How does a typical American house work inside?
The typical home is not only the “standard design” popular in America, but also the home that the average American family can afford. For an example, I went to a real estate website and looked for houses within a 30-mile radius around me.
I have been looking for a long time, by the way, because the photos are bad. Americans do not particularly bother to take pictures, because everyone knows about what's inside. You still have to go and watch. I chose a couple of houses worth up to $ 200 thousand, and by their example I’ll tell you about a typical American home.
The ad text 3 Bed, 3 Bath means that the house has 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms with toilets. And besides this - a living room, a utility room, a garage.
I lived in almost one of these and know the structure of the house well. On the right is a garage for 2 cars, and the garage is quite long and spacious. On the left is the entrance and a small porch. A tiny front garden, by default the builders plant rose hips there. We go into the house.
On the left is the entrance door, immediately from it there is a staircase to the second floor. In the hall there are windows overlooking the “front yard,” that is, the area in front of the house. In the first photo, these are the same windows to the left of the front door, are you oriented?
If we reach the opposite wall of the house, we will go out through the glass sliding door to the “back yard,” that is, to the back yard.
A microwave is attached to the wall above the stove, as they often do now. It seems to me inconvenient, because it is simply dangerous to drop hot from the top down. Above the stove there must be lighting and an extractor, moreover, with a fan at 2 speed.
When renting out a house, as a rule, everything is already built in, except for the refrigerator. Or maybe they are already building in a refrigerator. To the right of the sink is a dishwasher - “dish washer”. The sink itself must have a built-in waste shredder - “disposal”.
In the kitchen there is a door to the basement or “basement”. Builders usually rent it out with cement walls. But you can turn this basement into candy. For example, like this:
In the basement there are usually suspended ceilings, and on the right and on the left long white doors are built-in closets. In general, I did not see anything in basements: bars, game rooms, gyms, workshops.
Let's go back to the first floor. Here, in addition to the hall with kitchen, there are still rooms. Some have a playroom for children. Often in one of these side rooms is a fireplace, TV and armchairs.
This is a classic of the genre - a lounge with a fireplace and a TV on the wall. And in this picture is the second floor - one of the bedrooms.
Most likely, this is the parent's bedroom, that is, the “master bedroom”. It differs in that it comes with its own toilet and bathtub. There is often a double sink there, so as not to quarrel in the morning.
All toilets must have ventilation. Turns on next to the light. The remaining bedrooms (for children) have a shared toilet. Americans always try to have their own room for each child.
A mandatory room in a typical American home is the “landry room,” that is, the room in which the washing machine and dryer are located.
This room is small, just outside the door of the garage. Well, at the end look at this house from behind.
Apparently, the bedrooms here are small. On the ground floor there is a small kitchen window. They always make him so small.
There are moments that do not hit the photo. In each room, a smoke indicator hangs on the wall or ceiling. And now they are obliged to hang the indicator CO, that is, carbon monoxide. This is the so-called carbon monoxide without color and smell, which is poisoned if the stove is closed early. All these sensors howl terribly if something in the house is burning. And they shut up only when everything is well ventilated.
These indicators have another unpleasant property. When the battery starts to run low, they beep. At night - that's it! You get up, pull the battery out of it and put a new one in in the morning.
I haven't talked about lighting yet. There are a lot of switches in the house. The simplest example is that you entered the house, turned on the light, undressed and took off your shoes and went straight up to the second floor. There is a second switch there that can be used to turn off the light on the stairs. And there are plenty of such “paired” or even triple switches throughout the house.
Both houses that I described are not far from me and from Chicago. The one I mainly talked about costs about $190 thousand, the second one costs about $170. Approximately, because you can always bargain and come to an agreement.
Printed with permission. Author.
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