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When did flats become apartments?
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ShelfStacker wrote: »I like the idea of "studio flats". I live in a "studio flat". Well, actually, I call it a bedsit. As anyone who doesn't need their face punched inside out does.
Studio used to mean just that - a studio for painters, usually in an attic with skylights etc. Then it started to mean a bedsit with its own cooking, washing and WC facilities. Then a few years ago, scuzzy landlords started using it to describe bedsits or even just rooms in shared houses!'Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.' Quentin Crisp0 -
I have seen Granny Annexes called Buy-to-Let opportunities.0
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I went to look at a lovely apartment on Saturday. It was on a sought after development and has been recently renovated.
The reason terms like these are used to sell or describe the property is because it sounds better than saying:
I went to look at a flat on Saturday on this estate. It's been done up with a bit of paint too and looks well mint.0 -
But was it stunning? It has to be stunningI went to look at a lovely apartment on Saturday. It was on a sought after development and has been recently renovated.
The reason terms like these are used to sell or describe the property is because it sounds better than saying:
I went to look at a flat on Saturday on this estate. It's been done up with a bit of paint too and looks well mint.
I went to look at a [strike]lovely[/strike] stunning apartment on Saturday. It was on a [strike]sought after[/strike] stunning development and has been recently renovated to a stunning standard.
They need to make sure people are stunned to get them to sign up for shared ownership.After the uprising of the 17th June The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?0 -
But was it stunning? It has to be stunning
I went to look at a [strike]lovely[/strike] stunning apartment on Saturday. It was on a [strike]sought after[/strike] stunning development and has been recently renovated to a stunning standard.
They need to make sure people are stunned to get them to sign up for shared ownership.
If you replace all the 'stunnings' with '!!!!!! as a newt' it doesn't quite read right, until the last sentence that is.I am a Mortgage Consultant and don't like to be told what I can and can't put in a signature so long as it's legal and truthful.0 -
'Flat's always had a sort of 'not as good as a house' connotation when I was a kid. Especially council flats.
I suspect the term 'apartment' is just used to make them sound more desirable.--
Every pound less borrowed (to buy a house) is more than two pounds less to repay and more than three pounds less to earn, over the course of a typical mortgage.0 -
When did flats become apartments? I'm sure that they always used to be flats, and I never noticed any change. Now, suddenly, I can't find any flats anywhere, just apartments.
Also, 'estate' seems so, well, 70's. What's the new-millenium-speak for that?
It's a development of apartments. Duh.
I live in a flat. A perfectly nice flat, too. I don't feel the need to call it an apartment to boost my self-esteem (-:...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
arent apartments meant to have their own door to the street rather than flats which have a communal entrance/hall way ?
Nope. They are all flats....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
At the same time that terraced houses became town houses :rotfl:
Town houses, to my mind, are Georgian 4-5 story terraces in central London. Not nasty newbuilds in Essex....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
And some of the new apartments here offer contemporary 24/7 living! Handy to know you can use your apartment all the time
Yes, I'd find it dead handy to be able to sleep in mine as well as spend the daytime here if I chose!...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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