Thought we'd share the layout of our flat (or 'maisonette' -- oo-la-la) and some of the little quirks we found in our little British home.
Our place was built in the 1920's. It has high 9-ft ceilings and added-on rooms (like the kitchen has a window into the bedroom!).
Our place was built in the 1920's. It has high 9-ft ceilings and added-on rooms (like the kitchen has a window into the bedroom!).
Almost every maisonette that we saw had this potentially 'awkward' layout.
Do you see it? The bathroom is right off the kitchen!
We're all thinking the same thing, so no need for further comment...
Our whole floorplan is a whoopin' 545 square feet!
It's even spacious compared with the average London-area flat. We looked at two+ bedrooms, but daaaamn -- we'd pay the equivalent of what you'd pay for an American house 10 times this size!
and yep, if you were looking, we do have a 'cupboard under the stairs' ;-)
(it's that rectangular space in the front hall)
Not really a quirk, more like an uncommon feature for an average U.S. home -- we've got in-line water heating! It was also in most of the other flats that we viewed, too. Great for energy-savings, and we never run out of hot water. Though we hope the newer designs know how to not initially overshoot their frakin' hot water temperature target!
Do you see it? The bathroom is right off the kitchen!
We're all thinking the same thing, so no need for further comment...
Our whole floorplan is a whoopin' 545 square feet!
It's even spacious compared with the average London-area flat. We looked at two+ bedrooms, but daaaamn -- we'd pay the equivalent of what you'd pay for an American house 10 times this size!
and yep, if you were looking, we do have a 'cupboard under the stairs' ;-)
(it's that rectangular space in the front hall)
Not really a quirk, more like an uncommon feature for an average U.S. home -- we've got in-line water heating! It was also in most of the other flats that we viewed, too. Great for energy-savings, and we never run out of hot water. Though we hope the newer designs know how to not initially overshoot their frakin' hot water temperature target!
The left picture is our bathroom sink. Apparently, until juuust recently here in the UK, 'mixer-taps' weren't widely available/used for faucets. So, for our sink, we get hot or cold. No in-between. :(
And what does the plumber say? ...you've got to get a whole new sink to have a mixer-tap. What???
We thought we might be on Candid Camera when we saw this little string dangling from the ceiling in the bathroom (the right-most picture). The 'handle' reads PULL, and we both giggled as we decided on whether or not we should actually pull the thing. We were relieved when all it did was turn on the bathroom light and fan, rather than dump neon green slime all over our heads! haha!
We really like our little place, and we hope that it lives up to the usual word our American friends and family have used to describe it... cozy :-)
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