Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[HVC]

Maybe. I just figured it was a 70s thing. Canada had carpets everywhere too. That and weirdly coloured kitchen appliances.

[Sheilbh]

Maybe. I just figured it was a 70s thing. Canada had carpets everywhere too. That and weirdly coloured kitchen appliances.

We did once live in a house with an avocado bathroom suite



Needless to say my parents replaced that very quickly I feel like they were designed for a carpeted floor.

[Zanza]

Do British kitchens have the appliances integrated into the furniture or are stove and/or fridge typically separate?

[Tonitrus]

Mine are integrated...it seems to be popular in modern, high-end remodels here.

[Sheilbh]

Do British kitchens have the appliances integrated into the furniture or are stove and/or fridge typically separate?

A mix. Generally in places I've lived cookers are integrated, but fridges are spearate.

But if you are renting then the white goods are always included. I feel like in Germany - or maybe just Berlin you often get places where it's just the sink unit and cooker but no fridge etc? Or is that wrong?

[Valmy]

Do you guys really have washers and dryers (for clothes) in your kitchens? That's weird.

[crazy canuck]

Maybe. I just figured it was a 70s thing. Canada had carpets everywhere too. That and weirdly coloured kitchen appliances.

Not 70s more like a 50s thing.  By the 70s I am pretty sure it was a health code violation.

[Sheilbh]

Do you guys really have washers and dryers (for clothes) in your kitchens? That's weird.

This was up there with the lack of kettles in surprises for friends who've moved to New York.

In fairness in houses people often have utility rooms like in the US....right? But almost every flat will have a washing machine in the kitchen - laundromats are rare.

[Richard Hakluyt]

The carpeted bathroom is very rare, think I have only seen it once. The lack of utility rooms is a space issue, as usua;, nearly all medium and above sized houses will have one.............because it would be mad not to 

[Zanza]

Do British kitchens have the appliances integrated into the furniture or are stove and/or fridge typically separate?

A mix. Generally in places I've lived cookers are integrated, but fridges are spearate.

But if you are renting then the white goods are always included. I feel like in Germany - or maybe just Berlin you often get places where it's just the sink unit and cooker but no fridge etc? Or is that wrong?

Apparently it differs from city to city in Germany. Some cities have very high rates of kitchens as part of the apartment, others less. It's also not unusual that renters pay for a kitchen and then sell it to the next renter, but that is very risky and removes many of the advantages of renting...

[Tamas]

Do you guys really have washers and dryers (for clothes) in your kitchens? That's weird.

It is a little weird but doesn't even come close to the Americans thinking apartments are fine without washing machines. Damn.

In Hungary washing machines in flats are in the bathrooms, probably because we have had less strict electrical safety regulations.

Nobody ever would put carpets in bathrooms though, central heating or not. Might as well just move in to a cave and grow mushrooms for a living. Same end result, less hussle.

[Valmy]

Well I guess that is true. I didn't have a washing machine inside my place until I was 32, around the time Languish 1.0 died.

The apartment complex usually had a place or there would be a nearby laundrymat.

[Richard Hakluyt]

The avocado bathroom suites are revolting........but..........at some time in the past people spent a lot of money installing them 

I try and identify the "avocado bathroom suite" of today, I think it is laminate flooring.......a ghastly compromise by people who hate fitted carpets but can't afford to get a proper wooden floor sorted.

[The Brain]

In Sweden washing machines in apartments are in the bathroom. Handling dirty underwear in the kitchen Brit-style has always seemed a bit yuk to me.

[Josquius]

Do you guys really have washers and dryers (for clothes) in your kitchens? That's weird.

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Where do you have it?
I thought that was the norm.

Though Japan's placement in the bathroom does make more sense.