Brit Reacts to American House Tour! 

Dang, the guy has a BMW, Porshe, AND this huge house?!? This is definitely NOT an average American home. This guy has money! 💰💰💰

This is definitely not the typical American home. This guy is doing very well. Safely in the upper middle class.

There’s a bit of etiquette to the (very common) open floor plan of American houses. If a room has a door that closes, it’s not a public space. So common rooms such as the kitchen, den, receiving room, etc. are available to everyone and open, reflective of our hospitality. On the other hand, it’s expected to have to ask for permission to go into any closed rooms

This isn’t what nearly half of American houses look like but the open floor plan is more common for houses built after the 1970’s.

It’s common to see Americans also have a second fridge/freezer in the garage for extra storage space/ drinks / beer etc

This might seem "open" compared to a typical British home, but this is still quite 'closed' for American houses. A typical American floor plan is much more open than this, especially in newer homes.

My first video with this guy!! So glad it was recommended!! This guy is charmingly adorable! Such a rarity to find a humble good looking guy lol

We have doors on bedrooms and bathrooms, maybe on a laundry room, but rarely elsewhere. A one and a half or 2 car garage is common.

This house is in Connecticut, which is one of the most expensive states to live in (tax-wise, etc). A house like this, being in Connecticut, is insanely expensive. This man is upper-middle class at the very least.

The basement in American houses are not only use for storage or for fun things, but tornadoes, if one lives in tornado alley a basement is a must.

Yes L3WG, I live in states and most US homes on suburbs don't have formal fences. When we moved in, we had no fences on either side (either neighbor)...but the one neighbor planted huge trees that you can't see through (Arborvitae) so you can't see that neighbor at all. The other neighbors never had any fences OR bushes or hedges. My husband is British and he's more like you...wanted privacy. My husband LOVES our massive basement...he has his Man Cave down there (games, bar, fridge, TV, music comfy chairs) and on the other side I have my more girlie side. We definitely don't have many doors....just doorways. In the USA we don't have many carpets...mostly area rugs. Carpets were in fashion in the 80s. Since the 90s hardly anyone has carpets...if you buys a house with carpets, people rip up the carpet and add area rugs over beautiful hardwood. Most homes have walk in closets now too. Why I think it's different is England is such an old old country with so much HISTORY! A drive through the very top of England to the very bottom of England takes about 8 hours??? From the East to the West about 3 hours??? The USA is a very young country and it's huge! To drive the northern most part to the southern most part would take at LEAST a day! www.travelmath.com/driving-time/from/Maine/to/Florida and from East to West about 2, but more like 3 days (because you have to drive around the mountains and hit big city traffic. So UK houses are usually older, smaller and more traditional (usually were build in the late 1800s or early 1900s), they have lots of doors and the garages were usually for horses and carriages (much smaller and more narrow then a comfy car). Also US and Aussie's and New Zealanders LOVE their SUNSHINE...so we have lots of windows and open floor plans are also very fashionable now. In the big old cities like in New York City....the houses (apartments) are more like the houses in England. They are older, darker and have more doors. Privacy is more important to people in the cities...if they have gardens, they definitely try to create privacy. It's sometimes cheaper and prettier to use Bushes, hedges, shrubs and trees to add privacy and Americans are pretty friendly. They want their kids to play with other neighborhood kids. That's been changing since the pandemic. This is just my opinion and for my area and my travels in the USA. Hope this info helps....and COME ON OVER! We are pretty friendly here and we LOVE the Brits! :D

This house is not typical because it is very obvious that this owner is very well to do. BUT a lot of Americans are using open floor plans, fewer doors or sliding barn doors. This is a gorgeous home with the upgrades. And Dr. Crippen is probably the reason UK houses do not have basements.

I’m 23. Growing up, my family has always had an open backyard and open front yard. No one ever cares when people are outside doing their own thing. As long as you’re not disturbing your neighbors or being disrespectful, things are usually fine. As a kid, when I would go outside, it was always normal to speak to the neighbors and say hello. It’s still the same now (at least for me it is). I’ve never experienced a neighbor just watching and staring. That’s really creepy😂

I like how he just glides by his $10,000 stove and oven. His home is nicely updated.

This man has mad money. Many Americans are enjoying the open floor concept with new construction regardless of the size of the home. Really helpful for those mothers or whoever tied up in the kitchen to be part of the family hanging out around the house. Also, this seems like new construction. Most folks would definitely install a fence, especially if they have pets or children. It's super expensive though so maybe he'll add it down the line.

A two-car garage is normal. We don't use heat pumps and radiators anymore where you can control the temperature for one room. Since we use forced-air giving one temperature for the whole house. Thus, the opening from the entry way to the front room needs no doors. The fireplace is mainly to feel cozy. This is a big house with big yards front and back. The owner is paid a good salary. Even some very rich people may choose to have a smaller home.

Its called a open floor plan basically no doors except on bedrooms, bathrooms, garage, and exterior doors. Its pretty common. It provides a less caged up feeling and allows for you to move more freely and have more usable space.

Open concept floor plans have been the norm here in America for 20 years now. If a home is closed off like each room its probably a really old property that has not been updated.

I live in the US, in a poor state, West Virginia. I live in a mobile home. We call them trailers, not to be confused with camper trailers. There are different sized trailers. I live in a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 14 feet wide and 70 feet long. My neighbor has a double wide trailer which has 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and 2 living rooms. We live in the country and have huge yards. My living room and kitchen are basically the same room so I can watch the living room TV while washing dishes, cooking or doing laundry. There’s a building beside the trailer that my grandmother used as a garage when she lived here, but I’ve filled it with boxes and furniture. My parents live beside me also. They live in a 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom house with a basement. They have a garage full of tools and junk, so they built a 2 car carport. There’s a 2nd refrigerator in the basement. The kitchen has a garbage disposal in the sink. We both have central air conditioning and a furnace for heat that distributes through the same vents. We both have carpet through our homes except in the kitchen and bathrooms. Neither of our homes have walk-in closets. I can’t think of anything else interesting about our homes. 2 very different types side by side.

This is the second video of yours that I've watched. You have given me a long-needed elbow to the ribs, to wake me up to the abundance and variety available to Americans, that even a simple trip to Wal-Mart can bring you. You are rightfully astounded, and I have grown to be foolishly complacent. Of course, you're right. Thanks for the wake-up nudge.

I’m an American and jealous of his house. 1400 sq feet and 3 bed-1bath in tornado alley with a cellar. Have a Honda CRV 😂

just be aware, this is a VERY NICE house in the U.S. and not typical of most of them. A. it's newly built, so it has many new building techniques. B. a lot of money went into not only building it, but also decorating and the appliances and other stuff inside. C. it appears to be on 2 acres of land and that can be expensive near a large city.

House prices in the US vary greatly depending on where the home is located. Reminder, the US itself is enormous. It is about the same size as Europe with a similar wide variety of climates, landscapes, and economic conditions. This would be an upper middle-class home where we live.

Our home has an open floor plan as well. If we have a, say a birthday party then there's plenty of room to visit with family. We have a small apartment in our basement. 1 bedroom, a kitchen, living room, and a bathroom. We have a deck on the back, a big front porch. It's a summer place to relax and visit with neighbors. We have a 2 car garage. BUT we don't park our cars in it, it's for storage for the crap we don't want in the house. We live on 2 acres of land. Beautiful!

Common rooms don’t usually have doors. So like living room , kitchen and dining rooms don’t have doors. His front room could also be called a formal living room and doesn’t typically have tv as it for entertaining guest. A family room or living room or den would most likely have a tv.

Lewis discussing backyard privacy and it leads to him saying "what if you wanted to be a ballerina in your underwear" is a visual i just can't unsee now 😂😂

No, this is not typical or average house. This is a more affluent household. Having a garage is normal, sometimes even for a rented apartment. Open floorplan is the preferred plan for US houses of more modern times. Older ones that weren't planned well are usually renovated to be more open. My house from the late 70s has 3 archways and one wide squared entrance opening into rooms. Bathrooms and bedrooms have doors. All closets have bi-fold doors. There is a door to the laundry room. Other rooms and hallways are open to each other. I have living room and family room (tv room). I have No garage and instead have a 2 car carport that's built in, covered by the house roof. It would cost about $20k to convert it to a garage. I have wooden fences in three spots, and neighbors built block wall fences behind me and to one side.

Open plan houses became popular 20 years ago. Some people like them, and some don't. Most houses built since the early 1970's have 2 car garages that fit 2 big cars.

I'm an American and I value my privacy. Good fences make good neighbors and whatnot.

During 80's, the open kitchen living room became popular so you could cook, and still be around your family, talk, even watch TV. Wood floors became popular again over carpet, because they don't collect dust and pet hair, also don't attract dirt so no dirty pathways develop, no stains, no expensive yearly carpet cleaning, and way better for allergies.

Pretty typical home layout in the US with nice upgrades. This home in Connecticut is valued at around $859,000 . This would be about $2 - $3 million in SF/ Bay Area of California to give you comparison. In a suburb of a major city in the Midwest it would likely go for around $500,000, give or take $100k.

Foundations tend to be regional, based on frost level. The foundations must be be below the frost level, so many northern homes have basements because the fohndation has to be deep. In more temperate areas we tend to have more crawl spaces, and southern tier has slab foundations. UK is relatively temperate due to the ocean- much like the pacific northwest in the us. Although we are far north, the frost level is not deep, so we have more crawl space foundations and very few basements.

I lived in Germany for 4 years and can probably accurately say why American homes are more open than European homes. Europe still uses radiators for each room, and each radiator has its own on/off temp control. Whereas American homes are almost all central heating and air. One thermostat to control the temp for the whole house. European houses have to have doors for every section of the house to regulate heat and conserve the cost. In America you're going to pay the same to heat one room as it is for all rooms because closing a vent in one room doesn't stop the system from running.

1) He lives in an upscale area of Connecticut 2)he may live in a development that does not allow fences (likely controlled by an HOA) 3) the room attached to the kitchen is a family room and the other is a formal living room 4) completing an unfinished basement and attic will exponentially increase the value of the home. 5) common spaces typically do not have doors 6) garages (that is a two-car garage) allow you to park and enter and exit your vehicle 7) that is an oversized lot and I'd say they paid a lot for it. I've seen McMansions with handkerchief size lawns.

As an american, we changed to a "Privacy Fence" a few years ago, where our dogs couldn't see the neighbor dogs anymore, as they kept getting hurt on the chain link playing with each other running back and forth, and the neighbor dog would slip under the chain link fence too. Privacy Fences aren't uncommon, but they aren't cheap either. As to why the UK doesn't have basements as often, I can only speculate it may have something to do with how high the water table is there? Not sure. For a lot of folks here in the states, the basement is, as others have said, safety during a torando, and where we keep our washing machines and such.

from Gerry- New houses always have an open concept. That's great for Moms because you can see your children while you are in the kitchen. This is a larger than normal house. I would think this fellow has a great job and is able to afford the best. I have a one car garage and my rooms are half the size of this guy's. I do have an acre of land which I love. I live in Pennsylvania. Blessings

This is not your average middle class house. He’s comfortable! 😊 Older houses in the US are like yours with doors (!😂), but often renovated to be open plan. Most of my friends have wooden floors, rugs in the living room and bedrooms. It depends on the neighborhood and age of the house - many have double garages, some older homes have one, some attached, some separate from the house. Lots and lots of variety within cities and from state to state. Basements are more common in the north than the south

I live in Connecticut in a house built in 1762 - no basement, just a dirt crawl space, just enough room for the oil furnace & water tank. 10 rooms & 5 fireplaces on 2.5 acres.......some people have told me the house is creepy because it is so old - I feel honored to live here and wonder what it must have been like for the other families that previously lived here & raised their families..........

Unless all the houses in your neighborhood are single level/ranch style, a 6 foot fence will not hide your outdoor activities from the upper floor windows of your neighbor's house. With woods around, it gives a feel of privacy.

Right now it is very popular to have an open concept floor, that means that the kitchen, living room and family room will be together and no door. Will make your house look more modern and bigger. Only old houses have separate rooms with doors for every room but they are not popular floor plan styles in the USA right now.

*A "front room" is like a* small "living room" or a "sitting room" where you bring in neighbors or people in to talk, without bringing them through your whole house. Usually only in bigger houses.

I love your commentary. I'm an expat Brit in the US. houses do tend to be more open plan here (built in the last 20-25 years). This is a lovely house, price/value really does depend on location. Garages are standard in the suburbs. In cities, not so much! This guy's clearly not poor based solely on his cars LOL

I'm American, grew up here in the Great Lakes Region and I agree with other American posters; this man's house is large. It's just plain big. Fewer and fewer Americans can afford houses like this. Fewer and fewer want houses like this. It's all just space you must maintain - storm damage, accidents, climate wear, it all takes a toll and then you've got to pay to insure, replace that roof, plumb those pipes, paint that exterior (and interior), heat/cool all that square footage, lawn/garden maintenance, etc. It costs $$$ to maintain. For many, it's just not worth it.

Yes double garages are normal, we don’t have doors between every room. Yes, open concept is normal. Yes that fridge size is normal. Very common to have a kitchen/great room. Some have “privacy fences” some don’t. Many fill in with plants for privacy. It depends on the water table, Florida and other places with a high water table can’t have basements. That most likely is a walk in closet. In Connecticut probably $600,000 -$800,000 depending on the city. Carpets = allergies and dust.

Houses tend to have solid floors. Wall-to-wall carpet was big decades ago but now most homeowners have been switching out carpet for solid floors.

Lewis, check out a TV show in the US (there's one in Australia, too) called "Love It or List It". If you want to see what house layouts are like, that'll give you an idea. The idea of the show is that a family is thinking about moving, but one spouse or the other likes the home they're in, but it needs a few changes. About the US team: Hillary is an interior designer, and David is a real estate agent. The couple give Hillary a budget for renovations and give David a target budget for the new house. At the end of the show, Hillary shows them the old house with the renovations, and David finds a house they could move into. The decision: love it (keep the old house with the changes) or list it (sell the old house and move into the new one). You can find episodes on RU-vid.

The upside to the lack of fences is our back yards (back gardens) blend into one another, so it feels like we have more land than we do. Some areas of the country (Arizona and others) have walled-in back yards, but a lot of people in the Northeast have no fence or a see-through fence to make the yard feel bigger.

We have a 4 bedrooms with an office a media room, an office and a formal dining room and a breakfast room, 3.5 bath, 3 car garage with of course OPEN CONCEPT! Even my master bathroom doesn't have a door (except for the "water closet") toilet. We live in over 3,100 square feet . Rooms total: 7. Plus kitchen, living room, large pantry and large laundry room (both later two mentioned are rooms with doors. BTW, only my husband and I live here, and we also love our big backyard pool and hot tub! 🩷 We are blessed! 🙏🏻🇺🇲

I lived in New England for most of my adult life and I can tell you that this house is easily a million dollar home. He’s doing very well indeed.

Once you pull up carpet and see the filth that stays in the carpet you are big on hardwood floors. They are warmer than tile and much cleaner. Allergy problems have been connected to carpet. Years ago, most floors new wood with throw rugs. Really easier to clean as well. His house is on the higher end of the average homes.

Homes here, in the US, are usually more open but styles vary from region to region. On the west coast we don't usually have basements, that's more of an east coast thing. This is not an everyman's house, btw. This is more on the "manor" scale. As for floors (my husband is a flooring contractor) the trend, right now, is hard surfaces. They are easier to keep clean. Britts usually have their laundry/washers in the kitchen but, in the US, we usually have a separate space for laundry.

I think your doors in the UK date back to a time when each room was heated with a fireplace whereas in the US it is common to have central forced air heating/cooling. Doors would impede the flow of air through the home. They ARE used to shut off private or utility spaces like bathrooms or laundry rooms.

This is higher level home than what is common. My home was built in 1973 and only one floor. We have a laundry room, walk-in pantry, kitchen, dinning room, living room, 2 car covered parking (not a garage), front yard, back yard, covered patio, large shed for lawn equipment and holiday decorations. Our stove is natural gas and has 5 burners. Our refrigerator is much bigger than I wanted but was what the wife wanted.

The Central Air Conditioning and Central Heat flow better without doors. Our homes have doors on bedrooms and bathrooms and sometimes what we call our utility rooms where washer and dryer is. The doors are strictly for privacy otherwise the heat and air need to flow.

My house is only 1100 square foot but has a fairly open plan. Master bed and bath on one side and other 2 bedrooms on the other with the living room, kitchen, and dining area in the center and laundry room through the kitchen. We have a carport. Our yard is 8 acres. We can hear our neighbors but can't see them on either side. Our vegetable garden is about 1/4 acre and we have 2 pens for the animals (dogs, chickens, rabbits, etc) that are about 1/4 acre each. In total our family has 300 acres here that have been in the family since the 1800s. Its not terribly common but several families in my town have similar. I'm in the US.

This house is not typical because it is very obvious that this owner is very well to do. BUT a lot of Americans are using open floor plans, fewer doors or sliding barn doors. This is a gorgeous home with the upgrades.

The room off the kitchen is the family room, the fancy living room. Is for guests

This is upper middle class house. New houses are getting rid of the formal dining room and expanding the kitchen and family room. More livable areas. Making it more open. 3 to 4 bedrooms and a finished basement is a typical house. And a must is a 2 car garage

The garage, the refrigerator and wide open floorplans is very common. In Texas we are all about privacy fences and gated communities. The people on the east cost are weird to a southerner. We are very protective of our property in the south and EVERYTHING is fenced. Dont cross into a yard because you could get shot...not kidding.

Answers to questions: Double garages are common in middle-America. Open-plan houses were everywhere for 3 decades, but are not quite as popular in new builds. They have no doors for common rooms; only private bedrooms, studies, storage rooms, or bathrooms have doors. The one problem people wrestled with was drifting cooking odors and conflicting noises from electronics. The noises are tameable, but more people are adding kitchen doors. Kitchens often have small eating areas of their own, apart from the dining room. Carpet used to be everywhere, but harbors all kinds of fungi and molds, so most people now prefer wood or stone as easier to clean. Large yards (gardens) often have high fences when neighbors are close.

A lot of older homes have rooms we don't use. There is the "front/living room" that is where you put the nice stuff and the kids aren't allowed, the "den/family room," where the TV and comfy and sometimes shabbier furniture goes, the "dining room" for sit-down dinners, the "kitchen table" is where most meals and informal/non-holiday meals happen. I've always lived in houses with this type of setup.

Older houses have interior doors because they didn't have central heat so rooms could be closed off. New homes are usually open plan.

The thing to know about U.S. residences is they vary WIDELY depending on income and geographic location in our HUGE country. So, yes, depending on location, many homes are like this, but many are not. It's this way in my city of 260,000 people: many very nice homes like this and many much more modest. We value our privacy but not in the same way Brits do, where you don't and don't want anyone looking over the garden wall.

Many of our houses were built with the invention of centralized or at least electric/gas heat. There’s less doors, because we’re not trying to keep the heat in when it was fireplaces keeping things warm. Also, we have architects like franklin Llyod wright who believed in open concepts.

Lots of homes have privacy fences but if the house next door has two floors, that negates the privacy lol

This home is a more upscale version in the size of his rooms, but the amenities and floor plan are pretty standard for a multi-level home. He's living very well off. I can say that if a good house is on the market right now, he has the features that most would want - no carpets, hardwood floors, double garage, large backyard, multiple bathrooms, new refrigerator style. Some homes have a wood privacy fence, but honestly if the houses around are 2 story or more, your neighbors can still see over the fence. No biggie. No, we don't usually have doors separating every common space. Kitchen, dining room, and at least 1 sitting area are usually separated by only a door frame (if that).

The bedrooms have doors and bathrooms in our house and closets of course but the kitchen, living room, and dining room are open. We have fridge and freezer in the garage that serves as an extra entertainment room. It is nice to see the neighbors, and all are welcome to approach and say hello or visit for a while if we don't have plans. Being friends with neighbors is fun. Alot of basements have game rooms or guest rooms with bathrooms and or a kitchenette.

Basements are only common in certain parts of the US. It tends to depend on how much moisture tends to be in the ground. Basically the wetter the ground the less you will see basements. I’m guessing the UK has some fairly moisture rich ground, making basement much more difficult.

Back in the ‘70s, one of our neighbors put up a high privacy fence on the backyard, and it caused big-time questions as to why. Turns out he had planted a bunch of pot plants. His next-door neighbors’ teenaged kids saw them from their second floor window and snuck over the fence and helped themselves. He was piiiisssed!

We are FRIENDS with our neighbors! If we are partying or having a BBQ, they are invited!

The open concept has become more common thanks to central heating and cooling. The closed off rooms made more sense when heating was more difficult so they focused on heating certain rooms instead of the hole house. America is VERY big and many ppl do not live within reasonable distance of grocery stores and often have no public transit options so fridges are large to accommodate food storage and cars are almost a necessity so if someone does have a garage it is built to fit a vehicle. America also has numerous regions with different climates and ecosystems so what might be standard in each state will vary. For instance states that experience cold winters have houses built with that in mind while southern states like Texas are not. It is common in sunny and hot states like Arizona to have shaded parking so you don't get burnt touching your own car.

Modern American construction is typically open plan, meaning that none of the public rooms have doors. The kitchen is typically the "hearth" of the home and is open to the rest of the house. While it's common to have 6-foot privacy fences in the backyard, particularly between next door neighbors, it's also common outside of California to have less fencing or no fencing. Garages in the past ten years have shrunk to as small as 20'x20'. Driveways are typically concrete, not asphalt. Basements are a lot more common in the East than in the West. Wall to wall carpet used to be almost uniformly ubiquitous and is still pretty common. Wood floors are considered an upgrade. This is not a typical American house. Typical houses are two or three bedrooms, have a single double door on the two car garage and don't include both living and family rooms or studies.

Basement were for tornados and washers, dryers, then also became rec rooms,and bedrooms.

Open concept has been the style for decades when possible

Yes, open concept homes are extremely common in the US. And this home design is extremely common as well. My sister’s house is/was pretty identical before putting a couple extensions on it which included a third garage. They decided to do this instead of moving years ago.

California has walls in our yards. The South and (this guy is in New England) I've noticed the yards do NOT have fences. We usually do NOT have doors inside our homes between the Dining room, kitchen etc. We do have double garage doors in California (not always). The open floor plan people have modernized their houses. There used to be partitions in older homes. Not doors per se, but walls in the way.

You know what I'd love to see you react to? Halloween home tours and Christmas home tours! I know. You'd probably wanna wait until the seasons come but, seeing what a big deal Halloween decor and Christmas decor is to some of us would probably be a bit of a culture shock.

He has some money. This is what’s on trend. This speaks upper middle class to me. I bought a home built in the 1960s because that was what was affordable. It has closed off rooms, but I prefer it it, because the sounds of the kitchen would bother me. Good reason to keep your house entirely spotless because you would be looking at it in it’s entirety. The garages are built to fit a 1, 2, or 3 car garage. My garage is for laundry, yard tools, storage, and a vehicle. I love your reaction.

Texas, many of us have fairly big houses. Open concept is a must. I made sure my house was open concept. (Only doors for bedrooms/bathroom). And nice tall fence.

Basements were created/ added because of weather safety. The homes in the midwest especially have them for when there its a tornado

American here. Our kitchen, dining, and living room is basically just one very big room all open. We can see straight across. It’s great.

What do the Brits do outside that they are so afraid that other people will see.

We live in Texas and the houses are all pretty big. We have a double car garage. It’s common with newer homes for there to be no doors just a bit of a separation. It’s called open concept. In our neighborhood 95% of the house have fenced backyards. We have green belt areas where the houses have iron fences that make the backyards visible and those homes must keep up with their yard work so the yard looks nice. There are many areas in the US with older homes that don’t have garages, and the rooms are compartmented with doors. We just recently bought a refrigerator like the one in the video. Ours has the water and ice maker on the outside and that is my favorite thing. 😂

Definitely agree that this is a NICE house, and it’s obviously pretty new. Older houses tend to be much more sectioned off here, as well, although not to quite the extent of those in the UK and Ireland. Part of the closed off rooms all the time was for conserving heat when people used fireplaces as the sole source of heat in each room. We’ve tended to often have central ac/heat, which, to function properly, really need to have good air circulation for the “central” thermostat…

Basements are usually found in cooler climates in the North and Midwest. That’s because the builders have to dig the foundation below the frost line, usually four feet deep. Since you’re already going down that far, might as well add a few more feet and gain an entire floor for a basement instead of just a crawl space. In the South and West, where you can build on a concrete slab, you don’t get basements at all.

A lot of people convert their Basements into Theaters, Game Rooms, In House Bar or Man Cave (She-Shed) type stuff. I'm currently turning mine into a recording studio/hang-out Area, with a Laundry room and like a "Sun Room" and a Utility/Storage area that has the Heating unit and Hot Water Heater and all that stuff.

doors to closets, bedrooms and bathrooms. also one to the back door/laundry room. No garage, we have a carport covered with shed. when you walk in the front door, it opens into the living room/a dining room and kitchen..its all open. We live in a manufactured home out in the country , in a trailer park. We do have a office that has double glass panes, doors.

I live in Georgia. My home is 5 bedrooms, 3.5 baths with a 2 car garage. It’s 3250 Square feet. It’s just my dog and I. I have it for the fenced yard so my dog can run. It’s an open floor plan downstairs. I like it as I can be in the kitchen making Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner with my family in the family room. I won’t miss anything.

His house isn't exactly typical but I know people who have decorated, entertainment, investment spreads. He's from Connecticut probably in law, corporate or finance and so puts effort in the project which goes with the job. Public image is important. He knows how to decorate his home for events. He's not filthy rich, but he's well off. Seems like a down to earth guy.

Basements are ubiquitous to American houses in cold climates. Since the ground can freeze more than a meter during the winter, foundations have to be dug at least that deep. Going down a little deeper to make a usable space is considered very inexpensive.

I live in a condominium and I have a single garage but some of the other condominiums that are attached and on the end, have a double garage. I live in the north east bordering on the Midwest in a very economical area to buy a home. Home prices vary a lot from state to state in different areas within each state. If you are far away from big cities and all their amenities, then it’s easier to find a lovely home that is not expensive but if you want to be close to everything then it’s going to cost more.

Yeah! I would say most houses are open concept. I’m sure the older built houses are probably sectioned, but even those have been remodeled to give more open space.

That particular house sold in 2015 for $965K. It's currently valued at between $1.3M and $1.6M. It has 3,100 sq ft of living space.

My house is 2,300 square feet. My house sits on an acre. We have a 6 foot tall stockade fence. In Texas where I live we like our privacy. I have a pool and a 2 car garage attached to the house and our two story shed is where my son parks his car. Since we are prone to tornadoes and hail, we keep our cars in our garage.

You are cracking me up. Re: Sink- "Ours is just stiff." And the garage, "It don't fit a car."

That house is fairly typical of a modern suburban house...about $900k to $1.2 million maybe higher because it's Connecticut

Our houses are usually very open. Doors are on bedrooms and bathrooms. Dining rooms are also fairly common. His house was upper middle class though . We often have a living room, which he called a front room, and a separate den or family room. The tv is usually in the den. We like a big kitchen but not everyone has a house this large. 2 car garages are not unusual. We’re much more spread out than you guys, so big yards are not hard to find.

Re: basements…I live in Texas and very close to Galveston so our water table generally is not very “basement friendly” (the soil is too moist). We do have what is called “Texas Basements”. They are built differently. Our area is built to withstand high winds (from tornadoes and hurricanes). Storm windows are also very common (double windows, you can open to cool the house during awful heat or to open to let pressure escape. Open floor plans are more common for aesthetic reasons of course, but they also provide a crosswind inside for people who prefer to open their windows and enjoy a breeze in the Spring/Summer evenings if it’s not too hot and as much as possible during the Fall/ Winter months.

When a house is built into a hillside & has a basement, the basement usually has lots of windows, a walkout door, and is called a daylight basement. If that house were in my area it would probably be a $700k house.

My American house is an 850sqft apartment. Open floor-plan kitchen & livingroom downstairs, 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom upstairs. Cheap, crappy linoleum tile downstairs. Cheap, crappy wall-to-wall carpet upstairs. One, uncovered, assigned parking spot. No yard of my own. No basement. No attic. No washer/dryer. No dishwasher.