European Reacts to Inside the Home: Europe vs. USA 

Every home I have lived in had a detachable shower head. If it didn't when we moved in, we changed it to a detachable head right away. She hasn't been in many homes obviously.

A lot of the things the German girl is reporting is just her Cincinnati, Ohio experience where she's obviously lived in older homes.

she has been inside maybe like 5 American homes to draw these conclusions from. she is wrong on a lot of her assumptions.

The door seals she refers to are typically built into the door frame in America instead of on the door, you would have a hard time finding an exterior door here without a seal. There is no real need for seals on interior doors.

Where do I begin? Let's start at the beginning of her video. First, our front doors have insulation or "weather stripping" on the door frame, not the door. ALL of our external doors. When you come in, there are very often vestibules, where you take off your shoes. boots, etc. We're also big on security, so we often have one key lock in the doorknob and a deadbolt lock. As to the open concept, actually, many newer homes are doing away with it because a lot of people (including me) are tired of it and want to go back to separate rooms which my house has. That vent she showed has got to be from a very old house because you'd never find one like that anywhere else. Those ceiling fans run in both directions. One is to push the heat back down into the room and one is to push the cool air down. And if you hung from one, you'd pull it out of the ceiling. As to the windows, some go up and down, some go side to side. and yes, we even have the ones that slant out in some older homes. As with the doors, there is insulation in the window frames and our windows are double or triple paned with gas between for the best insulation. Our blinds, if we have them are INSIDE. And we have our windows open a lot too. We, unlike many countries, have screens to keep bugs out. Yes, we have closets in every bedroom. Often huge walk in closets as big as a room. In many states, it's illegal to call a room a bedroom if you are trying to rent or sell the house unless it has a closet. We have light switches (often 2-4 on one switch plate), buttons and knobs for dimming. The stationary shower head is more common in older homes and even they usually have replaced them. My bathrooms have handheld and a rain shower on the ceiling. Many bathrooms here have multiple showers around the walls. We have BOTH kinds of faucets, depending on what kind you like. Of course our freezers have a separate door from the fridge! You don't want your freezer open every time you open the fridge. What a waste of electricity! Gas stoves are FAR superior to electric! The heat is much more controllable on one. Turn it on and it's instantly hot. Turn it off and you don't have a hot burner. Who wants to be doing laundry in the kitchen where you cook? YUK. Our homes have both carpet and wood floors depending on the room. And also our wood floors come in dozens of shades including gray. As to darker furniture, no, most of us DON'T have it. Why on Earth would we want our name on our door???? Helllooooo privacy??? I'm sorry, but she was wrong on almost every single thing. Has she been in more than one or two houses in America? It doesn't sound like it.

It sounds like she has only been in houses built in the 1800s with no updates.All American houses are not anything like she is claiming. We have windows that open and fold down for cleaning as well. You can get varied products for your homes.

Concerning air conditioning, we have people who die every year from the lack of air conditioning here in Texas. The heat combined with the humidity is unlike anything I’ve ever felt in any part of Europe.

She’s been in maybe one or two houses probably. Everybody’s house is different. She is completely wrong in assuming this is what most of the houses are like. They’re not.

USA here. For the showers, we have just as many showerheads like the European ones. I have a rain showerhead with a handheld portion for cleaning the tub and targeted body cleaning.

She is living in places in the USA that haven't done modern renovations. We have the same modernizations in the USA that she speaks about in Germany.

She needs to visit a home improvement store like Lowe's or Home Depot. She will be amazed by the variety of showerheads, toilets, faucets, windows, doors, etc. that are available! Or, she should go to Open Houses and see for herself how actual Americans live.

"Americans like to complain" about lack of bug screens? Yeah, we're not too crazy about mosquito borne illnesses. Or giant flying roaches.

I've never heard anyone say that Americans are wealthy because we have closets lol. As houses improve over time so does the design. At some point American houses started being built with closets, it has nothing to do with wealth.

A lot of these issues are more old house versus new house. Not so much Europe versus the United States.

The house she’s showing is really old. I’ve never seen an AC vent like she’s showing

We have detachable shower heads. Our lighting also has dimmer switches to pick our lighting. We have both kinds of bathroom faucets. I guess she had to put us down somehow. For someone visiting since 2010 either she hasn’t been in many homes or out right lying.

I have never seen an AC vent like that! That has got to be an older Home because they normally are small and either come from the top of the wall or from the floor and there is a little switch on it to open and close it so if you’re too cold, you can just flip the switch And the air travels to other rooms and yes, there’s a unit outside n it’s like a big box that controls your heat and your air conditioning and it’s literally just a flip up the switch on that thermometer on the wall and you pick your temperature and that’s the temperature your house is going to get, it takes about 10 minutes to cool or heat your entire house down with it

The switches are pretty strong. We also have the tilt style switches. We have ones that have two, three or four switches to control different areas. They may also have a dimmer on them to control the light strength.

An integrated system is called HVAC [Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning]. The air vent she shows is from a VERY antiquated system, probably in a very old home that originally had a coal-fired hot air system. Modern Ventilation ducts are small and unobtrusive. No doubt, she means well, but she's careless with facts. She is a nice person, but she is presenting her limited personal observations as factual construction details found in EVERY home in the US. While she may be relating accurate descriptions of homes she has visited, she has NOT visited all 144 MILLION homes in the US. This is NOT the first video in which she has presented her own experiences as being representative of the ENTIRE United States.

I grew up in the farmhouse that was built by my grandfather and great grandfather when my father was an infant, more than 100 years ago. The house has 5 bedrooms, and even in an American house that old, EVERY ONE of the bedrooms had a built in closet. I currently live in an apartment that is about 50 years old. The faucets have a single dial to control the temperature. It doesn't have built in air-conditioning, so i put a window air conditioner in my room. As soon as it cools off outside during the summer, i open windows on both ends of the apartment, and turn on box fans in front of them. That usually keeps things cool enough, wven without AC, Her opinions seem to be based on older homes that haven't been updated.

She's showing some things that older homes have, such as the windows, air vents, door seals, shower heads and when she talked about insulation. Even though our windows mainly do slide up and down, there are windows that open in different ways as well and most newer windows like the ones I have in my home can be tilted in to be able to clean the outside of the windows while not having to remove the bug screen.

When she posted this video on her channel, she got a lot of comments from Americans who disagreed with her assessments. At the end of the day, you will not find uniformity among American houses across the country. That said, Americans do tend to have larger refrigerators, air conditioning across much of the country in places that are hot and humid in the Summer, and closets built into every bedroom. In fact, you cannot legally call a room a bedroom if it doesn't have a closet. Many of the other issues she talks about not unusual, but they are not overwhelmingly as common as she may think.

Pause all you want. If we're watching, we want to see your honest reaction.

it's more HUMID here I think. Air conditioning reduces humidity. I use to build the blower motors for the hvac units. Like she hasn't seen that many houses. Our showerhead comes loose.

Apparently Feli has only experienced older homes in 4:37 Cincinnati. That’s very limited. Pretty much everything she mentioned has numerous variations in the US.

The "helicopter lights" are not strong enough to hold a person. Another thing they do is switch direction. So in the summer, you can turn it so the hot air goes up toward the ceiling so your air/con works less. In winter, you switch direction so the hot air near the ceiling is directed down into the room, again, making your heater work less.

All of her generalizations are off the mark, from the windows, shower heads, doors, light switches. Her description may apply to a few homes, but none of the houses I personally have lived in match what she has said. Also, my home, as well as homes of all of my family members, only have the one handle on the sink, which controls both hot and cold. If it is an old house, it may have 2 handles. I also own an induction cook top.

She got just about everything wrong. Door seals, shower heads, Insulation, windows. Germans.

In the US if you’re selling your house, you can’t advertise a room as a bedroom unless it has a closet.

In the U.S. we have tons of different shower heads. We have removable, fixed, and alot of showers have multiple ways: water coming from showerhead above, water shooting from center, and a removable wand so it varies. This girl hasn't seen a ton of restrooms in America. Everything she was saying that the U.S. doesn't have, we do. Sinks, toilets, showers, they are all different. Just depends on age of home or style the homeowner likes. Our sinks have knobs, some have separate hot and cold handles, and some are just like what she showed in Germany with a single handle that you turn either right or left for cold or hot. We have toilets you flush with buttons and some are motion detected but those are usually public toilets.

The darkness of wood floors goes in and out of fashion, so it just depends on when the floor was installed. For the past decade or two, Scandinavian style has been quite popular, so a lot of people are doing light wood, but mostly straight board, rather than parquet. And while a lot of Americans still prefer wall-to-wall carpet in the bedroom, current trend is to have wood floor in the living area.

We have the option to get most of the things she says are only in Germany; many of them are quite common, some just aren’t popular. I think she has spent most of her time in the US in older, and perhaps relatively modest, houses.

I have told this person that much of what she states as fact is a lie or not true, but she didn't reply nor did she change her content. She just kept posting more of the same false statements about us. She doesn't really care if her statements are true or not. If she saw something somewhere, then "that's what American is". A country almost as big as the entire E.U., and at least as diverse.

I was a carpenter for 27 years and have torn out probably 100,000 sq. ft. of old carpet and you would not believe how much fine dust is there. And it doesn't matter how much your vacuum costs it will not get it all. Give me hardwood floors and a throw rug....👍

Andre, my dude .. Be proud of anything you work for and pay for. Change that mindset my friend. Chin up, be proud & Be great. Grind daily & celebrate rarely! Keep up the great work Han Brolo. 🙏🏼👊🏼💪🏼

OMG Europe, get some AC for God's sake. I'm 58 years old and don't remember living in a home without central air (both ac and heat), I also have 6 ceiling fans in my home. Americans love it cold because it's fucking hot here.

You can get one of those European style detachable shower heads in any plumbing store.

Bless her heart.

All the house door knobs ,ceiling fans etc she has shown are basic builders items...people buy a home & switch out doir knids cabinet pulls/knivs, replace ceiling fans well.pretty much all lighting fixtures...so you can have the exact same house on the iutside but you walk in & drastically different inside...or cookie cutter decoration. But i put in all new ceiling lights & fans. Put a brick in the toilet tank & you conserve water...born & raised California girl here learned that trick with the droughts there.

We have seals on all our exterior doors, but the seal is located within the door frame, not on the actual door itself. It would be ridiculous to think we don't have our doors sealed against weather. As far as ceiling fans, they are not only for hot summer days!! You can reverse the blade rotations so that instead of blowing colder air down, it pulls the cooler air UP! We have 20 foot vaulted ceilings and our air vents are in the ceiling, not the floor. So when the heater comes on, the hot air stay aloft as warm air does, so reversing the direction of the fans literally pulls the hot air down and pulls the cold air up. Makes it much more efficient.

I don't know why she thinks we don't have hand held shower heads in our showers......we DO!

In the US, we have double pane windows (often with UV protection) because we love VIEWS... So, the built-in blinds isn't really going to pick up here. Some people like blinds, some people like curtains or just "sheers", and most modern designs just use specialized windows that allows for nice view without blinding light or with treating your home like a greenhouse.

The first screen to HVAC is an older style used mostly version in 1890's to 1930's home before air conditioning. But it's still a classy look.

Here in the US, you can find modern toilets, single lever sink faucets, windows that open other than just up and down, lots of hardwood floors and porcelain tile floors, etc......BUT......you usually have to move up to a mid-level range house. What she described are older or very basic, newer American homes. I think she needs to visit more parts of America to get it right. And, I've had a handheld shower for 20 years.

Light switches don't break. In 64 years, I have never seen one break. However, we do have rocker switches similar to the one she showed in Germany and it is a pretty easy do-it-yourself project to change from one to the other. There are also rocker style switches that have dimmers to dim the lights built in.

25:07 again most ppl have flat top aka glass top stoves

The thing is all houses are different. Lots of older American homes still use radiators for heating. Double hung windows are most common, but windows that slide back and forth are very common. All plumbing fixtures are interchangeable and people usually switch them out to whatever they want whether it be shower heads or sink faucets.

I have a movable shower head and light switches that have the flat toggle. This girl has not spent much time in different homes. We even have mini blinds inside our double pane windows

There are a multitude of window options available in the United States that do not just simply "go up & down." There are windows where the bottom pane can be opened inwards at an angle, for ease of cleaning. We have windows in our home that actually slide on a tracking system, left-to-right, letting in a lot of light and breeze. I was disappointed that she did not mention the classic American sliding glass door, which many homes have. Perhaps she has never seen one. Tons of light. Open all-the-way or just slightly for coolness, with an entire screen-mesh panel for protection. A wonderful addition to a home. Plus, many, if not most, front and back exterior doors in the United States have locked screen or storm doors in front of the main door. An added layer of protection. She also did not mention those. Also, you can order windows in the United States that include slats/blinds within the panes. Where are the classic American skylights and ceiling windows? Has/had she ever seen these in the U.S.? (Pella brand, of good ol' Iowa, comes to mind. I have dropped a link at closing. Pretty cool designs.) Such things as window coverings/treatments are more decorative in the U.S. than what she is demonstrating as those of a "typical" German home. At the risk of generalizing myself, I suspect that the contrast in window coverings, U.S. vs. Germany, may be a cultural reflection, personality-wise. American windows and sliding doors are adorned with vertical blinds, custom wood blinds, roller shades, pleated shades, Silhouette shades and more - decorative, warm and homey. What she is highlighting as typically German feels rather cold, purely utilitarian, without much decorative aspect at all. A cultural reflection? Note: those boxy homes with the doors blocking each little room, cutting off whole rooms , whole areas of the house, from each other.....It feels like an ant farm. Give me a beautiful, spacious open floor-plan with ceiling windows, sky lights and sliding glass doors and plenty of natural light. Oh, yes, and central air . . . (Pella windows & doors: www.pella.com/shop/windows/?pel_campaign_code=PEL860268973&options=Products%3DWindows&sort=&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw57exBhAsEiwAaIxaZvKP-VvMomdEIGWz38SU8KDKI6IXXHzg2lcowHO_c5j9umuS44xUgxoCHisQAvD_BwE)

Our shower has two shower heads, one fixed up high and another, lower one that has a hose and is fully moveable. You can chose to have either one on or both on. We have two bathrooms in the house. We have a screen/storm door and then the front door. We can leave the front door open and close the storm door to let fresh air in while keeping the bugs out. We get good airflow with the windows open and the screens closed as long as there is another open window or door. Entering the house you face the living room with a hallway to your left that leads to the other rooms in the house. The dinning room/kitchen is next to the front door opening into the hallway. We have two locks on both the storm and front door one each called a dead bold that goes into the frame and then one on the door knob. They all use the same key. I can unlock all of them and then just use the door knob to open the doors. We have both a front and back porch as well as front and back yards. We also have a large garden area on the south side of our home. We don’t have a garage but instead have a covered car port. We also have an enclosed RV parking area but no RV to park there.Our kitchen has a dishwasher a garbage disposal, a gas stove top, and a double electric oven that includes convection and microwave function. I like the gas stove top because it gives better control over the temperature and goes off when I turn it off. Our fridge has the freezer on the bottom 1/3 with a pull out drawer and additional pullout sections for easy access. The top 2/3 has two doors that open into one large area and of course has water and an ice maker. We have a pantry about the size of a bedroom, in fact it use to be a bedroom which houses among other things a full freezer and a freeze dryer. The laundry is in a closet off the main hallway. Our house was built around 1950 and was built in phases, they added to it as needed. When we bought it we took out the carpet and replaced it with a hard floor. We also remodeled the entire house bought all new appliances, etc. My wife is in a wheelchair our changes were largely for her access. W the house is on one level, it has a basement but it’s not something that anyone would go into unless needed it’s more for access to plumbing, the furnace, water heater, and storage. It’s not a useable living area.

Almost all of those things are just design choices made by individual homeowners. My parents had the 'handles' on their doors but their dog figured out how to open the doors so they switched them back to knobs. Every home is different; if you're buying a 'tract home' in a development they buy a lot of those fixtures in bulk and get cheap stuff because they know the individual homeowners will replace them with whatever they want.

America doesn't open windows in the summer. Who wants to let in the hot, humid air?😮

The windows do open all the way up! they stop midway as a safety measure to avoid intruders from outside, but if you push the tabs from inside it will open all the way up. Also the screens are removable but there's really no reason to remove them.

The door has a weather seal. It's on the frame not on the door. If you want a heavier thicker door there's nothing stopping you. A lot of people have a metal front door if they want something more secure. You're right about the entryway. More common not to have one in apartments and cheaper houses. It kind of depends on region and age of the housing though. Oftentimes there's a mudroom or utility room off to the side or back that the family would use to enter. It's usually closer to the driveway. Ceiling fans can push air up or down depending on the direction you've set it to spin. You can use it to draw heat up or push it down. It's not just for summer. The air doesn't circulate because the rooms haven't been built to allow it. In old houses in the South you will find tall ceilings and transom windows above all the doors in every room that can be opened. They will usually have a hall going through the entire house that you can open either side to allow air to pass through. With AC we don't generally build for outside airflow anymore. You can tell she rents and lives inside the city in older homes because things like showerheads you're meant to replace yourself. They have the cheap builder grade ones installed when you move in. We've always installed the detachable kind. You're not doing it better, she just doesn't know better. Similarly the vent styles and locations aren't usually like that. The tank on that toilet is cracked. There's a lot of signs of old and cheap housing in her video comparisons. Carpet is always used in rentals and cheap homes. You see both style faucet controls in the US, but you're more likely to get the singular one in the kitchen or a bathtub. Coil stoves are most common in rentals, my mom has the flat surface kind. Gas has been the go to option for stoves for people who care, but induction is the superior option.

The strips are not on the doors they are on the door frames. The air vents are usually much smaller than that they're in the ceiling mostly. The events about a 6 by 12 inches. They may have thicker walls in Europe but the US uses a very efficient insulation in their walls to make up for the thickness. And most houses have ceiling fans especially living room and bedrooms. And windows open up all types of ways they come in all shapes and sizes and designs some of them have no frames some of them have many panels. In order for you to claim it as a bedroom it has to have a closet and a window. America uses all types of shower heads not just the one. Definitely prefer gas over any type of electric.

In America we also have air circulators that when you open a window you just flip a switch and turn on a fan in the attic which pulls air in from the windows. Not many houses have them but rich homes do and they're amazing.

A bedroom can only be called a bedroom (legally, for sale) unless it has 1. Closet, 2. Window (to escape) 3. Door (privacy). Lots of people have "offices" in their homes with small closets so they can technically call it a bedroom.

Many people replace the fixed head shower with one that has a ha bynd held attachment The excess water in the toilet means you don't have to clean it every time you use it (no skid marks) Not all homes have one vent for AC and heating, older homes with hot water based heating have AC vents in ceiling

Houses in the USA that are built nowadays usually have windows that also tilt and the phone controlled blinds are often in the middle of the window so they don't get dirty. All of my lights have knobs so that I can dim them. And no, even in 100 year old houses the light switches never break.

It is building code in most places to have a closet for the room to be considered a bedroom. Also, all of my homes have had detachable shower head, often both. Many places have a button flush and window seals are within the frame and have double panes.

Showerheads depend on the house. Some have movable heads with the hose, some are fixed. It's not really an issue with the fixed ones, but I do agree the movable are nicer.

It's clear she didn't go to more than a few places in America. We have everything europe has and upgraded. It depends where in the country you are in. For example even in poor Neighborhoods, we have a closet in every room and in higher income homes our Toilets are from the future..thanks to other Countries of course😂

Doors in the US. Most of our exterior doors are made of rolled steel. They often have a faux wood finish for a more traditional appearance, but much of the country is quite humid at various times of the year and a wood door would swell a lot. The locks she showed are common here, but only a very cheap contractor or a fool would install them on the exterior doors. They can be bypassed with virtually no effort using a "Bump Key" or "999 key". Those locks are NOT secure at all. You see them in shitty rental houses and apartments because landlords don't like to spend money on locks, lol. We do have weather-stripping on the doors, that's extremely common, what she showed is less common (maybe it's a regional thing?)

Changing the showerhead is so easy and simple - it's about 50/50 fixed head v handheld v a combo system

I think I have to disagree about opening right into the living room. There's usually at least a small area that's not part of the living room. Even if the open floor plan means you're right next to the living room with no doors or dividers.

What she doesn’t understand that America is not cookie cutter there are many different style of houses depending on where you live America is vast most people in the US haven’t seen any of America let alone most of the state they live in

Detachable shower heads are extremely common in America.

The front door can be thinner in America because they usually have a Screen or Glass Door to open first that is lockable as well.

Also- floors are a regional thing. Since I moved to Florida almost everyone has hard floors except for in the bedrooms. I love this. In hot weather, you don't need carpets and they are "Germy" especially if you have pets.. Not to mention difficult to keep clean. And my place has a glass cooktop and it was built in 1993, Now, Pittsburgh, where I used to live gas is very popular for dryers, stoves, hot water, etc. Pittsburgh PA sits on top of one of the world's largest deposits of natural gas. So, it is cheaper. In Florida, we use electricity , because Florida gas has to be stored in cylinders and refilled. In Pittsburgh, it is piped into almost every house except the very new ones.

Don't even touch a ceiling fan while it's spinning. It could be thrown off balance and it will squeak, creak, or click from then till the end of time.

We have flexible shower heads. The type she was featuring. If you don't have 1 you can buy the kit from a hardware store, Amazon, Walmart, etc... You just need to turn a wrench. It only takes a few minutes to install. They range in price from $12.00-$700.00, depending on how rich, or pretentious you may be.

Light switches are switching over to the tilt top and bottom some have a slide to dim the light to faint to bright

The high water toilets are phasing out. Due to water conservation, most new toilets are what were introduced as “low-flow” toilets.

US houses are designeđ to heat and cool the entire house except the garage. The systems vary depending on region and çlimate. Hallways are considered wasted space and incorporated into a room. Entry halls are not where people take off their shoes. These are often formal spaces. Shoes would be left in a utility room, a mud room or somewhere near the back door or garage. Often houses are specifically designed to not look modern. Faucets, toilets, showers, light fixtures are changed all the time. Ceiling fans are used year round. They are used to cool a room in the summer and they're used to push hot air down, from the ceiling, in the winter. If there is no closet in a room, it cant be called a bedroom.

This girl is off the mark on several things, so it's a good idea for you to look up things like various types of doors, windows, showerheads, blinds, walk-in closets, and more online for yourself after watching. Not every home is the same. A cat could try to push it's way through the window and get its head stuck. She didn't even open the screened window all the way up, plus we also have all the windows types she showed. Again, not all houses are the same, and people like to choose what style of things they want. I love and have windows that are quite long, nearly to the floor and ceiling, while some homes have windows half the length, but may be twice as wide, as in a "picture window". I want a bay window, and hopefully will have one in the house I'll be remodeling and moving into. A fixed showerhead is there if you want it. You can simply go to most any department store and buy one to install within a few minutes. Many people have homes built with one already installed. Closets in every bedroom, bathroom, hallway, etc, isn't something only for the rich. People who rely on government assistance to get discounted rent in apartments and public housing, also have these closets. Some of these people are disabled, can't work, and their only income is a check from the government, but they have closets of various sizes, too. The light switch isn't going to break, unless you intentionally use a heavy object to hit it with. Having a panel of at least four switches is very common, so are those that you and she said you have, plus dimmer switches that slide up and down or turn left to right. My bath and kitchen faucets only have one handle. She needs to do more research and update her content. I currently have an electric stove and I hate it. I grew up with gas stoves, and will have one again when I move from this temporary home. We've never had laundry in the kitchen. Even my great-grandmother who had a washing machine in the 1950s, said she kept hers on the back/mud porch, and she said everyone else did, too. As of now, I and everyone I know all have separate laundry rooms.

20:48 a lot of people have a detachable shower head. I do. Not in the kids bathroom though.

If there is a room without a closet then it’s not a bedroom. It’s a den or an office.

In my home I use my key to unlock the door if I’ve remembered to lock it going out. There is a handle on the outside that will open the door if it is not locked. This is pretty standard for all American houses I have lived in. The door does not automatically lock when you go out. My home has a short hall where people can be greeted, take off their coats and shoes when they come in. This may or may not be the case depending on the builder. The “mud room” is usually the “back door” where the family comes in after being out doing chores around the outside. The front door was kept for guests. Heating and cooling. Americans are not into suffering! I just put air conditioning into my older home and it uses the same vents and piping as the heating. No need to put in new piping. Love the German style windows IF they had screens to keep out the bugs! I put in new windows which have special sealed and screens. They are two panes separated by argon gas.

A lot of what she is saying depends on where you live and how old your house is. Front doors may be thinner, but most newer homes come with hollow steel doors and frames. The insulation for the door is usually installed on the inside of the door frame where it is less prone to getting hung up on something and damaged. Most newer homes are marketed with open floor plans, where the kitchen, dining area and living room are open to one another. This allows a better flow of conversation between the rooms, instead of being isolated in the kitchen. Also, most new homes are very well insulated, not only to keep the cold out, but to keep the heat from coming in. A well insulated home is more efficient and helps keep your electric and gas bills down.

The light switches are small but indestructible. I’ve never seen one break. Most of the ones in my parents house are original from when it was built in the 60’s. It’s convenient because when your hands are dirty, you can operate them with an elbow

I love my gas stove! I would not care to cook without it. When it’s on it’s on, when it’s off it’s off, when you turn it down its heat is immediately lower. I do consider myself to be a “cook” so maybe that’s why. When I cook at my son’s home with an electric glass cooktop it greatly frustrates me!!

I have no idea where she lives but every place that i have lived has had a hand shower as well as a fixed showerhead - and I'm looking back many years.

As far as I understand it, in many (if not all) states, building code states that a “bedroom” has at least 1 window and at least 1 closet. If it doesn’t it’s against code, or doesn’t count as a bedroom when you go to sell your house.

Fixed showerheads vs Hand Held....it's your choice. It's a 5 minute job to have which ever one you want. Both types available everywhere (Walmart, Target, Home Depot, etc). My house has 3 showers. Two are handheld, One is fixed, I installed (replaced) each one after moving into this house.

I grew up in Mississippi in the 1970s and 1980s in old houses with no air conditioning. Like the Germans we had fans. The temperatures reached the 90s or even 100 degrees. When I moved to Missouri I my landlord wanted to install air-conditioning I told him no. I was too used to being hot. He eventually put it in anyway and I have been most grateful. But i dont have it just blasting. My thermostat is set at 75 to 76 degrees all year around. Those old houses i mentioned also didnt have closet and we had to buy wardrobes.

I've seen those outside blinds in the US. I have a detachable shower head. Newer places usually have them. If your shower doesn't have one you can go out and get one pretty cheap. All new toilets have low water in the bowl and you can buy the button flush AND the handle flush. The faucet handle business is nonsense. We have both kinds and buy what we want. We have all kinds of stoves, just get the kind you like. She generalizes quite a bit. I think that air vent must have been the air intake, not a vent. I live in an old home but I replaced the old style light switches with the "rocker" type so, yes, we have those too. After reading through the comments, even some Americans are not aware of all the kinds of American homes. When building homes, much depends on the part of the country you're from and the climate there so different parts of the country have different style houses.

Light Switches The kind she showed are common, but they're kind of the bottom-tier of what's available. It's what we call "Contractor Grade" - You can buy them in bulk very cheaply for building a house. You also see that style in a lot of older houses, or in low-income apartments, dorm rooms, etc. A lot of houses now use smart switches in every room. For example, my bathroom has a motion-detector light switch that remains on for 15 minutes if there is motion in the room, then turns off automatically when people have left the room. It can be controlled from my phone as well, or with a voice assistant like Amazon's "Alexa", Google Assistant, Siri, etc. They can be programmed on a timer, are dimmable, you can set the light color from the switch's app if you like, or have it set color based on time of day. i.e. bright white 100% in the mornings when you're getting ready for work, looking in the mirror etc. But at night the lights change to 20% brightness and a softer, golden hue light. The lights can even be made to flicker like candles. Right now, if I walk into my bathroom, the lights adapt to the time of day, turn on automatically, it queues up some classical music at a low volume (or ambient nature sounds if you prefer). When you enter, there is an LED light strip routed out behind the molding around the door on the outside which gives off a faint red glow around the outside of the door so people know the room is occupied. The ventilation fan turns on, the de-fogger in the mirror turns on, and it starts a scented oil diffuser to eliminate any odors. And that setup was retrofit in an older home for about $300, and that's just the bathroom. Smart switches, outlets, light bulbs etc are very popular here. If you're in an older home, you'll need to set it up yourself, but a lot of newer homes are built with these automation features already installed and configured. If my Smoke detector goes off, my lights all turn red. If someone is approaching the door, they shift to light blue for a second then back to their previous state, so I know someone is coming. All of the switches are backlit so you can find them in the dark. Home automation is definitely taking off here in the U.S.

We can have whatever style shower-head we want! There are many options and they are relatively easy to change them out when you want to.

Another benefit of building with wood - you can snake air ducts to every room of your home, connect it to the heater (ours is natural gas) and the outside air conditioning unit (electric), and both go through the same ducts. We have yet to graduate to a digital thermostat, though. Ours is round with one switch that turns on a/c, off, or heat, and other that can be "auto" or fan on. The round bit shows the temperature in the house and the temperature you want it set to. But 80 yo houses have their quirks. My parents in Florida have a system where the thermostat will turn on heat or a/c depending to maintain the temperature you want. That freaks me out a little. I like to choose "a/c" or "off" in the fall and spring when opening the windows helps air out the house. I guess it's good if you never open your windows.

I live in the Midwest, very cold and lots of snow in winter. Yet, for some reason, many of the houses in my town have glass front doors. I still don't know why or how they became popular. Forget the weather, I've lived in big cities on both coasts. A glass door would be an open invitation to trouble, but not here. Law abiding folks, I guess. I've been here 16 years and have never heard of a crime where the thieves broke in through the front door. Maybe a lot of breaking glass would be too much noise and would attract the homeowner or cops.

The windows and air vents she shows is much older versions; the windows in a lot of newer homes are all shapes, sizes and open and closes in many positions; also all our windows have screens.

The showerhead she is displaying for America are not the only option. They unscrew easily off just need plumbers tape to wrap the pipe to seal it well and we have handheld shower heads etc. We even have ones that go above you like its raining!

It does look different, you can get all styles of vents, i have floor vents in each room, heat & cool...kinda the mist common now.

That closet that she showed was a horrible example because like I have a three bedroom townhouse n all of the bedrooms have walk-in closets which is pretty normal and you could fit five or six people in it and you can store a lot and hang a lot of clothes because they’re on different levels so you can hang them higher or low and then you put your shoes underneath on shoe racks that are built-in! I had one of those wardrobe type that just had double doors n fit my 45 inch television was n had drawers underneath for extra storage

Based on the heating/air conditioner vents and fixed shower, she is in an older home.

Those vertical sliding windows with small panes are an architectural thing. They are specifically associated with Georgian and colonial architecture. But other style have other types of windows. My southwestern pueblo style house has horizontal sliding windows with large, plain glass panes. In most US areas, the building code says you can't call something a bedroom if there's no closet. Those hand-held shower fixtures are available in every hardware store, Home Depot and so on and a lot of people, including me, have installed them replacing the fixed shower head. The amount of water in the toilet is adjustable to a certain extent with the float valve inside the tank. Single handle faucets vs 2 handles are both common and totally a matter of personal preference in the US. I have single handles in my kitchens and two in my bathrooms and I prefer it that way. Wall to wall carpet became common in the 1960s and now is becoming rare. Pretty much all recently built American homes now have wood or tile floors.

That's an old a** vent, they do not look like that anymore...

She definitely needs to review different houses ... half the items she is referring to is incorrect

Here in Texas a room must have a closet to be considered a bedroom. Zoning laws are very specific.

Washers and dryers. My parent’s home had a washer in the basement. I remember when our washer had a wringer to put the wet clothes through to get as much water as possible out of. Then my mother hung the wet clothes on a line outside to dry, or on old lines in the basement to dry. Mother was glad to convert my old bedroom to the laundry with a washer and dryer on the main floor.