nothing but the home truth: IDENTIFY YOUR DOMICILE

and ok there should be an OTHER for everything not included. like manufactured homes, or RVs, or houseboats. you can just write about those i guess.

Live in apartment, own a house, rent it out, have done since 2002, waiting for news that it has fallen down which will surely one day come

good poll. studio for this guy.

this is a terrific thread title

2-Bedroom apartment with 77's favorite roommate.

dorm room

Rental loft which is technically a studio (one big room), but set up like a 2 bedroom.

Standalone house, which isnt as fancy as it sounds, as it's a tiny 2 bedroom miner's cottage with a more modern rear extenson and the peeniest galley kitchen I've ever had to suffer using :( I had more floorspace in my old apartment! Still its a nice house and has a nice big courtyard out back :D Looking fwd to summer breakfasts and BBQs outside v much <3

And we rent - buying said house in this neighb would cost upwards of 600k, easily.

dorm room

an unforgivable omission. sorry, dormers.

(i'm in a 2-bedroom apt., btw. slightly bigger than our last 2-bedroom.)

Two bedroom house, the upside of living in the middle of nowhere.

i used to have a 2-bedroom house. for $400 a month. those were the days.

1BR apartment. When my girlfriend and I were planning on moving in together, we were considering a 2BR (since it probably still would've saved money compared to the separate 1BRs we had) -- but we kind of fell in love with this place, which has plenty of room as it is.

1 bedroom apartment

2 bedroom apt shared w/ gf. 2nd bedroom is my office/recording studio/print shop.

3 bed stand alone house, rented. i don't ever want to live next to someone else's walls again.

i have the bonus of not having another apt next to me :)

Standalone house

supplemental question: does the place you live have an elevator? (a doorman? concierge service? )

we have a creaky old elevator. never lived anyplace that had a doorman.

1 Bed Room Apartment

('flat' in London - when I used the word 'apartment' amongst family, one of them said to me forcefully 'who the hell do you think you are?' - as if using the word 'apartment' was trying to give myself status beyond my lowly station in life.

We rent a row house which is hilarious if you read "row" to rhyme with "now".

3 bedroom standalone house shared w/ two others. pretty standard practice for 20 somethings in this city. I have live in terrace (row) houses, but never an apartment.

Two-bedroom semi-detached house, which is Not On Your List. Unless you count us and the other half of the building to be a row.

3-bedroom house, moving in two weeks to an even bigger house.

Live in apartment, own a house, rent it out, have done since 2002, waiting for news that it has fallen down which will surely one day come

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Walked past it the other day - still standing - fear not!

Two-bedroom semi-detached house, which is Not On Your List. Unless you count us and the other half of the building to be a row.

this is what i meant by duplex, tho i may be using that word wrong.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2485/3893055970_a52c6cc8cc.jpg

Very boring but nicely located.

I thought a duplex was something else. Perhaps it is I that is wrong.

Rented 2 bd apt in a 3 story house that has one apt on each floor.

What's a row house? Is that the same as a terraced house?

3 bed semi, put me down for a write in vote.

YES row houses are the same as terraced houses.

Victorian terrace.

3 bed stand alone house, rented. i don't ever want to live next to someone else's walls again.

^^^^^ Same for me except I bought mine almost 3 years ago, and for the same reason. My wife and I were renters for nearly 20 years in various apartments and duplex houses and got tired of it.

Standalone homeowner in the US, which we're presently renting out while living in a two-bedroom apartment overseas.

Own a 2 Bedroom condo, I don't know where that fits (there are 4 units in my building) but voted 2 bedroom apt.

2BR apartment, shared w/ GF, though I think we'll probably end up moving to a 1 BR at some point.

yeah i didn't differentiate between condos and apartments becz i was just curious about the spaces people occupy as opposed to rent-or-own status....

I own a three story, 4BR row house.

I live in a 2 bed ground floor flat in a converted Edwardian terraced house.

1 bedroom flat. Mine all mine. Well, at least as far as the loo, the rest of it belongs to the bank. But still.

Would love to sell it and buy a 2-bedroom standalone house somewhere OUT FAR AWAY in the country but I think that the London property market is still too collapsed to dream of that for a while yet.

The building is a semi-detached. It's a brit thing.

Mine is a large studio with a balcony in the very centre of central London. I'd like a larger place in the same neighbourhood some day, but I'm going to have to earn it. Whatever the case, I can walk to the West End or Shoreditch in about 20 minutes, which is very satisfying at rush hour.

Edwardian terrace, here

Currently, we're renting two places. My husband lives in a 3 bedroom sublet on Canada's east coast and I live in an attic studio apartment on America's west. I'm waiting for my visa to come through so I can join him. Clicked studio.

Stand alone home. We are currently house-hunting, and may get another house, but most likely will end up in a townhome. We have lots of space in the house and a fucking awesome backyard, but drugs and alcoholism are pretty bad in our neighborhood and the schools suck.

One bedroom apt. for me and my creatures.

There should be another category for "basement apartment" b/c living in one really is a miserable experience unto itself (been there, done that, will never do again - no matter how tempting the bargain..)

2 bedroom apartment over two floors at the top of an old Georgian townhouse.

a three-bed detached, owned by us and largely paid for by my better half

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3210/3086845758_e13698f6cf_b.jpg

That's Bob in the livingroom/kitchen window. We have a floor above too, where the master bedroom and bathroom are.

Good old Bob!

btw I live in a ~townhome~ and I've begun to get the impression that it isn't a common term? It's a two-story apartment with living space on the ground floor and bedrooms up a flight of stairs.

A townhouse is also attached to other townhouses, in a row, right?

I think "townhome" and "loft" are often the same thing, but it depends on the marketing and aesthetics of the development/building. Perhaps the main difference between a townhome and a loft is that the former is often carpeted.

i don't think of townhome and loft as the same at all.

a townhouse does not have to be attached to the other townhouses, but i think it frequently is?

yeah, I think you're right ...

Two story standalone house on the side of the only active volcano in the city limits of the USA. Share with 3 other guys but it's a lot of room so we get along fine. Rent is cheap too. Nice view of Portland from our back deck. An owl hoots outside my window at night. Love it here.

A townhouse in the UK is usually a 3-storey terraced house.

I own (i.e. am buying) a large standalone on maybe 1/3 of an acre. Technically a 3-bedroom but it has 2 baths and an upstairs suite and an outbuilding and a basement bedroom and a trailer. We've had nine people live here before but now we're down to six. My wife and I are realizing that it is probably just too big for us, and I could see selling it sometime in the next decade.

i live in a rowhouse. it's very long and narrow.

townhouse and loft are opposites, i would say

terraced, row and townhouses are all variations on the same thing. homes attached laterally.

yeah but if you say you live in a townhouse i would think that means your dwelling unit has an upstairs and a downstairs. if you live in a rowhouse that just describes the kind of building it is. so a townhouse is usually a rowhouse, and a loft can be inside a rowhouse too.

for whatever reason, when I see the phrase "terrace house" I think of somethng like this:
http://www.uic.edu/depts/ahaa/classes/ah111/L23-ex/hopipueblo.jpg

currently live in parents home, week tomorrow will be living in a 1 bedroom apartment so i'm voting that.

I live in a townhouse, which here means attached unit of more than 1 story.

terrace makes me think of tower-style public housing. i think every city in the us has something named "windsor terrace" or similar.

ah i guess in nyc that's a neighborhood, not a public housing project

Aus terrace houses look like this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Terrace_houses_in_south_melbourne.jpg

I think in California those would be called townhouses.

I live in a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpaulin...

way more information than anyone other than housing geeks would want, but informative nonetheless.

Townhouses here tend to be the modern upstairs/downstairs kind, sometimes semi detatched, sometimes standalone, it is a bit of a vague term though. I suppose in general it applies to "compact housing for high density area".

I live in a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpaulin...

And you're lucky to have it! There were ten of us in a rolled-up newspaper at the bottom of a gravel pit!

http://www.twogunrocky.com/fouryork2.jpg

4 bedroom apartment in a stand-alone house...we basically rent the house, except that there's an empty studio apartment in back that could theoretically also be occupied. It's a lot of unrelated people for one place, but we have tons of space.

i live in a 1-bedroom apartment that's attached to a larger private house.

two-ish bedroom apartment in a third-floor walkup brownstone . . . row house?

1-bedroom apartment on the second floor of THIS: http://www.eastwestmgt.com/LisaStreet.htm?CP=1,468&PID=225&SID=2

grrr...

http://www.eastwestmgt.com/images/Lisa2.jpg

We rent two 1-bedroom apartments on the same floor in a 72-unit building, it's cheaper than the two-bedrooms across the street, plus we don't have to pay for gas, plus, two kitchens!

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/images/column/6106/blotto.JPG
This is the street where I live ! My flat has a tiny living-room, a tiny bedroom and an even tinier office, but I still like after 15 years.

2BR/1BA flat in a walk up, shared with ILXor Mr. Que. If I could choose between one more BA and one more BR that would be a tough call; another BA would be handy when we have house guests, but Mr. Que has posession of the 2nd room and I have no room of my own, which gives me the envy sometimes.

Two bedroom flat in a street that looks like it's made up of one-hundred-year-old terraced houses, but actually half of them are flats (not converted to flats - they were built like that and have their own front doors).

It's owned by my parents. A big fucking rowhouse (five bedrooms, three bathrooms,...)
You can see it here. Ned's pic.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/21/26111808_d7e99df4a8_m.jpg

It's only half of the whole house. Three/four stories (depending how you look at it...)

Row house, now.

I assume that a row = terrace. Our house has a spiral staircase!

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