Where do people dry their hair?!

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I sit on the floor but have always aspired to having a dressing table! I am mid 50's and was just thinking, when you are 70 do you still sit on the floor drying your hair?!

@Spinnier - lots of European bathrooms are designed to fit the washing machine, and/dryer under a worktop as well. Smaller ones may just have one integrated with sink to one side but you would still have a good 1m of worktop to place dryer. And then mirror in front.

The kitchens are generally smaller or open plan so no space for washing machines

I have dressing table in bathroom so can sit as well ( threw the washing machine that used to live there in the cellar)

I have a tiny bathroom which has a shower bidet, basin and (stacked) washer and dryer. When I dry my hair I pull out my under-basin drawer and put the hairdryer on that.

How do British people feel about electricity in the kitchen. All those plugs, sink, and electrical appliances

I'm not sure any of my kitchen appliances have cords long enough to reach the sink. When they're plugged in being used, they're on the counter.

Either at my dressing table or on the side of my bed.

“I can't believe people are so terrified of their hair dryers“

I don’t think anyone’s terrified, just used to not having sockets in bathrooms.

When I’ve been in the US, I don’t go OMG, I’m not plugging my hairdryer in in the bathroom!!! I might die!!!

I go, need to dry my hair, ooh there’s a socket next to the bed, nice.

RosesAndHellebores I agree - despite living in the EU with plug sockets in the bathroom none of my household (which includes teenagers) is selfish enough to think they're justified in blocking access to the family bathroom in order to blow dry their hair - something which can be comfortably done in multiple alternative rooms of the house, but which the teens do in their bedrooms.

Our kitchen in Germany isn't small or open plan - its an old fashioned farmhouse style eat in kitchen. That's still the norm in the countryside - city flats have mini kitchens only intended for cooking in. No matter how big the kitchen nobody has a washing machine in it, it's always in the basement in it's own laundry room or in the bathroom.

Kitchens don't count as rooms when buying/selling/ renting and houses and flats are marketed by number of rooms not number of bedrooms - so a 1 room flat still has one living/dining/sleeping room, a kitchen and a bathroom, a traditional three bedroom, kitchen, living room house is a 4room house even if it also has a laundry room and store room in the basement…)

I live in Germany and my washing machine is in the kitchen. Same in all the other flats in my building ('modernised' Altbau where they got rid of the basement washers).

The room counting system is very annoying. When I first moved here I was looking for a 2-bedroom flat or house with a colleague. We kept being shown one bedroom apartments with a tiny living room, which counts as a room of course. It took a while to realise that what we needed was an actual 3-bed (or for one of us to sleep on the living room floor).

EileenGC ah ok, I stand corrected!🙂 I've lived here 15 years and never seen a washing machine in a kitchen even once - but we're in a very traditional, rural area and I barely know anyone in a flat (though lots of people in Mehrfamilien Hause/ multi generational huge farmhouses divided into sort of big flats with grandparents on one floor, sometimes two grown up children and their children on other floors - various extended family combinations in massive sprawling properties on farms).

Although the room counting system is misleading sometimes, the square meterage is usually also listed which is somewhat more useful. There are some teeny tiny two room flats in our nearest city - and some bigger one room flats you can rent for close to 2000€ per month...