Décrivez votre maison

[Brown, Jon Brow]

An interesting idea for a thread (in theory :\ )

How many rooms?
Furnishing style?
Garden?
Location/view?

You get the idea.



(BTW the thread title probably doesn't make sense, thats because I haven't spoke french for nearly 2 years. Whats 'your' in French :confused :)

[Mark]

Votre est correct.

Ma maison est assez petit. Elle a cinq salles en total mais
elle a besoin de rénovation.

[Donney]

Rented small flat: 74 m2
three rooms, bathroom and almost ridiculous kitchen.
Cheap but modern furniture, looks pleasant.
Style: it was temporary two years ago :rolleyes: basically old rally and F1 pictures.

[Brown, Jon Brow]

You didn't have to reply in french!

Why is house a feminine word?

[Mark]

Why is house a feminine word?

Why shouldn't it be? There is no particular logic to it.

[Storm]

French? :s

Tengo un piso con cinco habitaciones....bastante grande.

A living/dining area with an open kitchen, 3 bedrooms...of which 1 is supposedly the master..1 bedroom is for my parents when they come-over (we stay in the same city ) and the 3rd one is not actually a bedroom anymore.....its has my PC, books, CDs, music system, my guitars (2) and a mattress on the floor if someone wants to sleep over :)

Plus I have 3 balconies, the largest has about 15 different potted plants and the hibiscus is now 4.5 ft tall :D

Yes all this is on the 7th floor of an apartment complex and for the view I have a small hill which is covered by tall trees , facing east and especially lovely when it rains (monsoon should be here anytime now!) :)

[Donney]

You didn't have to reply in french!

Why is house a feminine word?

It is also in Spanish and as Mark said there's no particular logic to it.

[gadjo_dilo]

Today I still live in an apartment at the first floor of a villa in the very centre of the city. The street isn't exactly quiet and the cars are parked everywhere sometimes blocking the access in the court.
The apartment consists of 4 rooms, a very large hall, a kitchen, a bathroom, separate WC, a small lumber room, different small halls. The bad thing is that there are too many doors. The living room has 4 doors, two of them on the same wall and going to the same hall. My room has 2 doors and 2 windows so every wall has its hole making difficult the furnishing. We also have a part of the cellar, attic, garage. and inner court. The court is very small, almost symbolic, but above the garage we have a large terrace that we mainly use to dry the laundry.
The house is in a very advanced state of shade and it hasn't central heat, it takes a fortune to fix it and I'll never have enough money for it. But the main problem is the ownership, we own only half of it and the rest was confiscated by state. I'm in a long lawsuit for it since 2000 but things go slowly and the laws seem to eschew my particular case.
The furniture is quite old and too much but my mother refuse to throw away the old stuff.
I said that " today I still live " there because I'm not sure of tomorrow. Last night due to some street reparations the building, the windows and the doors started to vibrate at the extent of an earthquake. If they'll continue tonight it will probably fall down.

[CharlieJ]

How many rooms? Living room, dining room (but no wall between, so is that one or two? :confused: two and a half bedrooms (the half being full of junk anyway, plus bathroom, kitchen and utility room.

Furnishing style? General confusion. :eek:

Garden? Organised confusion. :)

Location/view? 1970s estate / the usual view from the living room is of the Post Office van driven by my next-door neighbour - mind you, when he moves it all I can see is the side of the house across the street. :(


Dammit.......... I want a cottage in the country!
:mad:

[schmenke]

My abode is typical for suburbia...

Three bedrooms (all currently occupied :mark: )
Two bathrooms plus one "powder" room.
Living room, kitchen...
A "bonus" room into which the family sometimes retires in the evenings to enjoy a captivating episode of Sea Hunt on the picture-box.
A scary unfinished basement in which I believe I last saw a family of Elbonian gypsies making camp...
Two-car garage.. well, one car really at the moment... :uhoh:
Garden: some mixed vegitation out front, but bare in the rear (...insert innuendo here...)
View: Uh, a much-too-close view of the neighbour scubbing his Pole to the rear, and a mall directly to the East :s . To the North and West... more suburbia...

I too want a cottage in the country! :mad:

[Drew]

Je habite dans la sud ovest de l'angleterre dans un maison avec ma familie.

Who knows how much of that is grammatically right. I studied French for one year, about 5 years ago :p :

[slinkster]

Chez Slink...

How many rooms?
Small flat... two bedrooms but one is used as my studio, bathroom, lounge/diner and kitchen

Furnishing style?
The flat was already furnished, most of the daggy stuff I've covered with throws and the usual stuff. I took down all the flowery pictures and put up loads of funky new ones. My studio is the best room... it's awesome. Full of junk but the sort of junk that's essential to my creative mood. :)

Garden?
Nope. Want one though to house my future tortoise.

Location/view?
Opposite a church so quite a nice view.. but right near a main road so VERY noisy.

:)

[jso1985]

this reminds the type of homework I had to do when I was starting to learn english :D

I live with my family in an old house in the noisy downtown, it was built "colonial" style with the patio in the middle and all rooms around it, it becomes very uncortable if I'm in the "computer & books" room(as we call it) and it's starts to rain heavily(wich happens very often in summer :mark: ) and I need to come back to my bedroom, anyway it has 4 bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, 2 bathrooms, an extra room where the computer and all books are and another extra were we basically leave anything that doesn't fit in another room.
The furniture is let's say... a whole mess...
and the location is crap, it's noisy from cars during daytime, and noisy agian in the night due all the drunk students(the School of Medicine is just 2 blocks away)

[Brown, Jon Brow]

4 bedrooms ( 2 with en suites) open kitchen and dining room, living room, study and conservatory. A double garage that contains a Jaguar Mk2 and a Jaguar XJ120 being restored.

Grassy area to side and back of house.

Isn't really a furnishing style :\ . Some old stuff some new stuff.

Rear view has some fields usually full of cows and the Bowland fells in the distance. to the front are other houses on the estate.

[Alexamateo]

The House:

I've got a nice 2300 square foot house with a split floor plan. Starting at the foyer, it opens to a large family room with vaulted ceiling. To the right is our dining room, which has no dining table and is our de facto playroom for our two children (ages 3 & 1). THe dining room connects to the kitchen, which also connects to the family room, thereby making a great circle in which to play "chase" with the kids. By the doorway between the kitchen and dining is the pantry, and the laundry/mud room which connects to the side-load garage. The kitchen is an open plan that connects to the breakfast room. Continuing right off the kitchen is the Master bedroom (also a vaulted ceiling) and the Master bath with Jacuzzi and large walk-in closet.

On the other side of the house, are the two kids rooms and their bathroom. My office is upstairs above the garage.

The Garden: (with plant descriptions for Hazel)

I've got a side-load garage, which makes a large patio-like turnaround and driveway. On either side of the front door, I have Hetz columnaris junipers cut into spirals, next to these are Burgundy Loropetelum, underplanted with Big Blue liriope, and pockets of Annual color (gold Lantana) on the far end are Emerald Arborvitaes. To the right of our drive is a large Willow Oak, and to the left is a Deodar cedar. The foundation planting along the garage consists of a Tree-form Needlepoint holly, followed by a line of Cleyera, anchored by a wintergreen Boxwood. In the curve of the drive I have a large Vitex underplanted with a single "flame Creeper" azalea, and purslane (an annual) Right next to the corner of the garage is a climbing hydrangea. The whole side has a big blue liriope border. I have two "knockout" roses planted by the mailbox. I haven't done much with the back except for one small bed. It has another vitex underplanted with variegated hydrangeas and pachysandra. A "Nellie R Stevens" holly anchors one corner of the house. I have another climbing hydrangea by the door, and the wholeback patio is shaded by a large Bradford Pear. I also have a small vegetable garden. (just tomatoes and squash, and a couple of jalepeno peppers.) Our grass is Bermuda.

The Neighborhood:

I love my neighborhood. It's a single entry off the main road onto a circle. I do back up to the main road, and have double frontage, but there's a hill and a fence, so it knocks down any noise. I have great neighbors and there are other kids for my children to play with, It's just a great place to live!

[Ian McC]

4 bedrooms, living room, dining room, study and conservatory. Double garage, only one in use at the moment as the drive is covered in bricks. Garden is a work in progress, was sloping all over so decided to put it on several levels, hence the bricks!

[Hazell B]

I have Hetz columnaris junipers cut into spirals


Nice, classy, highly fashionable and a beautiful choice :up:



......a climbing hydrangea.


The only thing we have in common :p :

My place is a smallish 120 year old terrace three from the end of a riverbank row. Two bedrooms over two reception rooms, stairs in the centre going side to side - the basic Victorian terrace layout. At the back there's a kitchen and the bathroom's above that.

Outside there's a small yard with two raised shrub beds (nothing interesting except the Twisted Hazel bought for me as a comedy gift some years ago :p : )

Beyond the boundary it's a lane we use to park on, riverbank, row of houses opposite and then pretty much farmland. Quiet road only to our houses, though those wishing to drive off the bankside and die in the river sometimes have a bash at passing the house. They generally fail. No backbone :s

Inside it's a mess of styles, un-styles and doghair. The bathroom's gorgous and big for a small house, while the lounge is a jumble of my paperwork, DVDs, dogbeds and totally oversized cream leather sofa. So long as you look at the fireplace (very nice inglenook) and close your eyes to the rest, it's tidy :mark:

Saving up to biuld a better one ourselves.

[Camelopard]

House in 'burbs of Canberra, typical early eighties house, 3 bedrooms, master with an ensuite, combined living and dining rooms, faces east/west which is useless for this part of the world, should be north/south to avoid the hot western summer sun and to get all the northern light possible in winter. House is hard to heat and cool, working on both those aspects.
Looks out on to a reserve with lots of gum trees, this can't be built out as it is a nature reserve and ocassionly we get a few kangaroos in there. Lots of very noisy Cockatoos make their nightly homes here and boy can they kick up a racket.
Largish separate 2 and 1/2 car garage. 1/2 part is good as I normally have 1/2 a car in there (in bits)! My Escort Cosworths live in there, soon hopefully to be reduced by one, my wife's Nissan lives outside in the cold (at the moment). My Capri is in a seperate concreted area which is meant to be getting a roof over it some time.
Garden is my wifes area, although I think she still has too much lawn, mind you the recent drought has been taking a very heavy toll, we even pipe our washing machine water outside and have a couple of buckets in the shower to empty outside as well.
Less than 10 minute comute to work, poor car doen't even warm up, which can't be good for it. If I wasn't such a lazy bugger I'd be cycling.

I'd like to live in a house that I saw in Altes Lager in Germany, it is a former Soviet plane bunker on a disused cold war airfield that faced south and needed next to no heating or cooling as it is covered with several feet of concrete and earth, I'll try and find a photo.