Reminds me of a magnet we have on our refridgerator:

Dull women have immaculate houses

 It really doesn´t have to be in the country you don´t have electricity. Many times when I was living in the middle of New York City, we were without electricity. You don´t hear about all of the blackouts and brownouts...there are many.

There is no place like your house

Or the English saying: There´s no place like home to be said (3 times (I think) while clicking your sparkly red shoes together

Just as another thought on "Your House" - what is it made of?

Bricks and Blocks

Blocks that are painted

Wood

Stone

Mud

This is like a little survey...................... You may think it is obvious, but times are changing and construction methods are too with sustainable construction and heat loss being the big topics

Mine is a traditionally built house of bricks and blocks with a tiled roof

Ours is brick and block too and the external walls are two brick walls with a small gap between for preventing the heat loss. But however,  some of the windows are single sash windows with a huge heat loss..(apperantly,  making them double glazed increases the weight and they dont work anymore)

In istanbul, a clasical apartment would be a concrete structure with hallow bricks and the windows would be plastic double windows (although they look ugly but they do the job)

I remember the house when my mother was born..It was made of mud bricks (with straws in them )with 2 feet thick external walls, small windows with shutters. It reall felt really warm there.

I have no idea whatsoever what my house is made of, but as soon as my husband gets back from work, I´ll ask him as he´s a specialist in that particular field and will gladly provide you with technical details since it´s such a hot topic.

 Thank you for your dedication to my request and it is so annoying that I cannot get smilies and I dont remember all the short cuts

There is no nice web site like TLC (Turksh Language Class)

 I thought this thread was about houses?

my house is made of bricks and breeze blocks like most houses in England i think - roof made of tiles - windows made of glass and pvc