American style is a special chapter in architecture and design. He has a number characteristic features, which distinguish it from the rest. These features attract many, which is why American-style houses are increasingly being built in the CIS countries. They are many-sided and have a lot of advantages and disadvantages.

Let us consider in detail in the article what a typical American house is. The layout and architecture of the cottages, features of the interior decoration of the premises will be described below.

Where did it all start?

The American style, which we all know very well, originated from the old European one. Immigrants from England and Europe brought architectural trends from their countries, which took root in the United States for many years. Of course, everything has changed over time, but the origins are the projects of old European dwellings.

The architecture has such features as spaciousness, symmetry, numerous cascades of roofs, a large number of windows, columns and a minimum of relief details. The layout of American houses, photos of which are presented in the article, is characterized by the absence of a full hallway and the original arrangement of the kitchen and dining areas. The main idea of ​​the premises is primarily convenience and comfort. Let's look at this in more detail.

Architectural features of American houses

The architecture of American cottages combines simplicity and intricacy. What are the cascades worth? gable roofs! There is often a spacious terrace around the perimeter of the house, and plenty of natural light comes in through numerous windows. By the way, shutters are also quite common.

American-style homes are usually light or pastel in color. And some elements (for example, a foundation or a chimney) are made of natural stone or sandstone. But most of all, the choice of materials from which houses are built, and appearance buildings are influenced by the specific location of the house.

The weather is different in all states, and this also affects construction. For example, the terraces mentioned above are mandatory attributes of cottages located in the southern regions of America. In the northern regions of the country, houses with thick walls and basements. It follows from this that, although all the cottages belong to the American style, each has its own characteristics.

What is American planning?

As mentioned above, the American one promotes convenience and comfort. The first thing here is simplicity and freedom. Therefore, American houses are characterized by the absence of a full hallway and partitions between the dining area and living room. And this despite the fact that the American house layout initially assumes quite spacious premises. Not only the living room and dining room have a wide area, there is also a lot of space in the bathroom, kitchen, and children's room.

But, no matter how strange it may be, the American layout of the house only provides for one family to live in the cottage, and not several generations. Therefore, they most often have only two bedrooms: a master and a guest. And each house requires at least two exits: the front and the outside. backyard. Also, the entrance door can be located in other rooms on the first floor (for example, in a bedroom or office). There may be an entrance to the garage if it is attached to the house.

We must not forget about them. They are also included in the layout and are a mandatory attribute of every American-style home.

One-story cottages

American layout one-story houses amazes with its diversity. Quite often such cottages are made with a wide porch or veranda. There is no hallway in the usual sense. In the best case, the entrance will be fenced off from the rest of the premises with an arch or columns.

The dining area is usually connected to the kitchen or living room. As a rule, one-story houses have two bedrooms and one children's room. The cottages also have space for three bathrooms and several dressing rooms.

Quite often, garages are attached to the house, so there is always an entrance to the parking lot, next to which there is a place for a laundry corner (washing machine, dryer, ironing board and so on). Usually it is placed behind the walls of a built-in closet.

Two-story cottages

Buildings with two floors are compact and occupy less area, therefore their number prevails over one-story cottages. The American layout usually looks like this.

On the first floor there must be spacious kitchen, dining room and living room. All three rooms are often connected to each other. There is also a toilet, a storage room, and if the garage is attached to the house, then the entrance to it. There may also be an office and a guest bedroom here.

If the first floor is intended for receiving guests, then the second is completely the owner’s territory. There is a master bedroom, a children's room, bathrooms, and a dressing room. If the size of the room allows, another living room is often installed on the second floor.

Interior decoration

Wood is often used. The floor is covered with real parquet, there are decorative beams on the ceiling, and the walls are finished with wooden panels.

The bathroom uses traditional materials - tiles, tiles. In the kitchen, the floor is also covered with tiles, but the walls can be very diverse. It all depends on the features of the layout. For example, if kitchen area is not separated from the dining room and living room, then everything is done in the same style.

In most rooms the walls are painted. As decorative elements friezes, moldings and panels are used. For the fireplace area, choose either wood or stone. Main principle American interior - everything should be harmonious and not irritate the eye.

Furniture

The layout of private American houses is not complete without providing space for furniture, and it takes up quite a lot of space. After all, the furniture in American cottages is large in size; it is customary to place it almost in the center of the room. But it is, as a rule, very soft and cozy. And this proves the principle of American style - convenience and coziness.

The rest of the furniture is no less bulky. Dining rooms in American homes are often decorated with tables and chests of drawers made from natural wood. The same principle is present in offices. But in bedrooms, among the furniture there is usually a bed with a massive headboard and a couple bedside tables. Sometimes you can find a chest of drawers, dressing table, pouf or armchair.

As a storage place, the American house layout provides dressing rooms, which are located not only in the bedrooms, but throughout the house (for example, near front door and in the kitchen).

Who is American suitable for?

Despite all its advantages, the described type of premises is not suitable for everyone. The layout of American-style homes involves frequent communication with family and friends. Therefore, it is recommended for people to build such cottages:

• active and sociable (large space and combined living and dining rooms encourage this);
• focused on family values ​​(a large number of dressing rooms allow you to store expensive things, and the interior is conducive to placing frames with cute photographs and various cozy accessories);
• those who love traveling (think of cozy furniture that is pleasant to sit in when you return home).

If you are more inclined towards a clear division into zones and love corridors, then such a layout will definitely not bring you joy.

By writing this title, I mean a house that the average American family can afford. In this case, I simply went to realtor.com and looked for houses within a 30 mile radius around me.

By the way, I searched for a long time because the photos are bad. Americans don’t really bother taking photos, since everyone roughly knows what’s inside. You'll still have to go and see.

In general, I have chosen a couple of houses with a cost of up to 200 thousand. And I will try to comment on what you will see in the pictures. Because such houses are even very familiar to me.

Here's a look at the house. 3 Bed 3 Bath, that is, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms with toilets. In the first photo, as the song says: “This will be the front, it’s called the façade.”

I've lived almost exactly like this before. So, I know the structure of the house well. On the right is a garage for 2 cars, and the garage is quite long and spacious. On the left is the entrance and a small porch. A tiny front garden, by default the builders plant rose hips there. We go into the house:

On the left is the entrance door, immediately from it there is a staircase to the second floor. Directly you see the windows facing the front yard, that is, right in front of the house. In the first photo, these are the same windows to the left of the front door, are you oriented? There are two figurines hanging on the wall, just for beauty.

If we don’t stop in place and continue to stomp, we will reach the opposite wall of the house and exit through the glass sliding door to the backyard, that is, to the back yard.

Our kitchen was made differently, and even on the right, not the left. Here is the same kitchen in more detail:

The refrigerator is a bit far from the stove. Not very convenient, we had it next to the stove. Here, above the stove, a microwave oven is attached to the wall - this is often done now. This also seems inconvenient to me, because it is simply dangerous to lower the hot stuff from above.

The stoves are now made with double ovens. That is, the lower one is large, and the upper one is slightly smaller, so as not to waste gas if you only need to stew one chicken. There is one oven here. There must be lighting above the stove and a hood with a fan at two speeds.

When renting out a house, as a rule, everything is already worth it, except for the refrigerator. Or maybe they’re already building in a refrigerator now. To the right of the sink is a dishwasher - dishwasher. The sink itself must have a built-in waste shredder - a disposal.

I stole this from another house, but that’s the point. Upstairs suspended ceilings, to the right and left there are long white doors - these are built-in storage rooms. Well, here workplace for a hacker it is shown as I see it. A pair of monitors for what else?

In general, I didn’t see anything in the basements: bars, game rooms, gyms, workshops. I show a piece of my basement in this video: Fizkult-Greetings from Doctor Vlad I’m not inserting it here so as not to take up space, just click on the link.

On the ground floor, in addition to the hall with the kitchen, there are two more rooms - on the left and on the right. Here is one of these rooms from the same house:

Here it is empty. You can leave it like that. I saw some people have a playroom for children. Let me note that it’s not the wires sticking out of the ceiling, but a standard chandelier like the one in the picture. It has a chain, meaning it can be raised or lowered. Either it is above the table, then they lower it. Or there is no table, then they lift it up so as not to bump heads. As long as I’ve lived, I bump into people like this all the time! 🙂

Often one of these side rooms has a fireplace, TV and armchairs. Now I'll steal the photo from somewhere else at their house.

Yes, here is a classic of the genre - a relaxation room with a fireplace, with a TV on the wall. From about the same house. There is also a sofa and comfortable, soft chairs. We've eaten, now we can sleep! All this is still on the first floor.

And here the fireplace is small. Pay attention to the ceiling - it is sloping. That is, there is a roof right on top, without an attic above this room. And two windows to look at the stars. In the last photo in the article you will see these windows on the left, right in the roof.

It's empty here now, but that's because the house is for sale. Of course, an appropriate ambience is always created around the fireplace.

And in this picture there is already the second floor, that is, one of the bedrooms.

Most likely, this is the parent's bedroom, that is, the master bedroom. It is different in that it has its own toilet and bath. There is often a double sink there, so as not to quarrel in the morning.

The ceiling is also sloping, this is done to create more volume in the bedrooms. There's a fan with lights on top. Sometimes it is controlled by a remote control so you don’t have to get up and turn off the lights.

This is the master bedroom bathroom. Our toilet was around the corner and the bathtub was opposite. Well, maybe various subtleties. All toilets must have ventilation. Turns on next to the light.

But this is a children's bedroom. It was the former residents who decorated it this way. Of course, there are a million options. It depends on what kind of children you have. Americans always try to ensure that each child has his own room.

And a third bedroom. So, they took it and painted it in different colors. It is clear that this is also a children's bedroom.

Another small photo: the Landry Room, that is, the washing and drying machines. The author got greedy and apparently filmed it on his phone. And now I’ll steal from another house and glue them together.

You can see for yourself that the cars on the right are more modern. Both there and there you can see where the hot and cold water. The gas for the dryer is connected at the bottom. The left photo shows how washing machine stands on a pallet, under the pallet is a drain. This room is small, just behind the entrance from the garage.

Finally, look at the back of this house.

In our house the facade was exactly the same, but at the back both floors were full, covering the entire house. Apparently the bedrooms here are small. On the ground floor there is a small window for the kitchen. They always make him so small. There are no pictures of the garages, otherwise I would have posted them too.

I just figured it out, there’s a lot I haven’t talked about yet. Every room must have a smoke detector hanging on the wall or ceiling. And now they are obligated to also display a CO indicator, that is, carbon monoxide.

This is the so-called carbon monoxide, colorless and odorless, which is used to “burn” if the stove is closed early. They are the ones who are poisoned. All these sensors howl terribly when my wife is cooking and something is on fire in the house. And they only fall silent if you air everything out thoroughly.

These indicators have another unpleasant property. When the battery starts to run low, they seem to beep. The best at night! You get up, pull the battery out of it and put a new one in in the morning.

I haven't turned up the lighting yet. It turned out well, right? There are a lot of switches in the house. The simplest example is that you entered the house, turned on the light, undressed and took off your shoes and went straight up to the second floor. There is a second switch there that can be used to turn off the light on the stairs. And there are plenty of such “paired” or even triple switches throughout the house.

In short, I'm wrapping up. Ask if anything is unclear. Here is a direct link to this house: 2461 Hearthstone Drive And here is another one on the second one, where I also took the pictures from: 1471 Hearthstone Drive As you can see, they are on the same street.

Both houses are from Hampshire, not far from me and from Chicago. The one I mainly talked about costs 190 thousand, the second 170. Approximately, because you can always bargain and come to an agreement.

P.S. And this is what a small apartment looks like, which can be obtained almost free of charge for people with little income.

Then they begin to pour the foundation itself.

For this you can use either concrete foundation, or piles.

Stage 2. Construction of the frame

After the foundation work has been completed, the exterior finishing begins.

The final stage implies interior decoration, according to your design project - installation, plumbing, ceiling installation, furniture placement

Construction time of a conventional frame-panel house– from 1 month to 3.

American Home Decoration

When you have chosen the technology you need and decided on building materials, you can start choosing finishing materials. There is already complete scope for your imagination, because there are practically no restrictions here. Everyone can choose materials to their taste. Therefore, do not look for standards, but let your imagination run wild.

In conclusion, I would like to say what construction is frame houses According to American technology, it is very profitable and justifies all expectations. And choosing a project that suits your individual conditions is very easy.

The geology of the site includes checking and studying the soil, this allows you to optimize the cost of the foundation.

What happens if you don't do geology?

If you ignore this stage, then you can choose the wrong foundation and lose from 1,000,000 rubles on alterations.

10 year warranty on foundation, walls, ceilings and roofing.

What is included in the Engineering Solution?

Documentation on the location and equipment of all technical rooms, electrical points, water supply, ventilation, gas and sewerage.

What is included in a design solution?

A detailed plan and instructions for the foreman, which displays all the necessary stages and technologies in the construction of the foundation, walls and roof.

What is included in the architectural solution?

Creation of a sketch and its 3D image, which shows the location and size of rooms, walls, roofing, furniture, windows and doors.

What will you get after this stage?

All technical and visual documentation. Author's supervision of the construction progress. Our architect and designer will visit the site weekly.

Still have questions? Ask them to an engineer.

What determines the timing?

The timing depends on the chosen project and material (houses made of logs and timber require time to shrink).

What is "house shrinkage"?

This is a natural process of volume change wooden walls and other parts due to drying of the wood.

Who will build my house?

We have our own staff of certified workers and foremen with at least 5 years of specialized experience. A fleet of construction equipment has been put into operation since 2015. We do not involve contractors.

Still have questions? Ask them to an engineer.

I want it like in this picture. Can you?

Yes! You can send us any image and we will design and build what you want.

Do you have a designer on your staff?

Currently there are 5 interior designers on staff with a total of 74 years of specialized experience.

What is included in an interior design project?

Drawing up a 3D project by a designer, as well as support and implementation of all finishing works.
We will also produce and supply furniture that suits your lifestyle and taste.

The origins of the American style originate in the old European houses- since after emigrating to the United States, the British, Germans, Italians, Poles and other inhabitants of the old world imported their architectural styles and directions that first took root and then began to develop independently. It is the old European architecture, and especially the English projects of the Victorian era, that is the foundation American style projects that combine simplicity and functionality. As a rule, houses created in the American style have light shades, have large windows, which provides the project with natural light and a spacious covered terrace.

American house layout

The classic layout of American houses also has some distinctive features. The rooms are usually large and spacious; as a rule, the kitchen area is combined with the dining room and living room. It is envisaged that such a house will have a wardrobe, laundry room, children's room, office and personal bathrooms. American-style houses must have a garage for at least two cars, which can be entered both from the outside and from the inside.

Characteristic features of American houses

Classic houses, made in the American style, have some special characteristics:

1. Non-standard roofs. This characteristic is especially obvious if the house has several floors. In this case, projects have gable roofs with an acute angle of inclination of a complex broken shape at several levels.
2. Exterior view of the building. A special feature of this house is its light facade, as well as the presence of a spacious terrace. Application natural materials- wood for finishing facades and shutters, natural or artificial stone when finishing foundations and pipes.
3. The presence of a significant amount large windows. They help with home lighting and visually increase the interior space due to the large amount of natural light. Thanks to the milder climate, this is a completely justified decision.
4. Very well maintained local area with clear zoning.