In Sweden we sometimes change duvets depending on what time of year it is. The thing he is showing us in the video might be a summer quilt (or summer duvet), which is thinner.
The windows here in Sweden only open a few centimetres unless you unhinge them (there is a thing, usually to the right) to open them further. When they are unhinged, you can spin them around 180 degrees. This makes them much easier to clean. Modern toilets in Sweden are the same as in Germany. Sweden has fluffy sheets too. It is about personal preference. I went to college in Santa Monica, California, and the apartments there are not as smart as the ones in Europe. You dont have a hallway, instead you walk straight into the living room. There are wall to wall carpets and you walk on them with your shoes which to me as a European is insane. There are no thresholds so there is always a small gap under the doors. The windows are single glass instead of double so they don't have blinds that you can pull up and down which in Europe is inbetween the the inner and outer pieces of glass- Instead they have blinds that you move from left to right and they consist of several thin plastic sheets that bend or break easily. The shower head is attached to the wall (very annoying) and the toilets are full of water which is such a waste. The apartments are usually heated by gas instead of electricity, and the stoves are gas powered as well, and you only see that in older homes here in Sweden.
@@ChrisSweden in my apartment I only have one window like that, in the bathroom because it was renovated a few years ago. The others are old fashioned ones that you open inward. I wish all my windows were like the new one.
Lol, so true. 😂 My walls are made of some 20 cm thick solid wood. You can try to punch and kick it as much as you want, the only thing going to break is you.
@@alexanderahman4884 My house are made in the 60's with concrete, stone, rebar and building waste. Normal impact drills does absolutely nothing, I need a hammer drill and fresh drill bits to even make a dent. They built to last forever in the 60's in Sweden.
I'm quite irritated about my windows opening inwards, which means that I cannot have any plants or other stuff on the sill. I mean, I can, but it's really inconvenient to have to move them
Many toilets here are the wall mounted (floating). I've had it since 2008 in my flat. About the sheets it's very seasonal. At summertime most choose the thinner, and in wintertime we switch to the thicker ones. :)
I've gathered that most homes in Germany is brick or concrete which is great and probably very nice in warm weather. Brick and concrete homes is also very common in Sweden a lot further south. But further north and in the country side we have MAINLY wooden homes. And someone that is not used to wooden homes except for maybe looking at the American "stick houses" might think wood is not as good of a building material as brick or concrete is and that wooden houses only last like 50 years as a lot of the houses in the US does(this is so crazy to me), but here our wooden walls are THICC! We have a lot of log cabins, or homes built with wood logs used as the interial walls with wooden siding on the outside and plaster and then paint/wallpaper on the inside walls. The log cabin actuallt originated in Scandinavia/northern russia. And as someone who lives right in the middle of Sweden, i prefer wooden homes soooo much more than brick or concrete! Wooden homes are superior in colder climates since it is very insulating and "holds" the heat in the thick wood. Right now i live in a brick apartment building but i used to live in a wooden house when i lived with my parents. And i find it so much better and easier to live in a house made of wood. For example, it gets much colder in brick/concrete houses in the winter. This winter we've had -25 degrees celcius multiple times where i live and in the absolute north of Sweden it dropped to -41,6!! And BOY does it get colder in brick/concrete houses in comparison to out wooden houses! Another thing that i like more is that I's so easy to put up a painting or a shelf or whatever when you just have to get a nail and nail it straight to the wall without needing to first drill a hole and then hammer in a plug to finally put in the screw and it never feels as secure as nailing or drilling in wood. And if you think wooden houses might not last as long as concrete.. The house i lived in was over 300 years old and in perfect condition. And that is not uncommon at all for your average house being that old. Swedens oldest known wooden building was built in 1230. But Norway has us beat with their oldest known wooden building being built in 1167. Also almost 70 percent of Sweden's land area is covered in forest. And wood is very eco friendly since it's renewable, sustainable, recyclable, and biodegradable. So its a win-win situation all around! I have no idea what you picture when you think of wooden houses but I just had to rant a bit cause i see a lot of europeans living in central europe(not saying this is you at all) where it doesn't get as cold, saying wooden houses are bad but what they mostly think of is the American newly built "modern" wooden houses and those are mostly made by using wooden trusses using fast growing wood and then PAPER(again.. this is insane to me) for walls. Of course i love your videos as usual! Always really entertaining and interesting to watch someone from a really similar countly learn about the things that might be different that i take for granted as "normal". Keep up the good work!
Multi family houses are most often concrete and single houses are most often wood all over Sweden. In the US, normal wooden houses are made to last about 15 years. They have really taken consumerism to the max there.
4:10 you just push the top side and you will be able to reach the handle. But you can also flip it all around so that you can clean both sides from in doors.
Yes it is in Germany in buildings where many people have access to for Emergency Exit Reasons (Germans and their Vorschriften (rules)). But not in the typical Einfamilienhaus (One-Family-House)
In Poland, the windows are the same as in Germany, these windows surprised me. 😯The rest in my house is the same as in a Swedish house. 😊 Hmm, I wonder what it's like with washing machines in Germany, my friend can't have a washing machine in her apartment, all the residents of the block have washing machines in the basement. Is this the case everywhere in Germany?
Its this, in north europe many thing is similar, same climate, same companyes that make things for homes! That window was a "Norweigan" H-windov, one can flip them around and clean the outside, frome the inside! And H-windovs stand for "Husmorsvindue", as a german I belive you understand the meaning.. easy to clean? Dual duvets/madrasses .. I thought this was world wide? In US it seems thats the first sign of divorce!!!
Andrew in the original video was maybe a bit mistaken at times, first thing it's a stove not an oven (although there also is an oven there). The windows depends on many things, their age, the house age, it is different and are several variations. The same thing goes for the toilets, there are also "floating" (wall mounted) toilets here, but again depends on age and what design you or who ever chose the toilet/window/stove went for. There are severel options in most cases, that's good, rignt?
Yes, of course it is :) I thought it was more representative because he made a video about it, so I thought it is really a thing, which is representative for swedish homes :)
@@ChrisSweden He is american, they have a tendemcy to do this, pretend to know it all and be experts after 5 minutes. :) It's not unheard of but I am sure things differ a lot in Germany to depending on a lot of factors. If possible, try to find either swedes who creates videos or other europeans. like brits or germans who live in Sweden. There is a german woman who lived in the UK but moved to Sweden two-three years ago that is good, Living Swedish and Stefan Thyron is an american with german roots living in Sweden since maybe 7 years , there are more I am sure but those are good channels (I feel as a Swede). Andrew isn't bad, but they are just overly confident these guys from the US and don't always know how little they really know. ;)
Also, he is just showing his apartment, he would have to show a lot more to give some examples, houses, terraced houses, older and newer, more rural, different parts of the country or show pictures to compare.
The reason for the floor toilet is that they want to avoid plumbing in the walls. In Sweden, a lot of houses are built using wood and you REALLY don’t want a water leak around wood.
In Sweden we sometimes change duvets depending on what time of year it is. The thing he is showing us in the video might be a summer quilt (or summer duvet), which is thinner.
Ah okay, I was worried you are freezing to death up there 😂
The windows here in Sweden only open a few centimetres unless you unhinge them (there is a thing, usually to the right) to open them further. When they are unhinged, you can spin them around 180 degrees. This makes them much easier to clean.
Modern toilets in Sweden are the same as in Germany.
Sweden has fluffy sheets too. It is about personal preference.
I went to college in Santa Monica, California, and the apartments there are not as smart as the ones in Europe. You dont have a hallway, instead you walk straight into the living room. There are wall to wall carpets and you walk on them with your shoes which to me as a European is insane. There are no thresholds so there is always a small gap under the doors. The windows are single glass instead of double so they don't have blinds that you can pull up and down which in Europe is inbetween the the inner and outer pieces of glass- Instead they have blinds that you move from left to right and they consist of several thin plastic sheets that bend or break easily. The shower head is attached to the wall (very annoying) and the toilets are full of water which is such a waste. The apartments are usually heated by gas instead of electricity, and the stoves are gas powered as well, and you only see that in older homes here in Sweden.
Okay now I understand the whole window situation much better. :)
@@ChrisSweden in my apartment I only have one window like that, in the bathroom because it was renovated a few years ago. The others are old fashioned ones that you open inward. I wish all my windows were like the new one.
It's practical if you want to put plants on the window frame aswell.
American walls: "Please don't hurt me".😢
Swedish walls: "Hit me again and I break your other hand as well"😠
Lol, so true. 😂
My walls are made of some 20 cm thick solid wood. You can try to punch and kick it as much as you want, the only thing going to break is you.
@@alexanderahman4884 My house are made in the 60's with concrete, stone, rebar and building waste. Normal impact drills does absolutely nothing, I need a hammer drill and fresh drill bits to even make a dent. They built to last forever in the 60's in Sweden.
We have snow in Sweden. Nothing open indoors. I hope that explain it to you. :)
I'm quite irritated about my windows opening inwards, which means that I cannot have any plants or other stuff on the sill. I mean, I can, but it's really inconvenient to have to move them
Many toilets here are the wall mounted (floating). I've had it since 2008 in my flat.
About the sheets it's very seasonal. At summertime most choose the thinner, and in wintertime we switch to the thicker ones. :)
I've gathered that most homes in Germany is brick or concrete which is great and probably very nice in warm weather. Brick and concrete homes is also very common in Sweden a lot further south. But further north and in the country side we have MAINLY wooden homes. And someone that is not used to wooden homes except for maybe looking at the American "stick houses" might think wood is not as good of a building material as brick or concrete is and that wooden houses only last like 50 years as a lot of the houses in the US does(this is so crazy to me), but here our wooden walls are THICC!
We have a lot of log cabins, or homes built with wood logs used as the interial walls with wooden siding on the outside and plaster and then paint/wallpaper on the inside walls.
The log cabin actuallt originated in Scandinavia/northern russia. And as someone who lives right in the middle of Sweden, i prefer wooden homes soooo much more than brick or concrete!
Wooden homes are superior in colder climates since it is very insulating and "holds" the heat in the thick wood.
Right now i live in a brick apartment building but i used to live in a wooden house when i lived with my parents. And i find it so much better and easier to live in a house made of wood. For example, it gets much colder in brick/concrete houses in the winter. This winter we've had -25 degrees celcius multiple times where i live and in the absolute north of Sweden it dropped to -41,6!! And BOY does it get colder in brick/concrete houses in comparison to out wooden houses!
Another thing that i like more is that I's so easy to put up a painting or a shelf or whatever when you just have to get a nail and nail it straight to the wall without needing to first drill a hole and then hammer in a plug to finally put in the screw and it never feels as secure as nailing or drilling in wood.
And if you think wooden houses might not last as long as concrete.. The house i lived in was over 300 years old and in perfect condition. And that is not uncommon at all for your average house being that old.
Swedens oldest known wooden building was built in 1230. But Norway has us beat with their oldest known wooden building being built in 1167.
Also almost 70 percent of Sweden's land area is covered in forest. And wood is very eco friendly since it's renewable, sustainable, recyclable, and biodegradable. So its a win-win situation all around!
I have no idea what you picture when you think of wooden houses but I just had to rant a bit cause i see a lot of europeans living in central europe(not saying this is you at all) where it doesn't get as cold, saying wooden houses are bad but what they mostly think of is the American newly built "modern" wooden houses and those are mostly made by using wooden trusses using fast growing wood and then PAPER(again.. this is insane to me) for walls.
Of course i love your videos as usual! Always really entertaining and interesting to watch someone from a really similar countly learn about the things that might be different that i take for granted as "normal".
Keep up the good work!
Multi family houses are most often concrete and single houses are most often wood all over Sweden. In the US, normal wooden houses are made to last about 15 years. They have really taken consumerism to the max there.
4:10 you just push the top side and you will be able to reach the handle. But you can also flip it all around so that you can clean both sides from in doors.
Staying in Hotels and Hostels, I found that the door opened out. Also most public toilets was the same way. I was told it was for safety reasons,
Yes it is in Germany in buildings where many people have access to for Emergency Exit Reasons (Germans and their Vorschriften (rules)). But not in the typical Einfamilienhaus (One-Family-House)
The german toilet seems way nicer imo. But the toilets here dont always have a base. It's more of an older design.
In Poland, the windows are the same as in Germany, these windows surprised me. 😯The rest in my house is the same as in a Swedish house. 😊
Hmm, I wonder what it's like with washing machines in Germany, my friend can't have a washing machine in her apartment, all the residents of the block have washing machines in the basement. Is this the case everywhere in Germany?
Its this, in north europe many thing is similar, same climate, same companyes that make things for homes!
That window was a "Norweigan" H-windov, one can flip them around and clean the outside, frome the inside!
And H-windovs stand for "Husmorsvindue", as a german I belive you understand the meaning.. easy to clean?
Dual duvets/madrasses .. I thought this was world wide? In US it seems thats the first sign of divorce!!!
Andrew in the original video was maybe a bit mistaken at times, first thing it's a stove not an oven (although there also is an oven there). The windows depends on many things, their age, the house age, it is different and are several variations. The same thing goes for the toilets, there are also "floating" (wall mounted) toilets here, but again depends on age and what design you or who ever chose the toilet/window/stove went for. There are severel options in most cases, that's good, rignt?
Yes, of course it is :) I thought it was more representative because he made a video about it, so I thought it is really a thing, which is representative for swedish homes :)
@@ChrisSweden He is american, they have a tendemcy to do this, pretend to know it all and be experts after 5 minutes. :) It's not unheard of but I am sure things differ a lot in Germany to depending on a lot of factors. If possible, try to find either swedes who creates videos or other europeans. like brits or germans who live in Sweden. There is a german woman who lived in the UK but moved to Sweden two-three years ago that is good, Living Swedish and Stefan Thyron is an american with german roots living in Sweden since maybe 7 years , there are more I am sure but those are good channels (I feel as a Swede). Andrew isn't bad, but they are just overly confident these guys from the US and don't always know how little they really know. ;)
Also, he is just showing his apartment, he would have to show a lot more to give some examples, houses, terraced houses, older and newer, more rural, different parts of the country or show pictures to compare.
BUT, the video did not show that the windows can turn 180... So you can clean the outside of them from the inside of your home. :)
5:00 It is illegal in sweden even, I think, to have doors that doesnt open outward due to easy egress during fires etc.
The window thing is different because in my home apartment it goes inwards.
Okay so no too much stretching for you to close it :)
@@ChrisSweden I think its more common on older houses here in Sweden with the windows going outwards.
Great Video ! :)
Thank you :)
What exactly made you so intrigued about Sweden? Is it the shared ancestery of germantic?
Tbh, Everybody in Germany thinks very highly of Sweden and yeah. Maybe also because blonde women are my type 😂
@@ChrisSwedenWhere i have my summer houses in Småland and Öland, 70% of my neighbohours are from germany.Very chill people.
The reason for the floor toilet is that they want to avoid plumbing in the walls. In Sweden, a lot of houses are built using wood and you REALLY don’t want a water leak around wood.