Bedroom

The master bedroom, also called sleeping chamber ( small bedroom ) or Kubikel, is the room of an apartment or residential house in which to sleep its inhabitants.

For this purpose, the room (often called a dual bed) containing at least one bed. In smaller apartments, the bedroom is often combined with another room. A nursery is a combination of bedroom and the personal space of the child.

The bedroom reflects an intimate space reflect the views and the individuality of the residents.

In addition to the sleeping accommodation bedroom often include a bedside table for storing various items with a bedside lamp and alarm clock, and a cabinet to store clothes (see also built-in wardrobe, wardrobe). The floor is often carpeted, parquet or tiled flooring there are more unpleasant than to enter with bare feet.

History of the bedroom

Bedrooms are a relatively new invention in Central Europe. During the Stone Age, Iron Age bedrooms were largely unknown, one slept and lived mostly in the same room on straw camps. The first beds appeared in the Middle Ages, but were a privilege of noblemen, wealthier citizens and very wealthy free peasants. Simple peasants slept with the cattle ( retains heat ) under one roof, but also craftsmen and especially day laborers were sleeping in the same room they used as a living room, or kitchen. Servants often had a small chamber into which they could retreat. It contained little more than an alcove or a bed and a wash basin. Some servants but had to share bed and chamber with other servants.

Even into the 20th century were special bedroom especially for workers a unaffordable luxury. In Germany bedrooms were scarce due to the housing management and billeting refugees and bombed even after the Second World War. So many people were forced to sleep in the living room, this special bed and armchairs sofa-beds have been developed. In the 1960s eased the situation could often next to the parents of a nuclear family and the children in a private room.