left are more common, but you find every mechanism out here. I don't think I've ever seen a window on a home in the USA that only opens like 10 inches, though. That's weird. 😕
I live in a house built in 1880 in indiana and we had new windows that swing open put in. When I first moved here they were old heavy wood windows that took a power lifter to open lol
Some German cities and towns were almost totally destroyed in WW-2 so those homes will have newer windows than places here in the United States where almost every town and city have homes over a 100 or more years
those reflective ones that melt neighbors siding lol but luckily I'm over a block between each house out here
I prefer the up-down windows, because I can put an AC in one and still have the other window free to open.
I find it interesting that a lot of what she says in the norm in Germany, although still available here in the U.S., was popular during my grandparents or parents day.
I think the one handle faucets are more common in the kitchen than in bathrooms.
Not really
In the US we have hand held shower heads. We actually have a wide variety. I think it’s 50/50 as well . There are many different styles of showers . I think she’s judging it based on what she has seen & thinks it’s like that everywhere.
Hell we have showers that have multiple heads up the walls and on the ceiling. Like getting into a hot tub spraying at you from every direction
She's comparing real ilfe American homes to sitcom tv show homes. Wow! 😂😂
In Minnesota, USA it’s not uncommon to have a split entry home where you enter the house in a small entryway/mud room with a coat closet and you have stairs that go up and stairs that go down to the different parts of the house. Usually the living room, kitchen, and bedrooms are upstairs. The family room, laundry, utilities, bathroom, and maybe bedroom(s) downstairs.
The lock on the front door she's talking about is a deadbolt. That is in addition to the lock in the knob. It's an added security measure.
Many US showers have a large shower head and also a handheld one.
Door seals in America are not on the door, they are magnetic and attached to the door frame so when the metal door closes it creates more of a seal. All houses vary, mine has a hall way that originally led into the kitchen and then you got to the living room from the kitchen. Now I have cut a door way from the hall to the living room. Our new windows now flip in or out to clean the better. The bathroom sinks vary, there are both single and double.
Another video by a foreigner with minimal experience. See all the Americans correcting the info. We just installed a new front door and front storm door. Like having two doors to keep out the wind. The seals are in the frames and not on the door. The contractors used foam insulation within the door frame and trim. We also had new windows. We opted for double hung (up and down open) with built in full screen. The windows can open inward for easy cleaning. I had removable shower heads with the hose. Just bought at DIY center and installed. It is preference. Dumb waiters were in very old homes. Only had them once in a 1920 farm house. It also featured a laundry chute. So many different styles and options in America. Maybe American presenter with a real estate background would help.
In the United States, we can’t claim a house has a bedroom without a built in closet…we bought our daughter a townhouse that had 3 bedrooms with closets and one spare without a closet…it was listed as a 3 bedroom unit…
Makes sense to me, 2 and a half bathrooms I'm guessing? damn spent a lot on her lol
@@jimmybobsap8729 1 and a half bathroom 3 bedrooms…it gave her some independence in her mid 20’s….after she left to get married we sold it made some profit…
There is no actual law that backs that up. It's one of the many things Realtors say, that has absolutely no basis in law.
It's interesting to me that the most common window design in the US strikes Europeans and British people as weirdly old fashioned, because that's exactly how we Americans feel about radiators. I don't think there's been a single home built in the US since about 1975 that has a radiator in it. We pretty much did away with them a long time ago in favor of central heating and/or better insulation. It's actually become something of a visual shorthand in our movies and tv shows which are set in more modern times that if the room has a radiator, it's meant to show that the building is old and possibly run-down. As an American, just seeing one instantly makes me think of the 1940s or '50s, which makes seeing them in otherwise very modern European homes feel weirdly jarring and out of place.
LOL, they remind me of wooden stoves.
They are great, actually. I lived in a cheap apartment that had one, and I prefer it over FWA. They keep an incredibly even temperature, but if you want to really crank them up, they will drain all the water, and bring in new hot water, and it acts pretty fast.
Funnily enough, there are many more things still common in American homes that went out of fashion decades ago in Germany. Ceiling fans, stand-alone ovens with the hob on top that stand out from the kitchen cabinets, visible toilet tanks, carpet flooring, stucco mouldings...
@@leDespicable Yeah, I'm still baffled at how some of those things have disappeared in places like Germany. Why get rid of carpeting? It's easier than ever to maintain, and it's drastically more comfortable, especially in winter. And visible toilet tanks just make sense. What happens if there's a maintenance issue with a German toilet? Do they have to tear out part of the wall to check the tank for problems? A visible tank just means that, short of a serious problem with the pipes, the user can handle pretty much all toilet maintenance themselves, no professionals or wall repair required.
@@rmartinson19 I think the main reason carpet floors went out of fashion is hygiene. They're significantly more difficult to keep clean than parquet or tiles. My grandparents replaced their ugly 70s carpet in the living room with parquet at some point in the 2000s for the same reason.
Regarding the toilet tanks: The tank is usually accessible via a hatch. It's very common to have a drywall protrusion (about 1m high) in front of the regular wall in the bathroom, which the toilet will get mounted to. This protrusion hides the toilet tank and often has the access hatch on top. In cases where there's no protrusion, the tank is accessed by removing the buttons.
Maybe it's German quality, but the amount of times you actually need to tear open the wall to fix or replace the entire plumbing are very rare, I've personally never experienced it, neither has anyone I know. You pretty much only need to do that when the whole tank needs replacing, and that usually only happens when you're remodeling the entire bathroom anyway, so it doesn't really pose a problem.
If it were a problem, Germans wouldn't do it, that's one thing you can be sure of. They're the ones not building air ducts into their homes because "no need for that, we have windows" after all lol
Doors may look weak but actually the front door is thicker on the inside. It’s designed so people can’t kick it down in one shot. It’s actually quite dense inside the door.
Then why do the fbi kick it down so easy?
I think it is the frame or mechanical parts that give if it's a decent door. I once moved into a rental home with a metal door & it was bent in & dented a lot. Someone said it was previously the residence of a drug dealer. 😳😵 We moved as soon as we could after we got some bangs on the door looking for this person. Not very nice looking people. You never know. The neighborhood was nice.
@@ntsikeleloemma5663 Because every lock is limited by what it's attached to, and what it's counterpart plate is attached to. It doesn't matter if the door is made out of titanium, if the door frame is wood, it's no more difficult to kick in, than a hollow door is.
I'm so relieved you are considering April. When you said, in a prior video that you wanted to go to Texas in August, I didn't have the heart to tell you that the heat and humidity there in August is almost unbearable. It would also be quite unhealthy for Baby Archie.
I’m so glad to learn that they’re no longer thinking of Texas in August. April is good,but March is even better because of the bluebonnets. It’s always been one of my favorite things about Texas.
We have multiple options for nearly everything she mentioned. Our doors have a seal, it just tgat some are sealed around.the frame instead of the door. I have a washer and dryer, and a clothesline that is in the faeage so I can use it during bad weather. I do finish drying in the dryer often.
When you consider that the United States is almost the size of the European Union, each state is almost a country in and of itself. It's hard to generalize all of our country having one way of doing things. There's a big difference between older homes and new builds, as well. The open concept first floors (no walls, possibly not a foyer) is favored by young parents who want to keep an eye on their little ones. I've read that since COVID, people have tired of seeing so much of each other that walls may be coming back into favor!
There are no dirty dishes, in open floor plans. The downside is you have to keep your kitchen as clean as your living room.
The US is larger than the European Union, even including England.
I live in rural Cincinnati, and as for the shower heads, there are many different types. You can replace a fixed style with the handle style for a relatively cheap price, or spend a large sum on name brand. Being as I work HVAC construction, and have installed HVAC in many new homes, todays homes have a wide variety of options that you can select from as the homes are being built. Living here all my life, I have seen many types of faucets/taps. Many of which are the single handle style. It seems that she is speaking from an experience of an area where the homes are quite old, or inexpensive. Many of the options she is referring to are used by rental properties in order to save money on repairs.
Where on earth is "rural Cincinnati"? I'm genuinely curious, as it's the first time I've ever heard the term "rural Cincinnati" in my entire life. Do you mean the suburbs? Because there's not much in terms of rural areas outside of Cincinnati.
@@willsofer3679 When speaking abroad, I've learned to refer to the small towns in the rural areas near the closest largest city being rural areas of that city...AKA the country...I don't ever give away my exact location for safety. Basically you have the City/Urban area, the Suburbs/outskirts, then the rural areas/country. Besides, naming small towns usually confuses anyone farther away than the city.
@@hayneshvac2 Okay. That makes sense I suppose. I guess I was a bit more confused because Greater Cincinnati (presumably where you're talking about) is essentially peak suburbia. McMansions and massive numbers of restaurants and retail outlets. There's barely a farm, or anything rural, in sight these days. I've always thought of those "small towns" as more like gradated suburbs of Cincinnati and Dayton; less like the idyllic "towns" of the early 20th century with a cohesive community identity, and more like the suburban towns outside of Los Angeles that serve as runoff from the city. At least nowadays, with how built up, and nearly interchangeable, all of them are.
@@willsofer3679 Honestly I went to Florida once, and speaking to a Govt. worker, they asked where I was from. I gave them my town name, they asked which city I was closest to, then advised I just tell everyone I'm from there...lmao. Later I understood it breaks the confusion...lol. Technically where I am from, there is no city jurisdiction, but for the sake of popularity...Cincinnati. I will say that our TV programming out here is Cincinnati based, and we do have Cincinnati chili restaurants out here...that's about as close to accurate I will get on the net...lol. Mostly all farmland out this way.
@@hayneshvac2 This is true. When traveling outside of my region, I just say either "Cincinnati", or "outside of Cincinnati". I live in Butler County, by the way, if that helps with context. No need to tell me where you live, but I figured that living in the general area, it would give you a better idea of where I'm coming from.
Central air conditioners don’t typically blow a lot from the registers on the floors/ceilings. It’s much less noticeable than a window AC, where you definitely feel a breeze. Homes are only as cold as you want them to be - I set my thermostats (2 upstairs and 1 downstairs for the 3 zones) at 74 degrees in the summer and 71 in the winter and walk away. No fuss. My house doesn’t have ceiling fans.
I haven't been to many houses (in New England) that have had the single temperature control. She didn't mention it, but there's a toggle on ceiling fans that changes direction. So, in Winter it will keep the hot air down and make the room feel warmer
The single temperature control she is referring to is probably a Thermostatic Radiator Valve since she showed a radiator for the German example. If a house does have radiators and you install a thermostatic valve, they let you control how much heat a specific radiator will get. They aren't like regular radiator valves (those metal "whistles" you see on the ends of them). You still use the regular thermostat for your house to set the overall temperature for the house, but the thermostatic valves allow you to manually adjust individual rooms that use radiators for heat.
@cylontoaster7660 oh, I meant on a sink faucet
Feli’s American experience is of course contemporary. We had radiators in some homes and even now in older apartments. I grew up in the southern US in the 1950s and 60s. We didn’t have a/c until I was 15 years old.
I think with the hot and cold she meant that we tend to have two knobs rather than a single lever, but the water still comes out of one faucet/tap. I've only seen the two faucet thing in a few much older homes.
Where I live we have an awful lot of the same things she has in Germany.
But some different also.
You have to remember I think the main thing is.
You can go to any hardware store here in the US. And get whatever type of hardware you want to put in your home.
America 🇺🇸 has single and double handle faucets. We also have the push button toilets as well as the lever type. It just depends on where you are. Historically we have have had the house full of carpet except the kitchen and bathrooms. The trend has changed to hardwood floors or hardwood look alike.
I don't know that historically we liked carpet. I think there was a trend for it post- WWII through the 80s. In the 90s, people started ripping out carpet and restoring wood floors.
True
All of our houses had hardwood floors, except our current one.
@@garycamara9955 I have a hardwood floor. Had it for 8 years.
Induction stoves are actually super common in the US. I’m not sure why she thinks it more of a Germany thing.
Because she is a college kid that has only seen dorms and cheap homes college kids rent.
Because Germans are arrogant!
I can insult whom I want because I am English, French, Danish, German, Welsh, Scott, and Portuguese. My wife is Sycilian, Danish, and American indian. My step Grandfather was Irish.
@@garycamara9955 I can insult who I want, because I'm a jerk and I give zero Fs. It's so liberating. I recommend it for everyone. 🤣🤣😂😂
A lot of the differences Feli notes about US homes are either related to the age of the home, the homeowner's preferences, whether the home is rented or bought, or the homeowner's financial circumstances. During my childhood in East Tennessee, one grandmother's home had only wardrobes, while the other grandmother's home had both closets and wardrobes. One had central heating, the other had a coal-burning furnace in the middle of the house. One had a chamberpot that I had to empty into an outhouse, the other had a modern bathroom. One was built during the late 1800s/early 1900s, the other was built after WW2. One had hot and cold running water in the kitchen and bathroom, the other only had cold water in the kitchen sink. Hot water had to be boiled in a teakettle for bathing or washing dishes. One had electrical wiring stapled to the walls, the other had wiring inside the walls. One, the exterior doors couldn't be locked and never needed to be, the other had modern door locks. One had a huge front porch with a swing, rocking chairs, and wringer washing machine, the other had a smaller porch with a few comfy chairs. Basically, one was Victorian/Edwardian-era, the other was late 1940s/early 2950s-era construction. Both were in extremely rural areas of the Smoky Mountains.
Another thing that the US is slowly phasing out is mobile homes and trailerparks. There used to be an awful lot of mobile home parks, or even trailers by themselves on single-family property lots. Mobile homes are now called Manufactured Housing. They are being phased out because people in the US are becoming more affluent. There are still plenty around, but as more people move into brick & mortar homes, trailer parks are the temporary dwellings of choice for immigrants. As the older trailers become less livable, the immigrants are moving out to the many homes being built in the suburbs. They are earning more money too, so they leave for better conditions & neighborhoods. Of course, in cities and towns, there are loads of apartments, flats, row-houses, townhouses, and so on. There are a myriad different styles of homes out there. My wife and I have a little brick house out in the countryside near my family's old farm. Mom still lives in the house she and Dad had built in the early 1970s on a 12-acre plot of land Dad bought. One of their neighbors had a small farm that he sold to Dad, so in total Mom's got the entire 68 acres of property. My siblings and I will inherit the farm when Mom passes--which we hope will be a long time from now! My brother had a house built for his family on the back of the farm, out in the woods. My sister and her husband bought some land of their own about 12 miles away from the farm and built a huge house there. I will probably wind up with the farmhouse just to keep it from being sold to strangers. None of the three of we kids want anyone but family living in the house we grew up in. Don't think any of the above was bragging. None of us are wealthy, by any means. My sister is a veterinarian, I'm 6 weeks away from becoming a pensioner, and my brother runs a small business of his own. We're middle class, all the way, LOL!
I've lived in a variety of rented apartments, detached houses, and even bought a mobile home in my time. I've seen it all, left for greener pastures as my situation bettered, and now I've got a little place of my own for my wife and I. The mortgage is paid off, our cars are paid off, and our only bills are the utilities and groceries and taxes. I'm 66 now, and have worked in a factory for 46 years. I'm a very low-tier writer, a composer, and an artist. None of those are high-paying jobs. It's been the factory that has financed my life since I was 18, and it'll be that factory pension that will finance my wife and I through my retirement. Yet I remember living in those Depression-era neighborhoods as a child. Being able to live poor is a great skill to have. There are many millions of Americans, each with their own story, each to be valued. Same as anywhere else on the planet, really.
Not here, there are plenty of mobile home parks here. Mobile homes are different than trailers.
The only time I've seen a front door in the United States without some kind of seal is on a very old house that hasn't been updated. Most modern houses in the United States are very well insulated including some type of vapor barrier wrapped around the entire house in addition to a significant amount of insulation. Most local building codes have insulation requirements. She must have been in an area with older houses that haven't been updated.
I hate this thing it keeps erasing my comments.
I had a neighbor when I was a kid, Mr Penry, he built his house before he proposed to his wife. This was before WW1. He had a basement full of handmade tools, also a virgin 1918 calendar. There was a huge L shaped hedge 20ft tall 15 ft wide with a cabana inside of it. When his wife died he soon followed her. The idiot woman that bought the house tore down the hedge and cabana, then burned everything in the basement. I was absolutely without words. Such a callous thing. She could have had a sale or just gave away stuff. When she through the as new model T decklid he took of his car when it was new on the fire I told her it was worth several hundred dollars. In fact if she had just sold the stuff it would have been several house payments, since she payed around $10 ,000 for the house.
I'm American and have lived in many types of homes and apartments. Firstly, most newer and remodeled homes have great insulation from weather and noise. My house was built 5 years ago and has double-pane windows with add technology for soundproofing. My home is very quiet and well insulated. Before we were able to occupy our home, they had to do a test where they create a vacuum in the house. This is done to ensure the house is sealed thoroughly. Most older homes do not have the same level of insulation. Most outside doors have a seal to serve as insulation and waterproofing as well. In newer and remodeled homes, you will find light switches that are flat-where you push the top or bottom to turn on/off. Most homes in the north use forced air heating and air conditioning. This type of heating/cooling is what is shown in the video. Homes in the south tend to use electric baseboard heating. Many homes have a handheld shower. It really is a matter of preference as it is very easy to switch out a fixed shower head for a handheld one. I have never lived in a home where the water faucet in the bathrooms was separate. I believe separate taps only exist in older homes. I think the girl in the video is living in an older home. The government is working towards discontinuing the use of gas stoves and switching to electric stoves. Some cities have already passed ordinances banning gas stoves in new construction. Carpet is popular in living areas and bedrooms.
I enjoyed this video where she talks about more of different details between American and German/European homes.
In the states, in order to be a bedroom there must be a closet and a window. As far as windows and doors, it depends on the age and architectural style of the house as to how they open, however most have weather stripping to seal. Most showers in the states have both a fixed and handheld faucets. As for faucet styles, all US faucets have one combined water spout but the handles are either one or separate hot/cold depending on the style and type preferred by the homeowner. Most larger houses have an entry/foyer where smaller places often just open into the main living area. The states don’t really have a typical house. It completely depends on what region of the country as to the architectural style, when it was originally built, and what socioeconomic area it’s in etc.
Feli like many Europeans, doesn't seem to understand that the USA is a vast nation, and some parts are warmer than others, and many are warmer than Munich. "Silicon Valley" where I live is further south than Munich, Germany, closer to the equator, so one would expect it to be warmer. Let's see her go through a summer where it gets up to 45 centigrade and see if she still doesn't want A/C lol. There's no such thing as "overdoing the air conditioning" when it's really hot. ((roll eyes))
Although, I'm surprised they don't use it already, because their houses would be designed to trap heat, so if it's even 22 centigrade, it might get really hot inside. My apartment is in a warm climate and is not particularly designed to trap heat (it's not very good at trapping heat at all actually), but I still need the AC when it gets above 21 centigrade, because it will get pretty hot inside. And I know it gets significantly warmer than 21 there in Munich. Opening a window doesn't really address it when it's too hot outside. Plus those old homes tend not to have bug screens on the windows, so that's a factor too. 😲
Exactly we live in the Central Valley in California and it gets very hot here in the summer but you're spot on
Ceiling fans can actually change directions for cooling and reverse for pushing down heat from ceiling because heat rises
In America there are 2 things that we really enjoy. And that's open areas and plenty of windows. Well, most older homes in America probably do enter an area like a foyer. Maybe even a hallway, but for many years now. Open floor plans are really very popular. And that's because there's a feeling of rooms being larger. They just give you sense that's hard to describe, but it's a positive thing and since we don't. Enter homes of America and stop and take off shoes or hang up Coats right there. We feel that the openness that you walk into is not an issue. Interiors of American homes are lighter and brighter, and let's say more airy.
A bedroom requires a closet. A room without a closet is often denoted a “home office”.
Only a few old homes have dumbwaiters.
Mostly used in movies as part of the plot American and English
If I ever get to design and build my own place ... I've always had Dumb Waiters on my wish list ...
Gas stoves are fantastic especially if the electricity goes out in a winter storm because you can still cook food with gas. As a kid I would grill hot dogs and do s’mores on the gas burner
No seal on the front door? Oh come on that's NONSENSE! As a retired homebuilder I can assure you ALL exterior doors have WEATHER STRIPPING! Even mobile home exterior doors have weather stripping. To not have weather stripping is unthinkable. The exterior doors are not light either as Feli is claiming. The interior doors are usually hollow core doors, but the exterior doors are not. Also bathroom and kitchen taps can be both ways, single handle or double handle depending on what you prefer. Windows vary greatly in style and in function. Feli has no clue as to what she is talking about.
No. Actually, MOST American homes have foyers (a small enclosed entrance area). Unless they are cheaper or modular homes!
Modern us homes have the more blocky light switches but there a bit more rectangular
We have detachable shower heads as well but they are usually a bit more expensive
I have only seen exterior blinds in coastal areas where they doubled as storm protection (with the blinds down, some can take a 2x4 coming at you at 75 mph) and occasionally as a defense against squatters. (Many beach homes are only occupied part time, you don't want to go there and find out that drunk college kids used your house as a party pit.) Ours were aluminum, including over the doors, and they were awesome for the bedrooms because they stopped absolutely all the light coming from outside. They were all electric, but they had a manual backup.
I have never seen exterior blinds.
Radiators like the one she showed. They are here in the US. Older homes have them and they're used when trying to restore a house that's old. When you spend the money, we do have zones. So the bedrooms can be one temperature to the living room can be another temperature in the kitchen can be a third temperature.
I'm in the US and you usually enter US houses into an entry way. We also don't tend to use the front door unless you are letting guests in. The family normally enters into a mudroom via the back door or garage.
I guess I'm just another flake on the upper crust LOL. I have a foyer. I have only known one house that had a dumbwaiter and it also had a laundry chute. The dumbwaiter only went to the basement garage to the pantry. Very handy for bringing in grocery bags. Radiators are quaint and unknown in most parts of the US.
In America you cannot legally list a room as a bedroom when selling unless it has a built in closet.
If you have ever come home and found your front door wide open because the dog opened it you would ditch the handle and go buy a doorknob instead. True story.
This poor girl doesn’t know about double-hung windows. It’s much better to open both the top and bottom sashes because the hot air goes out the top and the cool outside air comes through the bottom opening. There are other types, of course - the most common I’d say are the ones that open outward like doors. I don’t often open windows because of the central HVAC which removes dust and especially sneeze-inducing pollens. ‘Airing out’ the rooms is only necessary if you burn something you’ve cooked! And that takes awhile because many American homes are large with vaulted ceilings and a lot of space.
The main reason for a door handle is it allows the door to stay closed without locking. Inside doors lock but usually no key needed to unlock it’s only for some privacy.
Feli means well, it’s a you tube channel, it’s entertainment… modern homes omitted a lot of the old traditional ways of building but we still have plenty of very old homes with gas heat and radiators, gas cooking stoves, two knobbed faucets, definitely foyers/Front entrance for coats and shoes if not a mud room by the kitchen. And all rooms were separated even in very small homes. Everyone should take a tour of these antique homes they’re really cool. Big hugs Beesley family😊
The majority of homes in the US have both showerheads as well. Also, we have the one faucet handle sink faucet a lot in the US.
We had one handled faucets 40 years ago in are house in America. Also most stoves that are electric, are glass top. Peace!
Our showerhead is both a fixed one and a handheld one. Our front door has a seal and so do our windows. We have all the types of windows that she showed. Also our front door opens into a hallway. We have a space in our laundry room for hanging clothes. We have no carpet. Our floors are mainly wood and a few rooms have tiles.
She has not been in alot of homes in the United States. We have seals around all of our doors. We live in Colorado and it can get very cold in the winter. We also have detached shower heads, single knob for hot and cold water, we also have the 2 buttons you push on the toilet. Closets are required to be considered a bedroom. Hope you guys have a fun trip to the USA.
In Florida at least, a bedroom must have a closet to be considered a bedroom in a real estate listing.
Va & N.C too
That's code for most if not all states
It’s a code in all 50 US , For example if your house is listed as a four bedroom house, if one bedroom does not have a closet or window, it will be listed as a three bedroom house.
Coil stoves are usually older models, as you can't find them new in stores.
By far propane flame stoves are the rage with people who love to cook.
I've never heard of propane kitchen stoves. Do you mean natural gas?
So our seals are around the threshold of the door opening, not the door itself. However we do have what we call a floor sweep? I think it's called. It keeps critters and hot/cold air from entering.
A lot of homes have two knobs on the water faucet but the water comes out of the same spigot .
She needs to title her videos, Ohio versus Germany….because I cannot relate to what she is saying coming from the South. But it’s still an interesting perspective that she has based on her experiences.
When we have a foyer, we usually have a coat closet in it. My current house does not have one of those and I miss the coat closet.
It's just the one tap. There are just separate hot and cold knobs to control how hot / cold you want the water to come out
When we were buying our house, the realtor told us that a room can only be counted as a bedroom if it has a closet. And Feli is a bit off about the bathroom faucet. Old fashioned faucets generally do have a separate hot and cold handles, and one tap. But most faucets now have one handle that controls both. I think what you were referring to James about America having one and UK having two, is the actual tap. Some old fashioned British houses have two completely separate taps for hot and cold. So you’d have to turn them both on and kinda splash them together. 😝 Our house was built in 1954, and the original bathroom and kitchen faucets had separate handles for hot and cold, but we’ve replaced almost all of them with the more modern single handle. Except for our shower. And it’s funny because the hot and cold twist in opposite directions…so even after having lived here for 13 years, my family still gets confused about which way to turn them. So you could be trying to turn the water off, and accidentally turn the hot all the way up and burn your buns. 😂
My blood pressure rises every time I watch any of her videos 😄
She's just so wrong on most of everything 😂
Mine too! I should have known better than to watch this video.
I wanted to tell her that Germany also had Hitler when she kept talking about what Germany had that the US didn't. She's just like Joel and Lia, 2 others I don't watch due to all their snark and condescension towards the US.
I won't be watching any Beesley videos with Feli content. She's biased af.
it's only a point of view. Don't get bent out of shape over it.
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@@patricksweeney1088 I'll get as bent as I want, thank you. Why did you zero in on MY comment, when there were others that said practically the same thing? Feli is not enjoyable to watch and she IS biased af, so shove it. 😊
American bathrooms also have electricity in it always. Code requires we use a GFCI outlet. GFCI stands for ground fault circuit interrupter. Basically, you get water in any of that, it shuts the electricity off ASAP. We may also be a little safer cuz we're using 120 volts, not 240 volts.
Older homes in the US have attic fans so when you open the flat windows and turn on the attic fan air is brought into every window at one time and it exits through the attic space. This is how we kept cool before air conditioning became a thing. Air conditioning helps to cool the house both day and night where attic fans only worked well at night time.
My house has one and when our air conditioner has died a couple times since we've lived here (too expensive to replace so we just get it repaired when it breaks) that's what we do. Open the doors and windows and turn on the attic fan at night.
As an American, I think that Feli is basing her observations on older houses. Most houses were built with sash windows at one time, but it is not common to find sash windows on newer houses. Most bathrooms that I have seen these days have both the fixed shower head and the handheld shower sprayer. Old houses had just the fixed shower head. It doesn't cost much to purchase a handheld shower sprayer and attach it. Faucets also were mostly the two knob type, but the one handle faucets have been around for years. It's just one's preference. I have lived in a house with a foyer or small hall at the entrance, and I have lived in a house where the entrance opens directly into the living room.
She is actually basing her experiences on college life in Ohio,
It's frustrating to watch the German lady make assumptions about American homes based on her experience. She must not get out much. Single arm faucets have been a thing in the US since early 1970's. There are more styles of faucets today. You can install any style you choose. We're not limited to a certain type. Some faucets styles are chosen to match the style of the bathroom. I see more single arm faucets still today. As far as push button flushing toilets go you can have that type if you want it. There are automatic flushing toilets also. There are many types of toilets and many sizes and heights. Same thing with windows. Maybe she should visit a Lowe's or Home Depot.
We are currently building a house here in Maine. All of the floors will be either red oak, 1" thick and 2.25" wide tongue and groove, with the kitchen/dining room, bathrooms, and foyer being ceramic tile. The second floor, which is basically a 16x40' attic with windows on the gable ends will be the cheap laminate flooring. There is a large front and back porch, and our yard amounts to a regular yard, but we have 18 acres of mostly forest with thousands of trees. There are a few streams across our property, one of them with trout.
The one thing I absolutely love about where we are in Maine is that you can actually safely drink from the streams flowing across our property. We're originally from Pennsylvania and if you drink from the streams there you would get very sick, very fast. We love Maine, which is why we are building here, it's mountainous, 90% forested, and absolutely beautiful. Land is also very affordable, unless you're out by the coast.
This girl is showing her lack of traveling within the U.S. - living rooms come both open and closed, we also have windows that have blinds inside of them ( they just normally are not standard when you buy a home).
I’ ve never lived in a home my 48 years that didn’t have just one combination faucet ( meaning one to control the water temperature). A lot of really old homes might have two handles. Also we’ve had hand held Shower heads here as far back as I can remember but they are not standard in apartments.
As far as toilets, we also have both types push button flush or lever flush as well as other fancier options, we have way more window options than she’s showing as well. I feel like she might be showing what’s more standard in apartments? ( Maybe she only hangs out in a 10 mile radius of Ohio? 🤷♀️
I’d rather have a bit more water in my toilet since I’m the one who cleans it-gross!
Nah- here it’s cheaper to have gas stoves, especially it hot areas, you’re already paying to run the A/C and when you cook you’re gonna have a huuuge electric bill! Plus I find it easier to control the temp with gas than electric stoves.
Just my observations living here my whole life😂👍
The German girl is very pro-german if you watch some of her videos she always seems to try to make it look like Germany is better
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Windows with blinds in them look cheap, and if the blinds get messed up inside, your window is broken forever. They are not popular in expensive homes, at all.
You can get an detachable showerhead in America, if you dont have it in your home then just install one
I’m going to Texas in April to see the total eclipse! You should come then, too!
I don’t understand why she even lives in the US part time when all she does is complain about how things are different, and don’t measure up. 🤷♀️
I know!! She's really preachy about it too!! I'd like to see her go through a few summer days of 113 F (43 C) without AC!! Munich is further north so it doesn't get as hot, therefore less need for AC. She thinks we don't recycle at all....she thinks there are no bad neighborhoods in Germany... (lmao)....argh. She's hot, but I had to unsubscribe from her channel. 😲
Yeah, Germany kinda sucks.
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"Yeah, Germany kinda sucks."
I wouldn't say that...the point is more that the USA does not suck and is a great country. 🙂
Most American faucets have one handle to operate the hot and cold flow of water. Some faucets in older homes may be double handled one operating hot and the other operating cold, like those in the UK.
In the US you will virtually always see a single exit point for the water, but two handles to adjust temperature is not uncommon, at least in bathrooms. I think it's about 50/50 between that and a single handle, but I'm not sure about that. Kitchen sinks almost always have a single handle in my experience.
Kitchen sinks have the one lever so you can turn it on with your elbow or wrist, when your hands are covered in food. Without that, you would have to constantly clean the faucet, every time you use your kitchen and touch food.
I always enjoy the time spent with the two of you. You’re joyful people. Thank you.
My front door opens into a hallway here in Texas. I’ve never owned a home where the front door was in the living room.
P.S. for the Germans that think we use AC too much, come live here in Texas where we have had summers with 100+ days in a row over 100 degrees. It isn’t uncommon to be in the upper 90’s at midnight. ✌🏼
The German woman is mistaken, she must've been staying in an very very old building when she first visited the United States because she said that American doors in homes (I'm talking about the main entrance/front door) are much thinner than doors of German homes and that there's no seal on the front door main entrance of American homes whereas German homes do have seals. She is completely incorrect about no seal around the door. All exterior doors of American homes have seals as well as the window frames do too. Of course there are some homes as I previously said that are very old and the owners haven't made improvements to modernize and insulate most likely due to the costs involved. Some Americans build Custom Homes which way surpass the thicknesses of walls and doors of an average home whether American or German. There are some rather wealthy people that build to suit themselves exquisitely in the United States, and owners of more moderate type houses and other living quarters such as motels and such tend to be the structures that would more fit "Feli" German lady's statements.
Feli tends to make a lot of generalizations in her videos. This video shows she has had very limited access to different homes. We have radiator heaters, windows that open and close in a myriad of ways. Ceiling fans rotate clockwise in the summer and counter-clockwise in the winter. Just move the switch. Homes have many different floor plans. Many houses have foyers. Newer homes are tending to have small sitting rooms in lieu of living rooms and they have large, open areas for the kitchen, dining and family room. People tend to gather in those areas more than living rooms. We have shower wands. The best ones are from Water Pic. This girl lives in Cincinnati, Ohio which is a small city, comparably speaking. Ohio culture is different from many other states ( I have relatives that live there. ) I hope she gets out of podunk Ohio and visits other parts of the country.
I know, right??? She has a preachy attitude about it too!! Oh, you guys overdo the AC. Ok, Feli, come here for a few days when it's 113 F and tell me how we overdo the AC. ((roll eyes at her))
Most houses have a family room in addition to a living room.
In 65 years all the doors I grew up with had seals. The lock she is talking about where the key doesn’t come out is a “deadbolt”. That’s added security not the main lock. We also have locks that you don’t need a key to lock it from the outside. The only problem with those is you can lock yourself outside easily. We also have all the windows they have in Germany. It must be the area she lives in. As far as showers we have had the shower heads on hoses for over 30 years. We have the single lever faucets in the bathroom. It’s just a preference. The old style burner coils on stoves are cheaper to buy for landlords and break less. We have more carpeting because it’s more comfortable and warm.
We have a foyer on the addition to our house, which was built in 1824. The original part of the house (which was built in 1745,)the front door opens right into the main what would have been the living area at the time, but is now a formal dining room.
American here. Most American homes DO have a foyer. Only the low cost homes or apartments open up into the living room. And yes, we like our foyers to be roomy. Boxy homes are OUT, here.
What she is comparing to is what is in Ohio. It is probably close to all the North East. But not everything is what is "American". Just like everything else, it depends on where you are and what companies have done the best job selling their products. Kohler is big in the bathroom game, but so is American Standard. But there are other companies that are moving up in the game and becoming what people want in their homes. Heating and cooling depends on where you live and very few homes have air ducts big enough for a person to climb through (see office building vents). And exteriors often depend on materials available and traditions. [Lots of Californian homes are made with stucco. Brick is big where brick is available cheaply. Etc.]
James should be able to look into building standards all over the UK. They are going to vary by what is available and what has "always been done." As our horizons broaden, what people want in their homes is going to change. Even in Germany.
99% of US houses do not have dumb waiters those are from a bi-gone era 1800’s Most businesses now use what is called a “freight elevator”
In the US u can go to the store an purchase what ever sink handles u want single or double doesn’t matter it’s each person’s personal preference, changing them isn’t hard.
Electric or gas range is also a personal preference if your building your house that’s when u choose which one u want. Gas is more efficient and heats faster. With extremely high electric bills gas is the way to go.
I’m so excited for y’all to come to ‘Merica
In many, if not all American municipalities, you can't legally call a room a bedroom if it doesn't have a closet.
America used to do separate hot/cold faucets but, with better water purification, hot water was also potable. They were combined into a single faucet, allowing temperature control. You may find single levered faucets, they're increasingly common but separate levers for one faucet is also a regular occurrence.
A lot of this video was of old American construction !