50 Types of Rooms for Brainstorming Medieval and Fantasy Architecture {Writer’s Resource}
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1. Buttery, where the drink was kept… a pantry, for bread, dishes, and utensils, with a passage between leading to a kitchen outside. (Frances and Joseph Gies, Medieval Villages)
2. A “solar,” a second story either above the service rooms or at the other end, may have housed a sleeping chamber. (et. al.)
3. oratory (small chapel)
4. Counting room (merchant)
5. One-room lodgings
6. Main room
7. Atelier (a workshop or studio, especially one used by an artist or designer)
8. Minor state apartments (“where they dump lesser ambassadors, trade attaches, counsel for appellants in civil cases, unimportant dependents and poor relations”)
9. walkway/Covered walkways
10. Lavatory (room or compartment with a sink or washbasin and toilet)
11. Scullery (small (kitchen or room at the back of the house used for washing dishes and other dirty household work)
12. Foyer
13. private chambers/bedchamber
14. Workrooms
15. Lavatorium
16. The back office
17. Chancel (the part of a church containing the altar and seats for the clergy and choir)
18. The drawing room
19. Mezzanine (a low story between two others in a building; typically between the ground and first floors)
20. Vestibule (an antechamber, hall or lobby next to the outer door of a building)
21. Backroom
22. Bowels (large structure ie palace)
23. Passageway
24. corridor
25. Common room (of a tavern)
26. Barroom | taproom
27. Tablinum (in Roman architecture, the room situated to one side of the atrium and opposite the entrance used for storing family records or tablets)
28. Innyard
29. Churchyard
30. Courtyard = yard
31. galleries/gallery
32. Cellar
33. Root cellar (Leibowitz)
34. “storage vaults”
35. Privy (a toilet located in a small shed outside a building or other building; an outhouse)
36. Guardrooms (room in a military base used to accommodate a guard or detain prisoners)
37. Sickroom
38. Infirmary (in a monastery)
39. Courtroom
40. Taproom
41. Silo (grain)
42. Herbarium (room or building housing a collection of dried plants; a box cabinet or other receptacle in which it’s kept)
43. Staircase-tower
44. Larder (a place where food is stored [pantry] | stockpile of food)
45. The loading bay (warehouse)
46. The service wing
47. In the South Library (manor)
48. Banquet hall
48. Council chamber
50. Boudoir (woman’s bedroom or private room)
Structural/Placement Phrases
The next room
“room off the kitchen
“the gallery overlooking the courtyard”
“There was a comfortable room in the curve of the tower wall”
“the next chamber” (“retrieved another [stool] for himself from the next chamber.”)
“the narrow hallway… ran between the reception room and the kitchen area.”
“The study opened onto the back colonnade”
“A long hall stretched ahead to the giant glass doors at the other end of the house, and through them I glimpsed a second room…”
“The Liber Conflagrantia took up an entire floor of the Tower of Magisters.”
“The curtained space just off the kitchen”
“The corridor ends in a large square kitchen, and off that run other smaller room”
“Wall abutted the rock”
“The attic stretches the length of the house”
““the tiny common room that separated the flight deck from the galley and sleeping quarters.””
“Master bedroom runs the width of the building”
“Shed built against one wall”
Tommy’s room is a rectangle, half as wide as it is long (Paul Tremblay)
Rotunda (a round building or room, esp one with a dome)
The next room
Doubled (“the Ballenhaus, the building that doubled as a warehouse and a town hall…”)
