The difference in every detail.
We often watch foreign films with the incredibly beautiful houses and magazines with a perfect foreign interiors. But one thing screen and pages of fashion magazines, and the other is real life.
We investigated and found out how ordinary people live middle class in different countries of our planet.
Japan
Tokyo is one of the most densely populated and expensive cities on earth. Therefore, only very wealthy Japanese can afford a spacious apartment. Most live in such small compact apartments.
The only room of the apartment there is everything: a bedroom and living room, and dining room. In the corner you can see the refrigerator. And if you climb over the bed to get to the balcony. The room is bright and well lit, visually increasing the space.
Behind the yellow door in the corridor, hiding wardrobe, toilet and even a kitchen! By the way, it has everything you need.
Spain
The Spaniards living mainly in apartments. Here is a typical residential district of any city of the Kingdom.
White walls, stone floors and shutters on the Windows — the required attributes of the Spanish apartments. Such conditions help to survive hot southern summers. But in winter they are very cold, because in most apartments there is no heating. Residents use electric heaters. And the electricity, it’s worth noting, they are very expensive.
The Spaniards usually eat in the living room. And even the big kitchen is a space exclusively for cooking.
Sweden
It’s not a house on the outskirts of Moscow, it is a common Swedish residential quarter.
The first thing to mention is the rational use of cellars: these people keep the bikes, equip the Laundry for the whole house, and sometimes even install the equipment.
Also in the basement each apartment has a here is a room-pantry. It is here and store summer tires, skis, suitcases — in short, all the stuff that rests on the balcony. Thus, they use the balcony for relaxing.
And of course, the world famous Swedish interior. Here rooms in typical Scandinavian style: white walls, white furniture, bright accents, huge Windows and no curtains.
UK
No Englishman will not want to live in an apartment if it has, of course, choice. Preference is given here to such a lovely English countryside with townhouses.
The absence in many houses for Central heating and constant saving of resources affects the interior of the house. The house is sure to be carpet in all rooms, pillows from drafts, puffs, blankets, pillows and, of course, a fireplace. And most unusual for us is a sink with two taps: one runs cold water from another hot.
The result of this confrontation, the cold is the warmth and comfort of English houses.
South Korea
80 % of Koreans live in the same type of prefabricated high-rise buildings, “Apatov” (from the English. apartment). Notice how conveniently written house number — at the top and huge numbers to be seen from afar.
Korean apartments corridors no. Even the word “corridor” may seem unfamiliar. The entrance hall has a size of about one meter on, so that the threshold almost immediately the passage to the kitchen or living room. In the hallway, the floor of which, as a rule, covered by tiles, you must remove your shoes.
Apartments in Korea are small, but always very light due to huge Windows. From this it seems that the space in them much more. From the unusual to our person, probably, only the lack of a bathtub and a shower stall that is replaced by a simple drain in the floor.
Australia
Most Australians prefer to live in houses. Live in the apartment for about 30% of the population, but this percentage is constantly growing.
The average Australian family lives in a three bedroom house with an area of approximately 80-120 sq. m. in addition to the bedrooms there is a further living room, kitchen, living room, sometimes a second, sometimes a small Laundry room, Laundry room, bathroom, two toilets and garage. Doors are usually all glass.
India
If the family is wealthy, she is going to live in their own house with many rooms. These houses are usually two-story, inside a large courtyard.
The interior of these homes — a cross between modern Western and traditional Eastern design. The lower floor is occupied by storage rooms and barns, upper — front room for receiving guests. The best room is the family an idol to whom pray, twice a day. Women’s bedroom Windows face the courtyard, as it is believed that the woman looking out of the window indecent.
Cuba
In the cities of Cuba the house is mainly concrete and 1-2-storey. Remarkably, there are no Windows. Instead, they use wood, sometimes metal blinds.
In the Cuban capital, in the Central part of Havana, the houses are true works of art, built in the colonial style, with high ceilings, antique furniture and furnishings. If you’re there, be sure to clear your home with this home in order to experience this Museum almost southern atmosphere.
USA
USA is one of the first places on the number of residential meters per person. A typical American house looks that way. Housing is for rent fully finished, maximally adapted for living, with carpet throughout the home, plumbing and kitchen appliances. It only remains to install the furniture.
The main rule: how many bedrooms, so many bathrooms. And maybe closets.
The feature of the interior of American homes is that they look very expensive, comfortable and just at the same time. The costs are minimal. As for the layout, all designed to keep guests in front of the house, which usually looks like the most Grand, and best to hide from prying eyes the inner chambers of the inhabitants of the house.
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