A Typical American House Tour
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so we’re going to be checking out a typical American house I never know when we’ve got this right I’ve done reactions to American houses before and people said yeah no that’s not a normal house or you know that’s an upper class house so we’re going to check this one out this does say a typical American house so I’m hoping it is more of a typical American house obviously let me know in the comments let me know how it Compares is this anything like what you live in hopefully this video might be a little bit closer to what a typical American house cuz at the moment I feel like we haven’t seen something that is just like a typical standard American house so yeah it should be really interesting to check this out it’s not the longest video so I don’t know if that’s an indication that it’s not a big house just before we jump into it I’d really appreciate it if you could hit the Subscribe button it massively helps out the channel we gr but let’s just jump straight into it and press play okay California I didn’t know where it was hi everyone my name is dinner right now we in down okay this the house way of Los Angeles California what interesting this does look a little bit different to the houses we’ve looked before so yeah really curious about this now do today is to figure out what the average American house looks like so let’s go I just noticed the post box outside that’s interesting I’ve not seen them look like that before I’ve always seen them as that like kind of the long post box you get houses in the UK with post boxes like that so that’s that’s interesting I haven’t I haven’t noticed one like that before welcome welcome to my house come on in so this is the living room room uh kind of where everybody hangs out uh watch mov Sports I got sports on right now uh there’s going to be a socc Stephan is different to other houses we seen game is going to be on so I got my jersey on that’s cool um but yeah so this is like kind of the bigger room of the house where we can fit more people uh and then uh let’s I was thinking is this house got no windows the way that the camera was facing I couldn’t see any Windows Ines in it’s is this is definitely different to the houses I’ve seen before we’ll go this way first and and see the bedrooms this is one of the bathrooms okay this is our little hallway uh this is my roommate’s room he’s uh he’s at work his room just got redecorated by uh a TV show that he was on oh it’s pretty cool they came in and redid a lot of the stuff this guy this is this is my room so hold on wait let me go back what was that I see and this is this is my room is it this video must be old because he’s got like a Windows 995 PC in the background I haven’t seen a PC screen look like that for I don’t know 15 years something like that man I ain’t seen that yeah maybe this video is old and that’s why he’s got it but yeah you only see you only see flat screens nowadays but this is very interesting I was not expecting it to look like this these two like if I go to a country that has a team that I like or that I like I support I’ll buy a a a scar for him so I I got this when I was in uh I just bought this one too when I was in uh we went to went to Napoli so I got to go uh buy some some good so I’m guessing this guy’s a big soccer fan to go to Napoli in Italy and you got Real Madrid’s in Spain he’s gone around a little bit to watch soccer that’s interesting because I never think of I never think of soccer being big in America but maybe it is I don’t know so let’s go through through here I like the house because everybody can kind of hang out in this area you don’t have to wander around the house in in kind of the same spot go from the living room right into the kitchen and the kitchen is nice and big uh and and open we got a small dining table but we also have um the bar that you can eat at as well with the um the barles so um and then again the kitchen’s nice and big and open so good to cook it’s easy to get around it’s actually pretty typical in in uh America and stuff but I know in a lot of other countries especially for my traveling uh the refrigerators are quite small uh this is the lounge area so this is kind of another room just more for entertainment for people to kind of hang out I’m just confused a typical American house has a pole like that H it’s it’s kind of swaying away from being a typical house now there’s a whole cabinet on the wall there’s like a mini it’s definitely not a family home with the Newcastle couch TV more movies in here these are all the scary movies and some and and an original an original Nintendo and Chuck Norris yeah no no house is complete without CH Norris and then this is well this is the the other entertainment part stripper po so so it’s hobby like uh no do you entertain your I’m just guessing that’s not a normal thing in a house in America I’m I’m just guessing that it’s not my hobby but it it’s it’s I always wanted one just cuz I thought it would be fun we have a pool too so yeah you can see kind of the corner of the pool and my lovely dog Leroy okay let me know if you’ve got to swim in your house because in the UK you’re not going to have a purposeful swimming pool unless you probably got quite a bit of money I know obviously we have different weather uh and sometimes yeah certain areas it would be pointless it would be pointless to have an outdoor swimming pool but yeah I’m curious like this is only a small house and it’s got swimming pool so let me know in the comments if you’ve got a swimming pool in your house or if you lived in a house that had a swimming pool but I’m sure that they are a lot more common in America a lot more common very friendly but also shy this is the bathroom here the light the turn on here once I walk in yeah uh we got the wall mounted toilet so it’s not sitting on the floor the flush panels right here actually from I bought it from Germany uh good old so you brought it all the way from Germany yeah I didn’t bring it I had it [ __ ] okay Carry On yeah that would be this is a what’s called a European steam shower it has the radio that’s nice yeah right class I’ve never nothing like this and now you can see the sauna is on oh it’s a sa it only takes about a minute and then um yeah it really uh I’ve never seen anything like that before it’s got like buttons inside and it turns into a sauna that’s crazy that I’ve never seen nothing like that out the heat so you can close this up and you can just sit in there or stand in there whatever you want to do and just [Music] relax a big garage as well car and and a bunch of jumps and this is a 1971 Chevy pickup nice uh which is all pick up too but now you can kind of see the front of the truck all right so I hope you enjoyed the tour said it was quite a short video so I was expecting it to not be too long but interesting it didn’t look like the houses I’ve seen before but it definitely didn’t look like a typical American house but like I said let me know if you’ve got the same features have you got a swimming pool in your house or have you lived in a house with a swimming pool yeah I’m I’m very curious about that but that seemed more like I don’t know a place you would live if you was in college or like more of a bachelor pad it definitely wasn’t a family home I think I was looking more for like a family home some somewhere you’re going to live with the family cuz to me like a typical house I think of a family house and just checking it just now it was filmed 9 years ago although 9 years ago was people using Windows 95 I’m shocked about that only 9 years ago I thought it was going to say about 15 years ago but yeah interesting using uh Windows 95 having a swi pool out in the garden um yeah right kind of shocked about that really let me know how it compares to your house do drop it down in the comments if you enjoyed this please do hit the like button I’d really appreciate it as well if you could hit the Subscribe button it massively helps 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20% of homes in Southern California have swimming pools.
A typical American house is built of wood framing in one of a wide variety of styles. I grew up in a craftsman style 2 story (3 with the unfinished basement,)
Halfway up the hill in southern Ohio. You could enter the basement through the tiny garage. (My childhood neighborhood dates to around 1920s – 1930s, you you know cans were smaller back then!) The only thing the unfinished basement was used for was storage & the washer/dryer. Whinny dad developed an amateur interest in photography, we had a basement annex dug out under the "breakfast room" for his darkroom — which, being the only part of the basement w/out windows, was where we dove to when the tornado warnings said we were in danger!
The stairs go up the back wall. A few steps down from the kitchen is the back door into our triangular lot's small back yard. Immediately to the left is the open door to the combo breakfast room/sewing room (my mom made nearly all my Halloween costumes!) The door to the small pantry (made smaller by the recessed wall so out fridge wouldn't block the window) is from this room.
The basement steps open into the small kitchen. Double sink & fridge commands one side, the small window looks onto our trianglar side yard; opposite to the sink was counter, stove & radiator. Beautiful furnace before we got central in our later years was silent for the simple reason that heat rises!
Doorway from the kitchen leads to a meh dining room, which was also my parents' home office w/ desk, phone, ledger, etc. This was a landline hardwired into the house when my panprents bought it in the 1950s. Plug in landlines weren't a thing yet, except maybe in newer builds! We finally had to get one when changing business practices demanded we get a touchtone; & the phone company technician was so thrown by the archaic technology he had to go back to his truck for special tools! (Our old house even still had knob & tube wiring — original to the house — until a shower of sparks from our Christmas tree pointed out the fire danger. We didn't know! Knob & tube was decades obsolete!)
From the dining room, you could detour the extendable wood table & go out the louver doors to the "sun room" (over half the garage length) to the front porch (other half of garage length.) Or you could hang a right & in the living room. Sofa along the wall facing the porch, my parents' 2 recliners facing each other; the console TV & stereo aside the steps going upstairs. My parents had a fondness for beige, so there were a lot of beige downstairs walls when I was growing up. (The stairs opening into railing stairs were very useful when I was old enough to figure out my folks were playingStants Claus!)
Above the tiny kitchen was the tiny bathroom & my & the hall closet; above the living room was the master bedroom, above the small dining room was my bedroom.
Typical older neighborhood built into the clay hills of southern Ohio. Circa 1965 thru 1990.
Another thing about typical American houses is that the homes are not from one point a few hundred years ago but rather developers buy land to be constantly building and developing new concepts to be ahead of their competitors. So home design changes every 5-10 years and they vary greatly between cities and states. A house in Los Angeles will look very different than a house 100 miles away in Santa Barbara. Here in the Austin- San Antonio area our hill country style homes look completely different than homes from Dallas or Houston.
I grew up in California and moved to rural Georgia when I was thirty. Houses in California are on the smaller side. Our house is six bedrooms and bathrooms and around 5,000 sq feet on 5 acres of land. I do not have or want a swimming pool. We have a typical house for our area.
There are 330 million Americans and 170 million house so just because you see one house is know why what people live in. So much variety, so many styles, and sizes from junk to huge mansions.
The houses for a typical family oriented group(mom,dad, and children) will look very different from a group bachelor pad(flat). The 'man cave' themes should be a heads-up,and this is a very old video.
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Remember this a house that single men live in so it is decorated by single men.
Yep almost all adult life
Own homes
This is pretty standard for LA California. You won't get a lot of house for the money in LA. A lot of these houses are old and small, but are getting pretty expensive due to gentrification and location of the neighborhood. The design predates the open concept plan. A lot of flippers are refurbishing these houses and tearing down the walls to be more modern and reselling for a huge profit.
Swimming pools are actually quite common in LA, even in low income housing. There is probably 3 out of 10 houses have some type of pool in the city.
California is only representative of California. It's the most expensive states with one of the highest taxes and you don't get much for your money. I feel bad for them. The weather is good but that's about it.
This looks like a rental. This is not like my homes or any of my friends places. Looks like a college kids place. Didn't even show the grounds, upstairs/basement/porches/ grounds. come on this is not representative of much. Think you got steered the wrong way, here, my friend. Good luck in the future on your channel. Peace and love, bruh, from this old, longhaired, hippy dude in the mountains of East Tennessee. U.S.A. See y'all on the next. Later.
This is a ranch style house with 1 floor. Smaller then most. You can find anything you're looking for!
There are hundreds of different types of "typical" american houses so im sure you have seen one but commentors who cant think outside of their own backyards told you it wasnt. Comment sections are the worst place for acurate info.
If you live in a neighborhood with an HOA, everyone will have the same mailbox. Otherwise, you can have any kind you like.
I used to live in central Florida in a house with a pool and large patio that was screened in (lanai).
This house looks like it was probably built in the late 40s-50s and modernized. The lounge room looks like it might have been an open walkway, or hallway, to the garage that was converted into a room and fair sized bathroom added on. I am sure that wasn't original to the house at all.
The average American house is 2100 sq. ft. This house is at most 1400 sf . Th e> The neighborhood appears by this to be cookie cutter house. The house is 1950s house built for factory worker folks and is considered by size to be for one or tw0 child families back then. My current house is 2400 sf. . We bought it for a retirement downsize> Our previous home for 27 years was 4,200 sf' .. These houses are often referred to as cracker boxes.. And for reference my houses all over 2000 f were purchased on a high school teacher's salary and equity accumulation from previous owned houses.
This is an example of a small older ranch home. It is smaller than any home I've ever lived in. Also most of the other homes you have shown are more typical of newer construction homes. You have to consider the location. That small home could cost a million in California, while that same million could buy a 4000-5000 square foot home with a lot of land elsewhere. Location is key.
Home in US are different to a degree as to different states. The suburbs tend to have better homes. Cities here in New York have a lot of older homes. Also most houses here have a cellar. Most in the south don’t. The weather has a bearing as to type of houses also. I’m in a city and live in a house built in the 1880s turned into studio apartments. Not uncommon here at all. It’s a big country. Definitely homes have pools but not common as we have a short summer and expensive to buy and care for. Definitely have air conditioners. Summers here are hot and humid. Pools are more common in states that are warm and sunny all year. One story homes are all over but are more common in warmer states as they stay cooler. Cellars are more common in northern states as we don’t usually have as many floods or unstable ground. Also some homes are beautiful but not a lot of us can afford them. I’ve never even seen 90% of our country.
As you recognized, the video was from decades ago. If that house were placed on the market today in that condition, it would be called "in need of renovation." Price would depend on location. In parts of California, it might be $1-million. In a popular hot market suburban small town in Texas, it would likely ask about $350,000, as is. In a more remote small town, perhaps $250,000 or a bit less. In an overheated market, like Austin, it would bring a premium price and then would be immediately torn down to put up new construction. I'm in a small town near a lot of high tech, and people sell out in California to come here and buy three houses for the proceeds of their one in California.
You don't have to be rich to have a swimming pool in the USA.
Agree with your conclusion. This looks like a “normal” house for college kids, or young, depending on state and city. Overall California is more expensive than most states so money doesn’t go far. We have all different types for homes and sizes and prices range depending on location however I recently read average American home is around 2,000 square feet.
Definitely the most expensive home! California is INSANE! That’s probably about 700k.
That kitchen was very nice and large compared to the size of the other rooms. Usually kitchens feel like an afterthought in a typical place.
As others have mentioned, because of the size of the United States and the range of climate zones, there are hundreds of different regional design styles and massive differences in house types. From State to State there are even more deviations from what is considered average as well.
I very much would call that typical. in idaho thats average, in California its not. Average is very dependent on area over here, and the people as well.
This is more like a clutter house
Interior wise I think this is more normal honestly, every house I’ve been in or have seen in America usually has crap everywhere lol not dirty just a lot of stuff.