Conversation Questions: Living Arrangements and Dream House

• Do you like spending time at home?
• Where do you live and lived before?
  • Who do you live with?
• When you were a child, did you have to share a bedroom with your siblings?
  • Did you like it or did you want your own room?
• Which part of town do you live in?
  • What are good and bad areas to live in your town?
• What would be your ideal living arrangement?
  • house in a city
  • flat
  • studio
  • cottage
  • castle
  • Why?
• What part of your country would you ideally like to live in?
  • capital
  • big city
  • small town
  • seaside town
  • village
  • countryside
  • mountains van island
  • Why?
• If you could buy land and build your dream house, what would it look like?
  • old fashioned
  • modern
  • big
  • small
  • flat
  • spacious
  • one floor
  • two floors
• How many and what rooms would it have?
  • cellar
  • hall/corridor
  • living room
  • bedrooms
  • kitchen
  • bathrooms
  • study
  • guest room
  • TV room
  • library
  • balcony/veranda
  • conservatory
  • attic, roof
  • How big would they be?
• Which room is the most important for you in your home?
• How would you decorate it inside?
  • wood
  • metal
  • glass
  • carpets
  • tiles
  • paintings
  • mirrors
  • musical instruments
  • what kind of furniture
    • sofas
    • table and chairs
    • fireplace
    • animal skins
• What colors and lightening would you use?
• Do you collect a lot of things?
• Is it important that your house is ecologically friendly?
• Is it important to have a garden/lawn?
• Do you keep plants inside your house? Why or why not?
• Do you like having guests / sleepovers in your house?
• Do you like spending time in other peoples' houses?
• Do you like house parties?
• Do you like keeping animals in you house?
• Is it important to keep your house very clean or do you feel more comfortable with a bit of an 'organized chaos'?
• If you could change one thing about your current house to make it more comfortable, what would it be?
• How difficult is it to get a mortgage and buy your own house in you country?
• How many generations should live together do you think?
• When is good time for children to move out of their parents' house?
• Have you ever shared a house/flat with your friends?
  • Was it a good experience?
• Are there any rules in your house that make peoples' lives easier?
  • What are they?
• If you have lived abroad, what living arrangements have you experienced there?
  • Did you like them?
• Do you like staying in hotels? Why or why not?