sheothebudworths
Up the bum - no babies!!!
No - just a flat over two floors afaik.
ive got a new apartment!
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Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
so what's the difference between flat, maisonette and apartment? I need to catagorise myself goddamit.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Flat= Shit area
Maisonette= m/c area
Apartment= Hoxton wanker territory
/ judgement
Maisonette= m/c area
Apartment= Hoxton wanker territory
/ judgement
oh you do speak some bollocks sometimes
maisonette - a 2 floored fucking flat. like a house, but with the added benefit of being in a mostly shit area, concrete steps, used nappies on the walkways, damp, draughty, mouldy
mine used to have a really handy balcony too
Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
cool. I have an apartment then. Although this place does have the nickname Nørrebronx.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Apartment? I genuinely thought this was about a flat in the US until I read on. You have been watching too much friends.
sheothebudworths
Up the bum - no babies!!!
My mum's maisonette - where I grew up - is in a council block (they've poshed it right up now, but it was shite before - although she preferred it as it was 
).
We called the block/estate as a whole 'the flats'
but she would differentiate between ours and the single level ones as a maisonette if that was relevant, iyswim.
Never, ever in my life did I hear anyone calling their flat/maisonette an apartment though LOL.
THE END.
).We called the block/estate as a whole 'the flats'
but she would differentiate between ours and the single level ones as a maisonette if that was relevant, iyswim. Never, ever in my life did I hear anyone calling their flat/maisonette an apartment though LOL.
THE END.
sheothebudworths
Up the bum - no babies!!!
Tbf, I did think when I first wrote 'maisonette' that it sounds as bad, if not worse, than apartment, what with it being French but that was very usual and not at all poncey when I was growing up....but maybe it's a hangover from the 50's/60's/70's when social housing was flourishing and it's just not such a common phrase now (as I say, I always just called it a 'flat', personally).
Whatever - 'APARTMENT' IS WRONG!
but that was very usual and not at all poncey when I was growing up....but maybe it's a hangover from the 50's/60's/70's when social housing was flourishing and it's just not such a common phrase now (as I say, I always just called it a 'flat', personally).Whatever - 'APARTMENT' IS WRONG!
Tbf, I did think when I first wrote 'maisonette' that it sounds as bad, if not worse, than apartment, what with it being French
Whatever - 'APARTMENT' IS WRONG!
Yeh, 'maisonette' was just very usual, and they were only ever council stock. You didn't get privately built/owned maisonettes. I don't think they build them now though, certainly not housing associations (not council anymore is it? )
but yeh, apartment is a poncey fucking term for what is a flat.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
I'm in a maisonette, first and second floor, my neighbour is in a maisonette, basement and ground floor, upper and lower maisonette
HTH
subversplat
writer of wrongs
JMB is dangerously Nathanesque
JMB is dangerously Nathanesque
Oh, he's much closer than -esque
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
JMB is dangerously Nathanesque
But iirc, I think there was another series on telly that was a bit like Nathan Barley but it was set in Manchester. I can't remember what it was called though.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Anyway, maisonette is a flat over two floors.
I must admit, I'm a Manc and I sometimes refer to my flat as my apartment. But in my defence I've been spending loads of time living abroad and talking with non-Brits and non-native speakers so it's easier to stick to internationally understood words than use colloquialisms.
I must admit, I'm a Manc and I sometimes refer to my flat as my apartment. But in my defence I've been spending loads of time living abroad and talking with non-Brits and non-native speakers so it's easier to stick to internationally understood words than use colloquialisms.
Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
But iirc, I think there was another series on telly that was a bit like Nathan Barley but it was set in Manchester. I can't remember what it was called though.
queer as folk?
queer as folk was nothing like nathan barley
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Done by the bloke who went onto do Doctor Who though 
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Yeah, but if you're a northerner and you're talking to those types, you end up using the word so that they can understand you.
Chester Copperpot
Triple stones
No, Boris.
Two floors is a maisonette.
A maisonette just means it has its own front door - no communal hallway. Could be over two floors could be one.
ETA: A flat over two floors is a duplex flat or apartment.
Hopefully a mod will be along soon to rename this thread 'i've got a grubby flat in Ancoats!'
hahahahahaha like it
i'm in the process of moving to a new flat (it's gonna take a while cos i'm moving from furnished to unfurnished), one of the things that impressed me about the letting agents was that they listed it as a flat in Toxteth and not an apartment in Princes Park/City Centre.
No, a maisonette means it is over two floors
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
No - he's right. I used to own a one floor maisonette.
Chester Copperpot
Triple stones
Seems to be some confusion
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/maisonette
1. a small house, esp. one connected to a large apartment building.
2. an apartment, usually of two floors connected by an internal staircase; duplex apartment.
So it dosn't mean over two floors although often it is.
I live in a ground floor purpouse maisonette and that's how it's listed on the deeds.
ETA: Seems we're both right
Maisonette: an apartment / flat on two levels with internal stairs, or which has its own entrance at street level.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_house_types
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Who's speaking bollocks now eh Soj?
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