Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

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3. WALKING THROUGH THE HOUSE
MAN:
OK, now that the renovation is done, it’s easier to 
visualize, but if you walk in my-my front door—we live 
in a-a town, and the reason I chose the town is because 
it has a lot, it has lots of trees and it probably reminded 
me of New Jersey. It’s an older town, not too old but, um. 
Trees. So, there, I have about, a lot of trees on my prop-
erty. Once you come inside the house, um, into the foyer 
area, to the left is a living room. Um, beyond the living 
room is a dining room area. Um, through the dining 
room, we have a kitchen area that we just fi nished reno-
vating. We spent about a year and a half without cabinets 
because we had our cabinets, uh, custom-made and the 
cabinetmaker assured me that it would only take a few 
months, so I was zealous and took them off the wall, and 
it took a lot longer to get them done, and so the kitchen 
is just, uh, to the right of the dining room. Beyond that, 
we have a-a back porch with, uh, looking out into a yard 
area.
Th
e c—, the porch is enclosed, which is nice espe-
cially in the spring, uh, summer, and fall. Just off the 
kitchen, uh, to the left—to the right, rather—we have 
a family room that has a fi replace. Um, as well, off the 
kitchen, there’s a 
mudroom
, where we have a washer 
and dryer, uh, and a 
pantry
, and we have a basement 
that also, uh, you can enter, uh, from the, or through the 
kitchen that’s, um, recently been refi nished and has a new 
bathroom put down in the basement and a pretty big rec 
room, recreation room and family area in the basement. 
Upstairs we have four bedrooms. If you come in the front 
door just to the right before you go into, uh, the family 
room, there’re stairs that lead to the second fl oor, and on 
the second fl oor, to our right, I guess to the right, is the 

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