Room

When a room is called space, forming an enclosed by walls, floor and ceiling of a dwelling or part of a building, especially a residential building, a certain size or base surface (typically at least about 10 m²) and usually has a window ( except bathrooms which are often windowless ). Are not designated as rooms typically the rooms used for residential purposes not expressly, as the storage room, garages, stables or ancillary areas such as hallways, elevator shafts and the like.

One room is entered through a door. Aboveground most rooms have windows that are used for exposure and ventilation.

On ships are called rooms or cabins cabins.

Types of rooms

Rooms are named

• According to their main purpose living room
• Kitchen
• Bathroom
• Bedroom or monastic cell
• Storeroom
• Dining Room, Dining Room
• Study, office, workshop, writing room, reading room, office room, conference room
• Nursery, playroom
• Wardrobe ( space )
• Guest toilet
• Bed and breakfast
• Guest room
• Hotel room
• Waiting room
• Classroom

• Basement
• Attic, gable room, back room, attic room

• Berliner Zimmer
• Suite, luxury suite

• Prison cell

• Through room (room, by the another room can be entered )
• Caught room (room which can only be accessed through a connecting room )

Word origin, historical and special words

The word is derived from OHG zimbar, timber ' from (compare English timber ) and originally meant wooden block factory, block house. As this construction was comparatively expensive, only the ground-level living space were often executed in block construction. The room was so the timbered room. This meaning is still alive in the regional trade language of the carpenter in the expression Rooms explicitly only for the corner joint ( the shot ) of a block building on.

• Gaden, the space of a one-room building
• Chamber, the separated space, original, shed '
• Office, the heated space
• Chamber ( too leisurely ): living room, into which one could retreat from the public space, "Private room "
• Cubbyhole: usually referred to a dark, narrow space ( cubbyhole )
• Kabäuschen: refers to a small room where, for example, found only bed and bedside table space. (The word galley is attributed to medium dutch kabuyse or kabuys and appears in the 15th century in the Middle Low German as Kabuse (see also cubbyhole ). Those days it meant so much as wooden shed as a kitchen space on board, even small, low deckhouse for the kitchen )
• Cabinet (from Old French cabine, hut ', cf cabin): The Back Room ( historically according to the back room, rear Gaden, in the farmhouse of space behind the heated room, place to sleep the Altbauern, or better servants ), the side room of a studio, of which the expression " with kitchen and cabinet " when the one room of sleeping and cooking area can be kept for a "better" flat low standards, or for the entire household '; then generally the retreat in a stately home or a club, space for confidential counseling, hence also completed a consulting room, accordingly, the committee meets there ( part of the government: the Cabinet )