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Can you name all the rooms in a house?
I mean ALL of them?
For example, do you know all the words for “living room”? How about the name for the small building in the back of the garden?
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ALL of them!
Rooms in a house
OK. Let’s go from the top!
Attic
The top room in the house with a slanting ceiling.
Sometimes it’s used as a proper room, and sometimes you just use it to store stuff like your dad’s old Beatles records and that awful drawing of a cat that uncle Barry gave you for your birthday.
Loft
Very similar to an attic, except for two things:
- You can’t use it as a proper room. It’s too small.
- You need to get in through a trapdoor using a ladder (not the stairs).
Although these days, you sometimes see loft apartments for rent or sale. They’re basically attic apartments, but they probably think that “loft” sounds nicer.
Spare room
Also known as the spare bedroom, guest room or guest bedroom.
It’s usually empty unless someone is visiting.
Bedroom
Do I really need to explain this one?
OK, then.
Where did you wake up this morning?
You probably woke up in your bedroom.
Or, if you’re on holiday, then you might’ve woken up in your hotel room or motel room.
But if you’re on holiday, then why are you reading this? Go to the beach, you maniac!
Bathroom
This is where you go to the toilet, have a bath or shower, brush your teeth, wash your face or stare at yourself in the mirror thinking about the meaning of life and wondering where on earth the time has gone.
If you’re lucky enough to have a bathroom attached to your bedroom — your own private bathroom — then that’s an en-suite bathroom (sometimes shortened to just “en-suite”).
If we want to sound posh in English, we usually just use French words. It gives the phrase a certain je ne sais quoi, which is French for something — I don’t know what.
If the room only contains a toilet and a sink, then we just call it the toilet.
You can also call it the lavatory, the lav, the loo or the W.C. (which stands for “water closet”).
There are also lots of words for public toilets — toilets in cafés, restaurants, libraries or just … in public:
- washroom
- restroom
- public convenience
Toilets are fun!
Balcony
You know this one, right?
A large balcony is called a terrace.
Nursery
OK. I realise that you most probably don’t have an en-suite bathroom or a loft or an attic … or most of the rooms in this post.
And you’re even more unlikely to have a nursery — a room in the house that’s just for young kids to play in.
But they exist! They’re out there!
Study
The room just for working in.
No TVs, no kids running around, no noises.
Just you and your work!
This room is also known as an office or work room.
If you’re an artistic type, and your work involves creating art or music, then this room would be called a studio instead.
If you’re a photographer, and you use your work room to develop your photos, then this will be the darkroom. Because it’s usually dark.
Utility room
The boring room where all the boring stuff in the house happens.
It’s most often used for washing clothes, so it’ll have an ironing board, an iron, a washing machine and maybe a dryer.
In America they call it a laundry room, and in Australia it’s just “the laundry.”
Panic room
OK, OK, I know — you don’t have one, and you’ve never met anyone who has one.
I’ve never met anyone who has one, either.
“What is it?” you ask.
Good question.
It’s a secret room where you can hide if someone breaks into your house or if the weather gets too extreme or if there’s a terrorist attack … that kind of thing.
Panic rooms usually have CCTV screens so you can see what’s going on inside your house while you hide as well as communication with the outside world so you can call the police.
It’s also known as a safe room.
Conservatory
A room with a glass roof (and usually glass walls) on the outside of a house.
It’s a nice place to sit outside, while still being inside.
Clever, right?
You can also call it a sunroom or solarium in American English.
But be careful — a solarium is also a place where people go to get artificial ultraviolet light so they can get a tan.
Living room
OK — we all know this one, right?
It’s the main room in the house — the one where we usually hang out as a family or group of friends.
The one we spend most of our time in.
I guess because we spend so much time here, there are lots of words for it.
The most common words are now “living room” and “sitting room.”
“Lounge” is still popular, too, but these days it’s often used to refer to a room in a public building, like an airport (think V.I.P. lounge).
“Drawing room,” “parlour” and “family room” are also possible, but, as you can see from this image, they’re not so popular anymore:
You can also see that “parlour” used to be much more popular. We still have the phrase “parlour games” — games played in groups (like families) that don’t involve moving around very much.
Dining room
Some houses still have a separate room for eating in. That’s a dining room.
These days everything’s a bit more open plan, and the dining room, kitchen and living room are often all in the same space.
Kitchen
Where you make food!
If you live in a small flat, and your kitchen is very, very small, you would call it a kitchenette.
A lot of flats these days have American kitchens or open kitchens — kitchens that are also part of the living room.
I like them! You can make dinner and still hang out with everyone.
In very old houses, you might find a scullery — a small room behind the kitchen where all the washing up and dish cleaning gets done.
Some houses also have a pantry or larder. These are rooms used to store food.
Garage
A room for the car.
But a garage is way cooler without a car!
You can build computers or play Dungeon Master or turn it into a music studio or even a gym. Such a better use of space!
Here’s a song about that (with the words).
Mud room
Some houses have a mud room or entryway.
It’s a small area between the outside and the inside where you can take off your shoes and jacket.
Sometimes there’s mud everywhere.
But it’s OK!
It’s the mud room!
Basement
Anything below the ground floor is called the basement.
That’s all you need to know!
Games room
Also known as a rec room (short for recreation room), this is the room where you can play games!
Maybe it’s computer games.
Maybe it’s snooker.
Whatever you like!
Some houses and flats also have a small room, often in the basement, in the attic or out in the garden, where you can go and relax and get away from it all.
This room is sometimes called a den.
Wine cellar
What? You don’t have a small, unheated room with stone walls under your house where you keep all your wine?
What kind of person are you?
Just kidding — very few people have a wine cellar.
If there’s no wine there, it’s just called a cellar.
It’s a bit different from a basement room because it doesn’t have heating, the walls aren’t properly painted and there might be no electricity.
Other rooms in a house that don’t fit into the picture I drew
Hall / hallway / corridor
The long room that leads to the other rooms.
Walk-in wardrobe
A wardrobe, or “closet” in American English, is like a cupboard.
Most are too small to walk into, so they’re not really rooms.
But some people have one:
walk-in-wardrobe-picture by Anne-Marii | CC BY 2.0Shed
A small, wooden one-room building in the garden.
It’s usually used for storing gardening tools.
But the author Roald Dahl decided he’d use his to write in.
Porch
A balcony is always higher up than the ground floor.
But some houses have a balcony or terrace on the ground floor.
This is a porch or verandah.
Library
The room where all the books are.
Books!
Tree house
A house in a tree!
Usually a place for kids to hang out in and read comics and eat candy.
A tree house on the ground isn’t called a ground house, though.
It’s called a cubby house (in Australia), Wendy house (in the UK), clubhouse, fort or playhouse.
Greenhouse
A single-room building made of glass that you use to grow tomatoes and other plants in.
Here’s a bad joke:
Question: If a red house is made of red bricks, and a blue house is made of blue bricks, then what’s a greenhouse made of?
Answer: Glass.
That’s it! The rooms in your house — and the rooms in your rich friend’s house!
But I bet I missed something.
The rooms in a house can be different in different cultures.
Do houses in your country have a room that I didn’t include?
Tell me about it in the comments.
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171 thoughts on “Rooms in a House – 72 Different Rooms in English”
I thought I knew the many rooms but now ))) I know more))
How about fire place.
Nice idea.
But is your fireplace so big that you get to call it a room?
That’s a pretty massive fire. 🙂
Some people actually do have those ;-;
You forgot the landing 🙂
Of course. It’s the room where I put all the fire.
KEKW
Hmmmmmmmmmmm
Nice
Is that really a room?
“Where’s Jeffery?”
“He’s in the fireplace!”
wth man
What about a play room
That’s another name for a bedroom with the walls painted red. ?
to Nick – 01/21 – A room with a large fireplace – called a “Inglenook”. “According to wisegeek.com, an inglenook fireplace is recessed into the wall, creating a space that is small, sheltered, and cozy – a room within a room. The deliberately designed recessed area is often used for seating. Dec 16, 2009” See some wonderful examples on Google images and pinterest.
An inglenook is not a ROOM, it is an area within a room by the fireplace. Ingle, taken from the old Scots word for a domestic fire and nook- ‘a corner or recess offering seclusion’
I call it a coze room.
Yeah
The bedroom it says needs no more explanation.
It was multi purpose room
Sleeping was only part
It was also a entertaining room
A meeting room too
I have a giant house
nobody cares
Slays
there were only 27
Yes number misrepresented; And list is COMMON. How bout Lanai, Vestibule, Scullery, Butler’s Pantry, The Larder, Conservatory, Music Hall or Banquet room, Sewing room, Gallery, Dressing room, Servants quarters, Garret or Sentry box Bonus room, In-law suite, Healing Chamber, and Foyer. Pooja or Prayer closet, Altar room, Craft room (both types of crafts), Mediation room. Maybe at 72 now.
Dear Gaby,
Read all about the house. I think you beat even the village school master. I think i have to find
another poem for you. Jealous heart . susan.j.
This was fun to read!
It really was!
You a missing the ‘Den’ room…
Yhea
and Gimp closet…
In the description of the Game’s room he also talks about how some people call it a Den.
that is kinda like the game room
Better than GREAT 🙂
True!
Dear Gaby
In Spain we have the “azotea”, a roof terrace. As it doesn’t rain often over here, almost all the houses have a flat roof that has two functions: a terrace and a utility room. There’s almost always a small building with the washing machine and a clothesline to dry the clothes. Of course it’s also used for sunbathing 🙂
Oh, that’s cool!
So it’s got a name separate from “terrace”? I like it — very culturally specific. Thanks! 🙂
Awesome our house in Mexico has this and I didn’t know what to call it other than roof top terrace!
In india, every house, no matter how small or big has a ‘pooja room’ or ‘mandir’ where pooja is performed and prayers are offered.
yes, and i think if we have these kind of rooms, we will not give them names
you are amazing man!
Lots of Love from INDIA
Cheers and love back from (currently) Berlin! 🙂
What about the storage room? In Spain, as I’m sure in many other countries too, there’s sometimes a room with shelves where you can store those things that are seldom used, like suitcases, skis, or whatever you like!
Good call Monica!
Yeah — you could also have a storage room. I guess that the attic is filling that role in my image.
Thanks for commenting! 🙂
HI
It used to be called the box room but, these days, people seem to think that ‘box room’ means the smallest bedroom!
In the US, storage is…anywhere we can find space. Under the stairs, in the attack, a spare bedroom that isn’t being used, or an outdoor building like a shed. Garages typically become storage rooms for us as well. I have never seen a house with a designated storage room like you would see in an office (like a broom closet or janitors closet).
como se llama ese cuarto donde guardas cosas?
here we call it boxroom
well, that’s basically a storage closet
The house in Laos County no room but all in one room .
From ??
The house in Laos County no room but all in one room .
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HI
And here goes a specific one for Spain and I guess other countries with similar climate: the “galeria”. It’s an elongated room built on the sunny facade of the house. It has many windows that are closed in the winter to help heat the house using the greenhouse effect. In the summer, the windows are open or even removed and there are shades, so that this transition space helps cool down the air that comes in the house.
Wow! That sounds awesome.
I’d actually never heard of a galeria. But now I’m glad I have!
in Belgium this “galeria” (if I understand well what it is) is called a “veranda”. I have seen adds for Verandah in recent UK deco magazine this year. I wonder what it is exactly in UK.
The “veranda” in Belgium is a sunroom fully glazed (glass extension) on the sunny facade of the house. Inside there is usually a mix of plants and seats.
And what about the boiler room ?
Thanks so much for this wonderful article. I seek inspiration for new rooms in our office building witch is an old factory and it might really help.
Thanks for the positive comments, Sophie.
It seems the word “veranda” can mean different things for different people.
When I hear it, I think of a sort of balcony on the ground level. Like you imagine in New Orleans in the 1930s. Sometimes with someone sitting in a rocking chair drinking a beer.
I also learnt something nice . What about you
A veranda, in Britain, is a kind of balcony, but on the ground floor. It will have a low wall and, possibly a roof but will not be fully enclosed. A porch, however, is a small area in front of the front door, which may be open or enclosed. It keeps the rain off people waiting at the door and, if enclosed, keeps out cold air when the door is opened and gives a space to leave outdoor shoes and hang coats.
Boiler room. Separate, ventilated rooms for gas appliances such as Furnace/Water heater/HVAC used to be required by US Building code. Some still are.
AKA Mechanical Room
YES ,
BUT YOU’VE MISSED ONE ROOM
A BALLROOM WHERE OFTENLY ALL THE BALLS OR PARTIES OCURS . IT SHOULD ALSO BE LISTED …BUT I HAD FUN READING EVERYTHING…THANKS. A CHILD FROM INDIA
That sounds really cool!
In the U.S., this is called a Florida Room, just as you described.??
A pool room
Spa room
Smoking room (airports in Asia have them, it’s could be in a home)
Dance/yoga/rehearsal room/Studio
Music studio
Stream room
Sauna
Shine room (could be religious or about elvis Presley haha. Just a room dedicated to something or someone. Alternatively I knew a guy who had a mini museum room in his cottage in England )
Tomb
Gym
Workshop
Pantry
Photography room (I’m not sure of the real name, I’m referring to those rooms with red light)
Dungeon (not recommended)
Sex room
Cinema
Dog house (Technically a room)
Weapons room
Walk in fridge (not usually in a house but it’s possible. A world class tv chef may have one)
Walk in freezer
“Man Cave”
Boat house
Karaoke room (my friend has one in his house in Australia.)
Squash room
Elevator (if that counts)
Awesome! I liked the dungeon (not recommended)!
You mean “steam room,” not “stream room,” right?
Good work!
love it
A photography room would be a darkroom.
You develop photos in a “Darkroom” in the dark. You could take photos, or work on art images in a “Studio Room” in the light.
I think an elevator would count; we’re counting hallways
Not okay with the one under dungeon (not recommended)…
# 8 – Shrine? Although a room to Shine in sounds like a great place to be your best.
what about the beauty room
Thanks for commenting, Yvonne.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a beauty room. What do you have in mind?
Like a vanity or dressing room! Usually only found in the master suite area of very large rich-people houses, sometimes leading to walk-in closets or bathrooms.
Oh wow!
I like the phrase “vanity room.” It kind of says it all! 🙂
Powder room?
I think a powder room is a small guest bathroom.
Though it could be used as a beauty room I guess. 🙂
My adopted mom has a “beauty bar” and a walk in closet in the downstairs of her house. It’s not quite a utility room and I’m not sure if it was supposed to be a bathroom in another life but the beauty bar is just a long counter like a giant vanity sort of thing and then a walk in closet attached so she calls it her dressing area in her beauty room.
Den is another one. It’s basically an informal living area or open guest room. My grandparents have one and they basically use it as a guest room and library. It has built in bookshelves that hold 100 years of family history and beautiful French doors (that don’t open) that look to the driveway and its connected by an archway to the living room.
What about a root cellar?
Nice one!
I hadn’t actually heard of one before — I had to Google it. Thanks!
what about the box room?
Nice!
Great addition, Bre. Thanks!
Awesome list. You can add the “butler’s pantry.” More than just a storage area.
Ha ha! Nice addition.
Sold our little home in California and built a large “accessible” one in Missouri. The plans actually had a “butler pantry”, directly opposite the large shelved pantry where dinnerware is stored and a large counter there would be where the “butler prepared” to serve, of course I was the butler.
What’s the name for a room that looks like a hall, but it’s never long, usually squared, but it’s in the middle of a house or a flat, like a passage you go through to get to the bathroom and/or other rooms? In Serbian it is called degažman, which sounds French to me, and it is only used by architects. You can put a coat rack there, or a mirror or nothing…I need an English word and not one of all the synonyms I know doesn’t seem adequate.
What an interesting question!
I had a quick look into this. I would say that we don’t have a word for this in English. We’d simply call it a “hallway” or “corridor,” but would probably qualify it with “little” (“little hallway” or “little corridor.”)
Maybe we should adopt the Serbian word. It’s nice!
Thank you! I suppose you could use “little hallway” in an informal conversation. Do you think architects would put it in a blueprint description?
Good question.
I think that there’s probably a term that architects use that isn’t used in everyday conversation — a specialist term — for this “little hallway.” If there is, it’s a specialist term so would only be useful if you were talking to architects!
If I’m picturing what you’re describing correctly – we could maybe call it a “foyer” (pronounced in the states as “foy-yay” or “foy-ay”), if it’s near the entry too. Otherwise…maybe passage way?
My grangmot j.g er had one in her very large old farmhouse . She had a day bed and and a few chairs. We all called it the landing. Because it was at the top of the stairs before you reached the hallway towards the bedrooms.
“Landing!” I haven’t heard that word in a long time.
Yes — THIS is the answer to Daniela’s question. Nice work! 🙂
Hello, the room Daniela describes reminds me of an “atrium” – from the word for “heart”. Very popular to have them with glass ceilings in corporate office buildings at the end of the 20th Century.
Foyer
reception maybe?
Maybe your thinking of a foyer.
Good point, Pam!
@ Daniela
Depends, if it is an open room with sky-light, it is the Atrium. If it connects to the main entrance of the house it will be referred to as the Entrance Hall.
An Atrium provides light and ventilation to the rest of the house. The Entrance Hall is much like a mudroom (you can hang your coats, hats, jackets, scarfs, etc) but is much more formal. It’s the ‘high-class’ version of a mudroom.
A foyer? pronounced foy·er
or it is called a lobby
A lobby is a room in a building used for entry from the outside. Sometimes referred to as a foyer, reception area or an entrance hall, it is often a large room or complex of rooms adjacent to the auditorium.
an entrance hall or other open area in a building used by the public, especially a hotel or theater.
an entrance hall in a house or apartment.
welocome,
lillie
Maybe you are thinking of these:
entrance hall
hall
hallway
entrance
entry
porch
portico
reception area
atrium
concourse
lobby
vestibule
anteroom
antechamber
outer room
waiting room
entryway
corridor
landing
foyer
Lobby
to Daniela – 05/2020 – Other possible words for square-ish “central hall” w/doors leading to bedrooms can be interior or adjoining or ante- hall/corridor/space/room/chamber, Perhaps auxiliary (a helping element) hall, Growing up on a military base, our home had one in which we practiced “bomb drills” – as if that would have kept us safe!
Awesome! This helped me so much with my Murder Mystery I’m writing!
Ha ha!
Awesome!
Be sure to share a link when you’ve got it out. 🙂
I stole these from Wikipedia; some of which have been included by your other contributors. Wiki is definitely worth a visit for an illustrated explanation of each room name. Category: Rooms-Wikipedia. Missing are LOGGIA, FOYER, BREWERY, DUNNY, KHAZI, LATRINE and a misnomer from my late mother; a BOGEY HOLE describing a spandrel cupboard or under-stairs store-room. BED STEE is a Dutch sleeping cupboard whose internal dimensions accommodates a single bed only and is common in Scottish tenement buildings. When I visited my aunt in Edinburgh shared a Stee with my cousin in bunk-beds screwed to the wall and accessed directly via single door from the SCULLERY and had a 60cm square high-level ‘borrowed’ light (unglazed) into the entrance hall.
A
Aerary
Air shower (room)
Aircraft cabin
Airport lounge
Aisle
Almonry
Anechoic chamber
Antechamber
Apodyterium
Arizona room
Assembly hall
Atrium (architecture)
Attic
Attic style
Auditorium
Aula regia
B
Ballroom
Bang (Korean)
Banishment room
Basement
Bathroom
Battery room
Bedroom
Billiard room
Bonus room
Boudoir
Breezeway
Buttery (room)
Buttery (shop)
C
Cabinet (room)
Cafeteria
Caldarium
Calefactory
Castle chapel
Central apparatus room
Changing room
Church hall
Church porch
Classroom
Cleanroom
Cloakroom
Closet
Committee room
Common room
Common room (university)
Companionway
Computer lab
Conference hall
Conservatory (greenhouse)
Control room
Conversation pit
Corner office
Count room
Counting house
Courtroom
Cry room
Crypt
Cryptoporticus
Cubiculum
Cyzicene hall
D
Darbazi
Dark room (sexuality)
Darkroom
Data room
Den (room)
Dewaniya
Dining room
Dirty kitchen
Diwan-khane
Double bass array
Drawing room
Dungeon
E
Electrical room
Entryway
Equatorial room
Equipment room
Execution chamber
F
Fainting room
Family room
First aid room
Frigidarium
Function hall
Furnace room
G
Garden office
Garderobe
Garret
Genkan
Ghorfa
Granary
Great chamber
Great hall
Great room
Green room
H
Hall
Hall (concept)
Harem
Home cinema
Honeymoon suite (hotel)
I
Inglenook
K
Kitchen
L
Laconicum
Lactation room
Lanai (architecture)
Larder
Laundry room
Living room
Lobby (room)
Locker room
Loft
Long gallery
Lumber room
Luxury box
M
Maashaus
Mail services center
Mailroom
Majlis
Man cave
Master control
Mechanical floor
Mechanical room
Megaron
Mehmaan khana
Mission control center
Mizuya
Monastic cell
Money room
Musalla
Music rehearsal space
N
Network operations center
Nilavara
Room number
Nursery (room)
O
Office
Opisthodomos
P
Padded cell
Pantry
Parlour
Petit appartement du roi
Petit appartement de la reine
Pinacotheca
Porters’ lodge
Presidential suite
Priest hole
Print room
Prison cell
Psychomanteum
Public toilet
Q
Qa’a (room)
R
Rain porch
Recreation room
Refectory
Refreshment room
Reredorter
Restroom
Riding hall
Roomsharing
Root cellar
Rotunda (architecture)
S
Sacristy
Safe room
Sauna
Screened porch
Secret passage
Semi-basement
Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility
Servants’ hall
Servants’ quarters
Server room
Shoin
Showroom
Sky lobby
Skyway
Sleeping porch
Slype
Small office/home office
Smoking room
Solar (room)
Staffroom
Staircase tower
State room
Still room
Storm cellar
Student lounge
Studio
Study (room)
Sudatorium
Suite (hotel)
Sunroom
T
Tabagie (room)
Tablinum
Tasting room
Tepidarium
Throne room
Toolroom
Torture chamber
Transmission control room
Triclinium
U
Undercroft
Utility room
Wow!
Yes — it is possible to add a totally comprehensive list, but would it be useful? How many English learners need to talk about the “rain porch,” or the “torture room”?
But it was fascinating to hear about these Scottish rooms. I particularly like Bogey Hole!
Thanks for commenting! 🙂
Execution room is probably more worrying than torture room …. maybe ??
Hmm …. They’re both pretty bad to be fair. 😀
Falta la palabra ‘zaguan’
You missed. F. Room out
Holy lord
Orangery, similar to a conservatory, Very popular in Victorian era now making a comeback instead of the conservatory
Wow! I had to Google that.
I’d never heard this one before, but I did a little research using Google’s Ngram Viewer and yes — it is indeed making a comeback.
Thanks!
keeping room 🙂
thanks alot
Would a computer room be considered a study? In one of my previous houses we had a small room that only contained a computer and a few games. Similarly, would an office be a study? Like, a room in the house called an office, not an actual office.
Also, in my familym the living room and the family room were two different rooms. Not every house would have a family room, and if you didn’t, then the living room served that function, but if you had both, then the living room was the room that you got to through the front entrance(we didn’t have mud rooms), and the living room would be where you’d put your fancy furniture that nobody sat on, like those old couches and that glass table with the decorations on it. It usually didn’t have a TV or much entertainment, as it was purely for decoration and a nice first impression, and no time was actually spent in this room. The family room was the room where you’d have the TV and the furniture you were allowed to use and where you spent most of your time
Haha! That’s quite amusing.
I’ve been in some houses like that before, with the nice, cozy rooms that everyone uses and the one that feels like a museum.
I tend to use “study” and “office” interchangeably.
Thanks for sharing. I laughed. 🙂
Hi Cy! I noticed your question about the computer room and although I do believe most people just use a room in the house (their study or office or whatever), there are rooms that folk have built in their homes that are specifically designed to have their own cooling systems and power supplies. Some folk even have these room sealed to mitigate the collection of dust or dirt in these rooms. I had a friend who ran a small business server from his house and he had a specific room built in his basement for housing the computer system and other machines for running the server and business, but I also have a relative that had a room that was essentially his “office” modified with special air conditioning and a wall-vacuum specifically for his computers. So i would say that a computer room is probably it’s own thing – at least for some folk. 😀
This is a wonderful list and site. Thank you very much!
I was surprised to not see the trophy room listed. I believe at one time it was popular for the wealthy who hunted for sport to have a room in which they displayed the stuffed remains of their kills as well as weapons and other collectibles from the safaris and adventures they went on. I believe President Theodore Roosevelt had one at Sagamore Hill.
Also I didn’t notice the mention of a pool house. At our house it is more open air (except the shed side which houses the pool and patio supplies/toys/furniture throughout the winter) but it is an enclosed area for changing in and out of swimwear and often includes a shower and/or privy so that swimmers don’t have to track water in the house if they need to use the bathroom and have just come out of the water. The shower is for rinsing before getting in the water and for rinsing chlorine off when exiting the pool. Ours is pretty simple – a few benches with shelves and hooks for robes and towels and an open air shower on the outside with the enclosed (attached) shed in the back, but some of our friends have elaborate pool houses that are climate controlled, have electricity and include sitting areas, true bathrooms, elaborate stereo systems with room to dance, televisions and bars/kitchenettes for barbecues and pool parties.
(I also noticed the mention of the man-cave, but not the she-shack/she-shed – although I know they are essentially the same except for opposite genders).
Wow! There’s a lot of stuff there. Some of these suggestions would be quite at home in the Cluedo house. For the same reason, you could also add “billiard room.”
Good call on the “she-shed” idea. We actually avoided “man-cave” as it has this sort of negative connotation.
Thanks for commenting!
Hi, Gabriel! In Brazil many suburban houses and apartments have what we call “the maid’s room” where she (maids are generally women) usually sleeps if she’s a sleep-in maid. Even if she doesn’t, it’s the room where she changes her clothes, keeps her stuff and can have a shower (yes, attached to the room there’s frequently a separated bathroom for them). It’s a reminiscence of our cruel slavery past
Wow. That’s really interesting … and yes — a little dark.
Thanks for sharing! 🙂
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ThanQ sir!!Great post!!
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True!
What about a barn?
Hi, maybe someone could help me with this sentence?
Even though their house has a –n—- —t—- there is a fireplace in the living room.
I have been looking for this Bedrooms article since long time. Thanks author.
Thanks for all the help, I was making a large modern mansion in Minecraft and needed help coming up with different rooms to put in there. I almost forgot to put a garage, and the library was an extremely helpful idea!
omg, I actually got on here for the same reason! the Minecraft house I mean. I thought I was burned out, but after I read the article and the comments, I got a lot of ideas! tysm!
I want a sex room
It was Professor Plum, in the conservatory, with the rope.
What about a ballroom?
You have a ballroom in your house?
I’m impressed! 🙂
Great list! I didn’t see this one: homeschool room. We have whiteboards, shelving, and desks.
Some of our largest, older homes; like the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina; have an “Observatory” on the highest floors of the house.
No. These observatories do NOT have telescope used for looking at stars. Here observatory is used for the fact that these rooms allow viewing of the entire property and surround areas.
NOTE.: The Biltmore Estate Observatory is NOT on the roof, but an enclosed room with a plush sitting area surrounded by large windows, balconies, a catwalk and roof access.
Thank you for sharing and loved all the comments and the innuendos from country to country . This helped me to identify all the common rooms to declutter in a home.
And the bigger the home the more rooms it will have for specific allocated activities.
Love it! 🙂
What about the coat room?
My family just moved and we have a few more rooms in our house than before. Thanks for this list – it was extremely helpful!
I like this website! It really helps me for renovation and designing my house, after all, I’m Lillie……
Hi Lillie,
Welcome on board! 🙂
Yea this list really helped me think of one of my messy rooms cause we are turning it in to a game room thx love it
Surprised I didn’t see Gym on anyone’s radar. Same with like a media room/home theater.
Oh right! Excellent addition.
Thanks, Manuel. 🙂
We call our “living room” a family room.
I actually have a panic room in my house. Although it is for a different reason. Me and my sister have sever ptsd and it is super easy to make us have beak down; me more then my sister as I’m younger. The panic room or rooms as there are two is a place for me and my sister to go. No body but us go’s into our own panic room and it’s a safe space for us to listen to soft music or just sit out the panic attack. The panic rooms are linked up individual to are bedrooms. The have a dog door for our therapy dog. They have helped a lot mostly because we would freaking out if someone tried to touch or help us out in a panic attack because of the abuse. We are doing better and the panic rooms have turned into personal living rooms.
That was a very open and very fascinating account of your panic room.
I really appreciate the fact that you shared that with us.
Thank you. 🙂
Master suite is becoming common in the US as well, this is like a grand bedroom of the sort. Sometimes complete with its own tiny living room that acts as an entry point to the master bedroom, master bathroom, and maybe a study if you have one. The study in a master room can be converted into a nursery for really small children like infants and babies.
Master Bedroom (Mst Bdrm) & Master Bathroom (Mst Bth) – terms are becoming controversial. Sometimes referred to as “Primary Bedroom” or “Main Bdrm” (w/ or w/o attached bathroom), or, collectively, an en suite. Or, typically on floor plans, “Bdrm 1” w/other bedrooms termed “Bdrm 2” (or 3, 4…)
I know alot of these are for people that have the dough to fork out but……Mancave/Bar,Bowling alley,gym,any inside sports like basketball court or racquetball,some people also have a room just for a golf simulator,Cigar room,whiskey room, collection room(collectibles,antiques, ancient artifacts,ECT.),Trophy room,?Sex room?Boom Boom room lol (I’m sure there are some out there ha),Fishing tackle room,Gun room, Taxidermy Room,Business ,Computer Server room,Recording Studio room or musicians room,ect….You could literally have a room for almost anything ?
And for more money – indoor swimming pool, jacuzzi, steam room…
Yep ?
A hidden pantry
of possible interest: Pantry/Larder (originally cold storage for keeping meats from spoiling by covering with lard)/Scullery (not for keeping skulls – wet area/additional kitchen for prep and cleanup)/ Buttery (medieval times – for keeping Liquor, not butter. Wikipedia has a more thorough definition). In days of old, the kitchen was not typically IN the house due to fire hazards.
Bathroom in French – salle de bains, “room” (salle), “of” (de) “baths” (bains)
Great Lists! If you had kids AND money, you could have a Nanny/au pair Room.
A Caretaker’s room for house- or grounds-keeper, for live-in help w/elderly and/or diffabled.
Great post and terrific comments/conversation! One addition- in the rich desert countries, there is a trend to have ‘snow rooms’ in grand houses!!! Really they have snow machines!!! Just thought this group would enjoy that! Stay well, kind regards, DM
Woah! That’s a few levels of crazy interesting!
Thanks for sharing DM! 🙂
In fact, the tabletop game Betrayal at House on the Hill, its expansion and the spin-off game Betrayal Legacy has so many different rooms, and the game is an amazing way to spark story ideas.
CAUTION: It is a horror gane
I love these rooms. These rooms are amazing. Do you love it?
Hi there! Excellent article, I enjoyed it a lot as I was reading it. I have a question: What´s a service room in a house? Thanks in advance.
Good question.
But can you tell me exactly what you mean? 🙂
The snug — An Irish snug is a small, screened-off room attached to the bar where women could drink privately, but it sounds like a cozy room in a home though.
rubbish. ty tho 🙂
What about the playroom?
I know that some houses have a 3rd bedroom.Know that?
I know that some houses have a 3rd bedroom.
Did see you mention Family room?
I’m looking for a new name for the dining room that is part of the kitchen and living room as in the more contemporary open space design. Dining room smacks of formality, but it’s too distinct to be considered an eat-in kitchen even though no walls separate them.
Thanks for commenting!
Do you mean something like an “open kitchen,” or what I sometimes call an “American kitchen.” A sort of kitchen and living room all in one?
Perhaps breakfast nook?
Hmm… Not a phrase I use, but a quick Googling shows me that it’s a kind of corner lined with seating and a table. Is that the sort of thing you mean?
Thank-you E V E R Y O N E ! ! ! I’ve enjoyed reading through your comments so much.