page_title: Residential architecture in Poland
section_title: Two-family houses
hierarchical_section_title: Residential architecture in Poland / Two-family houses
caption_attribution_description: English: A typical Polish house from the Nineteen Nineties
context_page_description: Houses in Poland can be divided into three categories: residential houses, recreational houses and mansions or palaces.
context_section_description: These houses often have a second and third story. These can contain the expected bedrooms and bathrooms, but many also have a kitchen on each floor. The reason is that a number of these houses were designed by their owners as "two-family houses" (or "three-family houses"). This was a practical move, often in preparation to provide separate space for sons or daughters (who married and had children of their own) while they were saving for their own house. Today they are equally useful as holiday lets or long term rentals. A two-family home can provide the foreign investor with the ability to buy a house and then rent part of it out thus ensuring someone is on site all year round while still giving them a holiday space whenever they want it.
caption: A typical Polish house from the 1990s
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