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I was born and raised about 5 blocks from where you live and I am just surprised that there are no second levels in any of your rooms. Pretty much everyone I knew had a second level with a bed, storage spaces, or a "false attic" constructed under the ceiling.
Exactly, pretty much a "must have", if you have kids. They sleep above their desks (I did). Especially if you want to cram more than one into a room...
Why would you put second level in a flat 3+kk/3+1 that is occupied by 2 people? Just nonsense. I saw a few flats with second levels and it's pretty awful. Makes sense in small flats (under 80m) with 2+ kids.
@@anniefrankeFlats in Prague are expensive last 6, maybe 8 years, not last 30-40 years. These modifications (second levels) were always popular, no matter what the rent was.
Vestavěný nábytek nebyl v Čechách nikdy běžným standardem. Takže vaši předchůdci v roce 1850 měli stejně velké skříně jako vy. 😉 A koupelna v kuchyni také není nic neobvyklého. Možná byla právě vytvořena na místě bývalé spižírny, protože tehdejší byty obvykle nemívaly koupelny. 😉 Kouzlo starých časů. 🤷 Jinak moc pěkné bydlení.
@@veronikanavratilova1930 Tady u toho bytu si netroufám určit, pro jakou společenskou třídu byl ten dům stavěn, protože podle těch komunistických dveří byl ten byt dost pravděpodobně razantně přestavěný- měnily se dispozice, z obrovského bytu se dost možná udělaly dva menší. Ve vnitřní Praze jsou ale časté i domy, kde bylo spousta malých bytů - 1+0 až 2kk, které původně neměly vůbec koupelny a toalety byly společné na patře pro několik bytů. Tyto malé byty se pak často spojovaly do větších a budovaly se koupelny a WC v bytě. Paradoxní je, že takové domy, které měly tyto malé bytečky bez příslušenství, mívají často bohatě zdobené fasády a tolik se zase neliší od činžáků, kde byly od začátku velké, komfortní byty s koupelnou.
@@CZpersi Nic tak výjimečného dřív. Prostě ty hodně staré byty (stavěné v 19.století) byly často jen místnosti zcela bez příslušenství, i pro vodu se chodilo ke kohoutku na chodbu mimo byt, stejně tak na záchod společný s dalšími byty. Teprve postupem času si lidi na vlastní náklady dělali různé úpravy, aby ten nízký standard trochu vylepšili. Vždycky ale nebylo možný postavit plnohodnotnou koupelnu, z různých důvodů- málo místa, špatné stoupačky atd.
Dear Jen, thank you for letting us in on an excursion! :-) I think having a "mess room" is another very Czech characteristics! :-) About the vent in your koupelna - mabye there is some device above your heater? Sometimes the turbine gets broken, but can easily be replaced. Also, if you feel like having too much things you don't need, you can try to sell them on some online "bazar" on in an auction. :-) Thank you for sharing your experiences with us! It's both fun and educative! :-)
Zajímavé video :) a taky zajímavé vidět jak žijete :D u nás se tomu říká kramáři :D vzniklo od slova krámy (zbytečnosti nebověci nepoužívané léta) :D Já myslel, že Honza je Čech narozený v LA :)
Here in Austria bathrooms were often shared, so there was one bathroom for the whole floor. With higher living standards this obviously wasn't so popular anymore and a lot of bathrooms were built where there was already water supply: the kitchen. And in previous times they probably did have less clothes and those were also stored in wardrobes and chests. The wood from those wardrobes would also help to keep bugs away.
It was the same even here in late 19th century or even first half of 20th century. You mostly had shared toilet and in some cases, there was only running water down behind main door, so people had to go there and fill some buckets and take it to their apartments, you can still see these sinks in some buildings. People don't realize how modern communist apartments were after war compared to these old buildings from Austria-Hungary time. Ofcourse, all apartments already have bathrooms and toilets now, I remember one person who still had shared toilet like 20 years ago, but that building was demolished many years ago and new buildings stand there now.
May be but also in the early communists era they were dividing the big old flats into smaller ones, so someone ended up with the original toilet, someone with the bathroom, someone with the kitchen and the rest had different solutions, when my parents bought the flat I saw a lot of things, a bathtub in the kitchen and a toilet that you went to from the living room
@@Pidalin Modern apartments with a bathroom are definitely not a communist, post-war thing. En-suite apartments became a common standard in the 1920's.. and in the 1930's, apartment buildings with district heating, elevators and all amenities were quite common in Prague. The Communists didn't surpass this standard during the entire 40 years of government.
@@marcokoehler8832 Ofcourse buildings built in 30s already had bathroom, but many people in that time still didn't have even running water. My grandma has nice big apartment from 30s, but back in the day, it was apartment for rich people, there is even room for maid, normal people didn't live like that in 30s, such level of comfort became standard in like 60s, minus maid ofcourse. 😀
@@Pidalin Sure, but that were all apartments from the end of the 19th century. New buildings from the 1930s had all own bathrooms, also the apartments for poorer people.
Thank you for posting these videos! My husband, myself, our newborn and two pets will be moving to Prague in February. Your videos have been super helpful for painting a realistic picture of what to expect. We're coming from living in Beirut for the last two years so we're looking forward to more green-space, good food/drink, trains, travel opportunities and more!
@@rev.buttons2482 Waiting for a train? Because České dráhy (our main railway company) always comes late with their trains.. Several hour delays are quite common unfortunately XD
@@marieblahoutova2544 several hours are only common on international connections, or when there is a really large storm, on normal links which don’t go into other countries (or only one other like between germany and czech republic, you usually don’t get over 45 minutes
I love it, you guys are complete opposite of me. I need as less stuff as possible. I like empty shelfs just in case i will need to buy something so I have a room where to place it. Also i am telling my wife as soon as she buys something new, she needs to get rid of something old. Less stuff we have, I am happier. Great video. Out of curiosity, would you be able to buy your own place or is something blocking you legally?
Room and apartment size depends on who built it and lived in the house. If it was built as a rental house then rooms will be more modest, these apartments originally didn't even have a bathroom. Old luxurious city apartments have really large rooms, double doors.
Haha. No, Europeans do not use flat sheets. We wash the duvet cover every time we wash our bed sheet and pillow covers. In this former socialist part of Europe the vast majority of ppl didn’t even know dishwashers or dryers existed until the 90s and one was lucky to have a washing machine hence no to very little space now to accommodate these appliances. And taking off 👞 at entrance is common in all Europe too :)
Milá Jen, co se týká vaší koupelny, nechte dveře neustále otevřené, nezavírejte je a věřím, že se vám omítka loupat nebude. Prostě větrat, větrat, větrat.
I had to laugh about the baseball cards. My mom got rid of my brothers' cards and my eldest brother who is 63 years old still hasn't forgiven her. The one time he dared to complain, she growled at him, "Get over it." (She's 50% Czech.)
Oh, you have just taken me back to my first years in Prague (1986 :o)) I moved to Vinohrady from a district town in Moravia growing up in quite a modern flat with central heating and was really shocked by the flat my husband inherited from his grandma - no hot water, only one sink in the whole apartment (so no bathroom at all; we later built one in the kitchen - sounds familiar ? 😆), wc used to be on the common balcony ("pavlač"), so no heating there - we used to heat it with a kerosene lamp to prevent it from freezing over, only one coal stove in the whole apartment etc. etc. And boy were we happy to have a place to stay at all!
O byty byla v Praze vždycky nouze (a za totáče ještě mnohem větší než dnes, protože se žádný byt nedal legálně pronajmout, natož koupit) a tak byli lidi vděční i za tu IV.kategorii, co popisujete.
I also live in an old apartment with no washer, dryer or other modern conveniences. But what I miss most is a pretty basic pantry. Just some storage space for food, but also other non-daily necessities. A friend of mine has now moved into a big old apartment. When he showed me around, he showed me the first pantry - it has a 3D printer in it... the second pantry, where he keeps the components to print, and finally the third, where, to my surprise, he's currently putting together a second liquid 3D printer. O tempora, o mores
As a Slovak (born in former Czechoslovakia) now living in USA, your Czech is very good. I miss my country (Slovakia) and Czech people are my people. Ironing towels...ha, ha, ha...I remember that. I really appreciate the drier. Love your channel, I am now a Subscriber.
Thanks Jen for the tour of your apartment. I'd just like to point out that all those curtains are actually extremely Czech in style. When I was growing up in Czechoslovakia in the 70's and 80's, everyone had curtains like that. On their doors and everywhere else. Actually, your problem with the shelves in the kitchen could be solved by installing curtains on them :)
Hi jen. The vent in your bathroom is really important. Because when you have water heater in your bathroom it can brake and cause carbon monoxide poisoning. And the vent is there to prevent it. So if it’s happens the carbon monoxide is not trapped in the room and it can slowly escape 😅😅
We also have an apartment in Czech, but not Prague. I don’t know if I can get used to the limited kitchen strip it offers. I have so much kitchen things that I would seriously have to go through and really eliminate so many things!!! I still complain here how small my kitchen is, 🤣! I don’t know if I can manage!
When I came to Prague from my much smaller czech town, I started by living on Narodni. And I was fascinated by these flats! Later I was told that originally, when these houses were build, there usually were no kitchens and toilets were common for two/three/four families. I once have visited a flat on Narodni which was not after any kind of reconstruction. Actually the whole level was before reconstruction. And really there was only one toliet for two flats and there was a bath in the kitchen. Unseparated. You entered kitchen and there was a kitchen with a bath. :) Owner put only a curtain there so you didn't shower the floor. And you had to go through the kitchen both to the living room and to the bedroom. Fascinating. :D I've been wondering how it looks today, as it surely is already reconstructed and very expensive. :D
@Easy Business obyvatele toho bytu take nadseni asi nebyli. Ale co meli delat, kdyz byli radi, ze vubec bydli? Ale co se tyka hygieny, tak si nemyslim, ze je az tak nehygienicke myt se ve stejnem prostoru, kde se vari. Jen je to slozitejsi, neprakticke a nevypada to pekne, ... ja jsem jen chtela rict, ze dispozicne ty stare byty byly puvodne vybavene opravdu vselijak, jen ne podle dnesnich zvyklosti. Mnoho bytu v centru napr. puvodne nemelo ani kuchyni, protoze do nich jidlo donasela pani, ktera se o obyvatele a jeho bydleni starala.
Pračku bych dala na záchod (místo té skříňky) a do linky myčku .-) Byty na VInohradech jsou +- 100 let staré... Není to v průběhu "staletí"... Díky výhledu na ulici jsem přesně poznala kde bydlíte xD
Hi Jen, the Old Quibbler at your service once again... ;) I have a feeling for your hoarding and I am no American so no need to feel ashamed - UR not alone in this world! :D Besides people in 19th century (and first half of 20th) really kept less clothes (except for dandyish ones) but their closets were more masive than your IKEA thing and had less space for hanging inside - most things were put. And when it comes to guest rooms - in times when distances were long and transportation sparse the guest rooms in Czechlands were nothing unusual (in houses civic duty in fact) - your apartment is rather result of comunist rule as they "solved" shortage of apartments for "the peoples" by dismembering big apartments into several smaller ones (thats why there is sink at the corridor between apartments on your floor - before it was corridor inside of apartment to be used by house-maid - I think we discussed it few years ago). The style-mix of the furniture pieces seem quite playful to me - but your collection of kitchen tools really put me in awe - no surprise if U had a church wafer press... ;D Thank you for interesting video and CU soon! Keep up good work! ;)
Towel tip: adding dissolved citric acid (1:10) instead of fabric softener will make the towels a lot softer. You can buy citric acid in the Bez Obalu shops or they sell 1kg packages in some of the "green" shops but they call it "odstraňovač vodního kamene" from Tierra Verde.
The towel problem: I add plain fermented vinegar from the grocery store to the soak instead of fabric softener. It doesn't have to be wine vinegar. (It will have a similar effect to citric acid). Don't worry about the smell - it will disappear. The way it is hung also has an effect - better if the towel is hung loosely and allowed to dry more slowly. So no radiator, no direct sun. May it succeed... It's always a bit of an experiment ;)
Je vždycky zajímavé sledovat, jak lidé různě žijí. Já bych se asi brzy zbláznila v takovém bytě. Jsem už moc rozmazlená velkým domem. 😀 Ovšem teď kvůli cenám energií budu brzy závidět kamarádce, která má byt o velikosti mojí kuchyně. 😀
Tak tento byt určitě není malý a pochybuju, že máte v tom domě tak vysoké stropy. Jinak je to o preferencích a tom, na co je člověk zvyklý. Vy se cítíte rozmazlená v rodinném domě, ale je velká spousta lidí, kteří jsou velmi rozmazlení na to, aby bydleli "kdovíkde" a metry čtvereční podlahové plochy bytu navíc by jim ničím nevynahradily ten diskomfort neustálého dojíždění do města... nemluvě o úplně jiném životním stylu na vesnici či maloměstě, kde si všichni čumí do talíře.
@@marcokoehler8832 Souhlasím, že je to o zvyku. Já jsem bydlela ve dvou bytech, než jsem si koupila dům. V životě by mě do bytu už nikdo nedostal ani párem volů. 😁 Už jsem si tak zvykla na to naprostý ticho tady, sousedy neznám a to tu bydlím 5 let. Tenhle božský klid bych nikdy už nevyměnila za ruch velkoměsta. Ale každý má jiný preference. Já zase holt musím do kina dojet 40 km, na nákup 10 km a tak.
With those nice tall ceilings, you could install a pulley-operated ceiling dryer/airer. We're lucky enough to have a tiny utility room where ours hides, but you could put one in your záchod. Wet washing is out of the way, and dries in no time because, well, hot air rises! They come in different types. (Ours has one string per rod.) I thought my Czech partner was mad when he suggested we install one in our renovated flat, but it's brilliant.
I know what American homes look like because I grew up on Tom and Jerry cartoons. I know that American homes commonly have an anvil and some sticks of TNT in the closet.
Sklep. 1,2x1,2 m can pack so much of your hoard. On the plus side it can get broken into so you have more storoge if they steal or break your stuff in there.
Narodil jsem se na Vinohradech.Vaše videa mají pro mě velkou informační hodnotu tak jsem vám chtěl ťimto způsobem poděkovat a také moc oceňuji vás téměř vegetariánský jídelníček a také recyklaci.Jen tak dál.
Přijde mi hrozné, že jsou v bytě použity ty nejlevnější dveře - původní dveře v takových bytech jsou krásné, často s leptanými skly. Zřejmě majitel upravoval byt tak, aby to pro něj bylo co nejlevnější, a hodně tím pokazil celkový dojem.
Proč pořád sahá po klice od papundeklových dveří s kovovými futry? To je ten byt tak hnusný? To snad už 50 let nikdo nepoužívá, i předtím to bylo hnusné ......
Actually the flats used to be as big as the whole floor in the first republic but during the communistic regime the owners where moved out by the state and the flats got cut into smaller flats and the state than decided about who would get an apartment. They even got to decide in which city you would live depending on your career and your loyalty to the regime. After 1991, many of those flats stayed decided into very small flats but some went back to being big flats.
I don't know. I may be spoiled. but I didn't like living in the old Prague house. I am just too used to central heating and elevators that actually stops on your floor and not in between (a real pain if you have a kid in a stroller). However a lot of people don't like living in a typical Sídliště, and I absolutely love it. 😀
I have been living in the UK with my husband and daughter for the past 4 years. I really wish I had a toilet separate from the bath. I have considered acquiring an emergency chamber pot a few times 😳
Jen please, you have to explain the "recycling" more to me. We "třídíme" which means to "sort out" the garbage into the recycable sorts (plastic, glass, paper, metals, bio material, waste electrical appliances) and ordinary (common - komunál) trash. But you (like you said) put it in garbage ... so it means, that the garbage company sorts the garbage itself ? Or how does it work ? I am a bit confused.
Plenty of places in the US have "single stream recycling", meaning that many recyclable items are placed in the same bin, the recycling company picks it up and (presumably) sorts it out in their own facility. Which, in principle, is better for them, because to sell that stuff it has to be sorted out really well, and they want to keep tight control over it. But in practice I think most of it ends up in landfills anyway now that the usual Asian customers are not buying it anymore. Garden trash and old appliances, car batteries, used oil and such all go through different channels in the US and are not part of the household recycling stream.
Hello Jen, interesting video - again. about your problem with towels, have you ever tryed to used fabric softener (in cz.l.: aviváž)? I´m sure it will help you.
@@peterl0815 really??? the same way as washing powder isn´t good for environment. I use vinegar for washing collor-unstable-fabric only. I never realised it´s softer, but I always realised it smell vinegar. Jen, I´m sure as vegan/bio/animal friendly... washing powder exists, than vegan/bio/animal friendly... fabric softenerv exists too.
@@peterl0815 thanks for your offer, but I already believed in one God. ;-) = I´m not going to join your environmental sect. btw, I don´t care about the smell of the fabric, Jen has problem for 10 years with hard towels. Listen more carefully.
Thank you for letting us peek into your home, Jen! So what that Honza has a surfboard in a land-locked country? I have winter jackets from Sweden in my closet in SoCal. I bet it's more likely for Honza to surf in Europe than for me to travel anywhere that cold in the winter! When I was buying my house here, the realtor pointed out that I may need a larger house to have a guest bedroom. With prices north of a million, I'd rather pay for a hotel for everyone who ever comes to visit and I'll still come out on top!
you can see plenty of surfers on our ponds and water dams, especially on the biggest water dam Lipno in south bohemia, it's not Atlantic ofcourse, but I guess it's good for start
@@Pidalin windsurfing maybe, but surfing? Honza's board is quite sizeable, so it looks more like a paddle board than a pro surfing equipment (no offense to Honza! 🙂)
Im glad you mentioned the no ventilation in the bathroom in a lot of Czech apartments, its not even thing here. Im in one now and have been to many and I think its gross. Everytime somebody shit, shower and pee, the smell could linger on for hours. I have to put a fan in it and open the windows in the next room to cycle the air out all day. The industrial kitchen is kina cool. If ya love cooking and picky at eating, better to make yourself than getting hosed with high prices at a restaurant. We shipped a big 20 ft container from Canada, and its mostly unique kitchen tools and devices that were very unique and unreplaceable. We were willing to give up living in the city life of convenience , full amenities ,locations , just so we can have more space, cook better meals , store more foods.
These are old apartments which originaly didn't even have bathroom and toilet, by modern rules and laws, there must be ventilation, but people added bathrooms and toilets to that apartments decades ago. It's much better in first republic apartment building which was already constructed with toilets and bathrooms, you always have ventilation there, but older buildings from 19th century, that's problem.
As it turns out, my grandmother lived not far from you in one of the side streets, the noise was not as bad, but it for sure was something to get used to. But aside from the noise, the location of your flat is just perfect - metro, tramvaj, obchody , kousek od centra ... zvolili jste perfektně.
Ahoj Jen, tvůj byt a životní styl, se mi ani nezdá tak cizí, myslím si, že čím jsme jako lidstvo propojenější tím se ztrácí kulturní rozdíly a mladí (patřím do té skupiny) touží po tom, aby žili jako v moderním světě, takže vaříme cizí kuchyni, slavíme svátky jindy a jinak, a další spoustu věcí, kterých si začínám všímat. Abych se dostala k jádru pudla, píšu hlavně kvůli tomu, abych ti řekla, že máš naprostou pravdu ohledně velikosti našich bytů, je to opět věc, kterou máme z naší historie, komunismu, většina velkých bytů, které byly v soukromém vlastnictví se rozkládala na menší, zvětšení kapacity bytových domů, jako je možná ten váš. Stávalo se to i s velkými domy, znám člověka, který má v rodině tuto nemilou událost zažitou, měli vilu a tu stát rozdělil na asi 4 byty, bohužel jim se nepodařilo vilu po sléze dostat zpátky. Toto je zajímavé téma, jako většina dopadů komunismu a dalších režimů, které se v moderním Česku objevuje. Přeji krásný den a pokud to čteš, tak doufám, že si zvládla moji češtinu, s kterou mají problém často i moji přátelé.
A někdy byli komunisti i tak "hodní", že původního majitele tam nechali v nějakém krcálku bydlet. Pak ještě existovala u o jen trochu větších bytů, které nešly rozdělit tzv. daň za nadměrné metry. Hrůza.
The ornamented cabinet at 11:21 really brings up chuckles and I can imagine all kinds of stupid questions from "so-intelligent-friends" based on it. And I am pretty happy I do not see those in your comment section (and neither this video blocked/banned for it). Cool stuff with interesting historic symbol that was misused a lot. And definitely an icebreaker for conversations! :)
I am sure it did. :D tho, I believe it is called "Manji" as it is a symbol commonly used in Buddhism as well afaik,... with totally different meaning than we are used to here in Europe or western world. (-:
4:13 - if you don't want to waste your space, just but bed there 🙂 In some old apartments, there was little kitchen behind door 10:55 - people didn't have bathrooms and toilets at all in 19th century, you have "hajzl na chodbě" and umyvadlo pod schodama. 😀
"hoarder" is another part of czech mentality. It is necessary to have one room filled with things you didn't use for 10-20 years, and probably never will. Surf board fits there perfectly.
I do not think it is a good strategy "not to bother the landlord" ... he owns the place and should take care of it. At least of what is listed in your contract.
We do not use the flat sheets, no, because..... never mind. We dress our douve the same way we do pillows and we also use normal size of pillows, I don´t understand how adult can sleep on kid size pillow. But you know, I am Czech I need to complain about something and also our way is the best way, ´xept politics and few other things.
It might be shock for American to move to Prague. No walk in closets. Minimalistic kitchens or half of the time no kitchen. You have to install one at your own expanse. Absent landlord. You are expected to have basic plumbing and homerepair skills. On positive side you don't have to make eye contact with anybody in the building and they all love dogs most the mean small dogs. Well it is not so bad you still have running water and working toilet and cheap beer. Love A
Aha! I thought your hubby's name was John and that's why he went 4 Jan/Honza :) A little tip: get a dehumidifier for your shower room and paint it in water/mold resistant pain - problem solved! btw. Jennifer it's only called Union Jack when masted on HMS/RMS otherwise it is Union Flag... u r welcome ;) yep I am full of it (useless knowledge that is LOL)
Moved to Prague 5 years ago, for a job from the other side of the country. Lived in Vrsovice/Vinohrady border, but honestly, I moved from there, not to deal with all the quirks these old buildings have. It felt like a huge downgrade in every aspect, except service availability :D And I come from a border town of 1500. P.S. - We have two windsurf boards in our barn. Yea... it's ...a landlocked country.
Can I live in the Czech Republic without learning the language? I visited Prgaue and Cesky Krumlov in 2013 and got by just fine speaking English. Is it an affordable place to live? Is it cheaper to live in towns other than Prague? I'd like to move somewhere very affordable, and rather than work, live off my savings. I'm hoping to find someone safe, with good health care, and benefit from lower cost of living. I'm coming from Australia.
Předsíň used to be quite handy when everyone wore coats. Winter and late autumn would make a place to hang wet and heavy coats long with the shoes handy. Also tall ceilings could make a good place for hanging things if there is enough draft in the room. to answer the question where do you put all your things then the flats usually have an associated space in the basement or under the attic and it's part if the reason why having a weekend house is this popular. Having all manner of stuff on chata is perfectly acceptable for thigs that you hardly ever use.
We lived in an apartment on Vinohradská Street opposite the "Vinohradská tržnice" for 6 years. It was a corner apartment, all 3 rooms facing a busy street. 3.5 meter high ceilings, huge windows and double doors between rooms. We loved that apartment, but hated it at the same time. Too noisy (trams, lots of cars), black dust from traffic, windows in poor condition, impractical layout for a family. I would have loved to live in Vinohrady but on a quiet street with a green yard. Such flats are extremely expensive nowadays. Sad fact: the price of an apartment in Vinohrady in 2015-16 is equivalent to the price of an equally large apartment in a "panel building" on the outskirts of the city in 2022. It's also sad how many these "yards" in the city center are getting concreted surfaces for cars.
To be honest, l moved from the Czech Republic to Scotland in 2014 and l find so called bathrooms pretty disgusting because having the bath in same room as making poo poo. Like really? What is that? Non hygienic. Unfortunately, this is coming from west to the Czech Republic too but l count that as many steps back, definitely not forward.
"We mitigate that risk by not hanging out of them." But then you miss out on the Americans' favorite pasttime: Sueing (your landlord) ;) Which doesn't work in Europe, by the way, at least not regarding making someone else liable for stupid things you do.
We don't have flat sheets, we are Czechs. Not everybody has to have them, but yes, most households have flat sheets. Yes I think that American people like pack rack (accumulate things) more more :)
Jen, Jugoslavska 27 :) it's sometimes busy, but if you're lucky enough to have an apartment off the tram route, it's quieter, or if it's directed into the inner block.
cardboard towels: Since I changed to hanging clothes to dry (after my dryer ceased working), I switched to micro fiber towels. Much cheaper than a new dryer and still very fluffy after air drying.
The American in us dictates we have a dryer and I don’t understand why more people in Prague apartments don’t. They are not that expensive and get rid of the permanent drying rack. I’m surprised you don’t!
The flats originally didn’t have a private bathroom. Only later they became a standard. Your bathroom is a pantry. Unlike servant’s rooms that are now otherwise utilized within some adjacent flat.
The big luxurious flats were divided not over the centuries but by the communists. One of the forceful egalitarian measures against a (former) upper class. If they got to stay in their flats at all, they would be forced to give up some rooms because of the "nadměrné metry" rule. It was like a maximum square meter quota per person. Sort of a hands-on way for the government to tell you how to live.
I bought an apartment with a large hall for one reason - I use it as a workshop and the like. This makes the space, which is easy to maintain, priceless.
Předsíň serves as an “airlock” between the dirty outside and clean inside. It is also used to store bikes, strollers etc., because they are bulky and also came in contact with the dirty outside and frankly, who wants to hang a dirty bike in a bedroom?
Thanks for the tour, nice flat. So glad though I didn't get one of those when I moved. I also had this idea of how nice it would be to live in an "old Europe flat with tall callings". Wasn't able to find anything to fit my budget and requirements in Vinohrady. Ended up in a modern building in Karlín and absolutely love it. It is quiet here, but not boring. Lots of places to go.
Your towels will be soft and smell great if you use fabric softener like Lenor or similar. You can get those in any drugstore, I get mine from dm usually. Where I live the water is very hard so I also buy an anti calc for washing machine which you use every time you do the laundry.
Your bathroom is probably in the place of the original pantry, because when these houses were built, it was not common for each apartment to have its own toilet and bathroom. the toilet and bathroom were therefore probably built later during the reconstruction. before, it was common to have a common toilet in the corridor and people washed in the lavatory (into which water was collected and brought from the sink in the corridor).
Girl you need to invest in some tall stand alone cabinets with doors. Your mind will feel at ease when you can close the doors and not see all the mess. Plus you can take them with you to your next place. ❤️
Vinohrady jsou žádaná pražská čtvrť a byt není špatný. Jen jste ho špatně vybavila a působí to tam nehezky a chaoticky. Co se třeba poradit z bytovým návrhářem????
Možná bych uvedla na pravou míru pár věcí... 🙂 Dříve lidé skladovali oblečení v dřevěných truhlicích a nebo takových skříních, jako máte Vy v ložnici, akorát byly opravdu dřevěné 😃 se starými byty a koupelnami se to má ještě jinak... v roce 1850 lidé měli na dvorech latríny/kadibudky a nebo chodili na nočníky a koupání probíhalo v dřevěných neckách, do kterých se uvařila voda na plotně, koupelny a záchody začaly v domech přibývat až cca na přelomu 19. a 20. století, ale nebyly v jednotlivých bytech, ale na patrech a společné pro všechny byty z daného patra... samostatné koupelny a záchody pro jednotlivé byty se začaly více objevovat až po druhé světové válce... a to mluvím o městech, na malinkatých vesnicích to bylo ještě dlouho jinak... 🙂
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Prvorepublikové bytové domy, stavěné pro střední vrstvu, běžně měli 2-3 pokoje, kuchyň, koupelnu (vedle kuchyně, průchozí do ložnice), samostatný záchod, velkou předsíň a pokoj pro služku. Vše na rozloze 90-130 m2. Dodnes nejlepší bydlení v Praze/Brně (a asi i v dalších městěch).
Ano, přesně tak. Babička pochází ze Žižkova a jako dítě mě vždy fascinovalo, když mi vyprávěla, že v bytech neměli vlastní koupelnu a toaletu. Na jednu pavlač byl jeden záchod a "umývárka". Prát prádlo se chodilo na půdu, musel se pro to vyhradit celý den (vydrhnutí necek, nanošení horké vody, ruční praní na valše apod.), babička jako dítě musela pomáhat...
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@@iPE_ZA Soviet microdistrict vs USA Suburban
7:53 where is the rice cooker
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa What, soviet??? 🤦
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa The rice cooker is typical more for asian houses. Most European or American households do not use this appliance.
I was born and raised about 5 blocks from where you live and I am just surprised that there are no second levels in any of your rooms. Pretty much everyone I knew had a second level with a bed, storage spaces, or a "false attic" constructed under the ceiling.
Exactly, pretty much a "must have", if you have kids. They sleep above their desks (I did). Especially if you want to cram more than one into a room...
Why would you put second level in a flat 3+kk/3+1 that is occupied by 2 people? Just nonsense. I saw a few flats with second levels and it's pretty awful. Makes sense in small flats (under 80m) with 2+ kids.
@@aleshak because that’s how flats are in Prague. Very expensive so young families have to come up with other solutions
@@anniefrankeFlats in Prague are expensive last 6, maybe 8 years, not last 30-40 years. These modifications (second levels) were always popular, no matter what the rent was.
Vestavěný nábytek nebyl v Čechách nikdy běžným standardem. Takže vaši předchůdci v roce 1850 měli stejně velké skříně jako vy. 😉 A koupelna v kuchyni také není nic neobvyklého. Možná byla právě vytvořena na místě bývalé spižírny, protože tehdejší byty obvykle nemívaly koupelny. 😉 Kouzlo starých časů. 🤷 Jinak moc pěkné bydlení.
Taky možná ani neměli co dát do těch skříní. A je to tak, jsou i byty co neměli spižírnu a sprcha šla udělat jedině vedle kuchyně.
@@dmiora3385 tohle tozhodně nejsou byty kde bydlela “chudina” za kuchyní obvykle býval pokoj pro služku.
@@veronikanavratilova1930 Tady u toho bytu si netroufám určit, pro jakou společenskou třídu byl ten dům stavěn, protože podle těch komunistických dveří byl ten byt dost pravděpodobně razantně přestavěný- měnily se dispozice, z obrovského bytu se dost možná udělaly dva menší. Ve vnitřní Praze jsou ale časté i domy, kde bylo spousta malých bytů - 1+0 až 2kk, které původně neměly vůbec koupelny a toalety byly společné na patře pro několik bytů. Tyto malé byty se pak často spojovaly do větších a budovaly se koupelny a WC v bytě. Paradoxní je, že takové domy, které měly tyto malé bytečky bez příslušenství, mívají často bohatě zdobené fasády a tolik se zase neliší od činžáků, kde byly od začátku velké, komfortní byty s koupelnou.
A co koupelna v kuchyni? Moje prateta měla kuchyň v koupelně! To byl teprve bizár.
@@CZpersi Nic tak výjimečného dřív. Prostě ty hodně staré byty (stavěné v 19.století) byly často jen místnosti zcela bez příslušenství, i pro vodu se chodilo ke kohoutku na chodbu mimo byt, stejně tak na záchod společný s dalšími byty. Teprve postupem času si lidi na vlastní náklady dělali různé úpravy, aby ten nízký standard trochu vylepšili. Vždycky ale nebylo možný postavit plnohodnotnou koupelnu, z různých důvodů- málo místa, špatné stoupačky atd.
Dear Jen, thank you for letting us in on an excursion! :-) I think having a "mess room" is another very Czech characteristics! :-) About the vent in your koupelna - mabye there is some device above your heater? Sometimes the turbine gets broken, but can easily be replaced. Also, if you feel like having too much things you don't need, you can try to sell them on some online "bazar" on in an auction. :-)
Thank you for sharing your experiences with us! It's both fun and educative! :-)
Hello, I live near Prague and instead of a guest room, I have a couch in the living room that can be folded into a bed.
Zajímavé video :) a taky zajímavé vidět jak žijete :D u nás se tomu říká kramáři :D vzniklo od slova krámy (zbytečnosti nebověci nepoužívané léta) :D Já myslel, že Honza je Čech narozený v LA :)
Here in Austria bathrooms were often shared, so there was one bathroom for the whole floor. With higher living standards this obviously wasn't so popular anymore and a lot of bathrooms were built where there was already water supply: the kitchen.
And in previous times they probably did have less clothes and those were also stored in wardrobes and chests. The wood from those wardrobes would also help to keep bugs away.
It was the same even here in late 19th century or even first half of 20th century. You mostly had shared toilet and in some cases, there was only running water down behind main door, so people had to go there and fill some buckets and take it to their apartments, you can still see these sinks in some buildings. People don't realize how modern communist apartments were after war compared to these old buildings from Austria-Hungary time. Ofcourse, all apartments already have bathrooms and toilets now, I remember one person who still had shared toilet like 20 years ago, but that building was demolished many years ago and new buildings stand there now.
May be but also in the early communists era they were dividing the big old flats into smaller ones, so someone ended up with the original toilet, someone with the bathroom, someone with the kitchen and the rest had different solutions, when my parents bought the flat I saw a lot of things, a bathtub in the kitchen and a toilet that you went to from the living room
@@Pidalin Modern apartments with a bathroom are definitely not a communist, post-war thing. En-suite apartments became a common standard in the 1920's.. and in the 1930's, apartment buildings with district heating, elevators and all amenities were quite common in Prague. The Communists didn't surpass this standard during the entire 40 years of government.
@@marcokoehler8832 Ofcourse buildings built in 30s already had bathroom, but many people in that time still didn't have even running water. My grandma has nice big apartment from 30s, but back in the day, it was apartment for rich people, there is even room for maid, normal people didn't live like that in 30s, such level of comfort became standard in like 60s, minus maid ofcourse. 😀
@@Pidalin Sure, but that were all apartments from the end of the 19th century. New buildings from the 1930s had all own bathrooms, also the apartments for poorer people.
Thank you for posting these videos! My husband, myself, our newborn and two pets will be moving to Prague in February. Your videos have been super helpful for painting a realistic picture of what to expect. We're coming from living in Beirut for the last two years so we're looking forward to more green-space, good food/drink, trains, travel opportunities and more!
So i think thats exactly what you are gonna get :)
WHY would anyone do that ;-) ??!
@@rev.buttons2482 Waiting for a train? Because České dráhy (our main railway company) always comes late with their trains.. Several hour delays are quite common unfortunately XD
@Easy Business Jee, tak to nemůžu posoudit.. (naštěstí :DD)
@@marieblahoutova2544 several hours are only common on international connections, or when there is a really large storm, on normal links which don’t go into other countries (or only one other like between germany and czech republic, you usually don’t get over 45 minutes
In 1850 they had the exact sized closet (I would say wardrobe for some reason) as you have. Wooden and massive. My grandma used to have it too
Taky. Babička navíc používala i ve videu zmíněné přehozy. Jenže taky často dávala deky (v zimě duchny) na parapet, aby se provětraly.
I love it, you guys are complete opposite of me. I need as less stuff as possible. I like empty shelfs just in case i will need to buy something so I have a room where to place it. Also i am telling my wife as soon as she buys something new, she needs to get rid of something old. Less stuff we have, I am happier. Great video. Out of curiosity, would you be able to buy your own place or is something blocking you legally?
Room and apartment size depends on who built it and lived in the house. If it was built as a rental house then rooms will be more modest, these apartments originally didn't even have a bathroom. Old luxurious city apartments have really large rooms, double doors.
Haha. No, Europeans do not use flat sheets. We wash the duvet cover every time we wash our bed sheet and pillow covers. In this former socialist part of Europe the vast majority of ppl didn’t even know dishwashers or dryers existed until the 90s and one was lucky to have a washing machine hence no to very little space now to accommodate these appliances. And taking off 👞 at entrance is common in all Europe too :)
I'm planning to move Prague from Dhaka (Capital of Bangladesh). Your video helping me a lot, keep it up.
Love from BD, hope to meet you someday.
To prkno na Vinohradech za skříní je super 🤣🤣👍
tak maj tam Vltavu ne, tak se to využije 😀
@@Pidalin Jen musej dokoupit plachtu, vlny jsou na Vltavě moc malý.
@@breznik1197 tak to je jasný, plachta je potřeba 🙂
Víte, co vám chybí k dokonalosti typického Čecha? Zahrádka v zahrádkářské kolonii. Moc vám fandím. Děkuji za každé video.
And a swimming pool in the garden.😅
@@davidhenshaw3265 A trampolina! :D
A na vše si stěžovat 😀😀😂
@@jirikosek6383 hello?
Milá Jen, co se týká vaší koupelny, nechte dveře neustále otevřené, nezavírejte je a věřím, že se vám omítka loupat nebude. Prostě větrat, větrat, větrat.
Přesně tak! 🙂
I had to laugh about the baseball cards. My mom got rid of my brothers' cards and my eldest brother who is 63 years old still hasn't forgiven her. The one time he dared to complain, she growled at him, "Get over it." (She's 50% Czech.)
Holy smokes!!! An At the drive in sticker !!! I applaud your taste!!
Hi Jen, good video as always! Just a little tip-for the humidity in your bathroom try to search for Ceresit humidity capsules, it works pretty well:)
Oh, you have just taken me back to my first years in Prague (1986 :o)) I moved to Vinohrady from a district town in Moravia growing up in quite a modern flat with central heating and was really shocked by the flat my husband inherited from his grandma - no hot water, only one sink in the whole apartment (so no bathroom at all; we later built one in the kitchen - sounds familiar ? 😆), wc used to be on the common balcony ("pavlač"), so no heating there - we used to heat it with a kerosene lamp to prevent it from freezing over, only one coal stove in the whole apartment etc. etc.
And boy were we happy to have a place to stay at all!
O byty byla v Praze vždycky nouze (a za totáče ještě mnohem větší než dnes, protože se žádný byt nedal legálně pronajmout, natož koupit) a tak byli lidi vděční i za tu IV.kategorii, co popisujete.
I also live in an old apartment with no washer, dryer or other modern conveniences. But what I miss most is a pretty basic pantry. Just some storage space for food, but also other non-daily necessities. A friend of mine has now moved into a big old apartment. When he showed me around, he showed me the first pantry - it has a 3D printer in it... the second pantry, where he keeps the components to print, and finally the third, where, to my surprise, he's currently putting together a second liquid 3D printer. O tempora, o mores
As a Slovak (born in former Czechoslovakia) now living in USA, your Czech is very good. I miss my country (Slovakia) and Czech people are my people. Ironing towels...ha, ha, ha...I remember that. I really appreciate the drier. Love your channel, I am now a Subscriber.
Thanks Jen for the tour of your apartment.
I'd just like to point out that all those curtains are actually extremely Czech in style. When I was growing up in Czechoslovakia in the 70's and 80's, everyone had curtains like that. On their doors and everywhere else.
Actually, your problem with the shelves in the kitchen could be solved by installing curtains on them :)
Hi jen. The vent in your bathroom is really important. Because when you have water heater in your bathroom it can brake and cause carbon monoxide poisoning. And the vent is there to prevent it. So if it’s happens the carbon monoxide is not trapped in the room and it can slowly escape 😅😅
Not the case if they have an electric boiler :-)
They would better drive it slowly so it doesn't have to brake too much 😅
@@JanaVanana Hodinky, holinky. No bóže 🙂
Někdy je fajn mít velkou předsíň, třeba když v domě není kočárkárna a je třeba někam postavit kočárek 🙂
We also have an apartment in Czech, but not Prague. I don’t know if I can get used to the limited kitchen strip it offers. I have so much kitchen things that I would seriously have to go through and really eliminate so many things!!! I still complain here how small my kitchen is, 🤣! I don’t know if I can manage!
When I came to Prague from my much smaller czech town, I started by living on Narodni. And I was fascinated by these flats! Later I was told that originally, when these houses were build, there usually were no kitchens and toilets were common for two/three/four families. I once have visited a flat on Narodni which was not after any kind of reconstruction. Actually the whole level was before reconstruction. And really there was only one toliet for two flats and there was a bath in the kitchen. Unseparated. You entered kitchen and there was a kitchen with a bath. :) Owner put only a curtain there so you didn't shower the floor. And you had to go through the kitchen both to the living room and to the bedroom. Fascinating. :D I've been wondering how it looks today, as it surely is already reconstructed and very expensive. :D
@Easy Business obyvatele toho bytu take nadseni asi nebyli. Ale co meli delat, kdyz byli radi, ze vubec bydli? Ale co se tyka hygieny, tak si nemyslim, ze je az tak nehygienicke myt se ve stejnem prostoru, kde se vari. Jen je to slozitejsi, neprakticke a nevypada to pekne, ... ja jsem jen chtela rict, ze dispozicne ty stare byty byly puvodne vybavene opravdu vselijak, jen ne podle dnesnich zvyklosti. Mnoho bytu v centru napr. puvodne nemelo ani kuchyni, protoze do nich jidlo donasela pani, ktera se o obyvatele a jeho bydleni starala.
Bathroom in a kitchen? Oh that is nothing. I remember kitchen in a bathroom.
Pračku bych dala na záchod (místo té skříňky) a do linky myčku .-) Byty na VInohradech jsou +- 100 let staré... Není to v průběhu "staletí"... Díky výhledu na ulici jsem přesně poznala kde bydlíte xD
Hi Jen, the Old Quibbler at your service once again... ;) I have a feeling for your hoarding and I am no American so no need to feel ashamed - UR not alone in this world! :D Besides people in 19th century (and first half of 20th) really kept less clothes (except for dandyish ones) but their closets were more masive than your IKEA thing and had less space for hanging inside - most things were put. And when it comes to guest rooms - in times when distances were long and transportation sparse the guest rooms in Czechlands were nothing unusual (in houses civic duty in fact) - your apartment is rather result of comunist rule as they "solved" shortage of apartments for "the peoples" by dismembering big apartments into several smaller ones (thats why there is sink at the corridor between apartments on your floor - before it was corridor inside of apartment to be used by house-maid - I think we discussed it few years ago). The style-mix of the furniture pieces seem quite playful to me - but your collection of kitchen tools really put me in awe - no surprise if U had a church wafer press... ;D Thank you for interesting video and CU soon! Keep up good work! ;)
Towel tip: adding dissolved citric acid (1:10) instead of fabric softener will make the towels a lot softer. You can buy citric acid in the Bez Obalu shops or they sell 1kg packages in some of the "green" shops but they call it "odstraňovač vodního kamene" from Tierra Verde.
The towel problem: I add plain fermented vinegar from the grocery store to the soak instead of fabric softener. It doesn't have to be wine vinegar. (It will have a similar effect to citric acid). Don't worry about the smell - it will disappear. The way it is hung also has an effect - better if the towel is hung loosely and allowed to dry more slowly. So no radiator, no direct sun.
May it succeed... It's always a bit of an experiment ;)
Je vždycky zajímavé sledovat, jak lidé různě žijí. Já bych se asi brzy zbláznila v takovém bytě. Jsem už moc rozmazlená velkým domem. 😀 Ovšem teď kvůli cenám energií budu brzy závidět kamarádce, která má byt o velikosti mojí kuchyně. 😀
Tak tento byt určitě není malý a pochybuju, že máte v tom domě tak vysoké stropy. Jinak je to o preferencích a tom, na co je člověk zvyklý. Vy se cítíte rozmazlená v rodinném domě, ale je velká spousta lidí, kteří jsou velmi rozmazlení na to, aby bydleli "kdovíkde" a metry čtvereční podlahové plochy bytu navíc by jim ničím nevynahradily ten diskomfort neustálého dojíždění do města... nemluvě o úplně jiném životním stylu na vesnici či maloměstě, kde si všichni čumí do talíře.
@@marcokoehler8832 Souhlasím, že je to o zvyku. Já jsem bydlela ve dvou bytech, než jsem si koupila dům. V životě by mě do bytu už nikdo nedostal ani párem volů. 😁 Už jsem si tak zvykla na to naprostý ticho tady, sousedy neznám a to tu bydlím 5 let. Tenhle božský klid bych nikdy už nevyměnila za ruch velkoměsta. Ale každý má jiný preference. Já zase holt musím do kina dojet 40 km, na nákup 10 km a tak.
With those nice tall ceilings, you could install a pulley-operated ceiling dryer/airer. We're lucky enough to have a tiny utility room where ours hides, but you could put one in your záchod. Wet washing is out of the way, and dries in no time because, well, hot air rises! They come in different types. (Ours has one string per rod.) I thought my Czech partner was mad when he suggested we install one in our renovated flat, but it's brilliant.
I know what American homes look like because I grew up on Tom and Jerry cartoons. I know that American homes commonly have an anvil and some sticks of TNT in the closet.
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I live in a similar flat and we have washer, dryer, dishwasher :D I can't imagine living without any one of those miracles :D
Sklep. 1,2x1,2 m can pack so much of your hoard. On the plus side it can get broken into so you have more storoge if they steal or break your stuff in there.
"Předsíň je zbytečně moc velká a zbytečná je to nevyužitý prostor" a přitom... "máme místnost pro hosty" 🤔 někde mi tu vázne logika.
Narodil jsem se na Vinohradech.Vaše videa mají pro mě velkou informační hodnotu tak jsem vám chtěl ťimto způsobem poděkovat a také moc oceňuji vás téměř vegetariánský jídelníček a také recyklaci.Jen tak dál.
Přijde mi hrozné, že jsou v bytě použity ty nejlevnější dveře - původní dveře v takových bytech jsou krásné, často s leptanými skly. Zřejmě majitel upravoval byt tak, aby to pro něj bylo co nejlevnější, a hodně tím pokazil celkový dojem.
Proč pořád sahá po klice od papundeklových dveří s kovovými futry? To je ten byt tak hnusný? To snad už 50 let nikdo nepoužívá, i předtím to bylo hnusné ......
Actually the flats used to be as big as the whole floor in the first republic but during the communistic regime the owners where moved out by the state and the flats got cut into smaller flats and the state than decided about who would get an apartment. They even got to decide in which city you would live depending on your career and your loyalty to the regime.
After 1991, many of those flats stayed decided into very small flats but some went back to being big flats.
I don't know. I may be spoiled. but I didn't like living in the old Prague house. I am just too used to central heating and elevators that actually stops on your floor and not in between (a real pain if you have a kid in a stroller).
However a lot of people don't like living in a typical Sídliště, and I absolutely love it. 😀
I have been living in the UK with my husband and daughter for the past 4 years. I really wish I had a toilet separate from the bath. I have considered acquiring an emergency chamber pot a few times 😳
Jen please, you have to explain the "recycling" more to me.
We "třídíme" which means to "sort out" the garbage into the recycable sorts (plastic, glass, paper, metals, bio material, waste electrical appliances) and ordinary (common - komunál) trash.
But you (like you said) put it in garbage ... so it means, that the garbage company sorts the garbage itself ?
Or how does it work ? I am a bit confused.
Plenty of places in the US have "single stream recycling", meaning that many recyclable items are placed in the same bin, the recycling company picks it up and (presumably) sorts it out in their own facility. Which, in principle, is better for them, because to sell that stuff it has to be sorted out really well, and they want to keep tight control over it. But in practice I think most of it ends up in landfills anyway now that the usual Asian customers are not buying it anymore.
Garden trash and old appliances, car batteries, used oil and such all go through different channels in the US and are not part of the household recycling stream.
Hello Jen, interesting video - again.
about your problem with towels, have you ever tryed to used fabric softener (in cz.l.: aviváž)? I´m sure it will help you.
@@peterl0815 really??? the same way as washing powder isn´t good for environment.
I use vinegar for washing collor-unstable-fabric only. I never realised it´s softer, but I always realised it smell vinegar.
Jen, I´m sure as vegan/bio/animal friendly... washing powder exists, than vegan/bio/animal friendly... fabric softenerv exists too.
@@peterl0815 thanks for your offer, but I already believed in one God. ;-)
= I´m not going to join your environmental sect.
btw, I don´t care about the smell of the fabric, Jen has problem for 10 years with hard towels. Listen more carefully.
@@peterl0815 Agreed. Still free to hang and definitely not in direct sun or radiator.
V Česku existují i pračky se sušičkou 😁
I am Czech and never iron any of my clothes, so ironing towels seems like a waste of time only old school house wifes would do. Who is advising that?
11:22 Za tie svastiky na tej skrinke by vás na Slovensku zavreli😁
Thank you for letting us peek into your home, Jen! So what that Honza has a surfboard in a land-locked country? I have winter jackets from Sweden in my closet in SoCal. I bet it's more likely for Honza to surf in Europe than for me to travel anywhere that cold in the winter!
When I was buying my house here, the realtor pointed out that I may need a larger house to have a guest bedroom. With prices north of a million, I'd rather pay for a hotel for everyone who ever comes to visit and I'll still come out on top!
you can see plenty of surfers on our ponds and water dams, especially on the biggest water dam Lipno in south bohemia, it's not Atlantic ofcourse, but I guess it's good for start
@@Pidalin windsurfing maybe, but surfing? Honza's board is quite sizeable, so it looks more like a paddle board than a pro surfing equipment (no offense to Honza! 🙂)
Honza can surf on the Isar river in Munich, just 400km away :)
@@paulselinger6658 I am Czech, I don't know what's the difference between windsufwing and "normal" sufting. I don't want to know that. 😀
Im glad you mentioned the no ventilation in the bathroom in a lot of Czech apartments, its not even thing here. Im in one now and have been to many and I think its gross. Everytime somebody shit, shower and pee, the smell could linger on for hours. I have to put a fan in it and open the windows in the next room to cycle the air out all day.
The industrial kitchen is kina cool. If ya love cooking and picky at eating, better to make yourself than getting hosed with high prices at a restaurant. We shipped a big 20 ft container from Canada, and its mostly unique kitchen tools and devices that were very unique and unreplaceable. We were willing to give up living in the city life of convenience , full amenities ,locations , just so we can have more space, cook better meals , store more foods.
These are old apartments which originaly didn't even have bathroom and toilet, by modern rules and laws, there must be ventilation, but people added bathrooms and toilets to that apartments decades ago. It's much better in first republic apartment building which was already constructed with toilets and bathrooms, you always have ventilation there, but older buildings from 19th century, that's problem.
As it turns out, my grandmother lived not far from you in one of the side streets, the noise was not as bad, but it for sure was something to get used to. But aside from the noise, the location of your flat is just perfect - metro, tramvaj, obchody , kousek od centra ... zvolili jste perfektně.
Ahoj Jen, tvůj byt a životní styl, se mi ani nezdá tak cizí, myslím si, že čím jsme jako lidstvo propojenější tím se ztrácí kulturní rozdíly a mladí (patřím do té skupiny) touží po tom, aby žili jako v moderním světě, takže vaříme cizí kuchyni, slavíme svátky jindy a jinak, a další spoustu věcí, kterých si začínám všímat. Abych se dostala k jádru pudla, píšu hlavně kvůli tomu, abych ti řekla, že máš naprostou pravdu ohledně velikosti našich bytů, je to opět věc, kterou máme z naší historie, komunismu, většina velkých bytů, které byly v soukromém vlastnictví se rozkládala na menší, zvětšení kapacity bytových domů, jako je možná ten váš. Stávalo se to i s velkými domy, znám člověka, který má v rodině tuto nemilou událost zažitou, měli vilu a tu stát rozdělil na asi 4 byty, bohužel jim se nepodařilo vilu po sléze dostat zpátky. Toto je zajímavé téma, jako většina dopadů komunismu a dalších režimů, které se v moderním Česku objevuje. Přeji krásný den a pokud to čteš, tak doufám, že si zvládla moji češtinu, s kterou mají problém často i moji přátelé.
A někdy byli komunisti i tak "hodní", že původního majitele tam nechali v nějakém krcálku bydlet. Pak ještě existovala u o jen trochu větších bytů, které nešly rozdělit tzv. daň za nadměrné metry. Hrůza.
The ornamented cabinet at 11:21 really brings up chuckles and I can imagine all kinds of stupid questions from "so-intelligent-friends" based on it. And I am pretty happy I do not see those in your comment section (and neither this video blocked/banned for it).
Cool stuff with interesting historic symbol that was misused a lot. And definitely an icebreaker for conversations! :)
Very good video. I like your presentation. Very well detailed!! Americans do not iron clothing. "Iron free" clothing! ;-)
I bet that the cabinet's decoration at 11:22 has raised a couple of your guests' eyebrows...
I am sure it did. :D tho, I believe it is called "Manji" as it is a symbol commonly used in Buddhism as well afaik,... with totally different meaning than we are used to here in Europe or western world. (-:
I think most of poople realize that symbol is much older than nazism and it's used in almost all cultures over world.
I wouldn't be surprised if the cabinet was made before a muggle equivalent of You Know Who ruined it
4:13 - if you don't want to waste your space, just but bed there 🙂 In some old apartments, there was little kitchen behind door
10:55 - people didn't have bathrooms and toilets at all in 19th century, you have "hajzl na chodbě" and umyvadlo pod schodama. 😀
To ovšem není nic speciálního, tak to bylo v 19.století úplně všude...🤔
Hi Dream Prague, can you talk about how to become a permanent resident in Czech as a working individual. Thank you! I am a new fan!
"hoarder" is another part of czech mentality. It is necessary to have one room filled with things you didn't use for 10-20 years, and probably never will.
Surf board fits there perfectly.
I do not think it is a good strategy "not to bother the landlord" ... he owns the place and should take care of it. At least of what is listed in your contract.
I would love to to hear more about the 3 years you spent in Japan!!!!
Marie Kondo, do you know her ? :-D :-D :-D
Beliave me , you dont need more than two jeans And definitively you dont need some old fabrice :-D
We do not use the flat sheets, no, because..... never mind. We dress our douve the same way we do pillows and we also use normal size of pillows, I don´t understand how adult can sleep on kid size pillow. But you know, I am Czech I need to complain about something and also our way is the best way, ´xept politics and few other things.
It might be shock for American to move to Prague. No walk in closets. Minimalistic kitchens or half of the time no kitchen. You have to install one at your own expanse. Absent landlord. You are expected to have basic plumbing and homerepair skills. On positive side you don't have to make eye contact with anybody in the building and they all love dogs most the mean small dogs. Well it is not so bad you still have running water and working toilet and cheap beer. Love A
Very nice video :)
Aha! I thought your hubby's name was John and that's why he went 4 Jan/Honza :) A little tip: get a dehumidifier for your shower room and paint it in water/mold resistant pain - problem solved! btw. Jennifer it's only called Union Jack when masted on HMS/RMS otherwise it is Union Flag... u r welcome ;) yep I am full of it (useless knowledge that is LOL)
Moved to Prague 5 years ago, for a job from the other side of the country. Lived in Vrsovice/Vinohrady border, but honestly, I moved from there, not to deal with all the quirks these old buildings have. It felt like a huge downgrade in every aspect, except service availability :D And I come from a border town of 1500.
P.S. - We have two windsurf boards in our barn. Yea... it's ...a landlocked country.
Can I live in the Czech Republic without learning the language?
I visited Prgaue and Cesky Krumlov in 2013 and got by just fine speaking English.
Is it an affordable place to live? Is it cheaper to live in towns other than Prague?
I'd like to move somewhere very affordable, and rather than work, live off my savings. I'm hoping to find someone safe, with good health care, and benefit from lower cost of living.
I'm coming from Australia.
Předsíň used to be quite handy when everyone wore coats. Winter and late autumn would make a place to hang wet and heavy coats long with the shoes handy. Also tall ceilings could make a good place for hanging things if there is enough draft in the room. to answer the question where do you put all your things then the flats usually have an associated space in the basement or under the attic and it's part if the reason why having a weekend house is this popular. Having all manner of stuff on chata is perfectly acceptable for thigs that you hardly ever use.
We lived in an apartment on Vinohradská Street opposite the "Vinohradská tržnice" for 6 years. It was a corner apartment, all 3 rooms facing a busy street. 3.5 meter high ceilings, huge windows and double doors between rooms. We loved that apartment, but hated it at the same time. Too noisy (trams, lots of cars), black dust from traffic, windows in poor condition, impractical layout for a family. I would have loved to live in Vinohrady but on a quiet street with a green yard. Such flats are extremely expensive nowadays. Sad fact: the price of an apartment in Vinohrady in 2015-16 is equivalent to the price of an equally large apartment in a "panel building" on the outskirts of the city in 2022. It's also sad how many these "yards" in the city center are getting concreted surfaces for cars.
To be honest, l moved from the Czech Republic to Scotland in 2014 and l find so called bathrooms pretty disgusting because having the bath in same room as making poo poo. Like really? What is that? Non hygienic. Unfortunately, this is coming from west to the Czech Republic too but l count that as many steps back, definitely not forward.
"We mitigate that risk by not hanging out of them." But then you miss out on the Americans' favorite pasttime: Sueing (your landlord) ;) Which doesn't work in Europe, by the way, at least not regarding making someone else liable for stupid things you do.
But you said in a previous video that Hunza's father is Czech.
We don't have flat sheets, we are Czechs. Not everybody has to have them, but yes, most households have flat sheets. Yes I think that American people like pack rack (accumulate things) more more :)
Jen, Jugoslavska 27 :) it's sometimes busy, but if you're lucky enough to have an apartment off the tram route, it's quieter, or if it's directed into the inner block.
cardboard towels: Since I changed to hanging clothes to dry (after my dryer ceased working), I switched to micro fiber towels. Much cheaper than a new dryer and still very fluffy after air drying.
The American in us dictates we have a dryer and I don’t understand why more people in Prague apartments don’t. They are not that expensive and get rid of the permanent drying rack. I’m surprised you don’t!
The flats originally didn’t have a private bathroom. Only later they became a standard. Your bathroom is a pantry. Unlike servant’s rooms that are now otherwise utilized within some adjacent flat.
The big luxurious flats were divided not over the centuries but by the communists. One of the forceful egalitarian measures against a (former) upper class. If they got to stay in their flats at all, they would be forced to give up some rooms because of the "nadměrné metry" rule. It was like a maximum square meter quota per person. Sort of a hands-on way for the government to tell you how to live.
We lived in Italy from 1963 to 1968. I’m sure before you were born. A lot of what you said brings back many memories.
add simple coocking vingar to the washing machine. Does magic to the cardboard towls, and the smell disappears in the washing...
Tortilla press?! 🤔
I'm really impressed. 👍😂
If you live in a panelák, the balcony becomes a greenhouse when the sun shines (if you have glass panels). All laundry gets dried in minutes!
I bought an apartment with a large hall for one reason - I use it as a workshop and the like. This makes the space, which is easy to maintain, priceless.
Předsíň serves as an “airlock” between the dirty outside and clean inside. It is also used to store bikes, strollers etc., because they are bulky and also came in contact with the dirty outside and frankly, who wants to hang a dirty bike in a bedroom?
using a (bigger) floor fan for drying your wet clothes saves tremendous amount of time (more than a half, could be almost a quater of time)
Thanks for the tour, nice flat. So glad though I didn't get one of those when I moved. I also had this idea of how nice it would be to live in an "old Europe flat with tall callings". Wasn't able to find anything to fit my budget and requirements in Vinohrady. Ended up in a modern building in Karlín and absolutely love it. It is quiet here, but not boring. Lots of places to go.
Your towels will be soft and smell great if you use fabric softener like Lenor or similar. You can get those in any drugstore, I get mine from dm usually. Where I live the water is very hard so I also buy an anti calc for washing machine which you use every time you do the laundry.
Your bathroom is probably in the place of the original pantry, because when these houses were built, it was not common for each apartment to have its own toilet and bathroom. the toilet and bathroom were therefore probably built later during the reconstruction. before, it was common to have a common toilet in the corridor and people washed in the lavatory (into which water was collected and brought from the sink in the corridor).
You should get nicer doors for your appartment. Those you have are ugly communist one. That one change would make it much nicer!
you should try to sell your unused american-hobby-junk at bazoš. You may gey rid od the surfing board.
My. Great grand parents, came from bohemia, would like to know how tk get info about the area they came from.
V Čechách môžete surfovať na Slapech s plachtou, windsurfing. 👍😉
Hmm... pretty suspicious buddhist symbol on that Japanese cabinet.
Girl you need to invest in some tall stand alone cabinets with doors. Your mind will feel at ease when you can close the doors and not see all the mess. Plus you can take them with you to your next place. ❤️
Vinohrady jsou žádaná pražská čtvrť a byt není špatný. Jen jste ho špatně vybavila a působí to tam nehezky a chaoticky. Co se třeba poradit z bytovým návrhářem????
If you are a single man, you use large předsíň as workshop or hanging with friends 😂
For the hard towels, try washing them with a bit of apple cider vinegar, it should keep them nice and soft.
Very interesting video. Greetings from the neighborhood.
I love that jet plane on your cabinet. Where did you got it?
Možná bych uvedla na pravou míru pár věcí... 🙂 Dříve lidé skladovali oblečení v dřevěných truhlicích a nebo takových skříních, jako máte Vy v ložnici, akorát byly opravdu dřevěné 😃 se starými byty a koupelnami se to má ještě jinak... v roce 1850 lidé měli na dvorech latríny/kadibudky a nebo chodili na nočníky a koupání probíhalo v dřevěných neckách, do kterých se uvařila voda na plotně, koupelny a záchody začaly v domech přibývat až cca na přelomu 19. a 20. století, ale nebyly v jednotlivých bytech, ale na patrech a společné pro všechny byty z daného patra... samostatné koupelny a záchody pro jednotlivé byty se začaly více objevovat až po druhé světové válce... a to mluvím o městech, na malinkatých vesnicích to bylo ještě dlouho jinak... 🙂
Prvorepublikové bytové domy, stavěné pro střední vrstvu, běžně měli 2-3 pokoje, kuchyň, koupelnu (vedle kuchyně, průchozí do ložnice), samostatný záchod, velkou předsíň a pokoj pro služku. Vše na rozloze 90-130 m2. Dodnes nejlepší bydlení v Praze/Brně (a asi i v dalších městěch).
Ano, přesně tak. Babička pochází ze Žižkova a jako dítě mě vždy fascinovalo, když mi vyprávěla, že v bytech neměli vlastní koupelnu a toaletu. Na jednu pavlač byl jeden záchod a "umývárka". Prát prádlo se chodilo na půdu, musel se pro to vyhradit celý den (vydrhnutí necek, nanošení horké vody, ruční praní na valše apod.), babička jako dítě musela pomáhat...
I love your sunny californian attitude and positive vibes 🌞💕