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I watch an endless number of shows on buying/selling, renovating.

My favorites which are filmed here in Toronto are, Real Reno's and Designer Guys & Design Inc.

I also love Location, Location, Location, being a UK home show for buyers and sellers that I just love, the two of them are awesome together, and she is always complaining because new buyers don't like certain homes that to her, are perfect and his all so funny remarks, one would assume they are married!

In that show they show quite a few flats, homes, semi's, row-homes that have the washer and dryer build right into the kitchen.

and they do show that they have basements.

To me, not being used to it, seems odd, who would want to cook or just spend time eating, chatting etc, with the washing machine going & the noise of it, and the heat from the dryer?



here if in a home, are usually downstairs or they have a separate room.

apartments which UK 'ers call flats are in the basement of the building.

we also have semi-homes, but again have separate room.

so why are they designed this way, just contractors ways of building homes there?



thanks, just wondering why.

There's lots of reasons our homes are different to yours.

Less space is one, the UK is a small island.

I live on a street in a terraced house, in a block of 15 or so, the town I live in was a cotton town and houses like this were built for the millworkers.

More housing, more affordable.

abbey;1039224 wrote: There's lots of reasons our homes are different to yours.

Less space is one, the UK is a small island.

I live on a street in a terraced house, in a block of 15 or so, the town I live in was a cotton town and houses like this were built for the millworkers.

More housing, more affordable.


ahhhhhhhhhhh now its making sense, some seemed to me quite big there, so didn't realise that was the reason....perhaps on t.v. things do look different.

We to have some really small houses here, ours is only 1100 sq feet, 2 bedroom, which isn't much for a brick home..but its what you can afford in a huge city.

what is a terraced home now?

are you in a small town? -love watching this show for so many are in small towns and it just seems so much nicer, quieter, and the scenery is awesome!

thanks Abbey