Hello world, where I'm from... Oh wait, no!

Hello world, this is what living rooms around the world are like

Alright Aiko, what's the first video?

First is Debora in Italy

And she likes playing with lightsabers

Well, not in the video

Hi, I'm Debora, and this is what an Italian living room is like

I think my living room has got a quiet Italian look because it has lots of wood

furniture and it's very simple and rustic

Lots of my living room furniture has been made by my father

like this structure right here

In our living room, we have quite a few pictures on the walls

There are also some African frogs

Their names are Armando, Giangianni, and Pigrizia

In winter we save money with this fireplace

and I think it's very useful for creating the atmosphere too

These are from Puglia and they are typical, local houses called Trulli

And last, but not least, this is a prize, a trophy

that I won last weekend in a natural lightsaber tournament

because I do a very uncommon sport called lightsaber combat

and we actually fight with a replication of lightsabers

So what's the next video?

Mae in Cambridge, in England

And what's your favourite part?

I love the tea part

Yep, I think this one's the cutest submission

Hello world, my name is Mae

Where I'm from in Cambridge, England this is what a living rooms is like

When visitors come, we bring them straight in there

Let's have a look

This, is a sofa

Most people in England have one... or maybe more

It's where we relax, watch films, and watch TV

When we have guests, we sit and drink tea

When we have lots of guests you could sit on this stool, like so

In England, we decorate with ornaments or photos

Mum didn't like ornaments so we mostly decorate with photos

This one is my favourite one because it reminds me of a holiday that I went with my Dad

In our house, we have curtains to cover the windows

but in some homes, they have blinds

There's only one light per room in England

And we are really lucky because we have French doors that open out into our garden

so we can play on sunny days outside

This is our dining table. This is where we eat, draw, and do our homework

Some people have a separate dining room, but mum turned ours into a study

We have three pets. Two hamsters that we keep down here called Hermione and Mary

and we also have a budgie called Sayuri

We let her out whenever we're in

Thank you for watching our video!

And the next video

Krystan and Thomas in Salt Lake City in the United States

Yep, and they really like their carpets and rugs

Hello, my name is Krystan

And my name is Thomas

And we are currently living in Draper, Utah, which is just outside of Salt Lake City

This one is an open floor plan concept, which means our living room is built

as the centre of our apartment

Then you have your kitchen, your bedroom, and your bathroom attached to it

Another thing that might be different than the apartments back by you guys

is that we have carpeted floors

And not only do we have carpeted floors

but we choose to use a rug to cover over our higher traffic areas

We also have a ceiling fan, which not all apartments have them

We didn't have them in our old apartments

We actually had to use lamps to help illuminate the whole room,

like the one in the corner behind the TV

And the next video

Avril in Marseille, France

Avril! It's April

Oh!

Yeah, and she's super vintage, she likes her old stuff

Yep

Hi, my name is Avril

I live in Marseille, in the south of France

and this is what my living room look like

My living room has no separation between living, dining, and working room

As a student I have a pretty big living room and I'm really happy about it

The principle element of a French living room is the couch

No couch, no living room

As you can see, I really like Star Wars and Pokemon

In France, we also like book shelves, and as you can see, I love books and comics

Another thing about old French apartments is that we have really, high ceilings

Really high!

We saw lots of videos around the world and some things stuck out to us

and one of them was...

Fireplaces!

And what about the fireplaces?

Well, almost every house, there are fireplaces

and they're like brick, or like cement, or lots of, like you know on top of TVs

You have a TV on top of it

Yeah, people like putting stuff on top of it

Greek houses that are for sale often have a fireplace

So big, open room like this have usually a fireplace

I use mine as a shelf

Here's some shelves so you put everything

So people didn't seem like they used their fireplaces that much

But they like to use it in winter

I also love the fact that we have a fireplace

So, when the winter comes, we can snuggle around the fireplace

And there's a fireplace

Do we ever use that thing?

Only at Christmas time

Now, we did get one person who actually uses the fireplace to heat their home though

Finally, our wood stove is in the corner, connected to the chimney

Next, we want to talk about carpets

In America, it seems like it's popular

Hello Aiko and Shin, where we're from this is our living room in Western New York

In the other countries we saw, we didn't see any carpets in living rooms

But they had carpets

They had carpets? What kind of carpets?

Well, little carpets

Oh, rugs, yeah, you're right.

So they had rugs over top of like laminate or tile...

In the living room area you mostly always can find a carpet, like a pretty huge carpet

Our floor is mostly tile, just like the rest of our house

We noticed that some people like putting desks in their living rooms

And they like putting their computers on it

Work, work, work! Or play. Minecraft?

Something that's pretty different, I guess, in my house

is that we got a kind of office in the living room

And in that corner I have the computer

So this is my work place

We saw lots of rooms with cute pets in them

So this is what our living room in Draper, Utah looks like

That is a ?

And who's that little thing on the pink thing?

Grumpy

Watching all the videos, I started to realize that it's kind of hard to pin down

the concept of a living room

Some people used it to entertain guests, some people used it for eating,

some people used it to study even

and some houses even have separate rooms for each one of these functions

I would say that my living room is pretty big, pretty open,

because there's no separation between the kitchen area and the living room area

This living room is mostly used for formal things, such as parties

like in Christmas and New Years

Any other day, we're probably using this living room

because it has the TV, the Wii, and the DVD

As you can see this is the dining room and over here, this is the living room

In most living rooms, they have sofas, and TVs, and a coffee table

It is usual to have couches and a centre table

Couches are always placed around a coffee table and they usually face a television

There is a TV

Another principle element of living rooms in France is the TV

Mine is actually older than me, but it still works

I like the style of the Lithuanians. They were always ready for guests

Mostly, table is always set, because you always can have unexpected guests

Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye

Thank you for watching our video!

What are living rooms like where you're from?

Hey Aiko, she stole your line!

Oh that's fine, she was cute

Yeah, she was. What do we want to see in the next video?

We want to see what are kitchens like around the world

Yeah, so please let us know what a kitchen is like where you're from

and we'd love to see some countries we haven't seen before, or some places, like

I want to see Hawaii

Hawaii? Okay, I want to see, maybe some countries in Africa, or India,

or some other places in Asia

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And, thank you for making all these videos, and we love it,

and sorry we couldn't put all the videos, but we're going to watch it all,

and then, yep, we loved it

Okay, thanks for watching!

See you next time, bye!

Did you say, "See you next time?" Kind of, "See you next time, bye"

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You broke the bananas!

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Nooooooo! Ow.

Bye!