A woman poses in a kitchen with a red and white tile backsplash.
Brittany Hayes is renovating a 1970s house in Birmingham, England, with her fiancé.
  • Florida native Brittany Hayes, 31, moved to England with her British fiancé in 2019. 
  • The couple bought a $365,000 three-bedroom home that hasn't been touched since 1971. 
  • As they renovate, Hayes has chronicled four things in British homes that Americans would deem odd. 

Brittany Hayes grew up in sunny Orlando, Florida, but she's now a homeowner in gray Birmingham, England.

Hayes met her fiancé in 2013 while they both were teaching English in South Korea. They followed each other to jobs in Japan and finally to his hometown, in the UK's West Midlands region, in 2019.