She wanted to have the flat decorated.

[angliholic]

She wanted to have the flat decorated.


Flat and apartment are pretty much the same in our languagem, but I suspect that there are subtle nuances between them. Am I off the mark? Thanks.

 

[heidita]

Flat is mostly used in BE. We might say it is a big apartment with several rooms. In BE an apartment is considered a flat with just one bedroom.

One definition for both words though

a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

In AE people use apartment for both. I think flat is seldom used.