Housing and my ideal House Essay

Housing and my ideal House Essay

House is a building where we live and called our home. At home we live with other people who we love. It is our residence where we feel relaxed and secure. We have our privacy there and the things which belong to us. 

People can live in houses, flats, apartments or cottages. We know 3 types of houses – terrace houses, semidetached and detached houses. Terrace houses are built in a row with no space between them. Semidetached houses are built as two houses connected together. These types of houses normally have a small garden in the front and bigger garden at the back. A detached house is a completely separate house with a small or big garden in the front and back.

Flats are situated on the floors of a block of flats. There are one-two-free-or four bedroom flats. Most high-rise flats have lifts. Apartments are similar to flats but usually much larger, more modern and sometimes with a porter at the entrance.

We can find cottages in villages or in holiday resorts. People call them country houses or weekend houses because during the weekend they leave their busy town or city to relax in the country.

We can own or rent a house, flat or cottage. When we rent a flat (house, cottage), we have to pay a rent to a landlord/landlady. If somebody rents only one room, he/she becomes a lodger.

When you want to buy, sell or rent a house, flat or cottage, you can use an estate agency which helps you to find the best place at the right price. Alternatively you can any newspaper and read many property advertisements. Then you have to contact the owner, make an appointment to see the property and discuss the price if you like it.

In Slovakia it is popular to buy a land and build their own house. Some people buy an older property with a land and then rebuild or redecorated to their taste.

I would like to live in a big city in a nice apartment. I would like to have a big plasma television and a comfy sofa in my living-room and a huge bed in my bedroom. Then I would like to have a beautiful house on the beach with lots of bedrooms, nice kitchen and living-room and of course a terrace with a view on the see.