Features of American private houses. Interior layout of American houses Layout of American houses
Typical house- it's not only " standard project", popular in America, but also a home that the average American family can afford. For an example, I went to a real estate website and looked for houses within a 30-mile radius around me.
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By the way, I searched for a long time because the photos are bad. Americans don’t really bother taking photographs, since everyone roughly knows what’s inside. You'll still have to go and see. I have selected a couple of houses worth up to $200 thousand, and using their example I will tell you about a typical American home.
The ad text 3 Bed, 3 Bath means that the house has 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms with toilets. And besides this - a living room, a utility room, a garage.
The most common house design in the USA. Photo realtor.com
I lived in almost one of these and know the structure of the house well. On the right is a garage for 2 cars, and the garage is quite long and spacious. On the left is the entrance and a small porch. A tiny front garden, by default the builders plant rose hips there. We go into the house.
The hall in the house is the default. Photo realtor.com
On the left is the entrance door, immediately from it there is a staircase to the second floor. In the hall there are windows overlooking the “front yard,” that is, the area in front of the house. In the first photo the same windows to the left of front door, got your bearings?
If we reach the opposite wall of the house, we will exit through the glass sliding door to the “back yard”, that is, to the back yard.
A typical home has doors to the front yard and back yard. Photo realtor.com
A microwave oven is attached to the wall above the stove - this is often done now. This seems inconvenient to me, because it is simply dangerous to lower the hot stuff from above. There must be lighting above the stove and a hood with a fan at 2 speeds.
When renting out a house, as a rule, everything is already built in, except for the refrigerator. Or maybe they are already building in a refrigerator. To the right of the sink is a dishwasher - “dish washer”. A garbage shredder - a “disposal” - is necessarily built into the sink itself.
In the kitchen there is a door to the basement or “basement”. Builders usually rent it out with cement walls. But you can turn this basement into candy. For example, like this:
The basement is arranged as the owners' imagination dictates. Photo realtor.com
Usually in the basement suspended ceilings, and to the right and left there are long white doors - these are built-in storage rooms. In general, I didn’t see anything in the basements: bars, game rooms, gyms, workshops.
Let's go back to the first floor. Here, in addition to the hall with the kitchen, there are other rooms. Some have done game room for children. Often one of these side rooms has a fireplace, TV and armchairs.
Classic lounge. Photo realtor.com
This is a classic of the genre - a relaxation room with a fireplace and a TV on the wall. And in this picture there is already the second floor - one of the bedrooms.
Master bedroom. Photo realtor.com
Most likely, this is the parent's bedroom, that is, the “master bedroom”. It differs in that it comes with its own own toilet with bath. There is often a double sink there, so as not to quarrel in the morning.
Photo realtor.com
All toilets must have ventilation. Turns on next to the light. The remaining bedrooms (children's) have a shared toilet. Americans always try to ensure that each child has his own room.
A mandatory room in a typical American home is the “landry room,” that is, the room in which the washing machine and dryer are located.
Photo realtor.com
This room is small, just outside the door from the garage. Finally, look at the back of this house.
Photo realtor.com
Apparently, the bedrooms here are small. On the ground floor there is a small kitchen window. They always make him so small.
There are moments that were not included in the photo. Every room must have a smoke detector hanging on the wall or ceiling. And now they are obligated to hang a CO indicator, that is, carbon monoxide. This is the so-called carbon monoxide without color and odor, which is precisely what poisons you if you close the stove too early. All these sensors howl terribly if something is on fire in the house. And they only fall silent when you have thoroughly aired everything out.
These indicators have another unpleasant property. When the battery starts to run low, they beep. At night - that's it! You get up, pull the battery out of it, and in the morning you put a new one in.
I haven't talked about lighting yet. There are a lot of switches in the house. The simplest example is that you entered the house, turned on the light, undressed and took off your shoes and went straight up to the second floor. There is a second switch there that can be used to turn off the light on the stairs. And there are plenty of such “paired” or even triple switches throughout the house.
Both houses that I described are not far from me and from Chicago. The one I mainly talked about costs about $190 thousand, the second one costs about $170. Approximately, because you can always bargain and come to an agreement.
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The interior of modern American houses is quite simple, traditional and inexpensive in design. Here you will not find unnecessary expensive interior bells and whistles from expensive materials. The entire interior of the house is tied to reducing the cost of construction and increasing functionality. However, all interior solutions are such that they look great and look expensive.
The main effect is achieved by imitation of expensive materials and thoughtful decoration of house interiors. For example, internal stairs in houses they collect for wooden frame made of oriented particle board, painted, plastered and covered with carpet. IN last years with compliance with requirements fire safety Metal frames are increasingly being used. In any case, you rarely see in the interior American home wrought iron staircase or marble steps.
A noticeable drawback of the interiors of our houses, even the most expensive ones, is that the interior is often very “flat” in expression and color. American interior houses, on the contrary, are built on expressive color combinations and contrasts. Simple interior architectural forms, such as arches, niches, double and triple ledges, are also used a lot. Almost all houses are decorated with overhead elements made of polyurethane foam - platbands, baseboards, sockets - adding coziness to the interior of the house. Please note that there are no houses in the interior sharp corners- they are all smoothed out.
UPD: kniazhna
- The corners are not smoothed in all houses, but in new and renovated ones Lately smooth out, yes.
What are the features of the layout of American houses? Internal interior zoning modern house designed in such a way as to keep the guest in the front part of the house, which usually looks the most formal, and to hide as much as possible from prying eyes all the internal chambers of the inhabitants of the house. Usually, at the entrance to the house, there is a small area with a table and chairs, or with small sofas, where you can talk with the visitor without taking him inside the house. For the same purpose, if there is no such area in the house, the visitor enters the living room - a large common room into which the kitchen usually opens, dinner Zone and a relaxation area. Here in the same large room the whole family gathers. Non-ceremonial breakfasts and lunches are usually held on small tables either in the kitchen or next to the kitchen. For dinner parties there is a separate formal table in a particularly formal interior, located either in the dining room ( traditional houses), or in the living room - a large family room.
Often the living room ceiling has a second light, or if the house is one story - a cathedral type ceiling - when there is no traditional flat ceiling and the entire space is open to the rafters. Another feature of American houses is the almost complete absence ceiling lamps. A chandelier in the traditional sense can only be present in the living room, if the height of the ceilings allows. Otherwise, lighting is achieved by a combination of wall and table lamps, switched on from one block of switches (switches in English - that’s the difference in mentalities!) These switches are mostly one or two all-American models and at a price - even Turkish ones don’t sell them for that kind of money.
In the living room there is always a gathering area, often combined with a home theater and the obligatory fireplace. Wood-burning fireplaces are banned in new homes in California due to environmental concerns. Therefore, everyone uses gas fireplace inserts with ceramic replicas of firewood. You can see what the interiors of these houses look like in the photo below:
The floor in the front part of the house is usually decorated with a combination floor tiles or ceramic granite with parquet board. These elements do not occupy the entire area, but sooner or later they will be combined with carpet, which allows you to save a significant portion of money. Carpet is considered consumables, which can be replaced at certain intervals. The walls of the rooms are always decorated with reproductions of paintings. Americans love to collect series of images in blocks of 4 pictures in a square on the wall. Tempera or decorative wall paintings are often used for decoration. wooden panels as below:
The walls inside the house are traditionally finished with plaster laid on plasterboard sheets. The interior is usually painted in natural yellow colors of varying intensities - from light brown to grass green. Cornices, baseboards and other decorations are painted in White color. The doors are mostly white - by the way, the cheapest - costing no more than $100 apiece (mostly cheaper). Spending money on doors for the interior of a house made of expensive wood is considered irrational.
All rooms have a lot of built-in furniture, which is sold with the house. By the way, there is no such thing as a house for finishing, which is popular here. You cannot sell a house without finishing, all the necessary built-in appliances and a kitchen. It is possible - only an undecorated house. Interior decorations are left to the taste of the new owner. Yet engineering systems must be installed in accordance with strict technical standards. By the way, the developer is obliged to give a 10-year guarantee for the house he built. There was a case where a two-year-old house was flooded as a result of the nut of a flexible line to the second floor toilet bursting. All repairs (replacement of swollen gypsum board, wet thermal insulation, wiring, etc.) were carried out at the expense of the developer.
UPD: kniazhna
- Houses without appliances are also sold, but not to everyone. More precisely, not every bank and not every buyer will give a mortgage for such a house. Usually, one’s own is “adjusted” during the design process, if initially there was no or there is the possibility of choosing a finish (several options) upon purchase (most often in houses under construction that have already been sold).
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A large family room most often has an adjoining kitchen or kitchen area, more or less isolated from the general area. large room. What are the features of the kitchen interior? First of all, myself kitchen furniture already built-in and equipped with everything you need, such as a stove, oven, large microwave (sometimes integrated with a hood to save space), Dishwasher and a food waste disposer in the sink.
It is considered bad form to place a washing machine and dryer in the kitchen - there is a laundry room for that. Also, no one will ever tolerate the presence of chipboard in furniture. Particleboard is considered a carcinogen and the preserve of the uneducated poor living in mobile homes. Kitchen facades are most often made of natural wood. Countertops are made either from new polymer stones or from traditional ceramic tiles, which is of course much cheaper. If space allows, the sink and food preparation area are allocated to an island in the middle of the kitchen. Also, in the part adjacent to the living room, an additional small sink for wine glasses or cups is often installed.
Interior of a bedroom in a house. Usually there is a master bedroom, which larger size, often has its own large bathroom and access to the terrace.
Smaller bedrooms are for children. A second bathroom is usually located near children's bedrooms.
Each bedroom is equipped, at worst, with a built-in wardrobe. Lately, more often they are building dressing rooms, adjacent to the bedrooms - that is, a closet that you can enter. Beds usually have a lot of pillows. The blanket is not tucked into the duvet cover (a waste of time), but is simply placed on a second sheet, the head end of which is wrapped over the blanket - easier and more convenient. The floor in the bedroom is traditionally long-pile carpet.
Houses without appliances are also sold, but not to everyone. More precisely, not every bank and not every buyer will give a mortgage for such a house. Usually, one’s own is “adjusted” during the design process, if initially there was no or there is the possibility of choosing a finish (several options) upon purchase (most often in houses under construction that have already been sold).
UPD: kniazhna
- Rooms that come without wardrobes “cannot” be called bedrooms - they are considered work rooms and do not count towards the number of souls in a family. In other words, everything with a built-in wardrobe is a bedroom :)
These sheets are tucked under the mattress at the foot and along the edges, as if wrapping the sleeper. Duvet covers also exist, but they are often intended for decorative purposes - to change the interior of a room without replacing the entire blanket/bed set.
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Home bathroom interior. A modern American home can have from two to five bathrooms. One toilet - at the entrance - guest. Large bathroom in the master bedroom. The bathroom is near the children's bedrooms. That's the minimum. In old houses there was one large bathroom and at least one toilet. What are the features of bathroom interiors? Most often, the bathroom is combined in our understanding. The zones are naturally separated by either a shower or a partition made of glass or glass blocks. It happens that first you enter the washroom, and then inside you open another door and enter the bathroom combined with a toilet. But there are never two doors next to each other like ours. In this case, you don’t have to run out of one room and quickly run into another if absolutely necessary. There are also usually two washbasins. Most often they are hidden under stone countertop or embedded in the laid out ceramic tiles table top. The taps are either separate, like in England, or modern ceramic lever taps. The second feature is showers. There are almost no shower cabins like ours. There are bathrooms with high sliding glass doors - you can wash in the shower while standing as much as you want, but most often, separate shower cabins are built, lined with ceramic tiles on the floor and walls and equipped with one opening glass door. Toilets - most often of one type - according to California standards, water consumption is strictly regulated.
American frame house- this is one of the types of buildings when the basis of the house is a frame, which is the basis (skeleton) of the building being constructed. Frame elements, rafters, stairs and other large fragments are manufactured in a factory, and then sent to construction site, where their assembly and installation takes place.
Americans are building frame houses for many years, so through trial and error they created their own construction technology, which is based on:
- Reliability of design solutions;
- Optimizing labor costs for building construction;
- Accurate calculation of the amount of materials used, processed in the factory;
- Usage quality materials with good thermal parameters.
We can say that the frame using American technology is the standard in all respects for other types frame house construction. This design is durable and reliable, quickly assembled, functional and relatively less expensive in financial terms.
Distinctive points that characterize the American frame house are:
- Use only dry lumber.
- The design does not use timber, but only edged boards.
- If it is necessary to strengthen individual elements (window and door openings, etc.), strengthening is carried out by installing double or triple racks using edged boards.
- To strengthen the structure above the openings, the board is laid on edge.
- The upper frame frame is also made of double boards.
- The upper and lower rows of the strapping are made with overlap in the main key parts of the frame (corners, junctions of partitions and walls and other fragments of enclosing structures).
The design features of the American frame are also:
- Frame angle.
There are several options for this design element, but the most common of them are:
- “California corner” - in this case, another board (a strip of OSB board) is nailed from the inside to the outer post of one of the corner walls, resulting in a shelf being formed on the inside of the corner.
- Closed corner - in this option, an additional rack is mounted, forming a shelf on the inner corner.
- Framing window and door openings.
- Performing double framing.
- The presence of a “header” – an element that reinforces the frame above the openings.
- Double top strap.
This element gives the wall structure strength when exposed to vertical loads (deflection) and its integrity, which is achieved by overlapping rows of strapping.
If we talk about layout, number of floors and design elements, then the designs of American houses are different large area glazing and a large seating area that combines a kitchen, dining room and living room. The house has several bathrooms, living rooms located on the second floor.
As a rule, American houses are two-story houses, equipped with a basement with an attached spacious garage for several cars and a terrace at the front door.
By design, the houses of this group are: Tudor, colonial, rustic and victorian styles, as well as ranch style.
Building a house using American technology
Distinctive feature of this technology is the speed of construction of the building, which is ensured by the manufacture of the main frame elements and construction trusses in factory conditions, as well as installation using special equipment (truck crane, tower, lift).
The frame of the building, with a building area of up to 200 m2, is assembled in the USA within a week. In Russia, taking into account the specific climate and mentality of workers, the installation of such a frame will be completed within a month.
Foundation
A frame house is a lightweight structure that does not require the construction of a reinforced foundation. When constructing houses similar type in America, they make a strip-type foundation or in the form of a slab, laid below the freezing depth of the soil at the construction site. On average, taking into account the construction of the basement and external plinth, the height is 2.0 - 2.4 meters.
In the conditions of our country, and taking into account modern technologies construction, can be applied screw piles or shallowly buried types of foundation construction.
Frame construction
The frame is assembled from factory-calibrated boards 50.0 mm thick, which are mounted on a prepared surface. This surface, the "dirty floor" and interfloor covering, as a rule, is carried out using the “platform” technology, which involves laying joists and insulation with sewing them sheet material(OSB, plywood and others) on a prepared base (foundation, walls of the 1st floor).
When installing the frame, the required geometric dimensions are monitored, as well as the exact spatial location of all elements of the structure being constructed.
In the USA, all utility networks are laid inside the frame elements before it is laid, while the rules governing the laying electrical networks, are less demanding than the domestic Electrical Installation Rules.
The speed of assembly and its quality are greatly influenced by the careful study of a specific project, where the laying of all utility networks and communications. The necessary holes and other passage elements are made in the factory during the manufacture of frame blanks, with subsequent marking and designation on the assembly plan of the house being built.
WITH outside the frame is sheathed with OSB boards, after which insulation is laid in its interior. In America, they use it as insulation mineral wool, we currently have many other types of insulation that can be used in construction frame houses(foam plastic, penoizol and others).
Stitching in progress inner surface frame; OSB boards or plywood are also used for this. A vapor barrier is laid between the insulation and the slabs, and the joints of its strips are taped with a special tape or tape.
Exterior and interior decoration
When the frame is assembled, they are laid engineering Communication and the surfaces of the enclosing structures are sewn up, you can begin to finish them.
Options exterior finishing there is a great variety, so it all depends on the imagination of the developer and his financial capabilities, as well as the style in which the house being built will be decorated.
But first of all, glazing elements (windows, stained glass) and doors are installed, and stairs and other large factory-assembled elements are also installed.
Siding can be used for exterior decoration, façade panels, artificial or a natural stone and other materials resistant to atmospheric agents.
In interior decoration You can use lumber (lining, sidehouse, etc.), as well as drywall, followed by wallpapering or other finishing materials.
The roof can be made from any material that is available and matches the style of the house being built (tiles different types, metallic profile, slate, etc.).
Advantages of frame houses using American technology
Construction of houses based on a frame, using American technology, has a number of advantages in comparison with other similar construction methods.
Pros this method, are:
- Speed of installation work.
- Possibility of execution in different styles decoration and design.
- Environmental safety based on the use of high-quality and clean, environmentally, materials.
- Eliminating the need to build a complex foundation makes the work easier and reduces total cost construction.
- The ability to create an individual interior layout allows you to create comfortable living conditions.
- They are energy efficient buildings that ensure heat conservation during internal space Houses.
- Possibility of use in regions with the most extreme ambient temperatures (from +40 to – 60 *C).
- During construction there is no need to use heavy equipment and complex mechanisms, which allows you to do the installation yourself.
- All work is seasonal, achieved through factory production of components and fast installation times.
- Long service life.
- There is always an option to increase usable space houses, by constructing adjacent areas.
- Affordable cost of house kits manufactured for this assembly technology.
American technology for the construction of frame houses is a common technology for the construction of prefabricated buildings, widespread in many countries around the world, regardless of the location of the house being built.
This construction method has much in common with other frame house-building technologies (Finnish, Canadian, German), but is distinguished by reliability and timing of construction of objects, as well as structural elements, which were described above.
By writing this title, I mean a house that the average American family can afford. In this case, I simply went to realtor.com and looked for houses within a 30 mile radius around me.
By the way, I searched for a long time because the photos are bad. Americans don’t really bother taking photos, since everyone roughly knows what’s inside. You'll still have to go and see.
In general, I have chosen a couple of houses with a cost of up to 200 thousand. And I will try to comment on what you will see in the pictures. Because such houses are even very familiar to me.
Here's a look at the house. 3 Bed 3 Bath, that is, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms with toilets. In the first photo, as the song says: “This will be the front, it’s called the façade.”
I've lived almost exactly like this before. So, I know the structure of the house well. On the right is a garage for 2 cars, and the garage is quite long and spacious. On the left is the entrance and a small porch. A tiny front garden, by default the builders plant rose hips there. We go into the house:
On the left is the entrance door, immediately from it there is a staircase to the second floor. Directly you see the windows facing the front yard, that is, right in front of the house. In the first photo, these are the same windows to the left of the front door, are you oriented? There are two figurines hanging on the wall, just for beauty.
If we don’t stop there and keep walking, we will reach the opposite wall of the house and go out through the glass sliding door into the backyard, that is, the back yard.
Our kitchen was made differently, and even on the right, not the left. Here is the same kitchen in more detail:
The refrigerator is a bit far from the stove. Not very convenient, we had it next to the stove. Here, above the stove, a microwave oven is attached to the wall - this is often done now. This also seems inconvenient to me, because it is simply dangerous to lower the hot stuff from above.
Plates are now made with double oven. That is, the lower one is large, and the upper one is slightly smaller, so as not to waste gas if you just need to stew one chicken. There is one oven here. There must be lighting above the stove and a hood with a fan at two speeds.
When renting out a house, as a rule, everything is already worth it, except for the refrigerator. Or maybe they’re already building in a refrigerator now. To the right of the sink is a dishwasher - dishwasher. The sink itself must have a built-in waste shredder - a disposal.
I stole this from another house, but that’s the point. There are suspended ceilings upstairs, long white doors to the right and left—these are built-in storage rooms. Well, here workplace for a hacker it is shown as I see it. A pair of monitors for what else?
In general, I didn’t see anything in the basements: bars, game rooms, gyms, workshops. I show a piece of my basement in this video: Fizkult-Greetings from Doctor Vlad I’m not inserting it here so as not to take up space, just click on the link.
On the ground floor, in addition to the hall with the kitchen, there are two more rooms - on the left and on the right. Here is one of these rooms from the same house:
Here it is empty. You can leave it like that. I saw some people have a playroom for children. Let me note that it’s not the wires sticking out of the ceiling, but a standard chandelier like the one in the picture. It has a chain, meaning it can be raised or lowered. Either it is above the table, then they lower it. Or there is no table, then they lift it up so as not to bump heads. As long as I’ve lived, I bump into people like this all the time! 🙂
Often one of these side rooms has a fireplace, TV and armchairs. Now I'll steal the photo from somewhere else at their house.
Yes, here is a classic of the genre - a relaxation room with a fireplace, with a TV on the wall. From approximately the same house. There is also a sofa and comfortable, soft chairs. We've eaten, now we can sleep! All this is still on the first floor.
And here the fireplace is small. Pay attention to the ceiling - it is sloping. That is, there is a roof right on top, without an attic above this room. And two windows to look at the stars. In the last photo in the article you will see these windows on the left, right in the roof.
It's empty here now, but that's because the house is for sale. Of course, an appropriate ambiance is always created around the fireplace.
And in this picture there is already the second floor, that is, one of the bedrooms.
Most likely, this is the parent's bedroom, that is, the master bedroom. It is different in that it has its own toilet and bathtub. There is often a double sink there, so as not to quarrel in the morning.
The ceiling is also sloping, this is done to create more volume in the bedrooms. There's a fan with lights on top. Sometimes it is controlled by a remote control so you don’t have to get up and turn off the lights.
This is the master bedroom bathroom. Our toilet was around the corner and the bathtub was opposite. Well, maybe various subtleties. All toilets must have ventilation. Turns on next to the light.
But this is a children's bedroom. It was the former residents who decorated it this way. Of course, there are a million options. It depends on what kind of children you have. Americans always try to ensure that each child has his own room.
And a third bedroom. So, they took it and painted it in different colors. It is clear that this is also a children's bedroom.
Another small photo: the Landry Room, that is, the washing and drying machines. The author got greedy and apparently filmed it on his phone. And now I’ll steal from another house and glue them together.
You can see for yourself that the cars on the right are more modern. Both there and there you can see where the hot and cold water. The gas for the dryer is connected at the bottom. The left photo shows how washing machine stands on a pallet, under the pallet is a drain. This room is small, just behind the entrance from the garage.
Finally, look at the back of this house.
In our house the facade was exactly the same, but at the back both floors were full, covering the entire house. Apparently the bedrooms here are small. On the ground floor there is a small window for the kitchen. They always make him so small. There are no pictures of the garages, otherwise I would have posted them too.
I just figured it out, there’s a lot I haven’t talked about yet. Every room must have a smoke detector hanging on the wall or ceiling. And now they are obligated to also display a CO indicator, that is, carbon monoxide.
This is the so-called carbon monoxide, colorless and odorless, which is used to “burn” if the stove is closed early. They are the ones who are poisoned. All these sensors howl terribly when my wife is cooking and something is on fire in the house. And they only fall silent if you air everything out thoroughly.
These indicators have another unpleasant property. When the battery starts to run low, they seem to beep. The best at night! You get up, pull the battery out of it, and in the morning you put a new one in.
I haven't turned up the lighting yet. It turned out well, right? There are a lot of switches in the house. The simplest example is that you entered the house, turned on the light, undressed and took off your shoes and went straight up to the second floor. There is a second switch there that can be used to turn off the light on the stairs. And there are plenty of such “paired” or even triple switches throughout the house.
In short, I'm wrapping up. Ask if something is unclear. Here is a direct link to this house: 2461 Hearthstone Drive And here is another one on the second one, where I also took the pictures from: 1471 Hearthstone Drive As you can see, they are on the same street.
Both houses are from Hampshire, not far from me and from Chicago. The one I mainly talked about costs 190 thousand, the second 170. Approximately, because you can always bargain and come to an agreement.
P.S. And this is what a small apartment looks like, which can be obtained almost free of charge for people with little income.
At home in American style are considered one of the most popular in Russia for the construction of suburban buildings. This is because such houses have been seen more than once in films, in pictures, and, perhaps, with our own eyes. These houses, in addition to their visual appearance, differ in mass interesting features, which are most often ignored in our country.
In this article, using a photo of an American-style house as an example, we will tell you about all its features, origin and construction.
Origin of American Style
The American style was finally formed back in the 18th century and this is considered not only an element of the taste of developers of that time, but also the comfort of residents.
Americans feel much better in small private houses and believe that having your own personal independent territory is much better than being cramped in apartments multi-storey buildings. In the USA, people live in families and housing five to ten people in one apartment is not very convenient.
Also, the appearance of the style is based on religious principles. In Russia, people profess a completely different Christianity and do not think much about the design of their house, which fits the design of the local church.
In the USA, people are accustomed to being distant from others, since everyone shares their own views on religion and politics. This is a country of freedom of speech, so all people are different and you want to live separately from the annoying neighbors whom you constantly see in the entrance. In their opinion, only poor people live in apartments.
Today, American style has reached the peak of its development. Gradually improving, under the influence of changes in the world of technology, American homes have become even more interesting, comfortable and in in some cases even non-volatile.
It is also worth noting that this kind of house was originally built because of its environmentally friendly features, as well as the ability to buy materials that are not produced in the country. Today this restriction has been lifted, but residents of the country still adhere to the classic version.
Main characteristics of American-style houses
Before creating an American-style house project, everyone always thinks about what other advantages there are that are not yet known?
In fact, there is much more to them than just beautiful appearance, interior, as well as landscape design. The main features of an American-style house include the following:
- symmetry of the structure;
- low-rise;
- attached garage;
- several entrances;
- vast territory;
- environmentally friendly finishing;
- veranda, terrace or wide porch.
American houses are perfectly symmetrical, which means that there is one smooth whole structure, which most often resembles the shape of a cube. Americans prefer to build houses not in width, but in height to a greater extent, since they do not always have the opportunity to stretch the house by most plot.
A proper ratio of the house frame to the site, as well as the proportional dimensions of the walls, are considered the most convenient option for housing today.
The main feature of the American house is its low-rise structure. In general, it is not at all necessary to build houses on three floors; Russian residents also know this. No one wants to build tall buildings and then heat rooms where no one lives.
As a rule, the style consists of an advantageous layout, where on the ground floor there is a connection to all communications, as well as a kitchen, dining room, bathroom, living room and offices for work, if necessary. On the second floor there are bedrooms, as well as rooms for personal purposes. One-story houses in American style have fewer rooms and are not equipped with cabinets.
Just like any other residential plot, American cottages also equipped with a garage. The only thing is that they most often have it attached to the main structure, but if necessary additional room is not available, then you can find houses with a built-in garage.
In our country people are accustomed to metal gates, Americans, in turn, prefer roller shutters or doors that open remotely.
The layout of an American-style house is more complicated. In houses for large families You can often find several bathrooms (on the first and second floors). It’s simpler, more convenient, and if there is free space, you can use it for an additional bathroom.
Also, such a house may have two entrances - one is the front entrance, and the second is a “service” entrance, which leads to the courtyard. Americans like to divide a plot of land into several small areas so that there is room to roam, even if the plot itself is small.
As a rule, in Western countries not much territory is allocated for personal needs for ordinary citizens. That is why for centuries it has been in people’s minds that the territory needs to be zoned, which creates the effect of vastness.
On their plots, Americans prefer to create a beautiful landscape design rather than plant a row of vegetable crops. This must be taken into account when building a house, since a properly planned plot, even a small one, can look much more interesting.
A distinctive feature of an American house from a Russian one is also the environmental friendliness of the finishing. Today, more and more often, Russian owners began to decorate their premises environmentally friendly materials, as they have become more accessible both in price and in quantity. Americans love cleanliness and nice Fresh air, so the environmental friendliness of their houses was noticed hundreds of years ago.
As for the area around the house, various playgrounds are most often built here, terraces, verandas are added, and a wide porch is made.
As a rule, in front of the entrance to the territory a beautiful alley leads to the house, and the house itself closely borders the neighboring plot, separating its premises from the neighboring one a simple fence. American-style home design is all about simplicity and without unnecessary elegance.
American style room decoration
Most often, the interior of an American-style house is decorated in cream tones. For this purpose, any matching tiles, as well as other materials that allow you to recreate classic style, which gives some zest from the past.
In this matter, Americans are conservative and it is much less common to find an interior in high-tech style or in other variants. You can often notice different wooden structures, which complement the interior well.
But the basis of the composition is lighting, which will bring the whole idea to life. Over the past decades, houses have begun to install energy-saving light bulbs in lamps, but the lampshades must always emit yellow light.
And yes, lamps are an important part of the decor. The more lamps and night lights, the better. Vacation home American style can be done without unnecessary lighting.
Photos of American style houses
