British Reaction To Australian Homes vs British Homes
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2023
- Reaction To Australian Homes vs British Homes | Australia Culture React
This is my reaction to Australian Houses vs British Houses
In this video I look at the differences between homes in Australia and Britain
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I'm an Aussie - An old friend and I, were discussing changes in our way of living, over the years. He said..." I remember when the dunny (toilet) was in the backyard and we ate in the kitchen. Now we have sewerage connected and the dunny is in the house. We also now have barbeques in the backyard. So, we now poop inside and eat out in the yard!"
So true 😂
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Early Australian settlers had 'UK' thinking and this was reflected in how we built etc but this time this changed to the actual environment people were leaving in rather than where their original 'roots' were from.
Not to mention a house full plants and an outside pergola/patio full of furniture
No one wants to urinate at 3am outside in the bitter cold, or walk outside when you've got the runs in the middle of summer when it's full of mozzies 😂 Happy to poop inside in a nice modern bathroom thanks
It's interesting you mention the lack of double glazing in our homes. Every single person I've ever met from the Northern Hemisphere who lives in Australia has complained that our houses are just far too cold in winter! I couldn't agree more.
Double glazing is starting to become of interest in Australia due to climate change. It has always been very expensive but as it is becoming more popular the cost is gradually coming down.
My husband is from Yorkshire but we met here in South Australia and he’s been here since 1994. He replaced all our windows to uPVC double glazed! Our 70’s home has no wall insulation but at least our windows are insulated for both heat and cold!
Yes, double glazing is a big Aussie blind spot!
I had to retrofit a bunch of window insulation because these aluminium framed windows are a terrible thermal bridge that was wasting my money! :D
My Australian wife spent time in the Lakes District with my parents. It was snowing outside but she had to have the windows open because the heat was turned up so unbearably high . I suppose its what you are used to.
By the way many Aussie homes are double glazed now . Ours is , but its a more expensive option .
We live in sub-tropical Brisbane so I was nearly 40yo before I even knew what double glazing was. However, it is absolutely freezing in our house during winter so it would make sense. Did an audit and I would need to replace 36 windows. The cost? Don't even ask.
Hi Matt, the term "Manchester" is a coverall for everything made of cloth in Australia apart from clothes. It's an old fashioned term but anything from sheets, towel's, tea towel's, table clothes, napkins, it's all Manchester.
It's also sometimes referred to as 'linen' though that doesn't usually include bath towels. Thus, I refer to my built-in hall cupboard as the linen closet.
Yes! Growing up we had a "Linen Press" which was just a big built-in cupboard in the bathroom full of sheets, towels and other cloth items. My Mum was from Queensland so maybe the "Press" bit was from up there. @@loverlyme
The "Press" is an Irish term also used for a cupboard. I totally understand the terms "The Press" (IE), "Linen Cupboard" (AU), and in the Uk it's called an "Airing Cupboard" usually (with a boiler built-in)!@@petermills8798
And it comes from the City of Manchester in the UK, which was a huge textile manufacturing area. My mum used to work in the nearby smaller town of Middleton, at the cotton mill, there. Visited with her there once as a child - and from memory (vague, now) she worked on a spinning machine where the washed (and dried) "raw" cotton was spun into the cotton used to make stuff with, on the weaving machines. Dusty dark place from memory it was, as well.
That's where the textile mills are.
I don't know about all Aussie states, but I live in Victoria, and we more commonly call towels, sheets, etc., linen (manchester is less common, although we purchase these items from the Manchester store or section). We have 'linen' closets to store them in.
Yes, we definitely don’t have “Manchester closets” lol. It’s the linen closet. After that everything has its own name - as you said. Sheets, towels etc, but all bought from the manchester department. 🙂
I say linen cupboard. Closet is American 🙂
I live in Melbourne and I've never in my entire life heard somebody call a towel "linen"
@@TheLostProbe I don't call a towel by itself linen either - I call it a towel. As in my comment, 'we call towels, sheets, etc., linen', I mean most people call those items as a group 'linen', ergo 'linen closet'.
I feel like manchester is a word that has died out here (I am in Vic too). It was more common maybe in the 80's and I would now just say linen.
While not common on older houses, if you build a new house now you may find it essential to have double glazing to meet council or state government energy efficiency requirements. So it is becoming more common. Electrical sockets in bathrooms are fine, but our national wiring standards require a certain distance from water containers or outlets (eg sinks/taps/basins) and protection of household sockets by residual current devices at the switchboard to prevent electric shock. "Manchester" is more a generic term used in stores for the section where you'll find sheets, bedding etc. I've never heard it used around the home.
Depends where you are.
So pointless.
Double glazing in Aus is very different to uPVC double glazing UK/Europe has.
"Manchester" is the department in the shop where the products are bought or a term for the class of products, once you've brought them home they are usually put into the linen cupboard and referred to by more descriptive names like 'hand towels', 'bath towels', and the various specific types of bedclothes.
I am an Aussie living in Brisbane, Queensland. We have a very diverse climate where I live, in the Summer its is very tropical with humid hot days and in the winter it can get very dry and cold at night. I bought a block of land 5 years ago and built a 2 story large home on it. I made sure I could perfectly control the climate in my home with the following, a large 20kw fully ducted central air conditioning system, 42 panel solar panel system, two whirlybirds in the roof, open plan home design with lots of openings for breeze control. No matter what the climate is outside my home is always comfortable inside.
She should be saying "in inner sydney".
I have a scaled down version, 1 brm cottage, 3.5kw aircon, 18 panels, 12kw battery storage. of your kit in South Burnett region. A lot be said about energy independence in these controlled energy pricing environment.
The old Queenslander home beautiful especially with decks ,I use to live in manly west
@@matthewseeber8529 Not decks but called verandahs.
Brissie here too, in a one storey house, andd while I dont know about UK, in the states they dont have switches next to each power point where you can switch off the electric current to that particular socket, where all of them have that here
I moved from QLD to Tasmania and was so surprised in the difference with houses and terminology. My first impression was it's how I imagined UK to be like and have heard others compare too. With how cold Tasmania is there are far more similarities to UK than mainland Australia I think.
That's why I settled here. It's the most un-Australian of Australian states, and the landscape reminded me so much of the UK, which is where I lived as a child.
I too moved here from Brisbane, just for a year initially, but that was in 1986!!
I would have preferred to live in Tasmania because I don't like the Queensland summers.
I’m an Aussie! I live in QLD.
Have lived in the UK, so I’m very familiar with everything UK. But I’ve never been to Tassie 😮!
Does Tassie have double glazing on windows and oil heaters on walls?
Manchester is an older term, but supermarkets still have a manchester aisle and it is on the aisle signs. Houses in Australia usually have a glass sliding door as one of the exit doors usually the back door. This lets in more breeze. Most houses I saw in England only had wooden doors or solid doors with glass panels.
One thing that is different is the sinks and baths have no overflow on them, all the floors have a waste to take any overflow. The reason we can have power outlets in the bathroom here in Australia is the wiring system is not a loop system like the UK, we have individual circuits for lighting , and you might have several circuits for power outlets . The fridge generally has its own circuit without earth leakage due to triggering in high humidity. House over here have a meter box on the outside of the house for ease of reading, and also contains all the fuses.
In Canada we have the good sense not to touch electrical circuity with dripping wet hands.
We also have a separate line to the metre box for a stove or any other appliance that uses a lot of electricity.
@@michaeldowson6988In Australia we use towels to wipe our hands.
Hogwash, has nothing to do with the ringmain... Not all UK homes use ringmains for power, check your research before talking nonsense...
In Australia a new or reasonably new single dwelling (1980 - Present) compared to a UK dwelling is generally:
1. Architecturally better designed
2. Larger
3. Higher ceilings (2700mm standard)
4. Bigger bedrooms; usually a minimum of 3m × 3m
5. More bathrooms
6. Air-conditioned
7. Provision for at least 2 designated parking spaces; one or all of which are housed undercover (carport; garage)
8. About 11% have a swimming pool.
9. Generally has a front setback to the street of between 4m to 7.5m.
10. Have timber or aluminium framed windows which maybe awning, double hung, casement, sliding etc., and if installed within the last 15 years will be double glazed.
11. Living spaces are larger
12. On average the overall dwelling size is greater in Australia (250sqm 🇦🇺 120sqm 🇬🇧)
13. Average construction cost per sqm is roughly the same in both countries...$3250.00
As a Brit living in Australia I would say the Australian dwelliing is significantly superior to its UK counterpart in all aspects.
Hope you find this useful...Cheers
Not true. For one, it depends entirely where in Australia you live. Houses in Adelaide look quite different to those in Sydney, for instance. I'm guessing you only live/visit high end houses because:
1. ceilings are not all 2700mm standard. We didn't get a ceiling that high until we were in or 50s and able to upscale. The average height is 2400mm, even in newly built houses. Higher ceilings cost a lot more.
2. You also haven't seen the average house because many have bedrooms smaller than 3x3m.
3. our first two houses only had one bathroom.
4. We've never lived in an air conditioned house. We now have air conditioning units in some rooms but not all.
5. We did not have a garage or car port at the first two houses. Many inner city houses don't even have a driveway.
6. The setback is 7m, and is a legal requirement.
7. I know no one who has double glazed windows. Some have built their house in the last 15 years. It's never written into new house building contracts. However, many British houses ARE double glazed due to the cold. I remember that being a thing when I was a kid growing up in the UK.
8. that you're even quoting living space at 250 sqm shows you don't know how the majority live
I think someone is basing their knowledge on more expensive housing and hasn't poked their nose into non-affluent areas. You need to compare apples with apples, not apples with lobsters.
I wouldn't say that. In my part of Australia they're basically built as cheaply as possible with 3 or 4mm aluminium windows and poor energy efficiency. They're overly large and my 80s home leaks air like a sieve. Personally I prefer even the modern architecture of UK homes. Perth is remarkable for its total lack of architectural merit.
This is why the kids blame the Boomers when they are trying to buy these $400,000 houses to put on $400,000 blocks of land.
My house is 80sqm up stairs, plus the 80sqm that got built in underneath, the way everyone got into housing in the 60-70s, and then added rooms, and upgraded over the decades while raising the kids.
@@stevegraham3817 But there's no option. Housebuilders don't offer 2x1 or 3x1 houses. And if you buy existing the median price is 5x annual salary or more. In the 60s it was 3x. It's not about scrimping and saving, the difference between earnings and house prices is often impossible to breach
@@danellis-jones1591 Builders will build whatever you ask for.
You can't go on median house price, the reason it is 5 times annual salary is because people don't want to buy a house worth only 3 times the annual salary.
But one thing I will agree on and seem to be continuously fighting for is wages to be in sync with inflation.
Biggest thing I found when I visited UK and Ireland was a boiler compared to a continuous hot water system.
Every Airbnb that we stayed at the host, asked us to let him or her know when we’re going to have a shower or a bath, so she can turn on the boiler one hour before we have a bath.
Yes, that always seemed very inefficient to me! Our house in Victoria had a boiler that ran off the wood stove when we moved in... that's the first thing that went! Replaced with a LPG gas-boosted solar hot water system. We use one 45 kg gas cylinder every 6 months which does all the hot water and the gas stove/oven.
Its not like that in every house in the UK. I grew up in two different houses in the UK in the 60s and 70s and both had what they called emersion heaters. It was a heater similar to the Australian water heaters that was on all the time. Ours was a squat thing, half the height of the one we have here, but much fatter and it sat in a cupboard. Above it were slatted shelves where linen and undies were stored to keep them from the damp in the winter. It was always known as the airing cupboard.
Some houses had what was known as a back boiler and was heated by the fire in the fireplace in the loungeroom. We didn't have central heating or double glazing back then. Only rich people had that. Some didn't have a boiler at all, or a bathroom. You boiled up water and put it in the copper - a big metal tin that you used for laundry, and everyone had their bath in it in front of the fire. Alternatively there were bath houses where you could go and have a bath.
My grandparents both had a bathroom. I don't remember there ever being a boiler in there either, although I do remember some people having what was known as a geyser. Whether they switched it on an hour before a bath, I don't remember, but I would assume that air bnb probably do it that way to save on running costs. No point in having running hot water 24/7 if no one is there for periods at a time.
@@warpedweft9004 An immersion electric hot water heater is not quite the same as a continuous hot water system. I have a 250L system it only heats up during the day when my solar is on and is enough for 3 people to have a shower at night and in the morning.
@@jspellie3103 whether it's the same or not, the point is we had hot water 24/7 when I was a kid, same as we do now with our water heater.
Wow!
I work with a home builder outside Melbourne. We offer double glazing in our home designs and they’re fully insulated these days to meet energy rating standards…
Most Australians live near the beach so don't need a pool. Manchester is a common term throughout Australia but mostly as a department in a store.
no, most dont live near the beach, im 180 kms from the beach and theres heaps of pools in my city.
@@glenodAgree!Its a luxury to live near the beach!
@@glenodIt depends on what constitutes "near", but 85% of Australians live within 50 kilometres of a beach. which is about an hours drive, so I don't think "most Australians live near the beach" is inaccurate. Obviously there are 15% of people who don't live that close, but statistics
@@TaliesinMyrddin agree on the stats, but the comment is still incorrect, just get on maps and sat view, brighton in melbourne for example, theres tons of houses 30 meters from the beach and they have pools. try near any of sydneys beaches, pools...i assume they do need a pool seeing they live near the beach then.
I live 20 minutes from the beach if that and I’ve never heard Manchester being used and I’ve lived in many states. It’s always either been linen or just sheets
I live in Melbourne and central heating is extremely common. We have gas ducted heating, where a central unit blows hot hair through ducts in the floor. We also have air conditioning, of which there are two main types-split system, where the main unit is outside, and evaporative with a unit on the roof. The former keeps the house colder but the latter is more affordable. Lately, I am using them to heat also (the unit basically reverses what it does in summer) as the cost of gas is so high.
I’ve always had letter boxes at the street and always had a separate laundry room, even in small houses.
No one ever says ‘get under your Manchester’ lol. It is a broad term but only for sheets etc, not towels. It’s rare for anyone to use a top sheet with a doona. You only get that in hotels or if you still use a blanket.
Everyone I know minus teenagers use both top & bottom sheets. Sheets etc are called bedding including the doona, towels are towels. You see these called Manchester but only in department stores or when referring to sales.
@@suegibson8914then you don’t know many people
It's definitely not rare to use a top sheet
When we don't have a separate laundry room it's common to see laundry machines in the bathroom or in a cupboard which we call a 'European Laundry', these are especially popular in apartment buildings. I have seen a couple of Australian houses with a washing machine in the kitchen, but I maybe only see them in less than every 1/1000 properties.
that's because the building code wouldn't allow it back in the day. It wasn't allowed when we migrated in 1974. I don't know exactly when that changed, but my sister had a laundry cupboard in the 1980s.
When we renovated our old soldier settlement farmhouse there were 4 tiny rooms at the back of the house for a shower, laundry, toilet and boiler cupboard. We knocked out the dividing walls (except to the toilet) and just made one big bathroom with the washing machine in. I've never seen the point of having a separate laundry. So much easier to take off your clothes for a shower and just throw them straight in the machine!
@@anserbauer309 some of us sort our laundry before washing so throwing it all in the machine darks, coloureds, whites, together, and towels with clothes to leave lint all over the darks, isn't really how we do it. Colour catchers help but they aren't perfect. It's just as easy to throw it in a laundry basket. I don't have an issue with a washing machine in a bathroom per se, but not every bathroom is big enough for one. You couldn't do it at my place without losing either a bedroom or the shower, and my place is relatively big.
@@warpedweft9004 Soooo..... I didn't say everyone should redesign their house to accommodate laundry facilities in their bathroom... just that I did, since it was an obvious solution and made sense in my situation.
And (surprise, surprise) I do sort my laundry as required. At our farm, work clothes are all dark and coloured, so all get washed together. Dress shirts, jackets and trousers (worn 'going out') get dry-cleaned.
We have enough towels that I can do a towel-only wash once a week. Same with the linen (which goes in the laundry basket in the big bathroom with the towels). Like I said... it's a working farmhouse so 'whites' are non-existent in our wardrobes and furnishings.
So for us, it's not 'just as easy' to double-handle the clothing while sorting through the washing basket for every sock and pair of jocks among the towels and linen. It's more efficient for us to put clothes straight in the machine and put on a wash after 2 or 3 days when it's full. But thanks so much for your input. It's always such a joy to be condescended to by a domestic god of your calibre.
@@anserbauer309wow bit sensitive
Our home is also 1 story (bungalow). It's insulated in the roof & walls and underfloor. We have a covering over the front & back of the house (called pergolas). We have solar panels and reverse cycle (ie heat in winter - cool in summer) fully ducted air-conditioning . All the other specs are as stated in the video. Australia Post ONLY delivers mail to the nearest road site, hence letter-boxes at the side of the property's footpath/roadside boundary is also universal, no matter how far from your front door that happens to be.
In Australia, historically, blocks of land were bigger (unless you were in the city where you would find terraced houses), so it's much further for the postman to travel to deliver letters/mail. This is changing because of more dense building practices. House blocks are becoming much smaller. Our postie travels on a motor scooter, putting the letters in the letter box that is near the front property line. In the UK, the postie usually walks dropping mail into people's mailboxes in the door of the house.
actually that's not true because in the UK the postie pushes the mail through a slot in the front door instead of a post box at the top of your property. Factor that in and I think you'll find they travel no further than a British postie does having to go down everyone's front path. Not all Brits live in terraced houses. I grew up in one and we still had a front yard and a path the postie had to go down.
@@warpedweft9004 What is all this competition !Which postman travels the furthest ,the UK or OZ , it doesn’t really matter , so long as the service is good !
@@louisaklimentos7583 its not competition. It's just when someone says something outlandishly ridiculous, the teacher in me needs to set the record straight. It's okay for people to have different opinions and different experiences but don't say ALL or MOST, when clearly it isn't all or most.
@@warpedweft9004 I see what you mean . It is like when the British backpackers come to visit Australia and claim that we don’t use heating in our houses , which isn’t true . Then someone will correct them too ! .
@@warpedweft9004: That is exactly what @dizzylizzy 7582 said.
Originally when houses were built in Australia, they were built the UK way. Then it became different because our states were so different weather wise. In Victoria and Tasmania which are the coldest states in Australia there was a lot of British architecture. The Rocks in Sydney were the same. Obviously that was all we knew as settlers. We learned later.
All of the inner Sydney suburbs feature row houses and terraces. They were cheap and quick to construct and suited the simple lifestyles most people lived at the time. If one was wealthy, they could build a free standing house with higher ceilings and fire places in every room.
The main flaw with this video is that it compares modern housing in Australia to older housing in England. Surely London is growing in size just as Sydney is. A video on what a 10 year old home in London is like compared to those being built in Sydney's south west would be more interesting, and relevant to the topic.
Not only were the building reminiscent of those in the UK, people dressed in the same way. That meant women were wearing loads more layers of clothes over practically every part of their bodies. It must have been totally horrid in any heat. It wasn't exactly etiquette to cool off in a body of water for women either.
I live in Sydney and have only put on a cardigan or jumper once or twice each year in the past few years. It's always hot- even when it's cold (thank you oh menopause!).
Perhaps you don’t know Sydney that well? Sydney has just as much old architecture as Melbourne. I’ll never understand why The Rocks is seen as the standard for historic architecture in Sydney. Yes it might have the oldest buildings but there’s a lot of newer buildings too. In my opinion suburbs like Paddington, Darlinghurst, Surry Hills, Balmain, Woolloomoolloo, even Newtown and Redfern, have far more impressive and uniform historic rows of terraces.
Manchester is a collective term for sheets, blankets, pillows, quilts, etc. and also for towels. In general conversation you would just refer to each item by its name.
Yours is the best description of Manchester that I’ve seen so far. I suspect that it may become less common in a generation or two.
Rumour has it that Aussies invented double glazing, so it’s insane we don’t use it. I have built my own house and now got it. Definitely helps keep it cooler in summer too. Also, I don’t know anyone who doesn’t have a laundry
The main reason for the separate letterbox is simple: most mail is delivered by van (parcels) or motorbike (letters) and neither can get close enough to the front door to make the mail slit unworkable.
Double glazing is becoming a voluntary extra for new houses in some areas, but it can be an expense that the homeowner cannot afford
Yes we've just elected to go for double glazing on our new build, definitely an added cost but we're moving to a cold part of Victoria and are keen on the double glazing to help reduce our heating costs. Wish it were more a standard though! I know a lot of rentals I've lived in have been freezing in winter so looking forward to some warmer mornings.
Very few Aussie suburban homes are built right on the footpath - we have about 30' / 10m of lawn, driveway and garden between our front fence and the front of the house; which is pretty typical, and that's impractical for the postie to do a front door drop-off.
And, legally, so I was told by a postie, they are not allowed on private property - and that includes the driveway inside the property line.
Posties have the same right to enter your property /for a legal reason/ (delivering a 'signature required' letter or a parcel?) as any other person has. But you have the right to refuse them that entry and require them to leave.
And they must ask before driving a vehicle onto your property (including the driveway). That latter point may be what the postie was explaining.@@Tamaresque
Roofs are generally much “flatter” in Australia (whereas in the UK you have a larger gradient so the snow slides off). Many homes also have a fresh rainwater tank (especially in rural areas). Backyard clothes lines are pretty much standard. There are also many more roof solar panels (for obvious reasons). Also 2 door garages are common (some with a small workshop area included). They form part of the house itself whereby you drive in, close the roller door and you generally have an internal access door straight into the house (usually the kitchen whereby you can unload groceries straight from the car boot). I can’t recall the last time I actually used the front door.
Depends on where you live. Where I am there are many homes with tall roofs and some have attics. We get snow three hours away. Not many homes have clotheslines in the backyard anymore as more people are choosing to use dryers instead. I’ve never used my back clothes line and just use the clothesline in the sunroom. Also in my area it’s more common to have a very large workshop garage at the back of the house for cars now. Just depends on where you live. I’ve lived in many states here.
@@Beeannks States of mind I suspect😂
@@Beeannks I don't know anyone with a workshop in their yard and certainly not in new housing developments. You can't swing a cat in those yards, let alone have a garage/workshop in them. The council will not let you build over more than a certain percentage of your land anyway.
I always enter & exit my house via the garage because I usually drive. But when I broke my foot & couldn’t drive, I also went out via the garage because it was an easier & flatter exit.
It is rarely called manchester outside of shops. Always shown as manchester on signs and in adverts but rarely referred to it in conversation.
Always have a separate laundry in Oz 👍🏻
Nope no letterboxes in front doors either escript for old Victorian Homes. Don’t agree that its cold inside in Winter. Most homes have reverse cycle heating and cooling (in Victoria anyway)
No I don’t think we call linen Manchester - never heard of this.
I’m in an older house (very common 1950s weatherboard) in country Victoria and it stays a lot warmer than newer built houses, and cooler. Lots of interior walls and insulation. I also have 2 fireplaces, and the original house had no laundry so one was built on. I’ve put in ducted heating and cooling.
Aussie living in Melbourne. I have central heating and cooling and we’ve had that for over 15 years. I think it comes down to the owners of the home and affordability. A lot of homes have split systems these days. Some warm days (under 30’C) I just use an oscillating fan in the room I’m spending my time in. On cooler days I might just chuck a jumper or hoodie on and on cold days/nights central heating will go on..
Letternbox at front of property. Dunny has its own room. Washing machine and dryer in the laundry which many are around the size of bathroom as it will have large cupboard/closets for linen etc and a troughs cupboard underneath like the bathroom sinks do
actually no, the laundry is only spacious with cupboards if you have a high end house. The laundries I've had were too small to put a cupboard in until this last house. My daughter can't fit a cupboard in her laundry. The drier is above the washing machine and she has a slim laundry tub. Everything has to be stored on shelves above the tub. There's no cupboards at all.
Yes. We do have central heating in some places. I went to university in Armidale, which is an area of NSW called the New England. It has a very similar climate to southern England. The residential colleges were all centrally heated with oil radiators attached to the wall.
Also sunrooms, which are similar to conservatories, are common in the New England area.
Generally, in Australia, you build to keep the heat out. In the UK, you build to keep the heat in.
In SE Australia, especially along the Great Dividing Range, it can get bloody cold in the winter, below zero Celsius, in a lot of areas. There is snow every year in the Snowy Mountains area, and occasional snow falls as far north as Armidale NSW. Newer houses are usually well insulated against both heat and cold.
Australians love their backyards and space in general. So most houses have a front and backyard, a driveway on one side, and a walkway along the other. This has led to massive urban sprawls in the cities, with the outer suburbs being nicknamed the shruburbs. Townhouses are being built much more these days.
Manchester is usually the section in a department store. In WA we call them sheets, towels etc. I come from Aberdeen (1963) and remember a coal box accessible via the front of the flat. I don't think we have ever had that in WA.
It's almost unheard of to have laundry facilities in the kitchen here in Australia. I have never heard of a letterbox in a front door, ,here letterboxes are roadside and in some rural areas the letter box is at the end of the road which means it could be kilometres away from the house.
As for heating , nearly all new Australian homes DO have ducted heating. It is rare for a home here to be cold in Winter. Australians like to be warm in Winter.
No we don't call our bedding manchester, some elderly people do but wee call it bedding. I think that in Sydney they might call it manchester but here near Melbourne it's called bedding.
Qlder here, I've called sheets, blankets, etc Manchester my entire life. Why? nhaa no idea
new homes don't mostly have ducted aircon. It's an expensive additional cost and many can't afford it, and if they have it they can't afford to run it. I don't think you understand how the majority live. Our house is bloody freezing in the winter and being open plan and no ducted air con we rely on a split system air conditioner and curtains to partition off the main room because we can't install doors due to stairs. I detest the winter for that reason.
@@warpedweft9004I think you will find most newly built houses do have ducted. They usually have them as some sort of special package when building. Personally I wouldn’t build without it
I have seen that type of wall radiator in accommodation in ski resorts in Australia, but not elsewhere. Some houses in Tasmania may also have them. The term Manchester is usually only used in retail settings, so shops will have a Manchester department, but at home we just say sheets/linen and towels.
I’m an Australian, we live in Northern Victoria. We get fairly cold winters and bloody hot summers. We built our home 25 years ago. It is a large home of 40 sq. We have ducted evaporative cooling, under floor heating and a wood fire which goes non stop in winter, we normally can keep the house a very comfortable 21 deg in winter. Double glazed windows are becoming more of a thing as they keep the house cooler in summer and warmer in winter and those that live in the city it cut’s noise out.
In Aus we don't have letter slots on the front door because we have front yards and the door may be 20 or 30 feet from the fence. Manchester is the term used in department stores for the bedding department, we don't use it at home.
Some of our homes have very long driveways so a slot in the front door for mail is so impractical hence a stand alone letter box. In addition, we live on top of Mt Tambourine SE Queensland. We have a gas heater as well as a fire place used very often during winter.
I love Mount Tamborine and we'd often book a B&B there in winter. Now we live in Tamborine village and it gets nearly as chilly here as up the mountain in winter.
I don’t know anyone who calls bedding Manchester
Same, I have always known the category Manchester but never heard anyone use it like that😂
@@lilanisiyes,it’s only advertized by the shops as Manchester.
@@janmortimer1758 yeah as a category of Homewares
It's all labeled as Manchester in nz.
I'm 62 and ive always called it Manchester, maybe it's a older term of a older generation?🙂🇦🇺
I think Manchester must be a Sydney thing. I am a Melburnian and Manchester is just a city in the UK to me. I would call a sofa a couch. I would only use the term unit for a small house, often attached, on a communal plot of land. Whereas if it is an apartment in a small high rise block, I would call it a flat and if it is in a tall building in the city, I would call it an apartment.
Having front yards make the stand alone mailboxes necessary for efficient mail delivery
Except it gets wet, stolen, falls out
Many houses tend to have one or more reverse cycle air conditioners. In Queensland, there are a lot of "Queenslander" houses. These are wooden houses with tin roofs. They are elevated off the ground to allow cool airflow underneath.
they dont make em anymore though just basic cinderblock and then rendered homes with a basic layout with no privacy for anyone especially the neighbours. Rendered hundreds of them just pumping them out and cramming them in and this is in cairns, port doug etc. lol
Yes, these days people rely more on air con than natural cooling. I remember visiting my relatives in Townsville, and they all lived in big old Queenslanders with canvas chairs on the verandah. There would be lots of trees and greenery (generally at least one huge mango tree) casting shadows onto the verandah and cooling it.
The elevated houses in Queensland are also a big plus in a flood.
I'd call it a couch, the good room, towels and sheets, quilt and a flat can be a flat, or an apartment, or a unit, or a townhouse.
Ill repeat, this is very much the experience of someone that's never left inner sydney.
The good room? Never heard of it
@nowirehangers2815 can i guess that your under 35?
@@drbongoramaI'm 70 and I've never heard it either. Depending on the type of house, it could be the family room - if part of the kitchen/dining/family room area. Or the lounge / lounge-room if separate. A house can have both of them. But I don't live in Sydney, so that probably makes all the difference.
@A.S.K.1 I've come to the conclusion this review is based on a 20km radius from wherever she's staying. I'll also wager she's "au pairing" for a well off family, and never set foot in a suburb, let alone a houso suburb
Re Manchester. It's less common to call the bed linen and table linen 'Manchester' when referring to what you have at home, but more common to call it the 'Manchester Department' in a store.
While certainly some people literally build their own houses, often in Australia "we built our house" actually means we bought an empty block of land and had it built.
"We built it" because before it was an empty block of land and "we" built a house on it - Had a house built on it.
Double glazing is now becoming quite popular in Australia, with some councils requiring it for newly built housing. This is being pushed mainly as a result of climate change initiatives. Many people prefer double glazing because it reduces the intrusion of external noise within the home. The term Manchester, for bed linen and towels used to be very common last century, but its use has substantially declined in recent years (at least in Victoria, the state I live in). It is now more commonly referred to as bedding or towels or sometimes simply linen.
As for “Manchester” I’ve never called it that. I would call the collective of towels and sheets etc as linens. And they’d be stored in a linen cupboard.
Hi Matt, I think there’s one big difference between the two country’s which I’ve noticed from watching TV shows on home hunting and that is here in Australia (I live in Brisbane) when we move we take our fridge and washing machine and dryer (lots of people don’t have a dryer because clothes dry super quick out on the clothesline here.) with us. It is a lot to transport but we like to choose these appliances individually to suit our taste and our requirements. And yes a conservatory would be like a sauna here 🥵.
I’ve personally never used the word Manchester. We built our Aussie home, our second house. It was fun, slightly changing a few floor plans that made more sense, getting to pick all the wall and tile colours, bricks etc. Our home was never cold in winter with ducted heating for winter and air conditioning for summer. Funny I never wanted to build, my husband begged lol, I gave in and had a ball changing floor plans and watching it grow into a lovely unique family home.
I came over here from Birmingham & was in Target when someone called for the person in ‘Manchester’ department, I so wanted to go & say ‘I am from Birmingham, is that close enough ‘ 😂😂. That was in Perth, WA
Bedding, towels etc is Manchester but you would never ever hear an Aussie say 'I'll finish my beer and then put the manchester on the bed.....like What!' We have department stores that sells manchester items, but it's not an individual term we'd use.
Manchester might be a Sydney thing. I come from Queensland and have always referred to sheets and towels as linen.
As an Aussie visiting UK/Ireland/Scandinavia for 8 weeks last August/September I HATED how hot the indoor temperatures were! Every house & airport was overheated and in every bedroom they had bloody hot “duvets” on their beds. Man, all I wanted was sleep under was a single sheet, European houses were so hot. Give me my cold Sydney house any day! We only use air-con for about 4 weeks a year and our average temperatures are much hotter than Europe!
In general Australian houses are on bigger blocks of land are set well back off the street, with a front lawn and/or garden area, and possibly with a private courtyard or wall or fence on the front boundary line. So theres no easy access for the postie to get to the front door. So we have a freestanding letterbox usually at the easement or front yard boundary so the postie can ride his little motor bike right up to the letterbox to deliver mail. Yes similar to the USA. Blocks of flats and apartments are different to this and parcel delivery is as arranged with the delivery service. Usually left in a designated safe place under cover
not quite true. Many councils will not allow fences at the front of the house and definitely not within the first 7m because of pedestrian access/footpaths.
Im from Victoria, a lot of houses here do have central gas heating, especially the newer ones built in the last 20 to 30 years. It gets cold in the winter. A lot of the older houses have a single gas heater like the one pictured - they often converted brick fireplaces from open timber fireplaces to gas or electric heaters. We also often use reverse cycle / heat pump systems for heating and cooling.
Yes, we call bedding, Manchester.
The fan in the bathroom is an extraction fan to remove the steam. If you don’t do that in the north - mould grows fast.
The veranda out front and back become bigger the further north you go (helps keep the house cool as well).
I have never seen a radiator in Australia, but think they were around in old houses. Most places around me (in Queensland) do have a fire place for use in winter but city houses tend not to have them. They do take up space and are only used for 2 months at most.
@@herctwenty11 It certainly was common to see Manchester Departments in the larger stores in Sydney. And I remember seeing advertising for Manchester Sales. I'll have to be more observant next time I'm in a department store and check to see if they still do it.
@@herctwenty11 it have a linen cupboard, shops tend to have “Manchester”. I know what both are because I don’t live in Melbourne and can have a civilised disagreement without being accusatory.
I tent to call them sheets and towels. Nothing is made of linen anymore or made in Manchester so I guess we are all wrong.
Aussies tend t9 have a longer front yard so the postmen don’t walk all the way to your door, plus many houses have the front door on the side of the house. Postmen can stay outside the property by us each having a letter box as part of the fence or just within the boundary.
Adelaide, South Australia.
Manchester is the overall term for bedding and towels. No-one calls their bed linen "Manchester". A towel is a towel, sheets are bed-sheets etc.
While Adelaide can get cold (or what we think of as cold) heating is only needed for a few weeks a year. Insulation in roof and walls helps. Cooling is common.
Insect screens are a must.
Real-estate agents tried to change Unit to Apartment to keep up with the Yanks. We still call them Units just to pisses off the agents) 🤣.
The electrical ring circuit isn't popular in AU. My home has electrical circuits for each room in my Unit.
My windows are double glazed. Reduces noise.
Letter boxes are normally at the property boundary to make delivery easier for the postie.
Most Australians of baby boomer or Gen X still use the word flat not unit. It's mainly people who work as as strata managers or investors who call flats 'units' unless they are younger than 50. It's mainly estate agents (UK) or real estate agents (Australia - see, we have copied the Americans) who use the word apartment.
In the 50 years of my life, I have never seen a washing machine in a kitchen in Australia! Department stores used to call the department where you buy bedding and towels etc Manchester, however at home everyone I know calls it linen, the cupboard you keep it in is called a linen cupboard or a linen press...
Me either.
I'm not sure where that lady got her information...but there's definitely double glazing in Australia - especially in areas where there is a lot of noise, or now that more people are interested in more sustainable housing because it helps keep energy costs for heating and cooling down. It's not in every house, but it definitely exists. Also, central heating isn't rare at all - loads of people have it.
Yep my last two homes had it and I’ll be getting it on this house. It’s just expensive here unfortunately but great to have
it's not common in Australia though. I don't know anyone that has it and it's not standard in new homes. it's an optional extra.
Letterbox in the door is fine for houses right on the street, but if the postie had to go through everyones yard to get to the door to deliver the mail, theyd need 3 x more post workers. Plus people have fences and gates for security.
I'm Aussie and have lived in Australia all my life. That's the first time I have ever heard anyone call bedding a Manchester. So I believe you're right to say it must be only a Sydney thing.
@6:00 its in legislation that your letter box has to be in a position to the street that the postie can deliver letters to it without getting off his bike. The height and distance off the pavement are legislated.
Nearly all single houses and units have a separate laundry in Aus.
The word Manchester is used in retail settings to describe where you'll find all the bedding, towels, pillows, tablecloths etc
I live in Tasmania, from UK, & the reporter is pretty well right on everything. Yes, bedding & towels are Manchester! Here, they do know what a duvet is, no, few places have central heating & YES it gets cold & frosty here in the winter - & even now, Spring, we are still using our wood stove. We also have a reverse cycle heat pump for heat (which we hate so never use) and for A/C when it gets hot 35+. Yes we have a verandah which helps keep the sun off in the summer, we don't have many windows on the west side of the house as it gets so hot. I think it might still be the rule to have separate laundry room sometimes another shower & loo goes in here. Our house was built by English folk back in the 80's so is a small 2-storey home, but we would much prefer it on one level as it's much easier to maintain - & say if there is a fire risk, you need to get up & stuff your gutters. We have a very large garden & some paddocks, but no pool, but we do have a pond. Yes, we can have sockets in the bathroom, but there are regs about distance from water (nowadays!) Also they are stricter on new builds & retrofits - more insulation & double glazing & quite a few rules about water recycling - we live in the country, where many people have tank water (we used to) but now we are on irrigation, and have a septic tank - fortunately no brown-water treatment system. Most bedrooms have a built-in robe (closet) many houses since the '90's have the master bedroom ensuite, many bathrooms have separate loos. Places do tend to get very hemmed in - you can easily be overlooked by half a dozen different properties - fortunately our neighbours are a good 100-meters away! You are responsible for your power pole, keeping the nature strip outside your property mowed & tidy - also on rural properties you need to keep the place tidy to mitigate fire risk... In many ways homes are more American than British - we mostly, thankfully have mixer taps pretty rare to see hot & cold taps... and dishwashers, and a pantry and in Tassie they love SHEDS! We have a few...
I'd say 30% of freestanding houses in qld have a pool. My grandparents would use the term Manchester, but young people would not know what this means.
I’m in Western Australia and we don’t have any stand alone heaters. All our heating and cooling is all done by reverse cycle air con units.
Maybe the Manchester thing is a regional thing but I've never referred to bedding, towels etc as "Manchester". If you go to a department store these items could be sold in the "Manchester" department but individual items are referred to by name. Sheets Towels, Pillowcases etc.
Also, most modern houses have climate control systems where you can set the required temperature at any time of the year. The southern half of the country does get cold in winter and we do have 4 seasons like the UK. In fact, my personal energy bills are generally higher in the winter than during the summer. This, of course, is different in the sub-tropical north of the country.
I live in rural country and have lived in many states and have never heard Manchester being used ever
no, most modern houses don't have climate control systems. Only those that can afford them have them. They are an optional extra in most new builds, just like they always have been. I'm in my 60s and have never lived in a climate controlled house, nor does anyone I know except one couple. We can't afford them, nor can we afford to run them.
Im 74,I've lived in 5 states and I have never slept under manchester in my life. Ive been to the manchester dept in shops where I buy sheets,blankets and towels. I'm not sure where she would've learnt that.
Manchester is most commonly used in department stores to guide you to the appropriate department, or sometimes a Manchester store.
The terminology part is a bit weird. I don't know anybody who says "lounge" - we'd all call it a couch or sometimes a sofa where I live - but we do say "lounge room".
I've never heard someone refer to bedding as "Manchester". I have seen the term used in branding and company names, but we just say "bedding, sheets, linens, etc". "Babe give me a hand changing the sheets/bedding". Never hear "Babe give me a hand changing the Manchester." I'd find that really unusual and it'd catch me off guard.
We do say doona, that one is legit.
Melbourne homes will always have a heating unit of some form in the house by default, Melbourne in winter can get really cold. I was over in the UK during December a few years back and all the buildings and hotels were so hot inside, while in Melbourne if its 7c outside its probably about the same or colder inside. Small space heaters are sold everywhere here in winter for your bedrooms etc if you don't have ducted heating.
I’m English and I have lived in Australia for 18 years. I’m in Victoria and it’s so much colder in our houses in winter. We have a house that’s 100 years old, it has single glazed sash windows and it’s freezing in winter, costs a fortune to heat the house, but it’s lovely and cool in the summer. All the points made are absolutely true.
My brother came here from Norway and he couldn’t believe that we didn’t have double glazing.
We have letterboxes because the fronts of the houses because we have larger front gardens, as opposed to the UK where the front of the houses are closer to the curb
Hello from Australia. Double Glazed windows were introduced to Australia only in the 80’s that’s why most to a lot of older homes don’t have them. Every new build I have seen has them or if people replace a window they often now opt to put them in. Also central heating was only becoming somewhat common in 70’s and 80’s and we can often be behind other countries, especially back in the day, also I assume it would have cost more to install at the time.
With the damaging hail storms that seem to occur every sumner in some parts of Australia, glass observatories would be definitely be impractical in Australia. The posties in the Campbelltown area used to ride motorbikes to deliver mail, but they now ride electric 3 wheel vehicles that have a shade cover over the top and a box to hold the mail and small parcels. Bigger parcels sent by post are delivered from vans. On the newer estates houses have big houses but very small back yards. Some of the older houses on big blocks of land in my suburb are often sold to developers and they will build duplexes or townhouses on them, so that one block of land will house 2 to 4 families rather than one family. Granny flats are popping up in a lot of places too. That’s a smaller additional dwelling that can be built behind an existing dwelling on the same block of land and must be council approved.
Laundry rooms are almost in every aussie home, if you google laundry rooms, you can get them to look quite amazing!
11:00 I've never heard bedding called "Manchester" here in South Australia or in the Northern Territory where I spent most of my working life.
Hi from Melbourne. It is nearly November and we still occasionally have to put the heating on. Since the beginning of October we’ve had about 4 days above 20 degrees. And it’s been very wet.
We also call them Flats as well as units. Manchester term is only used for a shop that sells the items. Once we get the items home we put them in the “linen cupboard“. Sheets towels etc as a collective term are usually called linen.
I'm from Australia. Laundry's are almost never in the kitchen, however it is pretty common to have a combined bathroom/laundry or a European laundry in a hallway in new builds. Two story houses aren't common as for the last two decades or so most councils have required the bottom 3/4 of windows on the top story to be frosted for privacy reasons, which makes them feel a lot more claustrophobic & let much less light in. Therefore most people decide to just build a single story place instead. They were very popular in the 1980's and 1990's though, so most of the older suburbs still have a lot of two story houses.
'Manchester' isn't really a common term anymore. We'd call it 'linen'. And a 'lounge' would usually be called a 'living room' unless there were two of them (in which case the formal one would be a 'lounge room' and the other one would be a 'living room'.
I have seen the heaters like the ones in the UK, but they are incredibly rare. Nearly all houses have split systems these days, but some older ones have gas ducted heating (with vents in the floor) and evaporative cooling.
Some units in Australia have their laundry in the bathroom.
I would say she is 50% wrong. We do have double glazed windows but it’s just expensive to get. My last house had it and I’ll be getting it on this house soon. I’ve never ever heard of Manchester, it’s always been linen. We do call quilts duvet. All my homes have always had a conservatory, we call them either sunrooms or a Queenslander and we can open it up to let the outside in if we choose to at the back of the house and my current home has a large one. A lot of homes have log burners and reverse cycle air conditioning. All homes here have laundry rooms. We have large front yards so our letterboxes are at the front near the road. Every place is different as you either live in a flood zone, cyclone area or somewhere that snows. Also the bungalows is not the most common house here, there are a lot of two story homes as well that are just as common, again depends on where you live.
We Aussies either call it a sofa, sofa lounge or a couch. Take your pick. Some people can be
Yes, we do refer to our bedding as manchester. In fact, whether it's bed sheets, duvet covers, table cloths, bath towels, etc, it's all manchester and is usually stored in the linen closet in the hallways of our homes.
The name doona (doo-nah) came about because it was a particular brand name of a duvet cover back in the day. And it just because common vernacular to call ALL duvets, doona's.
As for flats. We did used to call them flats in Australia. But somewhere along the way it became much "cooler" to drop the name flats, and refer to them as apartments or units. Apartments tended to originally be more the high rise type and units were single storey. But now it's just whatever the individual prefers to call it, no matter how many floor levels are involved.
Never heard of bedding called Manchester where I am so probably depends where in Aus you go or just I guess the families.
Just call them the bed sheets & doona. Towels are.. Towels lol
Or sometimes Linen.
Double glazing isn't common in Australia because of the cost, but hopefully this is changing as ppl try reduce heat & save on power costs. Apartments rarely have separate laundry rooms (maybe a nook at best), but houses do.
Yeah, I think the main difference between aus and the uk in regards to laundry is if we don’t have the space we put the machines in the bathroom and they put them in the kitchen.
Most modern apartments have a separate room for laundry and is the case where I live in Sydney. Only one place I lived in where the laundry was downstairs (not communal) which was an older style flat/apartments
@@fabiacooney9378 Not where I am in Melbourne.
@@FionaEmit is where I am. Double glazing is great as blocks a lot of noise out
@@Beeannks I was answering the comment about laundries 🙂
Manchester is the name of a department in a store where they sell manchester: sheets, blankets etc. We usually call that stuff 'linen' collectively. It was even called 'drapery' in the old days because it included curtains.
There is plenty of double glazing in Australia but it was not common until recent years as it’s not that cold
Double glazing is not common in Australia, though it's becoming more common as we become more energy conscious. All Australian houses has separate laundry rooms - perhaps small flats may have washing machines in the kitchen, but it would be very rare. Central heating is very common - almost always using reverse-cycle air conditioning systems. We haven't called fabric "Manchester" for at least 50 years.
My last two homes here have had double glazing. Homes here do have it but not as many as it’s very expensive to get here unfortunately. I’ll be getting in this house
Air conditioners and insulation with eaves and verandahs for shade. Done :). Bigger block sizes and trees are also pretty much a go to .. if not in inner city sprawl
Tasmanian here, we call a sofa a couch, bedding would be linen. Lots of Tasmanian homes have sunrooms as it gets so cold in winter, lol even in summer it can snow sometimes. My house has a wood fireplace and also a heat pump (reverse cycle air conditioner).
We call it living room in Melb. We do sometimes use Manchester in ads but normal day talk is bedding.
Reverse cycle air conditioning + heating is probably the most common type of temperature control across Aus. Even simple "spit systems" work well for open plan living areas. "Heated lightbulbs" are actually infra red heaters, which are pretty common in coolers parts of Aus. They generate a small amount of visible (yellowish) light, which makes it easy to see whether they are on or not.
My mother, 6th generation Aussie never used the the term lounge room or lounge..
It was always the 'dining room' and the 'sitting room'.
It's a wonder there wasn't a 'drawing room' hidden away somewhere 😂.
Also we don't usually have a bidet, and showers are not usually over the bath.
Also, Tasmania is freezing in winter, but double glazing is $$$$.
We have a free standing woodheater.
I never saw a laundry in a kitchen until I went to the UK. Our Posties deliver mail on motorbikes so they stop at the letterbox and drop the mail, they don’t walk to the front door.
I’ve never lived in a house that didn’t have a separate laundry .
We have a wee bit more room, here. Two car garages are common and sort of expected.
We have very extreme weather here in Oz, so nearly everyone one has air-conditioned houses or flats or ducted air-con which usually incorporates heating, we can also have ceiling fans, nearly all houses have a laundry and we dont call Bedding Manchester, also the blocks of land are usually large and we have back verandahs more so than front, screens are on windows and doors as we get heaps of flys coming in, you can have double glazed windows if your house doesnt have them, but their expensive, and at the moment a 3 bedroom house on the outskirts of Sydney can cost you 500,000 pounds and upwards, if its in Sydney itself much more.
New Zealand has Manchester, but we sleep under a duvet! Apartments may have the washing machine in the kitchen, but generally there is a separate laundry area near the back door. This is partly because in the old days (1960s), washing machines were heavy and you did not want to carry them far! Clothes can get muddy or dusty and you don't want that near your food prep areas (in the same way toilets must under law be 2 doorways away from the kitchen).
Clothes drying is mostly done *outside* on lines or on racks (clothes horses). Washer-dryers or clothes dryers are not widely used as dryers are considered expensive to run. One thing you must have picked up on, is that *everything* has to be cheap!
We do say flat , and the shops say Manchester we just say sheets, towels etc ,.
It's couch in the lounge or loungeroom.
Houses in Queensland look different than the ones down South..lot's more she didn't get right exactly but almost
In my area, a lot of homes have solar panels and water tanks as well.
Live in Melbourne, never called bedding Manchester they are bed sheets, and don't use lounge they're called a couch
All these young British people think that we have no heating in our houses . This is not true . They tend to live in old inner city houses while living in Australia .
It is the norm to have a laundry. I once had to put my washing machine in the bathroom when I built a very small house, and that felt really strange. Washing clothes in a kitchen would be ghastly with food prep and dirty clothes not being a great mix. In old Queenslander style homes they used to put the laundry under the house. A letterbox in a door would be extremely rare here. Our normal letterboxes are on the front fence facing the footpath. Some places it is on the outer edge of the footpath for deliveries made by car (where I live), and of course, central groups of letterboxes in units or in the bush on the main road and people have to drive to their letterboxes. Some southern homes in Victoia and Tasmania have central heating of some kind - air vents in the floor are most common, I think. But it's true that after a cold night in Qld, for example, you open the house up to let the warm air in. Reverse-cycle air conditioning is the cheapest way to warm your house and that is quite common here, particularly in Qld. Stores call bedding, etc, manchester, but it's not a word used in the home. At home we'd call it "the linen". Duvets are continental quilts, and "doona" comes from one brand of quilt sold by Tontine, I think, that was branded "Doona". It stuck, and now that is the most common generic name for them. Australian yards tend to be large, although in the city and with new homes, house lots are now much smaller. We can choose to get double glazing if we want to, and it's possible that in some states it's used more, but it definitely isn't a normal thing here. Our original homes used to have the kitchen separated from the rest of the house via a hallway, in order to stop the heat from the wood-burning stove from spreading to the rest of the house.
Bed Linen towards the north, it depends whether you live in a posh suburb that still operate under the old empire, so still use the names from the old country.