Need a little help from my friends!

Hey guys!

For one of my stories, I need to know what the Brits call a one bedroom
apartment. I know that "flat" is the British term for "apartment" itself,
but do you have different names for different size apartments? Like, studio
apartment (where there is no separate bedroom), loft (which is a
high-ceilinged apartment), or duplex (where the building sports only two
apartments.) As much detail as you can spare, please.
Thanx!
Denise



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--- Denise Felt wrote:
> Hey guys!
>
> For one of my stories, I need to know what the Brits call
> a one bedroom apartment.

Denise,

I'm only from Austria, but my dictionary reads:
One-room apartment or Efficiency apartment (in America);
One-room flat or Studio flat (in GB).

I don't know if this is of any help for you, but I am sure that
some guys from Britain will help you! Right, Rob? :-)

Christian

"Denise Felt" wrote:
> Hey guys!
>
> For one of my stories, I need to know what the Brits call a one
> bedroom apartment. I know that "flat" is the British term for
> "apartment" itself, but do you have different names for different
> size apartments? Like, studio apartment (where there is no
> separate bedroom), loft (which is a high-ceilinged apartment), or
> duplex (where the building sports only two apartments.) As much
> detail as you can spare, please.

Hello Denise,

There isn't really a lot of detail to spare .. we do use the term
'studio flat' the same way, or sometimes the term 'bedsit' to
mean the same thing (though the latter term has a slightly
'downmarket' connotation'). 'Loft' over here really only means
literally the roofspace - not ever used to denote a home in its
own right. Quite honestly we generally just use the number of
bedrooms - 'one-bedroom flat', 'two-bedroom-flat', and so on.

Hope this helps,
James

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> Yup, translation of that the same as U.S. In other words, bathroom
> so small there's no room to think, sink in kitchenette only seen
> through microscope, more closet space than room to live in? <g> I
> should know, I live in a bedsitter.
>

Note though that in the UK we call it a bedsit, not a bedsitter.

James

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> I still will never get over Straker's decor. Zebra skin rug? Maybe he's
> renting from Austin Powers.
> I personally think he borrowed props from Harlington Straker studio, to keep
> down decorating costs<g>
> Amelia(in her bed-sit)

I always wondered about all the different family crest plaques on the
wall - I mean, one should display one's OWN family crest, right? What
significance did all those different ones have, I wonder?

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Might have been the crest of different notable Strakers in the family. I did
a bit of research on heraldry and learned that there is a standard coat of
arms for a family and a coat of arms for each member of the family. This was
a way of letting people know on the battlefield that you were So and So the
second son of such and such family not the first son so that your brother's
did not lay claim to your deed and you didn't get blamed for any misdeeds of
his<g>

James

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> Might have been the crest of different notable Strakers in the family. I did
> a bit of research on heraldry and learned that there is a standard coat of
> arms for a family and a coat of arms for each member of the family. This was
> a way of letting people know on the battlefield that you were So and So the
> second son of such and such family not the first son so that your brother's
> did not lay claim to your deed and you didn't get blamed for any misdeeds of
> his<g>

I don't know - I don't remember if there was any similarity in the
crests or not.

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> The crests, the candle holders which looked Spanish wrought iron to me,the
> griffin or dragon or whatever that large red thing was..Welsh dragon? He had
> plants, matching vases, depressing curtains <g> a shell for an ashtray, a
> table with absolutelynothing on it, a record player with no record collection
> in sight (weknow he atleast owns Wagner) the flintlocktype guns on the wall,
> the paperglobes,the alabaster eggs the abstract artwork, the orange napkins,
> the fur throw on his bed....

LOL! Sounds like you've paid pretty close attention, Amelia!

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