British Couple Reacts to Inside the Home: Europe vs. USA | Feli from Germany 

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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'm American. Our front door has a seal around it. They come standard on a lot of door frames, in fact.

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.

There are actually 3 or 4 different types of light switches that can be installed in any house situation in the United States.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

She's comparing real ilfe American homes to sitcom tv show homes. Wow! 😂😂

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.

There are many styles of house in the US, and most of the more expensive ones DO have a front entry room/foyer.

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.

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.

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.

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).

I think the one handle faucets are more common in the kitchen than in bathrooms.

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.

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.

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.

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 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…

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'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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.

Only a few old homes have dumbwaiters.

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.

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.

Induction stoves are actually super common in the US. I’m not sure why she thinks it more of a Germany thing.

My blood pressure rises every time I watch any of her videos 😄 She's just so wrong on most of everything 😂

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 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.

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.

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.

In Florida at least, a bedroom must have a closet to be considered a bedroom in a real estate listing.

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

Remember, she only knows Ohio. Nobody ever goes to Ohio 😂

We had one handled faucets 40 years ago in are house in America. Also most stoves that are electric, are glass top. Peace!

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.

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.

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.

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😂👍

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 🤷‍♀️

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.

Many US showers have a large shower head and also a handheld one.

A bedroom requires a closet. A room without a closet is often denoted a “home office”.

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

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.

In America, we have both single-handle and two knob faucetts.

A lot of homes have two knobs on the water faucet but the water comes out of the same spigot .

I’m so excited for y’all to come to ‘Merica

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.

A lot of people have the handheld shower head. I always put one in if there isn’t one already. A lot have the one bathroom knobs for the faucet. I wouldn’t say it’s more common to have two faucet controls.

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.

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.

American here, 10:27 lived in several old houses & found that as the go to heating system. Surprisingly mud room/foyer too, albeit yeah nowadays housing focus is open planning. Taps wise are dual lever in old houses & new have single, but dual is still in some new.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 😂

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. 😲

A lot of this video was of old American construction !

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.

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.

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.

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.

Single tap. The water is mixed in the tap itself. We have 2 handles for it, one hot and one cold.

I'm 65 and have never seen a dumbwaiter in anyone's home.

She seems to have gone to one state and drawn the conclusion that the rest of the US is the same. USA is the same size as Europe and it’s dumb to think architecture and building standards are uniform all over, same as in Europe where it differs from country to country. USA has almost every climate there is in one country so buildings will change depending on the climate.

We lived in Ober-Olm, Germany for 3 years and our windows were the same. Our windows had a single large handle. If you turn the handle up and pull, the window will lean into the room at the top. If you turn the handle to the left, the entire window opens all the way, similar to opening a door. There were no screens so we didn't use that option often. They are called "Tilt and Turn" windows. We really like them. She could not have been in too many American homes. She's wrong about a few things in this video.

Ceiling fans can actually change directions for cooling and reverse for pushing down heat from ceiling because heat rises

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.

Most of the houses here in the United States especially the master bedroom Are the 16 feet by 20 feet That's just the bedroom that doesn't include the walking closet and the big bathroom

Dumb waiters are mostly for houses that could afford servants/help. Definitely happens more in movies than in real life.

We also have light switches like the Germany one but it looks slightly different. We have a bit of everything

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.

Larger homes in the US tend to have an actual entry room for the main entryway (foyer). In fancy homes this "room" is often two stories tall. There's a closet and typically the stairs to the next floor are located there. Smaller homes open to the living room because they save space that way. Some literally have no hallway anywhere in the house at all.